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It's the paradox of science and academia: Intuitives say they like science. Academics usually say they're intuitives. Science and academia requires unusual thinkers in order to develop new ideas. The way academia and science works as a career, is better for sensors, and so weeds out intuitives.

They understand what they mean. Almost no-one understands what they mean. Those people where everyone else said that "no-one else understands him", are people who consistenly avoid the limelight. But they seem to be people who are friendly to everyone. Think of the sort of guy who never goes...

I don't like disagreements. IMHO, they are conflicts which frequently lead to violence, then war, then war atrocities and genocides. So I am pleased that you see no benefit in fighting with me. That's a good thing. OTOH, that doesn't stop you talking to me about things that we agree on. IMHO...

So far, haven't had the "Oops" message. Will keep you posted.

The prople I know who are anti-social and everyone avoids, tend to be violent. Half are men. Half are women. The people I know where everyone else "I don't understand what goes on in his mind", seem to be almost exclusively men, and everyone seems to like them, to such an extent, that it would...

I don't think anyone is going to want the 2nd woman testing if they have anthrax.

Gmail gives any 18-year-old an email. They don't even ask for proof of name. So someone could make 1,000 gmail accounts if they wanted. Sounds like you are talking about 2FA (2-Factor Authentication), i.e. when the site sends you a text to verify it's you. In the UK, it seems pretty difficult...

Yes. Morals can actually get quite complex, and thus require a lot of thinking about situations in advance. But quite often, people don't. For instance, some people in the UK attacked a child doctor (paediatrician), because it sounds like pedo (short for paedophile). That was common in films...

In your imagination, that would be true. But I frequently have been castigated and attacked by you and other posters, both here and on other forums, for doing precisely that. So it's rather that whatever you consider to be "freedom of speech", is very much in opposition to that. When I first...

IME, we just did. Kora had to ban him. I would imagine that some think they're saving the world, by harassing "the evil people". Some are likely just having what they think is "harmless fun". That depends. Should people have the right to circumvent the law to achieve what they believe is...

I agree that it's not that common. But I would not say it hasn't happened. I've changed my mind on several issues, due to reading a single internet post that had a concise argument that I found way too strong to ignore. I seriously doubt that I'm the only person in the world that has done...

Hope to see you post some interesting posts.

I've had this problem almost every day, since the Dark Upgrade Rising thread started back in February 2023. I didn't have it today. So: so far, so good. I'll keep you posted if it comes up again.

Archaeological evidence shows that the Carthaginians practiced human sacrifice, and so did the British, and from what I understand, the Central Americans. So it was common all over the world. I'm sure that some Jews have, because I don't believe in perfectionism. But they don't deny that...

Anti-Semitism didn't vanish after that. It was still happening in the 1970s, and the 1980s, and even this past year. But when the world discovered what had been happening in the concentration camps during WW2, they were all embarrassed, because the Allies didn't bomb any of the camps. They felt...

I used to be completely perfectionist. But I've learned that perfectionism is all about that "all or nothing" attitude, and that it's unrealistic, because almost no-one is always right, and almost no-one is always wrong. The 2 combined basically means that pretty much everyone is already doing...

The left-wing keeps saying that the right-wing are evil racists/sexists/homophobes/bigots/stupid/ignorant, and say that the only way the world will be free of evil is when the right-wing are completely wiped from existence. The right-wing just seem to keep doing their thing. They seem to bomb...

So you're reviving the old "blood libel" stuff and the "protocol of the elders of zion" stuff? How unoriginal of you. Also, considering that when this sort of thing was stated, it led to men like you raping babies, and killing thousands of people, it sounds like you're encouraging mass murder...

I saw it. Seen lots of that before, mainly from idiots, who are imitating the Nazis like stupid monkeys. FYI, the Nazis used to treat Hitler as if he was an evil god. Is that how you want to be treated? Makes me feel like someone poured a whole load of sh*t over this forum, and made it worth...

That's the problem. That argument implies that you have far more control over what happens to you than others. So the real reason you got banned from other forums and your threads were deleted, is yourself. You are your own worst enemy. Stop being the cause of your problems. Become the cause of...

On another thread, you wrote this: Sounds like you are the one who got SMASHED. If they listen to you, then they'd be treating you as if you were a god. In the USSR, people did what Stalin wanted, because Stalin killed 20 million people. Stalin was evil. So the sensible thing to do with an...

What name is that? Prove you exist.

You just started turning on your emotions, and now you're wondering why they're not screaming at you? Give your mind a bit of time to get used to having emotions, and it will probably kick in.

Made by Tarkovsky. He made "Solaris" (1972). I saw it once. It's a really weird movie, like an Ingmar Bergman movie. But really good. It was a major inspiration for the 2002 remake with George Clooney (not as good). It was also a major inspiration for Christopher Nolan's Inception. It was also...

Then you had teachers who didn't teach you correctly. This is how mathematicians do maths all the time, keeping going over their work all the time, and keep looking at it and other ideas and combining them. I gather that most people are taught in school to assume that what their teachers tell...

Maths is just a matter of effort and perseverance, going over your calculations again and again, from every angle, and repeatedly, till you are sure. E.G. Kepler wrote in his introduction of the laws of the movement of the planets, that if the reader finds him somewhat pedantic, to bear in mind...

Other people have often remarked, both online and IRL, how, when INTPs have expressed their emotions, it's been very shocking to them, as the intensity of an INTP's expression of emotions seems to be much stronger and much more palpable than almost any other type. Me too. But my INFJ sister...

This is something that I have thought about for over 20 years now. I have a friend who pointed out that escapism is just another form of addiction. I can see lots of versions of this, including fantasy and porn. I have heard that porn reduces sexual desire. However, I've watched programmes of...

Sounds like you're developing your inferior Fe. In theory. But if you were using Ni & Fe now, then you'd be reacting like an INFJ, with the pros of an INFJ and the cons of an INFJ. E.G. INFJs are continually upset by the actions of others, to the point where they avoid people all the time, and...

This ballot removal seems to be done on the basis of the 14th Amendment. If you look at the text, it's clear, that it's a disqualification from holding office, not from being elected. So they can't stop Trump being on the ballot. They can only stop Trump from taking office, if elected. However...

If the documents from fake electors from 2 critical battleground states were stuck in the mail, then surely the rest were not stuck in the mail, and arrived safely. To block Biden using fake electors, would require enough fake electors to win enough states to win. Normally, electors vote in...

Sure. But I know a lot of guys who are into girls with masculine haircuts, other guys who like girls who can hit, all sorts of guys who are very interested in a hetero relationship with someone who is clearly female but also clearly not the cisfemale stereotype. So this wouldn't be a barrier...

Lovebots were portrayed as commonplace in Steven Spielberg's film "Artificial Intelligence". So even if they make those, you can bet that ESTPs and ESFJs will be using them like crazy. INTJs will defo want one, because a robot is be the only one that can come up to their extreme expectations of...

I meant to mention: I've seen the same trend in films, and the same trend in TV series. I even described a film to someone else the other day, as a mash-up of 2 films. The plots are usually mash-ups, e.g. Edge of Tomorrow = "Groundhog Day + Independence Day". Even the casting is usually...

The early Beatles songs were incredibly formulaic and simplistic. Their managers and record producers would dictate nearly everything, including their haircuts. But it was judged by the intuition and pragamtism of a human person with feelings and intuitions. They also didn't have the technology...

1. Your parent can be, and sometimes is, the same type as yourself. 2. Even if your MBTI has nothing to do with your mother's MBTI, you have a roughly 1 in 16 chance of having the same MBTI as your parent due to randomness. 3. You don't strike me as an INTJ.

Black Rose has hit it on the nail. Exposure won't work, if you don't know how to deal with the situation. Even if you know what to do, if you don't feel like you'd succeed, you won't do it. So shy people need to be taught how to socialise, how to behave in different social situations. Like...

That's a pretty accurate description of maths, actually, and I did a degree in maths. Maths was developed before anyone had computers. It's still useful if your computer doesn't already know how to do something, and you need a mental tool to figure out what instructions to give a computer.

The vast majority of people don't use over 90% of the maths and science they were taught in school. But I won't deny that it seems that so much of what people need to know to succeed, depends on knowledge that only some people know. In some countries, that's known as gatekeeping. It's a shame...

According to the Bible, harm caused by negligence. Same place as in atheists. The Bible says many times, that G-d wants only that you will "return to Him". It is you that keeps away, you that chooses to harm people due to negligence. If you don't like harming yourself and others, then why not...

Lots of religious books talk about all this, what's OK, what's not OK, and why.

That would be a perception that Jane is not a human. That would be a judgement that Jane is scary. He's being polemic. Si sees a train. Trains can be dangerous, if you're crossing the tracks. Si thus says "since trains CAN be dangerous if you're crossing the tracks, if you ensure that you only...

If x = "Jane", and y = "an elephant", then Si is the same as Ti.

Interesting, because I already came to the conclusion that humanity acts like a hive mind. Most humans seem to mostly rely on information that they learned from other humans, such as teachers, or parents, or things they read on the internet that were written by other humans, which is exactly...

That's completely wrong. It's INTJs who are built for intellectual stuff. They're great at debates. What Ne/Si is good at, is coming up with solutions that work for lots of different people. What Ti/Fe is good at, is checking which solutions will work because of the solution, even when your...

Most people seemed to understand the moral complexities of supporting BIPOC protests during a pandemic. They didn't hold non-BLM protests during the lockdown. So they understood that protests during a pandemic were going to lead to lots of deaths. They did support the BLM protests, because...

David Hume pointed out that empiricism only gathers data. It's rationalism that tells you what that data means. Lack of understanding of human reality. Different humans tend to have the same problems but at different times, which normally means that each human's personal problems fit into 2...

My experience is that a lot of this stuff is almost like it comes with a training manual, or should do, but a lot of people ignore the manual. Yes. But haven't you ever been walking, worried about someone or something behind you, looked back, and saw nothing? Confirmation bias is about looking...

People have been inspired to ask questions because of films like Ghost in the Shell and The Matrix. But consider where we are now. 1) There are lots of men and women who live in a small box of a flat, and who have very little social interaction apart from via electronic device that feed them...

Looks like you answered your own question.