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I don't think one should suppose we have to commit to a unified purpose. Then we would all just be ants in an ant hive. The gist of it is: craft a purpose for yourself and use your intelligence to fulfill that purpose.

Hey Sachi. Why do you (partially) regret having done CS?

Sitting in a coffee shop and looking around, I cannot say I see many nihilists. People seem happy and engaged in their pursuits, looking through facebook posts on their laptop, etc. And I am pretty sure Nietzsche was right – God is dead. Very few of these people believe in metaphysical worlds...

Is this why you women never get clingy or overly dramatic about the whole thing? Ahh all those silly little men trying to be "manly". Girl, stop all this theorizing and go make me a sandwich.

I think it's all quite simple. Social morality starts with a formalization of imperatives we believe will serve us as individuals. The rest comes from superstitions, various states of megalomania (like in religion) and our cultural past.

Well, this was indeed Andalucia, which, when I think of it, is probably in no way representative of places like Madrid. So apologies to Spain – I have no fucking clue what I am talking about.

I've also lived in a few countries at this point – including Spain. Maybe it was a culture shock coming from northern Europe, but geez – don't tell me they have good infrastructure and decent pay. I mean, I personally couldn't complain about my pay because I worked in an international business...

Spain is a third-world country that happens to have euros. It's good for vacation – for work not so much.

Rationality doesn't exist without feelings. I would recommend to him the book Descartes' Error.

You could go to Madame Tussauds and hook up with some world-class wax figures.

I would go and re-watch I Am Legend and try to replicate the lifestyle. Hopefully there would be zombies around somewhere.

A big part of it would be something like this: It's a thing that makes people happy in general though – being immersed in something, being in a state of flow, feeling that one has mastery over a craft or a subject. My subject is applied mathematics, so for me it would be something like writing...

Well, that's definitely not true

How to become INTJ: close your eyes and imagine you have autism.

She had one conversation with an ENTP – ergo she needs an " assertive NT to match her passivity"? I guess induction is just not my strong suit. This is called a Procrustean Bed, btw – chopping the legs off a person in order to fit them into a small bed. Come to think of it, the procrustean...

Fucking hell, dude. You're taking this reduction-of-life-to-MBTI-concepts business a little bit too far.

Is this based on research or... ?

Analyzing and thinking is not a personality trait – it's a mental mode. It's clearly true that this mental mode is not conducive to exploring social life. For me, it's just an exercise of switching between this mode and a more outgoing mode which, for example is similar to the modus operandi...

Becoming a mastermind is not about "goals" and nice little bullet-point to-do lists. It's about cultivating an obsession – and feeding it.

Jason988 at the gym:

I personally find it crazy, epistemologically arrogant, and most importantly, destructive, to suggest that a human is limited to either serve their innate personality traits or live somehow unnaturally and go against them – especially when this framework is not a theory in any reasonable sense...

I think personality is highly fluid. This is not readily apparent merely because there is a certain degree of inertia in one's modes of behavior – you have to be exposed to new stimuli and circumstances or actively engage in new modes in order to change. It is quite rare, in general, that people...

I can think of 3 options: 1) Be a full-fleged Millennial and just work on a bunch of different bachelor degrees (preferably in useless fields like sociology) until you're 30 years old and worked up a student loan of around $100k 2) Move into your parents' house and play video games until you...

It's pretty much a meme that has caught a lot of traction recent years. It has become a go-to for people looking for a cheap way to get social validation; simply voice how outraged you are at all the "racism" and whatnot. What you can do, however, is talk about how terrible white people are...

Just go to the doctor and deal with any social consequences later. This whole thing will turn out much simpler than you think. And as a general principle, being completely honest and transparent is usually the best way to go.

Even to someone who knows about MBTI, it pretty much sounds like "I don't like this conversation". The only worse excuse I can think of is "Your face is giving me a bad sensation" Unless I wanted to impersonate a real-life Sheldon Cooper, I don't think I would ever use either of these :p

Do these people walk away from conversations with you thinking "damn, that guy was really interesting, I wish I was as interesting as him"? Probably what happens is: you are completely passive in the interaction, which forces the counterpart to find ways to drive the conversation forward...

It's complete bullshit that INTPs don't care about people. It's just that socially maladjusted introverts sometimes like to invent such narratives as a way of coping. It's sometimes painful to admit that one cares, and passionately at that, when the feeling is not reciprocated. Thus one gets...

I think it just comes down to social skills. If you can be offensive without offending people, then you have social skills. The opposite of that is when you offend people without being offensive.

Makes sense to me

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In the picture she is a tourist. The architecture is supposed to add to the aesthetic impression of the picture, yet she herself and her pose are intended to play the main part. In that sense, she has some artistic propensities. She enjoys visual arts, perhaps also things like dancing. But...

Now am definitely convinced this thread is an art piece.

Goddamn ESFJs trying to steal all the jobs! :aufsmaul:

Just came across a job description that includes this line: Should ask them if they prefer judging- or perceiving extroverts?

Earlier today I was listening to jazz and watching the rain outside. That was pretty cool.

I don't think it's a good approach, because the outcome will be very sensitive to the choices made at the start of the test.

This is a very foreign notion to me. Collaboration is not a zero-sum game.

I think it's as simple as: emotional resilience is a cultivated trait, not something predicated by type.

For me, it comes down to two things: - Be a part of a group of dedicated people who do the same thing. - When "jumping ship", do it within a certain radius of your general interest. I.e. have a theme that you stick to.

Is this performance art? I actually like it. With each paragraph, we descend deeper into a maniac's mind.

Semantically they seem to refer to pretty much same thing. For example, it is a fact that I bought food today. Also, it is true that I bought food today. So in that sense, a fact is just a proposition that is true.

Whenever I talk to somebody and discover they have a sub-130 IQ I spit in their face and walk away.

didn't notice that :D yeah, happy birthday!

All the threads are indexed by an integer, apparently by their chronological order. For example the oldest one that exists seems to be 7: https://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=7 Then it's just a matter of going through each integer up to the newest thread. The real pain in the ass is...

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Making babies is most hyped up thing ever.

When people don't flush the toilet at public restrooms. I always wonder who these animals are. They exist out there, they walk among us, they act like normal civilized human beings. Ultimately, I put them in the same category as pedophiles, sociopaths and other depraved individuals who exist in...

"I could wash that pile of dishes with rotting food on them, but I have wikipedia articles to skim through"

If it has a feminist message, anything can be art as long as it contains a dick or something related to genitalia