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Sci fi: Ty Drago. A heck of a writer.

Enjoy!

"shadow country" peter matthiessen a novel, a mystery, insight into human nature, a thriller, and it's many many pages so it lasts a long time. "at play in the fields of the lord" peter Matthiessen Missionaries go wrong in a heathen jungle. a novel, a mystery, insight into human nature...

How much creative writing (stories, novels) did you do? If you did any, did you find it easy or not? Five novels, not many short stories. Much of the investigative reporting for newspapers required ingenuity if not creativity, to figure out the concept that tied everything together and was...

Steven Gerrard: "How do I get myself to make art?" Visual art? I don't know. I know how to "make ideas," though, did it for years as a journalist. For me it came from content immersion: Dive into a topic, live in it for awhile until the content is pretty familiar and I know how, for instance...

"He seems to be indicating that this structure sorts itself out while sleeping but for me that is not the case." It happens while I'm awake, as well, but it's not a process I consciously drive or am aware of. As you indicated, everyone's different and what works for one may not work for...

Welcome aboard. The entertainment is fine, but after three days at sea avoid the sushi.

"But I do have one question, Do you think its possible to be both introverted and extroverted?" Everyone is, to some degree, both. The issue is which you are more comfortable doing, which recharges you and which tires you out. It is also possible to deploy the activities of the...

Sometimes dealing with the "braying" style extroverts just requires an awareness on your part that they are going to tire you out, and that you need to gauge your fatigue level with all that and maybe go away for a few minutes. That, and perhaps thinking up amusing photo captions for the scene...

We usually need more time to build a relationship that feels comfortable and those relationships, or at least the feeling comfortable with someone, can last for decades. I recently resumed a conversation, via Facebook, with someone I last spoke to on graduation day - which for me, was 1967...

More lately, but I've been trying to let it happen. Previously I could go several years without crying. Like Hawkeye, the death of one of our dogs set me off a few months ago, and it was crying based on pure sadness. I think that for a lot of people, INTP or other, crying isn't consistently...

Pyropyro and kaelum have excellent approaches. To put it in context: If the whole mass of test material looms ahead of you, procrastination in the form of gameplaying becomes too attractive. Slice it down into manageable pieces and make your study sessions, each one, about just one thing...

I'm really glad you landed on your feet. In retrospect, I'd have made out much better at a small school like Bowdoin in Maine than at Syracuse University. Retrospect is a bittersweet concept. :)

Can we go back to the beginning for a reassessment of what's going on? Consider the possibility that your INTP mind is rationalizing, in the most literal sense of that word, your emotions at being thrust into a new and unfamiliar AND unexpected long-term situation. You are finding "thinking"...

Welcome to the ship of the doomed. May your voyage with us be ... interesting.

Is there a human resources department? In 2014, calling a subordinate a fucking lazy piece of shit is just not on. You getting it on the record by sitting down with human resources to discuss what you are expected to endure will actually protect you, not hurt you. Assertiveness done calmly and...

Some of the posts are so long they try the patience - or trigger the ennui - of most of us. A 3,000 word response to a newbie feeling a little lonely or confused says more about the responder than it does the newbie's problem. Not being judgmental, but the original poster seems to have...

We just lost a dog to cancer in December. We couldn't afford the treatments, so we marked time until it was clear he was no longer enjoying life, then had him put down. It was only a few weeks; he went from being an 11-year-old puppy with relentless curiosity and energy to complete wreck in...

Your post definitely resonates. Footnote: "Likewise the only disappointing thing about getting on in years is how possibilities close down," -- A friend of mine calls that "the shortening of the runway."

I'm pretty sure the world is a figment of what I'll call my mind.

I think that kind of wrestling started out as the original soap opera men could watch and pretend it was a sport. Now we have Ax Men, Duck Dynasty, Swamp People and all of the car-rebuilding "reality" shows.

Tberg, no depth or texture to my remarks, just: Don't be so hard on yourself. Think of all the things you're down on yourself about and ask what's really so bad about them? Like "lazy." Here's a story: US Grant, the general, (who was quite possibly an INTP, for lots of reasons I won't go...

Just a wry observation: I'm a student of history, especially the U.S. Civil War and the years leading up to it. It may come as a sour insight: Slaves in the American South were not all field hands good with a hoe and not much else. A great many learned crafts like carpentry, cabinetry...

Just an asterisk noting that while small talk gets things started, and sometimes is just good for its own sake, the bonus is that the conversation itself can lead to information you find interesting that would forever remain unknown had you not made an effort at human sociability. Eg, while a...

Many people enjoy talking about themselves. Many people don't enjoy hearing you talk about yourself. Striking up a conversation can be done with a comment on some commonality you share with a total stranger, whether it's the weather, a shared bus ride, just about anything. An innocuous comment...

That was wickedly done. :):evil:

Isn't love pretty much an emotional condition? Aren't we pretty much uneasy around emotions? At the risk of being tiresome, I'm repeating an old refrain: Young folks who know they are INTP are much better equipped to deal with life than those of us who grew up without that knowledge. You will...

Not to split hairs, but there are two separate questions in your question. While people usually fall in love and then get married, there are different causes. Falling in love may be inadvertent, unintentional, an accident of mutual attraction. Getting married usually involves some reasoning...

"The trouble is the company has very little work for me to do based on the front end requiring twice as much work as mine." That sounds quite ominous. Often when companies find a mismatch like this they downsize your position, or eliminate it and contract the work out. You could point out...

Just to add to that confusion: People often don't distinguish between racial and cultural differences. I am surprised, however, that there aren't categories for Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans and especially Ferengi. I personally know a lot of Ferengi, although none of them are my friends...

Different problems and worries for entrepreneurs and wage slaves. It kind of boils down to "which problems and worries would you prefer to deal with?"

"There's a certain level of certainty/security that comes with a salaried position" That's not a really reliable assertion. Anyone paid a "salary", ie, a fixed weekly amount that usually involves a specialized skillset or some management element, is subject to the changes that come with new...

Was it a quote from covered material you were assumed to have known about? What was the quote, anyway? And what did you say about it? Just curious. "I just feel that things such as these - all of them being pretty big things, not exactly little slip ups made by the marker - shouldn't be...

"I don't want to claim I'm good at something because I'm afraid I might make a mistake and look stupid for being too confident." This is the sensible reason many people are modest. As for those who boast: I don't know about you, but I tend to paint a mental target on them and bide my time to...

Fair enough, I misread. :)

Cybin's first post hit the mark. We prefer to deal with thinking because we get spotty results when dealing with things emotionally. Eventually you can discount emotions to the extent you can fool yourself into thinking you don't have them, but you do, you've just learned to not use them as a...

"That's basically all I know." That's basically a lot. Thanks!

I should change my avatar to Gregory House for a few months. :) "I don't have a drug problem, I have a pain problem!"

OK, I'm using the term "cyborg" loosely, but I'm finally getting my bad knee, about which I have surely complained in here, totally replaced. In addition to having to declare and explain my chromium/cobalt component at airport screening checkpoints from here on out, I'll be pretty much helpless...

"I'm not big on clubs unless I'm going with a small group of people I know" ...and even then I had to be drunk.:)

"How about a psychological one? You are doing the same thing over and over. Thinking is the hard way to get out of this." ^ This. Change your physical context to some degree. On a much less philosophical note: Add some B vitamins? I find they make a noticeable difference in my energy...

None of the INTP/INTJ in here are going to see much of a problem with the words or situation. How's YOUR body language? I know I convey diffidence and ennui, which sometimes pisses people off. If you're a J, are you showing in your face and stance what you know better than to say out loud...

Feeling fake comes about because you're forcing yourself to do things you'd prefer not to do. You can talk to total strangers without much difficulty if you 1. have a common ground to start with and 2. rely heavily on questions that get the other person to talk about themselves. Because most...

:storks: "run away, run away!"

Books by Nevada Barr, detective fiction.. Don't be put off by the name. Her protagonist is an INTP National Park Service detective.

Sammael, you come from a long line of reluctant, highly principled white knights, usually hiding behind a veneer of cynicism, often with a tendency to philosophical overanalysis, a jigger of self effacement and a pint of despair over the human condition . All fictional, all admirable. Don't beat...

1. Overanalysis 2. Extreme reluctance to make a judgment I've overcome both with carefully cultivated and selective impatience. Does this mean I come home with a crappy brand of coffee that cost more than it should? Yes. Does this mean I spend less time in a vast building with hard floors...

So far as I can tell, this may be the ONLY place I belong.

Windbag, the official job designation may be "labourer," but you outlined a good fit for INTP: jack-of-all-trades, problem-solving generalist. You've got a good base of experience in construction and taking on new problems that can be solved by analysis and then creatively applying that...