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Wow I should read this thread more often - so many interesting people have joined recently - but not posted much - maybe not welcomed strongly enough? Anyway I hope to see more posts by you all.

Jesus was just a troll account created by God. Satan is teh mod. Deal with it. haha hahaha you are seriously on form today - that has to be one of the funniest things I have EVER read on this forum. I may have to steal it for my signature. [still grinning]

well done for spotting the peanut butter sandwiches! :D and that quote below about puzzles really touched a nerve [must go read the thread]

I had a pm from someone requesting that I expand on what I meant by this. I basically had some conversations with my daughter about internal and external motivation. Bearing in mind she was 8 - I explained to her in simple terms that if she depended on an adult to praise her in order to feel...

All these were great and this last one is so horribly true ...! I'm only ever bored when I'm around people who are boring me.

You read Cognisant's most recent interesting post on Sympathy and find yourself more interested in the unusual appearance of typos in his post, and wonder if that really is Cog posting, than in the content until you snap out of it and re-engage with the content.

I also don't have time to answer this as thoroughly as I'd like, but it strikes me as having resonance with the Buddhist practices to develop compassion.

Hi sealslayer and welcome to the forum. I live in a house with my two teenage children and my elderly mother and my answer to your question is - badly!! I would much rather live on my own or with another person who keeps to themselves a lot of the time. Actually my older daughter is IXTX and...

What it says. I'm going to be in New York and then New Haven, CT in mid-October - anyone live near there? Fancy meeting me?

I am an only child and on another thread INI wondered if being an only child made you an INTP so I thought a poll might be interesting. I've set the poll so you can vote for more than one option

I think a poll is in order! [rushes off to create one]

Hi Jaleho, welcome to the forum and thank you for posting your nice long intro - I enjoyed reading it. I don't know much about programming but I often wonder if I'd been born twenty years later (I'm 20 years older than you) if I'd also be doing a lot more of that kind of thing. MYST as in the...

Hi Aceness - welcome aboard

Hi there Randoomish, and welcome to this place. Why is an INFP wanting to hang out with this particular set of strange fish? We may not be more knowledgeable than you, actually, but we'll probably seem a lot more pedantic, cold and random. Actually, my avatar for a while was hands holding a...

Hi there Grish - nice to see you here! Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the alternative INTPs.

You're in Australia - how about doing something directly related to climate change and environmental issues? I understand you've just had the mildest winter ever and that Oz is a kind of indicator for the rest of the globe? I guess it could have something to do with architecture or engineering...

Everyone's loving this avatar so many thanks for giving it to me :-)

Light and sound? Then maybe you should be thinking about doing stuff like this! http://vimeo.com/5595869 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-kqovVjss&feature=player_embedded

Do you think like a genius? If that list is what it means to think like a genius - then yes - I do all of those things pretty consistently. But I don't think I have a high enough level of knowledge and intelligence for it to translate into genius. My father was a genius - most people I've met...

Have you tried to analyse why this is the case? I am very like you and I'm beginning to realise a lot of it is to do with being scared to present the 'real me' to the opposite sex in case I'm rejected so I tend to either present a bland or emotionally paralysed front. It's largely to do with...

That's hilarious! What for? My daughter was awarded 'sportswoman of the year' in year 7 and then gave up sport totally lol.

No he thinks too much!

^^ wha? there is absolutely nothing on that site about INFJ - it's just a (rather poor) advert for her services as a personality coach. I have had chats and interactions with Anthile which lead me to think he's INFJ - I think the FJ combination leads to a more logical F which is quite like the...

I think your husband is right - at social gatherings most people do like to banter about trivial things. I think the INTP desire to be (nearly) constantly engaged in intense meaningful discussion is pretty unique. The only times I can step out of that with people is with those with whom I have...

Too excited to sleep? Or maybe you just left the puter on ... and it's just me awake in the middle of the night. Whatever - what cheese said - Happy 21st!!:king-twitter:

I am totally convinced that Anthile is INFJ. He even looks like one.

That is very much appreciated - thank you. This is the toughest relationship processing I've ever done, but it's bearing real fruit now and I'm feeling very positive. sorry if I've been over-using the forum for my own ends though ...

I'm finding this thread fascinating in light of my current situation (having broken up with an INFP and wishing I hadn't) He broke up with me because 'it didn't feel right' - actually he said he would like to return to being friends for a while but I freaked out. I've been on a long inner...

or that personality type is on a continuum. I doubt we can change type but I suspect some people are strongly one type while others are close to the borders on some aspects. One of my daughters tested strongly ENFP which fits her perfectly. My other consistently tests 50/50 N/S and P/J so...

I've read Sophie's World and I think it's a good book for getting teenagers into philosophy - I gave it to my daughter when she was 13 and now she's doing Philosophy as one of her IB subjects. I haven't read the Ringmaster's daughter though - I read one about Christmas and a dying child which...

well done saffy! nice to see you back here too.

Well at least you don't have to think of anything original to say or do in response ;) It has that advantage I guess.

yep I saw Dundee in the 60s (grew up in St Andrews) and it was amazing if rather run down - but it could have been more like Nottingham or Manchester if they'd left it alone and developed it more sympathetically.

I agree - where did you go? I liked your contributions. And the hair is superb. Of course mine is like that too really but only because I'm OLD. and you look a little like my daughter which is strange cos her birthday is tomorrow.

I'm not convinced by your INFP tendencies - your response to his actions was 'that doesn't make sense' lol. And you are easily as smart if not smarter than people on here. Smart is not about passing subjects at school. It's about the way you think and you get a lot of comments about your...

not intrusive at all and it's not your fault my INFP was a dick. Two things - I started posting on newsgroups and forums in the early 90s and also signed up for a creative writing evening class. In both, people kept going on about how beautifully I wrote which I initially thought was totally...

Hi aracaris, Always good to see another female INTP on the forum :-) Are you particular interested in toucans - given your username and avatar? Is that one of yours? I don't keep birds but am a fairly keen birder. And I play video games, like sci fi, art and photos so a lot in common there...

:D:D:D:D:D Thanks for that - I laughed out loud - that made my day. I did read the whole book but never became a Marxist btw.

No it wasn't either. I was directionless because I had left school not knowing what I was good at (writing) because my English teacher was a lying bitch who had it in for me and destroyed my confidence. My life improved dramatically when I regained my confidence in what I was good at and found...

I have another perspective which is that because INTPs have low Fi, we actually don't quite connect with our distress until we see it out in the open. It's kind of paradoxical - I can actually cope with very unpleasant emotions because I can be detached from them but I can't always deal with...

[puts hand up] yes after an incident where I became aware of class difference, I went straight into the library and took out Das Kapital. I was 14. Actually there are lots of extraordinary things in my life which if I wrote them would sound improbable. But I probably wouldn't present those...

Actually that webpage nearly made me puke.

I did get into university, no idea how, and then dropped out and wasted time in stupid jobs and taking drugs through my 20s. I guess you could call me a 'late developer'. I wish I hadn't done that now. I wish I'd worked hard through sixth form.

Don't worry about it. Just enjoy yourself.

Course I'm interested - the D is disappointing I agree but it's not a fail. Well done on the A though - that's excellent and Bs and Cs are perfectly respectable grades. I had very mixed results for mine (they were O levels then) and I did dreadfully in my A levels. Was predicted the...

Hi RandomAspects - welcome to the forum. What are you interested in?

I'm a hoarder for all the reasons stated above - but I also at one point in my life pared down all my possessions down to what I could fit into my car [smiles at Ninja]. It was incredibly liberating but I later deeply regretted having got rid of my collection of American novels from the 60s and...

That's not strictly true - XIII flooded the forum last time to the extent that the spaces on the forum that one had to go to to avoid him were very limited. That meant that any potential new members looking in to the forum would not have seen much of the culture we've generated and been able...

Yeah she's the me I always wanted to be! Things are getting better - the support from my real life and virtual friends has been overwhelming and I feel truly valued and loved. As my Facebook comments said 'he's clearly an idiot'

oh welcome back sagewolf - the forum is all the better with you back!