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Worked at Sonic for 6 weeks. First job. I bought a car, needed to start paying my friend back ASAP, so I walked down the street and took the first job I got. I was 16. Did not hesitate to leave for new job at first opportunity.

It seemed like a very INTP thing. Not universal, but more often felt by INTP's than others. Woah, didn't expect to be remembered. That's neat. Anything in particular you've associated with me through reading old stuff? I do a lot of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo, am beginning to get paid for web...

I really resonated with the character in the painting. I feel like I'm accepted by society mostly by virtue of a well developed sense of wit and charm, but that I'm generally depressed about the state of the world and unable to communicate my understanding to those celebrating and/or worrying...

There goes that theory. I wonder if anyone has died before age 25, who was here in their teen years?

Aye, I feel like MBTI isn't well regarded by most intelligent people because MBTI is a bastardization of the underlying principles. Everyone seems to think that there are 4 axes of personality, and that you're some percentage between I/E, T/F, etc. That's what happens when you take an INTP's...

Had some pretty epic arguments back in the day here. A few decent relationships of comraderie. I think I was even a mod for a while. I didn't know shit about MBTI then, so I grew bored with what I thought was a shallow theory. A few months ago an old friend I introduced MBTI to back in the day...

Nevermind.

I get the same feeling. INTP's have been described as 'architects', and it can be immensely frustrating when other people can't seem to organize their fields in a clear, coherent fashion. Worth knowing is that physical activity is an important factor in psychological health; there's a strong...

"...this does not mean repudiating the rights of the individual." How the hell are you taking this as leftist economics? This is psychology, not economics. Too bad I left the forum on hiatus before the responses here... What an idiot. I learn closer to anarchy than psychology... The video...

I never discussed what it all meant, and now it is forgotten. Alas. :segen:

To anyone seriously interested in learning a language, I recommend first checking out FSI courses (a google will find them quickly)--free, and often very high quality. Their Spanish course is superb, as is their French. Their Korean has a funny accent, however, and their Hebrew is usable but...

I have reached usable fluency in English, Esperanto, Hebrew, and to some degree Spanish--and I am going to south america for a few months to sharpen that one soon. Hebrew was originally a desire from my once-religious days; later it became a gateway to cheap university. Esperanto was my...

צודק... יפה. גרתי שם שלוש שנים, יצאתי קיץ שעבר לשנה חופשית (לפחות). אז מי אתה? מה אתה עושה "בעיר קדושה?"

I have always had similar attend class = almost perfect recall, getting hundreds in classes like history while never studying. I've also attributed it to active listening. I think this lack of short term memory is actually the opposite--lack of focus. It sounds more like a vague ADD esque...

Zuckerberg is way too full of himself to write that book. I'm more expecting "the stuff I got right". "ARE THERE A POINT"? Does this really not bother you guys? How has this been copied and pasted so repeatedly without fixing? If I was a mod, I'd go and change this in the OP and in everyone's...

^Men do not *have* to release the semen. It's ideal, (see TED talk referenced above), but the body can take care of itself. I never actually jacked off until age 17, believe it or not. (Was a super christian!) I think this topic is kind of boring and obvious for INTPs, haha. We need to start...

Cosmic, do you ever play 4way chess at Epoch's? Ourboros, will you be visiting Austin for ACL or in the fall for any reason? Other INTP responders included: I'll be visiting for a couple months to work and save some money, would love to catch coffee with y'all.

I'm sorry, did you say a fowl schemer? :storks: I almost want to call that a foul joke, but I have to admit I grinned.

This guy is hilarious! Man, that's so rich. I'm getting a flow of endorphins from the incredulous smile on my face. I can't believe what I'm reading. And he really doesn't think he's a hypocrite, either! Aww, man, this is rich. Really, guys, he's already been denounced--why continue...

Ah, good quote in the sig from Shalom Aleichem. You know, there's a street named after him just a 10 minute bike ride from my hours. I hear his name on the bus when we stop at the intersection with that street. I'm not in Austin, but I'll be there for a couple months in the near future. Don't...

My theory has always been that we think of time faster because we can remember more years in a more compressed period of time, making the present seem comparatively smaller. Does that make sense? In other words, when I remember being 16, I do it in an instant. When I remember all my high school...

Great article, though imperfect. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney

trought -> though I have a hard time not considering all men who bring up this topic infantile... :aufsmaul: Leaving the thread now.

^Skeleton with skin? Pretty clear cut meso. I'm the odd athlegeek; made first cuts without trying for track team on accident in middle school, perform well in wrestling/rock climbing. My fat always collects on the belly, though, just chilling... I don't push hard to get rid of it, I think...

^Sharp analysis. However, you will gain more friends and respect and be considered a good, wise person by most of humanity if you adhere to the principle of trying to be understood. (e.g., politicians aren't a well liked lot...)

It's explicitly stated to be more common in psychology texts, not MBTI stuff (exclusively, anyways--I'm sure it's in MBTI stuff, but only because MBTI falls within the realm of psychology). My psychology classes were in Hebrew, so that doesn't help me with spelling, and other than that I guess...

Super interesting. See, that's something a girl can do that a guy just can't pull off so easily.

This is one sample that's interesting (apparently "Twitter" had a high point in English around 1920....), but the tool is addictive. Post interesting generations here. Also, super awesome link that everyone should check out... Definitely something I can see most INTPs appreciating.

I would, however, like to offer this graph as some pretty reaffirming evidence: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=extrovert%2Cextravert&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

So I went and looked it up, as you undoubtedly did afterwards. So you probably saw all the same stuff I could tell you. I just never see 'extravert', and it feels very much like a auditory-vowel replacement error, because it is pronounced that way. Having read the word many, many times as...

I argue here? And have clever statements on facebook under "political views"? Damn...

...and didn't give a link.

Join my cult, join mine!

*also never tortured animals. wtf, btw? I speed read at a ridiculous pace, sometimes catching myself very nearly skipping whole paragraphs based on scanning key words down the middle... A bit disconcerting, actually.

Haha, I just found this news article a couple hours ago and posted it on my facebook profile... Nice. I'm too good to get hit by a car. ;) I think science will get me to live quite a bit longer, but I wonder if it's just the generation or two after me that will get to immortality... If we can...

<3 I feel like I sometimes skimp on the details, and when it comes to honing I may get bored once the ROI gets smaller and smaller (again, detail tuning), but I love thinking about the broad ideas about how a system functions and how it is best manipulated. I, too, often begin with very...

DT, if you continue making music... You have a nice intuitive sense for atmosphere, but I would recommend playing more with melody. Melody, I think, is really what makes any music engaging. (There are no famous classical composers that I'm aware of that just made mood music--they all focused on...

I count on that for my hope in the future. I have found much, however, and imagine my words are worth considering--you are of course well able to disagree. I didn't state I was right, merely that my experience shows it to be unfulfilling. The truth can very well be unfulfilling, but if that is...

I have found that to be an isolating idea that brings no fulfillment. Good luck with that.

Most INTPs, I'm sure, have found they can recover from a bad mistake with a similar line. If it really was sarcasm, and this isn't the poor cover up it appears to be... Then, just: Why? Really? It can't work in a text-based forum to be that dry. It just isolates people.

(literarily*)

Well, frankly, I can't imagine anyone cares to listen to someone who speaks like this except people who are already depressed and liked being led around and talked down to. So I don't really care what you think about anyone--that makes us even, I guess. You are an expert on you. Unless you...

ohgodihatesideplanks. They feel so.... wrong.... All the side crunch variations, this included, just... geh. Doesn't do it for me. The first pic you showed is close, only I've always seen them done with legs outstretched and straight.

^Yup. Everything just gets behind another layer of complexity, but it'll all pan out.

^Lots of good points. Also, case in point, my first long term relationship was with a woman almost 2 decades my senior, and it veered awfully close to marriage before ending for religious reasons (namely, I lost my belief in god). That's not the only time I've been attracted to an older woman...

I would like to point out that no thread need fall through cracks, if we have forums defined generally enough... And I think those overly-specific forums end up becoming rather slow areas, effectively discouraging conversations on those areas. I wasn't aware of the 'new posts' option. It...

I detest political correctness as much as the next guy. I wasn't asking you to pepper doubts in with what you are saying. I was saying don't act like you are here distributing truth and we should all be grateful to eat from your hand. There's a way one speaks to peers, and there's a way one...

I find extroverts* (not extraverts, sorry to be correcting, but that's a particularly bothersome spelling error for some reason?) to just as often be limited in their ability to relate to those outside of their own subculture as introverts. I don't think that's a clear correlation, though I'm...

I posted this a long time ago, and then half a year ago Auburn recommended I make such a thread, and I just saw it now. I don't even remember posting this, but it does strike me as a good idea. So, here we go: are you an INTP? Do you consider yourself creative? Do you have fruits of your...

(I would like to point out that I'm aware there's a sub forum for suggestions, but that I have already expressed in this post why I have refrained from placing it there...)