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FWIW Thomas Joiner's book Why People Die by Suicide said it has to do with a "thwarted sense of belongingness." You interpret other people's actions to mean that they don't want you around, and you act accordingly. So, not selfish then, I guess.

That's one of those pages I swear I'll never look at again, but probably will.

A Timely Number

I'm with you on that one, but I went with ESFJ just because the ESFPs might feel slightly conflicted about their G.D. chirpiness. It's true, my wife is pure evil! :D Holy crap, even I'm in the cross-hairs! This is turning into a circular firing squad!

Are we talking getting rid of actual people here?

The pressure to be extraverted is, IMO, absolutely relentless. I'm like, really old, and I still catch myself trying to act like one of the "normals," especially in job interviews. I wouldn't go so far as to say limitless vistas will open up to you or anything like that, but I have found that...

Primer was cool. What I thought made it work was that everyone and everything in the movie looked so unremarkable. No aliens, no spaceships, no orchestral scores. I was afraid one of those guys was going to teleport into my living room or something.

Thanks, Ufark, I appreciate that. I forgot to mention, the next step after open mic night is hot babes and the inevitable involvement with elements of the criminal underworld. ;)

I play guitar with a friend of mine who plays mandolin. We haven't "produced" anything in the sense of original material, but we cover everything from Amy Winehouse to Russian folk songs. "Taking it to the next level" means playing out eventually, which means open mic nights around town. I...

Same here, except I was in publishing. There was always someone on the phone, standing at my desk or outside my office, or waiting for me to reply to an email or respond to an RSVP for a meeting that would cover the same damn topic as the last three meetings. It was complete sensory overload. If...

One of the Wikipedia pages on the MBTI cites a report from the National Academy of Sciences that said only the I/E pairing has any scientific merit. The NAS is a highly politicized organization, though, so there's no telling why they threw out the other three. Architect Almost seems as if...

That's what I'm saying -- I'm an F, but a weak F. The chart with my results goes 30-----0-----30 for each of the four pairings. So it's like this: E 30-----------0-----------30 I S 30-----------0-----------30 N T 30-----------0-4----------30 F J 30-----------0-----7------30 P [I tried to put...

I do find that emotions have become more important for me. I hear more of the emotional context these days in conversations as well as movies, plays, and TV shows. On a separate assessment of communication styles, I went from being a Thinker the first time I took it to being a Relater the...

Just wondering if I could get a thread going on people who've seen their type change over the years, what exactly it means, etc., etc., as I've seen discussions of it hither and thither. Finally got back the results of an “official” (read: not online, not free) MBTI assessment I took about a...

That mom is totally hot

It would be meta-fiction, like when Bugs Bunny took a big spray bottle and squirted water into the dragon's mouth, or like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, both of them ridiculing tales of heroic knights and all that rot. I'm thinking something like Red Dwarf.

I went from INTP to ISFP myself. I just look at it as part of the process of getting to know myself better. The I and the P seem fairly immutable.

What's He Building in There, by Tom Waits Me Myself I, by Joan Armatrading

Same here. It's sorta fun, kinda gives me a sense of identity, but nothing I'd fight someone over, unless I was really drunk. Aries I remember watching one o' them there egghead-type shows that said there was a weak statistical correlation between one's date of birth and one's...

Welp, I did another painstaking review of the thread, and yes, I noted a clear change in tone that, ah, coincided roughly with the time that I, heh heh, joined the conversation... :slashnew: <nervous laughter accompanied by scratching of the back of the head>

Oh, yeah, ah, me neither <he says, folding hands in lap, carefully concealing fingertips and averting eyes, and coughing uncomfortably>.

Only the stupid think that they're smart. But if I admit to being stupid, that means I'm smart. If I think I'm smart, then I must be stupid, but if I start thinking I'm stupid again, then that means I'm smart, but ... See where I'm going with this? I hope so, 'cause I don't.

Actually, upon careful examination of each and every post in this thread, to the point where I am now cross-eyed and drooling, I have determined that this court is really more of a star chamber. Okay, okay, I was just trying to impress y'all with the amazing breadth of my legal...

of the unresolved kind

Well, that'll get their attention. :rolleyes: Still and all, I get the sinking feeling court proceedings might go something like this: MPFC

Vonnegut came to a pretty similar conclusion in The Sirens of Titan:

Best damn thing that could've happened to this thread, IMO. Seriously, one time when I was in ninth grade, me and my friends were at the beach talking to these drunk hippie redneck burnout older guys who seemed really scary to me. I got all discombobulated and I said, "Man, you guys are a...

Phew, that's a relief. I'll take an oppressive system over no system at all any day of the week! :D

Man, I knew that $17.35 check came with some major strings attached! :p

Sammy Does Flip Wilson

Wait, so now I'm a defendant AND a juror? Saves time, I guess. ;)

Alright, well, sorry you didn't like it. It's just that I've known a lot of people in real life who've gone at it like that. It just struck me as true to life is all.

Best description I've heard so far. That place sucked me dry in the space of two weeks. Anyway, welcome, however you got here. Get cracking on that novel!

Let There Be Light, by John Huston. The U.S. Army asked Huston to make a series of documentaries, including this one, which is about combat veterans with PTSD (then known as "shell shock"). The Army didn't like the results, so the film sat in a vault for about 50 years, until someone dug it up...

Damn, man. I've been in jury pools in D.C., Boston, and Chicago, and every time, the case gets settled out of court, and now I can't even serve on an imaginary trial jury! :slashnew: Well, at least I got caught up on that new John Grisham novel. ;)

I think it was back in the 80s that these audio recordings came out. It started when this guy in San Francisco called the police to complain about his neighbors who were arguing all the time. The police said they couldn't do anything without evidence, so they told him to record their arguments...

It's weird how people can cling to things that do them no good. It's the devil you do know, basically. Makes perfect sense to me you'd be feeling good. You're liberated from all the B.S. most people think they can't do without. I saw a family parked in the alley behind my house that looked...

Two good rockumentaries: Sound City, about a music studio in L.A.; A Band Called Death, about a black punk rock band from Detroit.

As the OP, I reserve the right to change my favorite number without notice. New favorite number: 99

I didn't even know what computers were for until the Internet came along. I don't know whether I have some kind of mental block to math, or whether I just plain suck at it. If I'm not good at math, it would be logical to assume I'm not good at logic, either. I don't know whether being given to...

Yeah, but we play a key role. We clean shit up, get a pat on the head and a cookie, and then crawl back into our holes.

This one always stuck in my head, even though 11 is not anywhere close to being my favorite number. The Good 11

I caught an old Frasier in the waiting room of the doctor's office tonight. Those hold up surprisingly well.

The thing I always wondered about the aliens in Alien is, if they bleed acid, couldn't you just throw some baking soda on them?

We are an ES-something culture, with "ES" standing for "executive summary."

I'd like to see what would happen if you entered that on an HTML form.

This was an actual security question on some form I had to fill out. I found the answer was surprisingly easy: 21132. Why? It calms me down.

Probably not living in any of these places.

Nauseating and upsetting, yet somehow addictive.

Same here. I mean, jeez, just the whole "Gifts Differing" concept was revolutionary for me, a huge relief. Growing up in the 70s, I thought all guys had to look and act like David Cassidy or John Travolta, and I couldn't pull it off. I think the MBTI works at least in part because it gives...