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these two made me cry with laughter especially AKC. ISFJ My girlfriend is really interesting and clever and makes me feel really special when I show her off and she's got fabulous boobs I love to cuddle up to them it makes me feel like I'm safe again in my mum's arms and it's so lovely being...

It always amuses me that anyone thinks this is some kind of 'prophesy'! This is simply a description of people throughout time. This is designed to make people from every/any part of time believe they are in the end times so they turn to religion. It's so damn obvious!! This wasn't...

That is much clearer and thank you for indulging my questions. I'm really glad that you are going to be able to study and I look forward to hearing much more about your work. What I might offer - if you are going 'dive' it may be easier not to do it face to face or to offer up all of yourself...

Yeah you are, here, but strangely I find this is the only place where I don't fight to prove I'm 'different' or resist being 'alike' or despair at never being 'understood'. Yes I do! And I quite enjoy when a word just dissembles in front of my eyes. This is exactly what happened to me and...

amobination: the feeling of disgust experienced when encountering F-types mobbing you with their inane 'partying' behaviours.

To lie about what? - that you have a massive amount of thoughts going on and that you are undertaking a series of personality experiments - or - that you are unbearably lonely in this quest? I suspect it is probably both but I wonder if your intensity in the former is partly to avoid...

agreed - this is definitely what I am doing. This was a little trickier to decipher so let me see if I have understood correctly. Are you saying that in addition to the constant analysis that is going on internally, you have an awareness of the vast unknown that you know exists and which you...

XIII, You are enough You deserve to live Beware the power of your mind - tame it and use it or be destroyed by it. Only take advice from Patti Smith and Bob Dylan Get as far away from your nightmare relatives as you can, they will never give you what you want. Learn to recognise kindness Accept...

Yes he is. He died in 1983. I'm just beginning to allow myself to feel the grief of his loss. Sounds like the perfect weekend to me.

Hi kchickage, I find when I am emotional I end up crying a lot which I dislike intensely but I think I do that because at least it is recognisable as an emotion. I don't know what emotions you are involved in - I can only just recognise my own now and then!! Yes I shock people with the...

While I'm just a idiot a lot of the time.

My father was INTP too. My mother frequently found his keys in the fridge. I once watched him eating sweets while reading. He ate the wrappers and put the sweets in the bin for 3 of them without noticing. sweets = candies UK->US - when you run around asking if anyone has seen your...

lol (literally I did) that's so funny I forgive you the transposition! :D:D

Ah go for it - I bet there are plenty of people on here who'd appreciate that. I've read quite a few of those popular science books myself (being as I have dyscalculia I couldn't do the real thing)

what takes your fancy?

Didn't think it was a convention! Just a collection of film screenings ... I hope it isn't a convention ...

This is a fantastic description of what I experience - particularly the lack of taking action in response to mild emotions. What happens to me is that intuit something but don't know how to act upon it. So if it's annoyance or irritation instead of linking in to the emotion, I use the...

Again like with Ogion I really envy that - but maybe it is because you avoid situations which would provoke them? Which could be a sensible strategy! Whatever reason, it seems a pleasant way to be. Neither did I - I think this is relatively recent, or maybe I just glossed over it when I came...

Hi IB - thought I'd replied to this - sorry I must have got distracted. I have huge difficulty identifying emotions until it is too late. I think that if I could identify them earlier it might prevent feeling so out of control when they do. I imagine that in comparison to other types I...

Don't know if this is classed as spamming, but I thought this might be of interest to the few Brits on the forum. Apologies if it's a breach of some kind - feel free to remove. I have no personal interest/involvement in the festival (apart from thinking I might have to take annual leave to see...

My tenaciousness when I am pursuing an idea - I often describe myself as a 'dog with a bone'. It's irritating to people who want to move on to another topic or when it's about something personal and I should probably have let it drop because I'm just grinding someone's nose in it, but it's been...

You read a book, newspaper ... anything ... to discourage conversation and are constantly amazed at how many people just carry on talking to you.

Hi slyguy, You've already had some excellent advice. There are couple more things I would suggest. Take some time to think about what you would like your life to be like when you have overcome your current problems. Try and do this in as much detail as possible - what might you be doing...

wow that's awesome! In 1979 I was a secretary and electric typewriters were not in general use yet and in 1981 I used a telex machine which was an early form of fax where you typed, it produced a punched tape, you fed the tape through a machine and it was transmitted through the phone network...

You could always start the pussinboots book review thread here - I for one wouldn't find it boring and would subscribe to it!

hahaha absolutely true! I can touch type very fast and I know when I've done a typo and correct it without even looking at the screen!

Thank you sagewolf (a snowqueen could do with such a companion) I have learned so much from everyone here already - and I hope I will be able to contribute a bit to others. On Personality Cafe you can often tell the E types as their posts are peppered with emoticons! I always feel a...

You know you should get off to work but can't resist a peek at the intp forum ... You know your fellow intps won't mind you posting yet another 'variation on a theme' as long as it's subtly different to the others.

Yes as soon as I posted that and saw my avatar and sig I saw the irony ...sigh

Sob ... so it's true - we're unlovable?? :(

OK I've put in my requisite hours and am back to respond. I rashly said that I knew exactly what you meant thus falling into The Fury's second category of how INTPs post. Now I'll probably do the first. The Curse/The Blessing Having spent about 3 minutes deciding whether to put the Curse or...

Or maybe you could just stop making fun of the English? :rolleyes:

Suggestion is in the title. I think the 'you know when you're an INTP' thread would be helpful for newcomers as it's an insider's view of INTP, not too serious, some real gems in there.

I understand exactly what you are saying. And I have struggled with it for 50 years. But I have to go to work!!! I'll respond later

What an interesting thread. I could have quoted something from every single post. I think the situation for me is very similar with some particular differences. When I was 12 I met my best friend, an ENTP, who completely 'got' me. We were inseperable at school and she brought me out of...

Hi Weliddryn, and thanks for the welcome. So, Eudemonia is a person - I didn't realise (I thought you were all just happy to see me ;)) Yes I can see what you mean - we were even on the same protest march and she is in a similar field to me! She may even know some of my friends. But she...

I really envy you that. I was like that as a child but then I discovered fear very strongly and when I became an adult it became rage. When my father died I discovered grief but 25 years on I am still dealing with it. But I think they are emotions that have been awakened in an unhealthy way...

Thank you The Fury. I may have been a bit misleading about my heritage. I still feel like an outsider amongst the sassenachs. But on the other hand - Get Over It! :rolleyes: My close friend's wife is from Cork - she's an utter delight. He's INTP like me and she has an amazing tolerance for...

Thank goodness I'm half palestinian half german and grew up in Scotland! You know you're INTP when the sun has been shining all day and somehow you find trawling the forums more fun.

I've been reading through the past threads as there is something I have been thinking about, namely how to develop my emotional intelligence. Some of you may have picked up that I am in my 50s and only recently discovered my INTPness so I have been struggling with all of the INTP issues by...

Yes I agree. I did the test in the past and definitely chose based on what I wanted or imagined I wanted to be. So I came out with much more E and F and then when I read the profiles I thought 'that's nothing like me' and decided the MBTI was rubbish.

I think you are probably right in a way, Anticitizen. but it is also unlikely that he will not be changed. An interesting experiment nonetheless! I did something very similar in my 20s but without the rigour. I think this is lot more interesting than taking mind-altering drugs but with...

God I'm hoping this is irony or I'm in the wrong group

You spend hours rehearsing a difficult conversation until you have it perfect and the person goes and ruins it by missing their first line.

Thank you Anling! And I love your sig quote!

well more like the relationship between identity and participation - are you formed by what you do or do you choose what to do because of who you are? What if the choices are limited? etc. With regards to groups - how certain activities change group dynamics. For example within 40 minutes I...

au contraire, Cobra - it was your welcome that made me want to stay.

lol at least I know what a chip buttie is! It's nice to meet other English peeps on here and also people my own age!! (da blob, not you) I was wondering if the comments about my writing style were partly because of a sort of 'accent' when I write?