Re: My fears.
I think that people don't actually even read what I am writing when I read comments like this. I am not actually attached to the typology INTP at all. It happens to be what I test when I give honest answers. Personally I would much rather not be tied down to anything including a limited type.
Then maybe it would be best to avoid talking about type at all.
For example, there are some here who, because I exhibit some Feeling abilities, view me as INFP. It's not really an insult, I have friends who are INFPs and I admire them; but it's not something that "debating" is really going to settle, and the reality is that my type doesn't even much matter in the big scheme of things. I know who I am regardless of what MBTI box I can kind of shove myself into, so to debate it usually resolves nothing and just wastes everyone's time. And the reality is that I see where they come from, and I'm old enough to have worked really hard in certain areas I was deficient in, to build up some proficiency. So yeah, I'm an amalgam now.
So in that case, I'd just advise not focusing on the term "logical" and justifying how "logical" you are. You might not say INTP directly all the time, but it sounds like you grabbed the "INTP" trait list and then tell everyone all the time how you fit the criteria.
The more I have examined myself and my quirks the more I believe that I am an ENTP. I may be direct but that only give the context of the situation. I can be direct with people on a website because I don't have to deal with you tomorrow if I choose not too.
You don't really seem to fit an ENTP pattern either -- I mean, BR resembles ENTP more than you, as feedback, in his posting style, and he doesn't even identify with the type.
How many INTPs and ENTPs have you met IRL, to key off of? Online relationships can blur type or only show certain facets anyway. Probably best to key off verified real-life types if possible.
I am sure there isn't a person on this forum that acts like they do in real life. It easy to express yourself more forcefully when there are no consequences for that action (at least no consequences I fear).
But you could then justify the exact opposite argument: People can be EXACTLY who they are inside because they won't be punished for it.
Any how on a more particular question.
Why do you see me as more of an ISFP?
I find this very interesting as I have never remotely been labled this by anyone else in the past.
I believe Cherry Cola suggest I might be a ISFJ, Even though he and Own8ge are both on the Chad is an INFJ boat.
I honestly don't know why INFJ would even be on the list. I know numerous INFJs IRL and online (even met a few last weekend at an MBTI meetup), and they carry themselves very differently. The Fe provides a kind of self-containment and structure. They only show certain parts of themselves in a controlled presentation, and even when they warm up, their expression is still controlled and focusd. They like to have closure, typically, even if it's not like ENTJ sense of closure.
You're kind of all over the place, put things out without structuring them properly. You come off as a P.
Also, I guess they are approaching N different. For example, if you are paranoid, they see that as lots of N... but that is not necessarily the case. Again, this is theoretical type vs Real Life examples. My dad and son are both Se doms and their Ni is thus the inferior -- and it's incredible how paranoid they are and how unfounded fears can dominate them because it's their WEAKEST function and undermines their dom. I think N doms and auxes actually can process stuff in terms of the vague generalities of N PROPERLY, vs inaccurately. The big issue with S's trying to iNtuit without much experience is that they don't know how to accurately weigh the possibilities. They get better with experience, but typically they get all weirded out and retreat back to S stuff they can get their hands on, because they can't properly weigh the possibilities and feel how likely they actually are.
I know I am not INFJ because I lack the key motivation that every description of INFJ I have read. I don't try to fix people especially unprovoked.
See, here's a case where the way you present your ideas is not logically structured. INTPs are much better at bullet point criteria listing -- it's how INTPs think. INTP boils down big fields of info easily into the core concepts that DEFINE the identity of the object or properly capture the important aspects of the info. The only core concept you list here is something that has little to do with exclusively being an INFJ. It's not a core concept of INFJ. But you present it as a reason for not thinking you are INFJ
Now, I have never looked up the ISFP type before, therefore I have no bias for or against this suggest.
I will wait to do my own research on this until after you can present a logical argument. Therefore with holding my judgment because I honestly don't know.
Why wait, and why am I obligated to present you with a "logical argument" before you decide to examine the evidence yourself? I've at least given you "reasonable cause," and any further progess you make needs you to take a little initiative on your own.
But I'm keying off (1) posting style (2) comments about your actual life that you have volunteered including regarding your marriage and employment, etc. (3) what things seem to matter to you (4) how you interpret things.
If I planned to actually figure out your type conclusively, that would be one of the first types I'd look at in more detail.
.................
UPDATE: Actually, you have heard of ISFP before at least once. You looked it up and posted an entire LENGTHY description on INTPc on Feb 9 in your blog and then went through it point by point to try to shoot it down, because at least two other members had suggested the same type to you. That thread was much a train wreck like this one has become.
You also accused the membership of INTPc of being far more E, S, F, and J than you are, and so you were disillusioned with their site because you wanted to find other INTPs like you.
I think it's good to reconsider what you know, if you join two different forums dedicated to INTPs, and no one on either site thinks you are INTP and they're all having issues with your understanding of type and how you discuss issues. It doesn't sound like you really get how to type with the MBTI system.