Linsejko
Ghost of עמק רפאים.
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It's nice to self-indulge occasionally, no?
I was around in the early days. I made a brief return about a year ago, and then disappeared again into my life.
I like the ancient oriental board game called "go". I like eating healthily. I am not anti-social, but I am deeply introverted. I have studied various martial arts, and still do. I like reading. I love languages. I am a creature of travel. And I don't perfectly fit in with INTPs, though they certainly feel related in some way, generally. (I am an INTP according to the official test, as well as online ones.)
I feel like the potential flaws in the INTP type get mixed with the potential benefits, and that usually attempts to describe INTPs, even by INTPs themselves, don't actually hit on the fundamental elements that make up what this type is. Further, I find the whole MBTI system to have flaws in and of itself... That's also the general consensus of the academic world, I believe... But it's still interesting.
I'm currently an English lit major, but I have no intentions of graduating with a degree in English. I have been an English teacher in the west bank and east Jerusalem, and currently make most of my money by giving private Hebrew lessons to foreigners in Jerusalem (which is where I study, currently). I'm from Texas (Austin), and actually think fairly well of the state, on the whole--though I'm aware most immature intellectuals find disliking anything related to the country necessary for them to define themselves as intellectual, and there tend to be a lot of those here (though there are certainly some fantastically mature intellectuals here, which is what drives me to return, occasionally). I think I will end up studying philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, in the end. There's still a chance I'll turn to linguistics, but the problem is that I can teach myself a language better than a class can, so I find it incredibly tedious.
As indicated in my recent thread, I'm in the process of losing my religion. This makes life a lot different, and that's kind of a difficult process. It means that it's worth polling some other INTPs on some questions that pop up, occasionally, and so this place proves useful to me...
I generally read a lot more than I post. I also prefer single, lengthy posts to making lots of short ones, historically--so while I only have a little short of 500 posts in my history on this forum, I probably wrote some of the longest ones that existed. Too bad we don't do a word count here, eh?
Nice to see the old faces--LoR, Melkor, Vreknidj, and so on.
.L
I was around in the early days. I made a brief return about a year ago, and then disappeared again into my life.
I like the ancient oriental board game called "go". I like eating healthily. I am not anti-social, but I am deeply introverted. I have studied various martial arts, and still do. I like reading. I love languages. I am a creature of travel. And I don't perfectly fit in with INTPs, though they certainly feel related in some way, generally. (I am an INTP according to the official test, as well as online ones.)
I feel like the potential flaws in the INTP type get mixed with the potential benefits, and that usually attempts to describe INTPs, even by INTPs themselves, don't actually hit on the fundamental elements that make up what this type is. Further, I find the whole MBTI system to have flaws in and of itself... That's also the general consensus of the academic world, I believe... But it's still interesting.
I'm currently an English lit major, but I have no intentions of graduating with a degree in English. I have been an English teacher in the west bank and east Jerusalem, and currently make most of my money by giving private Hebrew lessons to foreigners in Jerusalem (which is where I study, currently). I'm from Texas (Austin), and actually think fairly well of the state, on the whole--though I'm aware most immature intellectuals find disliking anything related to the country necessary for them to define themselves as intellectual, and there tend to be a lot of those here (though there are certainly some fantastically mature intellectuals here, which is what drives me to return, occasionally). I think I will end up studying philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, in the end. There's still a chance I'll turn to linguistics, but the problem is that I can teach myself a language better than a class can, so I find it incredibly tedious.
As indicated in my recent thread, I'm in the process of losing my religion. This makes life a lot different, and that's kind of a difficult process. It means that it's worth polling some other INTPs on some questions that pop up, occasionally, and so this place proves useful to me...
I generally read a lot more than I post. I also prefer single, lengthy posts to making lots of short ones, historically--so while I only have a little short of 500 posts in my history on this forum, I probably wrote some of the longest ones that existed. Too bad we don't do a word count here, eh?
Nice to see the old faces--LoR, Melkor, Vreknidj, and so on.
.L
