So there're people like me out there?

[polar]

Why hadn't I found this forum sooner? Hi. I'm a 17 year old girl. I'm a bit wary of this whole INTP identification business but I took the test thrice and so it has been decreed. Although I relate to just about everything INTP, I generally dislike science and electronics and I love language. And rocks. I fucking love rocks. I hope I haven't made a terrible mistake! (:

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I generally dislike science and electronics

What have you got against science and electronics?

 

[Absurdity]

Welcome to the party.

 

[catatonic]

Hello polar welcome.

That's weird, I thought INTP should like science, ne?

Idk, my MBTI change again to INTJ now.
My personality is so kaputt.

 

[noksve]

I dunno, me for instance I like science and such, but can't really focus once they start putting equations and numbers and things that actually make me think hard. Just let computers do that and conform knowing that when water freezes its volume grows. It's nuts. Homemade explosives are fine also. You can use explosives to blow electronics up. Perhaps you can find a love for science that way.

Welcome.

 

[SpaceYeti]

... Dislike science, or dislike studying science? I mean, even if I didn't like doing science, I'd still appreciate modern society and the science responsible for it.

 

[nanook]

all 4-letter-code test dichotomy perceivers are irrationalits at heart.
bookish rationalists have fucked up the type descriptions, though, making the intp into a rationalist. i don't know about language, but rocks + avatar make you credible as irrationalist. *disappears from the scene, as 20 rationalists try to prove me wrong using logical arguments based on bookish myths*

 

[polar]

Hello polar welcome.

That's weird, I thought INTP should like science, ne?

Idk, my MBTI change again to INTJ now.
My personality is so kaputt.

I tried manually figuring it out and I got INTJ but it just didn't feeeel right.

I dunno, me for instance I like science and such, but can't really focus once they start putting equations and numbers and things that actually make me think hard. Just let computers do that and conform knowing that when water freezes its volume grows. It's nuts. Homemade explosives are fine also. You can use explosives to blow electronics up. Perhaps you can find a love for science that way.

Welcome.

Maybe, oh maybe I do like science. It's just the way they teach it here just makes me want to gag. I'm not a hands-on type of person and being forced into messy experiments may have ruined it for me. Bad experiences.

... Dislike science, or dislike studying science? I mean, even if I didn't like doing science, I'd still appreciate modern society and the science responsible for it.

Studying it! That's what I mean...! Sometimes I get extreme.

all 4-letter-code test dichotomy perceivers are irrationalits at heart.
bookish rationalists have fucked up the type descriptions, though, making the intp into a rationalist. i don't know about language, but rocks + avatar make you credible as irrationalist. *disappears from the scene, as 20 rationalists try to prove me wrong using logical arguments based on bookish myths*

so INTP's are supposed to be irrational? Yes but who doesn't love nebulas. (:

 

[SpaceYeti]

Studying it! That's what I mean...! Sometimes I get extreme.

Why?!

 

[nanook]

Yes but who doesn't love nebulas

more a question of how often they would stop to notice them. same for avatars

 

[Polaris]

Welcome to the forum.

Hmmm...

I like languages and rocks too, but I have nothing against science...I mean once you start studying languages and rocks in more depth, it becomes another scientific discipline. And yes, some people would disagree that the study of languages is not science, but the process of language study is scientific/investigative at its core. So to say that one dislikes science, it must be implied that one prefers mostly the horizontal knowledge of things.

Spoiler

I've spent the last 5 years studying science part-time, and thus becoming more disillusioned, learning of the restrictions of this very ambiguous field (environmental science, it is highly political). Currently I would like to take a break from studying (being filled up like an empty bottle-type learning), and to pursue a new way of investigation of things more esoterical, if that makes any sense at all, probably not. In short, I can understand a reluctance to the scientific process, but it depends on the field.

 

[pjoa09]

Why hadn't I found this forum sooner? Hi. I'm a 17 year old girl. I'm a bit wary of this whole INTP identification business but I took the test thrice and so it has been decreed. Although I relate to just about everything INTP, I generally dislike science and electronics and I love language. And rocks. I fucking love rocks. I hope I haven't made a terrible mistake! (:

I used to like rocks when I was a kid. Then I realized I could never find a quartz on my own. I got so annoyed I left them alone.

I hate languages though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

I have a love hate thing with technology. I love it when it functions on a basic level. Technology has developed at such a rate that it is hard to be comfortable with what you are using. I spend my free time in Slackware for this reason. You can appreciate it.

 

[polar]

Why?!

My mind rejects scientific concepts. Hahaha. They don't stick in my brain. I find that I have to labor over biology textbooks whereas history and English are immediately absorbed.

Welcome to the forum.

Hmmm...

I like languages and rocks too, but I have nothing against science...I mean once you start studying languages and rocks in more depth, it becomes another scientific discipline. And yes, some people would disagree that the study of languages is not science, but the process of language study is scientific/investigative at its core. So to say that one dislikes science, it must be implied that one prefers mostly the horizontal knowledge of things.

Spoiler

I've spent the last 5 years studying science part-time, and thus becoming more disillusioned, learning of the restrictions of this very ambiguous field (environmental science, it is highly political). Currently I would like to take a break from studying (being filled up like an empty bottle-type learning), and to pursue a new way of investigation of things more esoterical, if that makes any sense at all, probably not. In short, I can understand a reluctance to the scientific process, but it depends on the field.

Well I like things to remain mysterious. I'm afraid that once I know everything about, say this flower, it will cease to be beautiful and I'll just see it as a pile of chemicals. Mechanics are boring and cold. Ignorance is safe and warm! Learning languages exposes cultural quirks and differences and would allow me to live somewhere historical and romantic and own a VINEYARD! Sappy I know.

I used to like rocks when I was a kid. Then I realized I could never find a quartz on my own. I got so annoyed I left them alone.

I hate languages though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

I have a love hate thing with technology. I love it when it functions on a basic level. Technology has developed at such a rate that it is hard to be comfortable with what you are using. I spend my free time in Slackware for this reason. You can appreciate it.

I'm too lazy to follow through with my rock-interest because I know somewhere down the line I'm gonna have to pull samples out of the ground and perform repetitive mind-numbing tests or something lame. I just never got sucked into computers. I don't even like using this thing. I appreciate it, though!

Monty Python-type humor can squeeze a couple chuckles out of me but I haven't yet seen a skit that I rofl'd over. :P Atypical INTP or 2 rare 2 b classified~

 

[livilinv]

We seem to be alike...
I also got INTJ, but felt I was more of an INTP.

 

[SpaceYeti]

My mind rejects scientific concepts. Hahaha. They don't stick in my brain. I find that I have to labor over biology textbooks whereas history and English are immediately absorbed.

But... How are you going to do something mundane, and then shout out "FOR SCIENCE!"? I mean, yes, it may take some work to understand, but that's what science is about! Learning, figuring out how stuff works. I just... science... it's just so good.

 

[polar]

We seem to be alike...
I also got INTJ, but felt I was more of an INTP.

Is there really much of a difference between the two?

But... How are you going to do something mundane, and then shout out "FOR SCIENCE!"? I mean, yes, it may take some work to understand, but that's what science is about! Learning, figuring out how stuff works. I just... science... it's just so good.

Hahahaha I always just think "I'll leave that to someone else" and "good thing there's people who do science out there"

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Is there really much of a difference between the two?

NP vs TJ
IP vs IJ
Irrational vs Rational (Jung)
Ti(Ne) vs Ni(Te)

 

[Irishpenguin]

And rocks. I fucking love rocks.

I like you already

 

[Etheri]

Well I like things to remain mysterious. I'm afraid that once I know everything about, say this flower, it will cease to be beautiful and I'll just see it as a pile of chemicals. Mechanics are boring and cold. Ignorance is safe and warm! Learning languages exposes cultural quirks and differences and would allow me to live somewhere historical and romantic and own a VINEYARD! Sappy I know.

That depends on your view of science... In my case, the more I learn about how everything around us 'works', the clean maths that describe it. (ignoring the not so clean formules that are made to fit) ... I don't know. It feels like the more I understand, the more questions arrise as to why and how. (oh so cliché). Science cannot 'solve' the world. It'll never know 'everything' about anything. Sometimes, I even feel like the science of it is the beauty, in all. Who does not, for example, love symmetry?
Also, is the study of rocks not science?
Vineyard makes me say... you study french? Perhaps spanish, italian or portuguese? <:

 

[Da Blob]

I have been collecting rocks for about fifty years now. Humans have created a lot of stuff from rocks and they will yet create more. The range is fascinating from Lapidary Art to the use of sophisticated Signal Theory Transforms, there's a lot about rock to love...

Oh! BTW - Welcome!

 

[rowen]

A girl on the internet?