The reason this forum scares me.

[Glorn]

As this is my first post, I'd like to say Hello to all my INTPs friends.

I registered because I wanted to share something with you. When I'm entering this forum I'm being kind of frustrated and sad after a few minutes, why? It's because I want to read literally EVERY single post and thread in here in every single category, I want to have that knowledge like right now. I'm opening thousands of tabs and then I'm realizing I don't have time at the moment to read them all. Actually I experience similar things with computer programming sometimes, I've got 700-800 pages book for programming and I want that knowledge right now, not tomorrow, just now!

Anyone having similar problems?

 

[DelusiveNinja]

No, look I've been coming here for a while, in my opinion, and in that period of time I've come to notice that a good 90% of what is posted on this forum is complete nonsense. The reason there is all of this "nonsense" is because more and more people come to this forum and seek to gain what they call "knowledge". "Knowledge", in its most common usage here, really means level of insight or rather experience with the concepts of MBTI and with the community in and of itself.

Why do people seek this?

It's because as newbies to the forum they want to fit in and not be ridiculed in the worst of ways (e.g. public banning, witch hunted, or shunned for being inexorably ignorant) .

You can learn the culture of posting nonsense by absorbing all of the "knowledge" contained in the most recent post and threads or you can sift through the nonsense real fast and find what's useful and relevant to your interest. Whatever you choose to fill your head with, best of luck to you.

Take baby steps too or you'll never finish.

 

[nanook]

I agree, we have little objective knowledge but all the more creative hallucinations, thus the issue is not one of knowing versus ignorance, but one of contributing versus consuming.

If Ti is a subjective activity like sculpting or graffiti and you want to join a scene or team you need to be in the know of what they are sculpting or spraying for, what their style is.

but many people here are happy to monologue away, in fact you can become one of the most .... erm ... famous? notorious? posters, by doing your own thing. having similar types takes care of fitting in just enough.

years ago i used to have the ambition to scan all personalities of a message board for their limits and agendas, values, capabilities, projections, defects and so on. to prove to myself, that i can perceive people and to understand what it really means if i fit in or not, are these people insane or is it me? but i don't do this anymore. i went from paying 100% to 3% percent attention to users. i have found my answers.

 

[SpaceYeti]

You learn how to program by reading, not by programming? I'm sorry, but that's kind of like saying you're learning to sculpt by reading, or how to build a house by reading. I'm sure you're gleaning some information, sure. I know basic carpentry, but I couldn't build a house. Not on my own. The point is, I couldn't imagine learning how to program in any meaningful sense without actually making simple programs to see how each component interacts and what stupid thing I'm doing that would cause an error. I'm currently making a game specifically to learn more about Visual Basic, and there's one part where I don't know why it works, because the math seems like it shouldn't work right, but it does. I would never know about those few counter-intuitive things without hands-on. Further, with skills of that sort (where you build things), what interest do you have in it if you're not using it? Or do you program?

 

[Sid99]

I am a newbie here, and I do not know what you mean by "nonsense." In fact, I am sort of scared that I have, in fact, done this. What constitutes nonsense? How can I avoid doing it? Pls hlp.


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[EditorOne]

You're fine. Folks are just dunking you, sort of like baptism. Welcome aboard, learn some patience and don't overthink stuff.

I'd rather read about stuff before I do it, too. Would have helped me having sex the first time. (Yes, I grew up before the internet and when sex books were available only to men in tightly buttoned raincoats who bought them in plain brown paper packages after midnight at the entrance to a dark alley from a man named Lester who stuttered and giggled. Sex education in school amounted to "if she will, you will get crabs," without any elaboration on what she would, exactly, do. :-) )

 

[nanook]

Don't ever hate your nonsense.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

I am a newbie here, and I do not know what you mean by "nonsense." In fact, I am sort of scared that I have, in fact, done this. What constitutes nonsense? How can I avoid doing it? Pls hlp.


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This exemplifies exactly what I'm attempting to convey. If you read my earlier post carefully, you may be able to piece what I meant by nonsense together, but I'll state it explicitly so you can chillax. Everything and nothing is nonsense all dependent on where your interest lie. Hell, to some people what I'm typing right now is nonsense.

 

[SpaceYeti]

I'd rather read about stuff before I do it, too.

I get that, but I'm imagining just reading, no doing. I'm probably wrong about that.

 

[Brontosaurie]

This exemplifies exactly what I'm attempting to convey. If you read my earlier post carefully, you may be able to piece what I meant by nonsense together, but I'll state it explicitly so you can chillax. Everything and nothing is nonsense all dependent on where your interest lie. Hell, to some people what I'm typing right now is nonsense.

you're the most nonsense member so far

 

[Pyropyro]

Welcome Glorn.

 

[dark+matters]

years ago i used to have the ambition to scan all personalities of a message board for their limits and agendas, values, capabilities, projections, defects and so on. to prove to myself, that i can perceive people and to understand what it really means if i fit in or not, are these people insane or is it me? but i don't do this anymore. i went from paying 100% to 3% percent attention to users. i have found my answers.

I can relate to this so much. LOL And welcome! I enjoy coming on here too for some reason.