this comic goes out to all you INTP Myers-Briggs personality types

[typus]

Comic Title: this comic goes out to all you INTP Myers-Briggs personality types in the audience, keep on keepin' on

So! Dinosaur Comics? Am I right?

Just to clarify: This comic is not made by me, it's by Ryan North who is the creator of Dinosaur Comics at qwantz.com

 

[MidnightGino]

Hahaha, that's a nice comic! I knew it, even if a lot of people say it's not true, it is possible to solve emotional problems using logic!

INTPs should create a new country with an entirely diferent society based on logic.

 

[Geminii]

We would probably need fairly good self-sustainability and defense for when political leaders in other countries think we're being weirdos.

 

[Agent of Chaos]

We would probably need fairly good self-sustainability and defense for when political leaders in other countries think we're being weirdos.

We're not weird, we're the normal ones. It's everyone else that's a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

 

[typus]

We're not weird, we're the normal ones. It's everyone else that's a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

Actually, I find this to be quite true. I mean, what's weirder than letting yourself be manipulated by your emotions? It's just a romanticized version of being the bitch of different enzymes/hormones/chemicals (I don't really know what causes emotional sensations). But basing your actions on irrefutable arguments? Seems like the more sensible alternative!

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

We would probably need fairly good self-sustainability and defense for when political leaders in other countries think we're being weirdos.

Or when INTJs are scorned by our sudden lack of presence in the rest of the world and formulate a plan to take us over.

Buttbuttmcgutt for INTP Secretary of Defense.

 

[warryer]

Or when INTJs are scorned by our sudden lack of presence in the rest of the world and formulate a plan to take us over.

Buttbuttmcgutt for INTP Secretary of Defense.

We should probably just have a complaint box instead. Or let the answering machine get it.

 

[Anthile]

I'm not sure why people claim that INTPs are more logical than other people or even that INTPs are the only ones capable of comprehending logic. At the end of the day, INTPs are just as irrational and immature as everyone else.
If I remember correctly, it was Freud who thought that the question as to why grown-up and intelligent people behave irrational is one of the most important questions of psychology.

 

[Fukyo]

I'm not sure why people claim that INTPs are more logical than other people or even that INTPs are the only ones capable of comprehending logic.

The comic alludes to the INTP tendency to approach everything with logic, even in emotional matters where this is not applicable, not the INTP supremacy in logic.

 

[Anthile]

The comic alludes to the INTP tendency to approach everything with logic, even in emotional matters where this is not applicable, not the INTP supremacy in logic.

(not by the actual author but Japanese fan art)

 

[Cognisant]

One's ability to manipulate one's own emotions with logic is dependant upon one's understanding of psychology, honesty with oneself, and possessing the willingness to actually perform the required mental gymnastics, when flipping someone off is so much more gratifying.

 

[Words]

The comic alludes to the INTP tendency to approach everything with logic, even in emotional matters where this is not applicable, not the INTP supremacy in logic.

It's never a matter of whether its logic or not, it's the type and quality of the logical approach. The idea that "'logic' is not applicable in emotional matters" is already a form of logical judgement, a sounder one than the opposite.

Everyone applies logic to emotion it but in different ways. Things can "make sense" to people out of experience or intuitive understanding of the subject. It "makes sense" to hug someone.

Can logic not be applied in something?

To work with emotions, one must understand its constant subjectivity and the motivational force behind it, and stand its contradictions . It is a logically existing subjective entity.

 

[Shmo]

I agree. Approaching emotions logically does not necessitate the disuse of emotion, but rather makes a definitive judgment as to where emotion's alogical principles and actions are valid. Emotion is subsumed into a logical framework, itself unchanged.

 

[Dogod]

Hahaha, that's a nice comic! I knew it, even if a lot of people say it's not true, it is possible to solve emotional problems using logic!

INTPs should create a new country with an entirely diferent society based on logic.

So you want to kill all of us when we don't have anyone else reminding us to eat, drink, or sleep?

 

[Jennywocky]

One's ability to manipulate one's own emotions with logic is dependant upon one's understanding of psychology, honesty with oneself, and possessing the willingness to actually perform the required mental gymnastics, when flipping someone off is so much more gratifying.

I think you're onto something there.



(I think only the INTJs have perfected the art of channeling emotion into cold logic in order to machinate their arch enemy's total destruction. That's too much work for me, the bird flip is usually good enough.)

 

[Cognisant]

The bird flip?
Where did that start, what does it mean, why is it insulting?
Adding the phrase "sit & spin" answers some of these but I suspect it's a modern development, because the supposedly original gesture involved two fingers and was done by Englishmen to Frenchmen in reference to some battle where English longbow-men whooped French heavy cavalry, hence the gesture which is reminiscent of how the archers held their longbows. But this doesn’t answer where the single fingered version came from, what it symbolises or why it’s called "the bird".

Sorry I digress, insults fascinate me.

For example: Fapping idiot.
It's like "fucking idiot" except it implies the idiot in question is also prolific wanker, the word fapping being derived from fap, which is the written expression of the noise of masturbating, e.g. fap-fap-fap etc.
I suspect this came from 4chan or an equivalent.

Also notable is "drong-go" which is an Australian insult of unknown meaning, quite possibly the aboriginal word for idiot, or something like that, because nobody knows what it means it's generally used as a playful form of endearment rather than as an insult, so much so that calling one's enemy a drong-go would seem kinda strange.
We're odd like that.

I'm still doing it arn't I?

 

[vavel7]

Ha! Ha! That's definetely a classic discussion between me and my bestfriend from the time we were kids at schools till now. She has a highly developed Fe (I think she's an ESFP anyway...) and she keeps on asking me advice on such emotional problems and my common reply is "aaa...really, I don't know" but then she will insist and I will become the "dinosaur" and I'll give these cold logical answers... hahaha!!!! OMG!!!