Wondering what the fuss is about

[Vulture]

So my friends and I went in a sort of personality quiz craze, and after reading most of the types (our tests mostly all gave faulty results) ive cemented on INTP.

While reading the many pages of info given on this subject (us?) I saw a link redirecting here and thought id check it out.

So here I am, Maxime Roy, from Montreal Quebec. My interests involve spending hours at night learning about lore, politics, philosophy and kickin' it old school. Ive always hated introductions, but I think here this notion is going to be easily understandable.

 

[Jesin]

Hello, and welcome. I hope you have fun here.

Would you describe yourself as weird?

 

[Vulture]

I like to think that I have interests in weird things, but me myself, am completely normal.

It seems strange to think that one could think of themselves as weird, or alienated with themselves.

 

[Jesin]

It seems strange to think that one could think of themselves as weird, or alienated with themselves.

Alienated with oneself? No, that's not what I meant at all. I mean weird in a way that for me is something of a synonym for awesome.

Sometimes I think about what my personality and my interests and how that compares with the rest of society, and think "Wow, I'm a geek!" or "Man, I'm weird!". That's what I meant.

If you don't think of yourself as weird, either you're right and you're missing out on a lot or you're wrong and you need to practice your introspection more.

 

[Vulture]

Compared to most people out there? Hell yeah im weird.

 

[Aphasia]

Welcome to the forums, just leave the bottled insight in the kitchen. The party's going to start in a bit, so feel free to wander around or whatever.

 

[Jesin]

Welcome to the forums, just leave the bottled insight in the kitchen. The party's going to start in a bit, so feel free to wander around or whatever.

Eh, the party's always going to start in a bit. Oh, well.

 

[Linsejko]

Hm, Jessin.

I'm pretty I sure I remember reading that INTP's fall into a category of people who typically do not think of themselves as weird even though everyone else does.

Me, for instance. I don't consider myself weird, I just consider a lot of other people boring. Weird, as you describe it, is subjective to a definition of normal that I do not agree with.

Welcome, Maxime. I took my first Kiersey for a college class, and then didn't think about it a whole lot. A few months later I made a friend who had a Ph. D in psychology and offered to give me the full version for free.

So I got INTP again and researched pretty deeply. One of those results links here, and the rest is documented history.

Glad to have you.

Concerning poor internet results, I actually took my MBTI with a close friend who got ESTJ, all on the cusp execpt for "T"; online, he had gotten INTP several times in a row.

Just to affirm- no one knows your preferences but you.

.L

 

[Ermine]

I'm so glad I'm weird. Life's a lot more interesting that way, and you'll attract cool people that way too.

 

[Oblivious]

I don't think anyone here is weird; they're all awesome! So there. Other people can shove it.

 

[Jesin]

I came to the conclusion that I'm weird by comparing myself to other people and to what other people seem to consider as normal. I then concluded that "normal" is boring and that the INTP brand of weirdness is quite awesomeful in comparison.

 

[Vulture]

We all seem pretty nerdy.

 

[Jesin]

Yes, exactly!

Anyone who can read a chunk of GEB:EGB and like it is probably worth knowing.

 

[loveofreason]

Hi Vulture! Welcome to normal.

Any rumours of parties being held here are purely fictitious. Just to deflect any spies from discovering that there may actually be some intelligent and meaningful conversations happening somewhere around here.

 

[Aphasia]

What, you accuse my glamer of being false? Fie to you, reasonable one.

 

[loveofreason]

glamer? As in glamour? To put a bewitchment, a spell, a mask of compelling attraction and misdirection? Aye then. I'm guilty.

But it's a compliment. You are outstanding in casting the spells that keep the rest of the world bewitched with the enigmatic, the elusive, illusive and captivating INTP, whilst protecting our real agenda.

I cede best knowledge of the power of glam to you, Aphasia, and declare you our master magician of propaganda .

 

[murkrow]

You guys are so weird.

 

[Aphasia]

Thanks. You seem pretty weird to me as well, you flatterer. Everyone here knows (or should know) that norm is often an excuse by wicked ones to coerce and to mold others to be carbon copies of themselves, so stating humble little me as a leader against this conspiracy is more than I deserve. (Little note: which humble person describes his/herself as humble?)

@loveofreason: Wow. A job. Let me poke at it with a stick for a while to see if it won't explode in my face.

 

[Vulture]

I think that the truly humble arent afraid to describe themselves as great.

 

[murkrow]

I think that the truly humble arent afraid to describe themselves as great.

Wrong.

The great have no need for humility.

Only those afraid of their potential profess their lowliness.

Acceptance of your faults is not humility, it is courage.

I guess what you're saying is that you accept the overwhelming and limitless potential of man and then see yourself as humbled beside it.

But you can't be humbled if you consider yourself superior to others.

 

[Vulture]

I meant it in its modest connotation, without arrogance or exageration. The way ive always thought of myself as great, sincerely.