This is page 32 by the default format. I read up until mid-page 22 until I finally realized I just can't read any more.
I assume that most people after that point posted things that held a lot of the same underlying ideas, even if they match different personal traits (I noticed, and even enjoyed, how idiosyncratic some of these posts are, while still holding a lot of the same underpinning). At least they're good/correct ideas, and reading through them was somewhat interesting, because I am a match with much of it. I could actually empathize.
Anyhow, I found this place a couple days ago. This is the first thread in the forum I'm motivated to post on. I started taking notes, finally, around page 20 or something, rather than trying to keep things entirely in my head, but I noted the quotes on notepad somewhat absent-mindedly so I don't recall whom most of the quotes I have are attributed to. Hope that's not a problem.
When you wonder to what extent people are aware of there own mannerisms and fallacies and whether they're parodying themselves right then and there. When you ask them.
I wonder this too. I ask them too. I'm deeply self-aware, and parody myself sometimes for humor, which goes unnoticed because people lack the subtlety to see it; if someone asked me, maybe it'd mean they were awake and thinking.
You can’t but feel that rules just intended as a society-wide substitute for your own critical thought and good judgment and, ergo, don’t really apply to you.
"can't help but feel"? I don't
think "can't but feel" parses; correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't "feel" it, I think/realize/understand it. But definitely. I never even regarded most societal rules as meaningful as a child, and with greater awareness I still don't; I go my own way.
132. You make intuitive leaps of understanding, drawing interesting parallels between unrelated topics.
ALL THE TIME. I used to wonder why everyone else
didn't.
When you look at yourself in the mirror and think, "Is that really how I look like? Is that really me?"
I enjoyed looking in one mirror when there was another behind it, and I could ponder the apparent length of the repeating reflection. I didn't see the point of regular old uninteresting mirrors until I noticed that reflections actually appeared slightly different in them from what I see (in ways other than it being reversed), and then I could stare into one for hours trying to figure out exactly how it appeared to distort the properties of what I saw outside of it, or going off on some un/related tangent of thought. I wonder if someone watching me would've blandly thought I was vain.
When somebody asks you in the middle of a group conversation: "What's your opinion on this?" and it takes ages for you to actually come up with an answer because you don't have a side you take. (or is it just me?)
Not just you. I started to answer simply, "I don't have one," when I wanted the conversationalists to leave me alone, but when the question is worthwhile, I'll do my best to try to get them to wait while I think about it. Some seem to think it's worth it.
Whatevernumbercomesnext: Making a drawn-out plan which involves you doing something extensive and you forcing your will on others even when you know you won't do it and others probably won't listen to anything you're saying.
I don't like forcing my will on others, but I've done this with the general plan of getting the few people I'm forced to interact with to recognize certain..fundamental things/ideas/whatnot. We never get around to the discussions I plan because... well, there is never a proper moment. Their lives always seem to be busy with doing pointless-seeming things, and this seems to leave no room for thoughtful discussions.
I don't get how people get wrapped up in their lives without it being mentally significant in some way.
-You know it's futile to tell anyone some great idea or profound thought you have because no one will understand it.
I used to tell my notepad, just like this person...
- you have half your hard drive full of notepad files, holding you random thoughts/discoveries since no one else wants to hear them.
More recently I actually cultivated a few friendships online with people who don't mind when I type them out soliloquies on random ideas. One or two of them even do the same back to me, once in awhile. Not all of my friends are interested in replying directly to my thoughts, but in the end it doesn't actually matter for this simple function. It's a bonus when they can contribute/argue effectively.
You have way too many tabs open, but don't want to close any because you might totally forget about it.
I love my browser for *not* forgetting what I was looking at. Otherwise I'd probably never turn my computer off.
-someone says the word "system" and you immediately perk up.
I find systems fun to create, interesting to contemplate, see through them readily, and understand them as tools and useful frameworks. Language is an example; I don't always think in it, but I can usually use it rather well. This makes me great at grasping and using foreign/different languages.
It's also a refreshing change when I'm not the one explaining whatever system in question. :-P
- it bugs the hell out of you when someone uses the wrong terminology
Depending on how wrong it is, and how right I would have expected them to be, given context, intelligence, knowledge, and bent towards specificity.
It bugs the hell out of me when I would expect the person to be right.
- Your at constant tug-a-war with your playful and serious self
I think "you're" is in order here? :-P
For me it's more like people don't understand when I'm making a joke. I alternate between playful and serious kind of fluidly, but mostly tending towards the serious side, and my jokes, or the things I find funny, don't match what people expect.
I think that's been said a few times in this thread.
Wrong.
ESFJ and ENFJ are the ideal mates for an INFP.
The ideal mates for an INTP are ESTJ and ENTJ.
Still shudder worthy,huh?
http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP_rel.html
From way earlier in the thread. I noticed it requoted and realized I wanted to respond.
I can't imagine wanting to have a relationship with either of those types. I actually can't imagine wanting to have a relationship with most people, though; my friends are rare, and I haven't cared to think about intimacy with people in quite some time.
You learn calculus/symbolic logic because it makes you feel like a sorcerer.
Yeah, learning new subjects, especially systems, makes me feel powerful also. I like to consider new ways of thinking.
When I read I will drift off into thought but I'll continue reading and I'll find myself pages and pages from where I last remember being.
I think it's a rather strange phenomenon! Considering some part of me is still reading the book, but my thought is way off on the other side of the world.
What I meant to ask was if this happened to anyone else?
This has happened to me, but usually when the book isn't following what I think is interesting. I react this way to a lot of textbooks (and then I go read wikipedia or browse the rest of the internet for what I think is pertinent and interesting).
-When your sitting in class, and your thinking about how stupid and biased the teacher is, and how the education system is flawed.
"you're"? :-P
And then when they would call on me, I would have no idea what they had been talking about. But I would probably know the answer to their question anyway.
I had a lot of teachers who would try to get me to wake up in class just by shooting random questions at me. I'd answer and go back to whatever I was doing.
-When you stay up till 3 in the morning trying to understand everything you can about a topic of interest, and then your family thinks your watching porn.
Another "you're" in order? :-P
But seriously, my family always thought I was playing online games. They tried to forbid me computer access. (It became a game, getting around their newest restrictive measures, and it stayed that way for my entire residency there because I have parents who were smart and determined.)
Probably, INTP = that kid who bangs face-first into the pole in between the doorways in the hallway because he's reading a book or thinking about something else while walking to his next class. It was grade school. I was that kid. It happened multiple times.
Anyhow, I've been pointing out the grammar errors in here because I finally found a place where I can probably do that and not have it taken as an insult. I hope my corrections aren't offensive.
My own contribution, hopefully it's actually sort of new.
YKY'AINTPW:
you dislike unnecessary formality in works you need to read or produce because your thought process moves too fast and deeply for it.
...but you will still correct people's/your own spelling, and care a lot about structure and system.
The difference is that spelling, grammar, structure, etc., further clarity. Unnecessary formality, on the other hand, is superfluous and can even make things unclear (if you don't know the subject matter well enough).
Why did I just feel the need to explain that?
Did I just tl;dr? (I always seem to.)
Am I even going to post this? *hesitates...and does the usual editing routine*