Hi, I just finished this, I will admit editing out the porn jokes and cuss words just in case my parents search my computer, so without further ado:
1.You uphold the beleif that it is possible to be perfectly social without actually speaking.
2.More often than not, you bow your head while walking, and are an expert at 'crowd dodging'
3. You indulge in, and are quite renowned among friends for, making completely random, yet very accurate observations.
4.You think about the very thing which you are not doing.
5.If wikipedia was a person, you would marry it. If possible, you would download the internet into your mind.(and have probably tried)
6.You frequently entertain the thought that you can make peoples heads explode simply by concentrating pure hatred on them.
Or at least, you wish it were so.(until you realize that you really have no hatred)
7.You often fantasise about being part of a wordlwide virtual reality, or becoming an all powerful demigod,or something of the like.
8.When sitting on any public chair which has more than one sight sideby side, you kindly make sure that your dearest -whatever you're carrying- has a seat to itself.
9.No-one* finds you funny but yourself, and despite this, you are always trying to make clever jokes that no-one gets.
10.You have spent a whole night of not sleeping, pondering something, and then after asking someone about it the next day, realise that you're the only one which seems to care.
11. You can get a lot done, as long as they're the stuff you're not meant to be doing.
12. You've been told that you think too much.
13. People have called you heartless.
14. You spend a mandatory 22 hour day on the net for fear of losing INTP status.
15. Your thoughts are huge!
16. You're absolutely certain that you're destined for hell.
17. You confuse everyone around you with words far too long for casual conversation.
18. You think this list is a great gift to all humanity.
19. You laugh at the Titanic sinking but Wall-E steals your heart.
20. You're not paranoid, it's all perfectly logical.
21. You've played the "but why" game with your parents.
22. You frequently floccinaucinihilipilificate.
23. You actually care about accuracy.
24. You HAVE to walk on those tiles in a predetermined pattern.
25. Honesty is a higher good than the ego.
26. You flinch when touched.
27. You don't understand half of the funny looks people give you.
28. Sometimes you come up with something that you think is exactly how you wanted to put it, but people just get more confused, despite how simple it seems to you.
29. You have hit someone for trying to give you a hug.
30. After you put a forkful of soup in your mouth, you realize something is odd.
31. You announce that you've lost the game randomly, and don't even notice the funny looks.
32. You understand a difficult concept in class but cannot explain it to someone else in a way they could comprehend.[/font]
33. you dump your boyfriend because he said i love you and gave you a hug....
(really happen to me)
34. You hate people who give everyone they meet a hug.
35. You wear brightly colored clothes and have a positive view of life-not.
36. You believe people are basically smart. except for the 97% of the world who are stupid.
37. You fear robots for becoming too inhuman.
38. You think the "Singularity" is a cell phone company.
39. you stay up at night thinking.
40.your parents tell you to stop day dreaming.
41.you get around people but never talk but in your mind your correcting every mistake they make....
42.when you get up and correct your college teacher in front of the class.
43.walk into a car because you have been day dreaming and not watching what you are doing...
44.never say i love you.
45.get upset when some one touches you.
46.hate hugs.
47.hate being lovey-dovey!!!!!!!!
48. You really want to correct people's spelling and/or grammar but you try and stay silent.
49. When you lecture, you turn a one hour session into five.
50. You have intentions to do everything/anything... eventually.
51. when you refuse to do something in the name of "intellectual principles"
52. when you communicate mostly through various means on a computer
53. when your mental age is 15-20 years older than your physical age until you're 35, and then 10 years mentally younger after that.
54. When you just have to correct every mistake you see or hear.
55. high aspirations and mediocre achievement (by the world's standards) - for the most part.
56. You're still following the numerical system though people have either purposely or inadvertently discarded it.
57. You cringed at nearly all of Mac's listings (but adamantly read them ALL) before realizing that he was listing off INFP characteristics.
58. you ruin your happiness by analyzing it.
59. You can give logical justification for every action you've ever taken.
60. When asked a stupid question you must give a stupid answer.
61. You think an 85% loss in global population is a worthwhile price for some peace & quiet.
62. You've tried to force god into doing something, "give me a sign or I become an atheist".
63. You've declared war on any ideology that doesn’t stand up to intensive scrutiny.
64. To you the terms like "messed up" and "twisted" to be compliments to your creativity.
65. If you happened upon the Tardis you'd steal it with absolutely no doubt in your mind.
66. You apologize for double posting.[/font]
67. You know you're a (female/gay/bi) INTP if you happened upon the Tardis and all you wanted to do is keep the 10th doctor company. And keep his heartrates up. <3
67.5: Or kill him until he changes into a female form, (if it's possible)
68. When people start to avoid you because "you suck the happiness out of life" by over-analyzing everything.
69. When you randomly laugh at you own thoughts and tell people "oh, it's nothing."
70. When you tell your parents/employer your room/office is "not trashed! It's got complex order!"
71. When you obsessively use parenthesis or slashes in your sentences (well not necessarily in your sentences; just running off on tangents when speaking/writing, and being in the necessity to find a means of keeping it all clear).
72. When you spend too much time writing and rewriting something, so that it is as clear as possible, just to have people say its excessively long-winded for such a simple concept.
73. When you keep up a bad joke long after everybody has stopped laughing (if they even laughed at all).
74. When you write extensive "to-do" lists, and then lose them.
75. When you are proud of people being outraged at your comments and being called insane, perverted, amoral, and insensitive.
76. When you are constantly saying "I told you so, but no you wouldn't listen to me!" *shakes head in disapproval*.
77. When you talk to inanimate objects more than with people
78. When people finally reveal some dark, super secret knowledge and you go "ah, just as I thought" or "I had assumed so" or "it was evident from the patterns I had previously observed."
79. When you smile at people telling you that "you'll die alone, never get married, and will go to hell."
80. When you quote philosophy and everybody looks at you like you are from outer space.
81. When you wish you were from outer space.
82. When in a single day you have rented from the library more books than the amount of friends you have ever had.
83. When you are quoted as saying "Books are more reliable than people."
84. When you wish people had a *mute* button.
85. When you try to take over the world (from the comfort of your couch)
86. When you spend several hours at INTPforum when you know you should be doing otherwise.
87. When you constantly wonder what it would be like to have been born the opposite sex.
88. When you creep people out because you stare at them while trying to read their thoughts, by being lost analyzing the geometric proportions of their bodies, thinking about the connections and mechanics of bone structure and muscles for potential cybernetic prosthetics, or by attempting to determine their MBTI type...
89. You recognize and correct other people's mistaken names, places, and stories when they're talking about mythology.
90. You cannot stand self-aggrandizement.
91. Every serious conversation you attempt with non-INTPs abruptly ends when they keel over laughing at your use of correct terminology and/or complicated words.
92. You wake up one day with an answer to all the world's problems and all the others care about is that assignment you had set aside...
93. You can not help but re-read what you've just written multiple times, just to make sure that's exactly what you want to say and how you want to say it.
94. You can talk excessively and impressively about just about anything, regardless of whether you understand it at all. Well..online at least...
95. when your friends give up getting you out of the depression.
96. when you often don't feel purpose of going out anywhere or speaking to anyone you know for week or two.
97. INTP forum is the only one you stay at longer than one day.
98.you often turn off your cell phone, so nobody could reach you (nobody from the forum will confirm)
99. You use and/or more than you use and and/or or.
100. You're still keeping count.
101. You're wondering if Mac's should be subtracted and whether Cog's .5 add should be considered its own or not.
102. You're very sad that we couldn't keep it all under 100.
103. When part of you strongly wants to contribute to this thread and another equally strong part of you just doesn't give a shit.
(irresistable force vs. immovable object)
104. You now would like to start a sit-comic by that name.
105. You annoy friends by interrupting their long-winded dialogues to correct their errors and inaccuracies.
106. In high school, you found pep rallies to be pointless and somehat fascist.
107. In college, you favorite pastime was poking fun at the absurd initiation rituals that fraternity and sorority recruits were subjected to, yet.
108. You acquired honorary fraternity brother/sorority sister status by befriending Greeks, without actually joining their pretentious organizations.
109. In your career, your viewed as bright and hard-working, but a bit weird, and not enough of a "team player."
110. In relationships, your partners are initially blown away by your thoughtfulness and decency, but then later complain incessantly that you "don't spend enough time" with them.
111. You're constantly chastised for "being off in your own little world," yet.
112. People, even mere acquaintances, often seek your advice.
113. You've felt oddly comfortable enough in a multiracial environment to jokingly reply, "What did you call me?" to a black colleague's honest request for a nickel.
114. You hate Jeff Foxworthy jokes, but you love this thread.
115. 1337 sp33k is hilolious 2u but u rarly r able 2 dup it.
116. You spend a good twenty minutes day dreaming about the possibilities of physics after you attempted to maticulously remove the only staple stuck on your staple remover (because it was bothering you), and it sprung forth kinetically making a sound in a spot somewhere in your cubicle, but is now invisible for all intents and purposes.
117. It was actually longer than 20 minutes.
119. You are ten times clearer writing than you are speaking.
120. You even procrastinate fun activities.
121. You are surprised to find that not everyone has a pile of random junk in their room, which you consider a necessary furnishing of any home.
122. You remember things someone said years ago and use it to prove them wrong about something trivial.
123. Yet, you forget where you put your [insert important object here].
124. You know by memory how to type a "∞"
125. When you can't stand S types.
126. Your logic is immaculate, but your room/office/desk looks like a hurricane went through it -- literally.
127. You know what i^i is.
128. You walk into a bookstore and read entire books.
129. you don't do anything unless it's the most efficient way you can conceive.
130. while you're doing it you figure out there were many ways to do it better.
131. you love to criticize
132. When you can walk around and around thinking, for hours. And you have trouble sitting and concentrating because of all your new ideas, and ramifications and you go off thinking of something totally different.... and then you don't have a clue what you were working on.
133. You walk into a pole.
134. When you chose to risk your neck by questioning, critizing or correcting an INTJ's logic.
135. When you take the MBTI test and it tells you that you're an INTP.
136. When you think that finding out the correct answer is more important than risking your neck by pointing out the flaws in an INTJ's logic.
137 - the number of times I have walked into a pole. (it’s actually 117 apparently)
138. when you take a test three to four times and it still comes out as you are an intp.
139. when you ask your boyfriend to marry you because you are tired of waiting and he laughs in your face and says you cant do that so now he has put you in a gloomy mood and you don't know what to say to him anymore because of it.
140. when you think so much that you put yourself in a depressed “stay away from me” mood.
141. You wish you had a charger, instead of having to waste time/effort consuming food.
142. Your thoughts in one day, if all written down, would make an entire book.
143. when you can induce Drug-like Highs and get stoned to a henge without substance.
144. when you feel the urge to correctly number a haphazard list of ideas
145. when you think about conversations long after you've had them
146. You compiled them into a correct numerical list
147. You just spent an hour doing that.
148. When you spend all your time in a book or online
149. When your thoughts are going 150 mph, but reality is in gridlock
150. When you make extensively detailed plans for assignments so you don't actually have to do them until last minute.
151.when you would like to own more books then clothes
152. when you lose the list and improvise
153. When you use theta as a list number
154. When you obsessively point out that theta is a variable and not a list number.
155.You feel like you can abstract yourself out of your body (even though you don't tend to admit it to yourself)
156.You often have to remind yourself that you are a human being, not a disembodied perceptual field.
157.You refuse to write important essays unless you are permitted to head them with trenchant denouncements of the educational system (yes, I do this).
158.You consider committing suicide because there's a chapter about ethics in your Science textbook (they even infect science with their blasted culture? There's no hope).
159.You're listening to a ''leading expert'' in a field you know nothing about, and feel the urge to correct every other statement he makes.
160.You trust the imagined reality of future possibilities more than the persistent hallucination of the present.
161.Somebody claims to have a system for developing psychic abilities, and you have to try it because either believing or disbelieving it without experience would constitute a violation of your intellectual integrity.
162. You've wondered if psychic abilities are dependent upon cognitive effort and the only reason you haven't used them yet is because you're too lazy for the effort required.
163.You've picked one random card from a deck & successfully guessed what it was, then spent an entire afternoon trying to replicate this first attempt.
164.After reading the last three points you find yourself staring at a pen on your desk, trying to make it move with telekinetic effort.
165.You've failed, but you still think it was worth trying anyway.
166. You have a brilliant insight and can't wait to tell somebody, but then realize that nobody else would understand what you're talking about.
167.You decide that you're a God who's tricked himself into believing in this world, and that the hallucination will end whenever you will it to.
168.You realize that you have no way of disproving that reality began 5 minutes ago, and accept it as a tenable and potentially accurate theory.
169. you sometimes forget that the reason people are able to keep making unannounced visits into your personal space is not because your AT field is malfunctioning; it's because you're not an Eva
170. You have a brilliant insight and can't wait to tell somebody, but then realise that language is about 1000 years too primitive for you to be able to say what you're thinking
171. You tell someone that you honestly don't want get married or have kids and they gawk at you utterly dumbfounded.
172.You have come up with complex plans to overthrow power figures, establish cults, and/or stop stupid people from reproducing; but are to lazy to put them into motion.
173.You wish it was the future already.
174.Your imagination is always far more interesting than anything happening in reality.
175.You officially lost all hope for the human race when someone told you that Scientology is based on science.
176.You know hundreds of -isms, psychological disorders, and mythological figures thanks to Wikipedia.
177.You think of your self as an observer; not a participant.
178.You wish the Christians would come up with more intelligent arguments instead of bombarding you sob stories and circular reasoning.
179.You've contemplated suicide, yet you still want to be immortal.
180.You have never ever been referred to as a hopeless romantic.
181. You have several plans for making yourself immortal, though they're not all are practical.
182. You constantly find yourself with a huge grin on your face.
183.You wonder why people give you such strange looks
184. You realise how often you've conceptually raped reality by using it as raw material to feed into your internal models.
185. While showering you lose yourself in something you were thinking about. Once you return to what you were doing you realize you do not remember if you already used shampoo/soap/ect and end up repeating the whole shower cycle just to make sure
186. When someone says to you "you can't knock that down, it's a supporting wall", and your response is "sure I can, but I'll do it after lunch".
187. You walk from one room to another, forgetting on the way what your purpose was for going there in the first place.
188.It can take ages to sort through all your thoughts and eventually find whatever word or memory you were looking for.
189.You've asked people to wait while you search; extra points if you stand perfectly still...
even more if you hum whilst doing it
190. You can sit on the toilet for ten minutes before remembering what you're there for, then ten more minutes before you realise you're finished.
191. One of your major motivations for wanting to be immortal is that the idea of dying and not being able to learn what scientists will discover in the future is horrifying
192.You return to the original room and continue your task, find another reason to return to the other room, then leave it either 1. fulfilling the latter goal but not remembering the former or 2. Switch goals and end up going back again
193. you've had a nightmare about having a lobotomy.
194. When you read a thread, walk away, think of a response, and then come back and type it.
195. When you occasionally experience the revelation that you are in fact a person with a name and identity.
196. someone points out a flaw in your logic, and you shrug it off. then, when you're alone, you wear a hole in your brain vexing over whether they're right.
197. when conversing with another intp you haven't seen for years, you jump straight into the aquatic ape theory or various theological conundrums before you ask how they've been.
198.people call you a cynic, and you reply that you're realistic.
199.you hate superficial people, yet you pretend better than they do.
200.you get angry with the problems of the world, and wish you could change things. but if you were ever actually in a position to do anything, you'd be helpless, because you wouldn't be able to make choices for other people.
201.you like being invited to join parties.. but you can't stand being amongst people.
202. This freaks you out, and you realize that your name is just a word to you, something conveniently used to refer to you rather than a part of your Self.
203.You fluctuate between getting your act together and acting random. You simultaneously need to create structure and do random stuff
204. You can be incredibly astute, but the timing is never convenient.
205.The existence of time lords in reality seems perfectly sensible to you.
206.At least once you've gone to work/school with "just-woken-up" hair without realising it.
207.You're constantly at war with an inner nemesis that incessantly contradicts you.
208.You've studied what it looks like if you stare at the inside of your own eyelids.
209.There are a few words in your vocabulary that you don't know the meaning of, but you have used in conversation, then had to look them up.
210.When taking a well travelled path it's not uncommon to conclude the end of your journey by wondering just how exactly you got there, having been thinking about other things the entire way.
211. Your response to someone pointing out that a leg of your pants is stuck in your sock - which you never notice by yourself - is to tug the other leg into the other sock.
212.Smalltalk not only bores you, you find it downright insulting at times.
213. You're a raging megalomaniac, yet you have a humble self perspective.
214.If ever your motivations are questioned you simply reply "science".
215.If ever your intentions are questioned you simply reply "I dunno".
216.You dislike shaking hands with people, because you suspect they are unclean.
217.You only ever tell the truth, until such time as a single lie can cause the most chaos.
218.If told a joke you will not laugh, if told not to laugh you will laugh yourself silly.
219.If asked for directions you'll point in any random direction, just so they'll go away.
220. you remember how fun studying your eyelids was when you last tried it, so you close your eyes and do it again after reading it.
221. you've easily received A's or B's by b.s.ing your way through an essay.
222. You have been known to skip meals when you have just begun a new project.
223.You have worked on said project by daylight, but failed to notice that you were working in the dark after the sun had set until a friend/ family member inquired to why you would be working in the dark.
224. If you have trouble falling asleep at night because you can't stop thinking.
225. You like the concept of going out and having great, stimulating and educational experiences, but the planning and potentially social aspects of this limits your habitat to your home office and/or parents' cellar.
226.You incessantly try to convince everyone that your voice is terrible and that everybody else has a magnificent voice.
227. when you absolutely HATE people looking over your shoulder. especially when they voice an opinion on what you are doing
228. You hate going to the supermarket, especially the day before a holiday.
229.When you read that the ESFJ and ENFJ were the ideal mates for an INTP you shuddered.
230.You will walk around outside in the middle of the night, completely carefree.
231.You hate deadlines with a passion.
232.You hate kiss-ups.
233.You are easy to sneak up on.
234.You think formalities and backwards traditions are stupid.
235.People frequently address you by name and you haven't the slightest clue who they are.
236.You'd rather be alone in a huge crowd than at a social function with people you vaguely know, but are annoyingly friendly (ie church potluck).
237. You think Cognisant is awesome.
238.You can appreciate that playing at being narcissist is funny.
239.You think do-gooders are insulting.
240.If given the choice you would pick the red pill, and keep the blue one for later.
241.You consider chocolate a means for positively influencing people’s brain chemistry.
242. when your friend is surprisingly ungrateful for your detailed analysis of his life.
243. when you told people you were adopted when you weren't.
244. when this is only your third post because you've spent the whole time since you've joined lurking through the site and figuring that maybe someone else has articulated what you wanted to say already or maybe posting would be totally pointless or maybe i should just move on to the next thread..
and maybe I shouldnt of posted this?
245. You spend hours rehearsing a difficult conversation until you have it perfect and the person goes and ruins it by missing their first line.
246. Yes. I also try to limit my answer when being called to a monosyllable
247.when the sun has been shining all day and somehow you find trawling the forums more fun.
248. - when a rainy day is a better occasion to go outside than a sunny one
249. You recognise the dawn as the time when you go to bed.
250. You hate those freaks (mostly students) who upon the first sunny day go lie around for hours on end in the sun
(I have them right before my door, i liv in a dorm :'( )
251. You read the same message 20 times before you post it to make sure there's no glaring flaws
252. You don't read the message you just posted at all as you want to express you're thoughts as quickly as possible
253. You are afraid that your sanity is leaking out of a hole in the back of your head.
254.You live in constant anticipation of an alien invasion.
255.You've wondered if websites that are specifically about the internet are the first signs of the internet becoming self aware.
256.You think the bad guys in any story are more deserving of victory, on account of them having to gone to a great deal of work to achieve their goals.
257. when your on intpforum when you should be doing homework.
258.when you know you should probably be doing your homework, but really have no intention of it
259. You are unable to do homework, and you get along fine anyway.
260. You oscillate wildly between over-evaluating your intelligence and berating yourself for being stupid, never ever having a moderate view of your mental abilities.
Why the heck do we do that anyway?
261. You read through the whole thread meticulously before posting just in case someone has already made your point.
262.You're still secretly worried that you missed something and that what you're writing has already been said.
263.You automatically add as much alliteration as possible whenever you write or speak.
264. you are able to recognize most typos while they're happening, and, as a result, the labels on your Backspace and Delete keys are worn very thin.
265.due to the aforementioned, you can, with some ease, backspace through an encrypted password (************) to correct it before hitting Enter.
266. when you search Google images for just the right photo ...
167. when you type out a humorous response to something, but upon rereading it you realize its far too ostentatious, and likely to be taken in an unintended way, and therefore dont post and forget you ever wrote i
268. You wear earphones (even when not listening to music) so as to discourage conversation.
269.You read a book, newspaper ... anything ... to discourage conversation and are constantly amazed at how many people just carry on talking to you.
270. random strangers you pass on the street tell you to smile.
271.you would cheerfully strangle those people on mobiles who share their most inane conversations with everyone within 100 feet.
272.you keep all your old school workbooks because they might "come in handy" one day
273.you feel in enemy territory as soon as you leave the house/dorm/whatever-door (sry if this has been said but i haven't read everything, so...)
274.When you say sorry incase your point has already been made by someone else.
275.When you know it hasn't because you have read Every Single post to make sure that Yours isn't.
276.When you have an extra Internet Explorer open so you can google unknown things.
277.When you have too many Internet Explorers open and they compile into one.
278.You attempt to delete some and accidently delete your INTP Forum page.
279.You just laughed a little inside.
280.You refresh your other IE just incase one of your points was Just made
281. people complain about your sarcasm
282. When deep down you're terrified that every post on this thread has somehow been stolen from your psyche
283. When people are telling you're living in a bubble.
284.You disagree with someone even if you actually agree with him/her just to check if he/she has background knowledge.
285.People keep saying a visit to a psychiatrist or a psychologist may help.
286.People keep saying you need to be more extravert and show emotions at least a little bit.
287.People make jokes about you being chatty
288. When you try to rationalize emotions
289. you describe going from a quiet environment to a loud environment then back to a quiet environment as an "emotional rollercoaster."
290.you're totally cool with listening to classic 8-bit video game music organized on a playlist
291. you tell your parents/brothers/sisters that you are going to bring X (important document, letter from a distant relative, pie, whatever) with you when you come over tomorrow. You arrive, having completely forgotten about the item you were going to bring, and the whole family starts snickering because they already knew you weren't going to bring it.
alternately,
291.5.you tell your parents/brothers/sisters that you are going to bring X (important document, letter from a distant relative, pie, whatever) with you when you come over tomorrow. You get halfway there, and realize that the pie is sitting at home, probably about to be eaten by the dog, and you turn around to retrieve it. Upon calling your father to tell him that you forgot the thanksgiving pie and you were going back to get it, provided the dog hasn't scarfed down the part he can reach, your dad starts laughing. You know exactly why he's laughing and start to wonder why you're always so forgetful. Maybe it's because you weren't really that interested in the pie to begin with. But you like pie... but apple? You don't even know why you baked an apple pie in the first place. It could just have easily been cherry. Mmm, cherry. What if you had made a cherry pie? You wonder if you would have forgotten the cherry pie? I wonder what else could have been different if I had made a cherry pie? Maybe I would have had to go to the grocery store, or maybe........... or maybe......... (and on and on, until you get home, realize the pie is still intact because you left the dog outside... I guess it was a good thing you forgot that pie...)
292. Does anyone else ever ask the same person what time it is (or some other mundane question) several times in a row because as soon as the words left your mouth your mind wandered somewhere and you didn't listen to the answer? Even the answers to my own questions aren't interesting enough to hold my attention.
293., any time my mom would hand me something and tell me to put it somewhere I would go to the room (or another room) and then come back and ask where it was she wanted it put. Sometimes twice in a row.
294. when zoning out during conversation is a serious problem in your life
295. When you sometimes absentmindedly look for scissors in the fridge (don't ask, i really don't know)
297. When scissors are finally in hand, forget what they were going to be used for
298.When you manually convert the ASCII characters that make up your name into binary so that you can see what it looks like when stored in computer memory
299.When you are married, finally, because your wife proposed to you (for the married guys)
300.when you look in the fridge for something legitimate like milk, and instead find scissors. The milk is on the countertop where you left it last night
301. Or alternatively, you look away from fridge to answer a question while looking for the milk then look again, only to find the milk's in your hand.
302.And then realize that you actually wanted water/OJ/a cupcake
303.After answering "How are you?" and "What are you doing?" you wonder what that person is waiting for... you answered their questions, right?
304.Even if the replies were monosyllabic..
305. you're trying to think of a monosyllabic answer to the question "What are you doing?"
307.you came up with "Meh" and *shrug*.
308. you're aware of the irony that "shrug" is a monosyllabic word.
309.you also consider shrug to be onomatopoeia.
310.you consider an exchange with someone wherein a shrug was the answer to their question a "conversation" no matter how inapplicably your shrug served to answer the question.
311.you have countless definitions for the word "converse."
312.you rarely act on any of those definitions.
313.you consider the words "guy," "thing," and "dealy" acceptable replacements for any noun
314. Thing" is not only an acceptable replacement for a noun, but also a phrase, an idea, a person....
315.Your friends are constantly asking you about the context of your statements/ You assume that others should be able to intuitively pick up the context
316.when you run around asking if anyone has seen your glasses and they say 'are they the ones on the top of your head'
317. I've been known to lose my pencil in my hand
318. When your friends ask for the context, you reply with a date and time
319. You turn on the weather channel to watch the local forecast. 20 minutes later, you're still watching the weather channel but have no idea about the conditions in your area.
320.When, by some miraculous occurrence, you show up on time (or early!?) for something, the person you're meeting give you a puzzled look, looks at their watch, and returns to the puzzled look
321. In the middle of asking a question, you remember the answer and tell them not to worry.
322.You spend 5 minutes looking for something, 10 minutes trying to remember what you were looking for, 10 minutes of thinking of something else entirely while searching, then another 20 minutes of remembering what you were looking for and researching the areas you searched while you were distracted.
323.You wonder how on earth someone else has the magical power to find it for you in 30 seconds. Then notice it was right in front of you the whole time.
324. You frequently reference an attachment in an e-mail you're sending, but get sidetracked and never actually attach the file...
325. you were all motivated to work on your novel when you woke up at 8 o'clock this morning and now it's after noon and you still haven't eaten breakfast because you've been reading this stupid forum the whole time, idiot!
326.You wonder where you went wrong with your kids when they'd rather play with friends than read an encyclopedia.
327.You care very little for baseball but you find yourself reading a five hundred page book about the early years of baseball and are completely transfixed.
328.You salivate when you drive by libraries.
329. You not only know what cryogenics is but would be willing to try it.
330. You consider technophobia to be racist
331. You think your own idiosyncrasies apply to everyone else who is an INTP
332. At least once you've looked up at the stars and thought: I'm on the wrong planet.
333.You've considered sending an email to
Lucifer@yahoo.com just to see what sort of reply you would get.
334.You've considered setting up some post-mortem pranks, for example:
You put the keys to your house in the pocket of your favourite suit then ensure that is the suit you're buried in. During the funeral a tape you prepared earlier is played and gives instructions for one of your relatives to take the keys from your pocket
335. When you spend your night doing extra credit assignments that you deem more interesting than the five missing assignments you have in that class
336. When you copy and paste all of the foregoing quotes that apply to you into a word document and then realize you're the only person who would be interested enough to read it.
337. When you prefer to text rather than talk on the phone.
337.5.When you prefer to text so much that on your personal voicemail you leave specific instructions not to leave a voice message, but to text you instead.
338. You would love to live in a large city like New York, Paris, or Montreal simply for the anonymity.
339.You mentally parse others conversations to render them more concise and accurate.
340. You've had to print out page 2 of 4 in a set of forms for the 8th time because every time that you fill out the information the slightest smudge of your pen messed up the writing.
oh, its possible that the clerical staff will accept it...But you don't
341. you are very aware that someone is talking to you, to the point that you totally miss what they were saying.
341.5.you ask someone to repeat what they were saying, then realise what they were saying before they repeat it, then interrupt them whilst they are repeating it because what they are saying is now redundant.
342. You watch yourself put orange juice into your tea and don't realise you've done it until you see the milk in the fridge as you're putting the orange juice away
343. When you do something to your family member/partner you know annoys them just to see what their reaction will be…
344. When you have a brilliant plan you'll implement later on...
345.When you and your NF friend try social experiments on your friends for fun... and when the NF starts feeling guilty after awhile, you can't quite understand why... It's not like you're hurting anyone...
346. when whoever you just insulted doesn't realize you did so and laughs until you interrupt him or her with, "you do know I just insulted you, right.?"
347. you make notes to self of ideas you plan to ponder just so you don't forget.
348.When your sentence frequently contain answers to all of the 5 W questions
349. You meticulously read the whole thread and either jumped with recognition or thought about what to write, but forgot when you began.
350.You write reminders to yourself on your palm.
351.You have these strange moments when you realise, "I'm alive!"
352. You think that the present human race conditions (culture) isn't very different from past cultures, only the form has changed.
353. You thus love to imagine what a possible future culture would be like, given the current fads and practices.
354. You have this constant disapproval of those who haven't developed their cognitive abilities enough, and thus pity them because they cannot see or appreciate beauty the way you can (or maybe make an overt effort to make them see it, only to be faced with disappointment).
355. You've thought these higher processes need to be expressed in some form or the other, but cannot simply do so, as you might have to invent a whole new method of expression.
356. You remember your forgotten points midway.
357. You incessantly pace around when on the brink of designing something.
358.You love using words like "incessantly"
359. When you've been appreciated by an ENFJ "Teacher" (these often happen to be English/Literature teachers for me) and thus develop an almost instantaenous Love, especially their ability to appreciate that you aren't "Lost in yourself", but highly intelligent, and need to be encouraged rather than discouraged.
360.You ask yourself, "Why is it that what I'm looking for cannot be found anywhere but things I was looking for earlier (and are no use now) are popping up everywhere?"
361. When there is an epidemiological emergency state in your country and while everybody is upset you crack morbid jokes about the apocalypse.
362.You get into a heated argument with a roommate about the relative toxicity of daddy long leg venom and end it by looking up the topic in several reputable sources other than wikipedia because it may not be accurate.
363. You get on Wikipedia to look up something on a whim... and then remember exactly what you were going to look up a day later after never actually getting to the site.
364. When sometimes you articulate a startling observation to nobody in particular, and receive suspicious looks from everyone around you.
365. You sometimes feel like wicked edit has been exactly structured for your thought processes.
366. After you finally perform an action, you spent the rest of the day considering the consequences.
367. You’ve used the word system to describe social events as in "a party is really just a chaotic system of social interaction which follows fairly regular and recognizable patterns."
368. You've actually tried to/succeeded in understanding those underlying patterns which govern parties, gatherings, etc.
369. You read faster in binary than in your native language.
370. See chaos theory in action in a bowl of alphabet soup
371. When you want to post an idea but feel that it's so obvious that you begin to second guess yourself..
372. When seeing someone you know coming towards you while walking down the road is a emergency Situation
373. When you hate going to the local walmart, because you will always see people you know there.
374.When you hate going to places where you used to work; since you will be expected to say hi to everyone you worked with.(who you all secretly hated)
375. When you thought about how humans taste.
376. When you Know how humans taste.
You can take that however you want to, but I know what I meant. ...=D
377. you spot someone you know, who has yet to spot you, and you pretend you haven't spotted them
378. You haven't used an organized binder for years.
379.You instead use your school textbook to store papers because it is a superior filing system.
380.There is no such thing as a long term project
381. you cook yourself a nice dinner and then let it go cold because you thought you'd 'just pop in for a quick peek at the INTP forum
382. When you sit since three days in the dark because the lightbulb in your room is kaput, but you are too lazy to buy a new one and when someone asks you about it you just mumble "Never liked the light anyway"
383. When you spend over a half hour on a post and then decide not to post it.
384. When someone of lesser intelligence tries to harass you and you verbally rip them apart
385. when you assign everyone a hex-based name generated through a scrutinous formula designed to ensure complete uniqueness because people sharing the same name confuses you.
386.when you realize that there is still a ~4billion:1 chance that the formula could produce duplicate designations (not actually calculating the exact ratio because the possibility is too frightening and you must fix this immediately), you incorporate multiple check digits to ensure guaranteed uniqueness.
387.when you refer to everyone by their new hex-based designation.
388.when you don't understand why people will not embrace the opportunity for unique classification.
389.when you have a random, improbable obsession that you always refer back to- like finding the cure to gravity.
390. when this remains your favourite thread on the forum because it always makes you feel good about yourself.
391. when your arguments are preceded by "according to the rules within my own head.."
392.when your friends actually write a list of the rules within your own head.
(she didn't start the list immediately, so it is missing a few of my personal favorites /shrug
1. Relativity is factual
2. Socks will always be placed in the top drawer.
3. The number 3 is perfection.
4. When walking, dark tiles take priority over lighter ones.
5. I have gas, they have brakes.
6. Books ruin movies. You're simply confused if you think otherwise.
7. If you're sad, buy a plant.
8. You must agree with me, to do otherwise is a folly.
9. The number 9 makes me happy. It is made of 3 groups of 3.
10. Tea is a good source of happy.
11. "Love" is the mortal enemy of the human race.
12. Routine is simply a lack of imagination.
13. Gravity is a disease.
14. The sun declared war first.
15. If I choose to wear a mask, gloves, and goggles, you should do so too very quickly.
16. If we're conversing directly, I'm probably not aware of what either of us are actually talking about.
17. If I didn't hear you, really, I didn't hear you.
18. You can make anything out of triangles.
19. Sand is not fun.
20. You must make you grocery list in order: from entrance to exit. I will not backtrack.
21. Fish is not edible.
22. I can be bribed.
23. I cannot be bribed. [you're not offering enough]
24. You're alloted 2 free questions. Anymore after that will cost you your dignity.
25. Speed limits are merely suggestions.
26. There will be no warning; carry earplugs always.
27. The number 27 is amazing. 3 sets of 3 sets of 3.
28. Your drama is a direct outcome of your own stupidity.
29. If I'm a butt for my beliefs, then your flatulence are the most intelligent things you've ever said.
30. Gnomes are stealing my socks for hats.
31. You cannot go wrong with blue.
32. If you insult me, mental warfare has been declared. You will lose.
33. It's not that I’m heartless, it's just not as important.
34. It's my business to know more about you than you like.
35. If I say use google, don't question me further.
36. Your inability to quit your addiction proves your weak mentality.
37. If you prove me wrong, you win a cookie.
38. That cookie will contain laxatives.
39. I cannot approve revenge. But I do approve equality.
40. If you think too much with your pocket monster, I cannot take you seriously at all.
41. Coffee was sent from hell to cause me misjollies.
42. Ordering from Starbucks makes you sound fat. No exception.)
393. When you have an idea or thought that you are trying to convey and it comes out in incomplete nonsensical fragments.(but makes perfect sense in your head)
Spending 10 minutes constantly re-reading my post to make sure its as clear as possible
394. You have a book containing thousands of passwords and use a different one for each site that you visit. You also change your passwords every 3 months, and they are over 30 characters long.
395. Incorrect spelling makes someone incredibly stupid.
396.When listening to a boring teacher your mind wanders and you ponder deeps thoughts
397. you actually correct the teacher...... every day.
398.you go to the library with your class, and get so into reading you dont notice they left an hour ago.
399.You meet the only other person in your highschool who is intelligent, is an internet veteran such as yourself, and can actually relate with you (he was an ENTP). You start having a conversation!!!!
400. You once tried having many multiple passwords with random capitalizations, random numbers, and lots of characters, but you were too lazy to write them down and quickly forgot them. When you finally got around to signing back in, you couldn't remember your password, the email associated with the account, or any other data needed to reset the password.
401. You have one password you have used for everything since you were twelve, and it came from a video game, because you're lazy and you know you'd forget anything else.
402.You get frustrated when a website won't let you use your usual password because it's too short or has no non-numerical characters, so you repeat the last number a couple more times and/or add your initials to the beginning -- and then you forget which version of your password you used for which site.
403. When the only highlight of your last family gathering was when the conversation turned to the lottery, and you whipped out your calculator and estimated the odds of winning various prizes.
404. When you spent big parts of said gathering hiding with an exciting book.
405.When the only reason why you didn't read through the entire gathering was that someone hinted that it was potentially offensive at the last one.
406. You prefer sitting in the back of the classroom, so that it's easier to get away with not paying attention to a worthless lesson by daydreaming or reading.
407.You are irritated when people decide to walk too slowly in front of you and you can't get around them without having to force your way through, but you don't want to force your way through at the same time.
408.In the above situation, you're not in a hurry, you just hate having to go at someone else's pace.
409.You've occupied yourself in your own thoughts so much while showering, you realize that you've taken about 5 minutes too long and quickly get out, only to realize as you're walking out the door that you never washed your hair. (I've done this at least 4 times in the past year)
410.You've spent upwards of 2 minutes looking for something that you've forgotten that you're holding in your hand.
411.You avoid all but basic formalities and social nicities because they're irrelevant and meaningless, and even ask that other people do not direct them towards you.
412.You avoid looking at people and attempt to look absorbed by thought to get people not to talk to you.
413. Your memory for random/interesting trivia and informaton is vast and powerful, but your memory for important tasks seems frustratingly short to others.
414.You certainly intend to start that important task...just not now.
415.When you get lost in thought while already lost in thought, realize it, and then attempt to pick up on the last mental tangent, taking minutes at a time just trying to remember what you were thinking about before.
416.When you read the entire 40-page thread in one sitting
417.When you had something to say on page 2 but had to hold it in while you furiously finished reading the WHOLE THING.
418.When you leave all the cupboard doors and drawers open and infuriate the other people in your house.
419.When you use objects for other purposes than what they were designed for (ie eating cereal out of a cup instead of a bowl)
420.When your mother took you to a psychiatrist at a young age because you couldn't find things two inches in front of your face, you were too busy thinking to pay attention to what she was saying, and you zoned a lot. And they diagnosed you with mild ADD
421. Your friends complain that you constantly criticize and say no to everything they say
You then automatically reply with "no, I don't."
422. does anyone else have those uncomfortable moments of amplified paranoia you get when you're walking down the street, and you suddenly realise there may be a tag sticking up at the back of your neck, so you surreptitiously reach your hand to the back of your neck to check, all the while casually pretending that you're really scratching yourself?
no..? sorry, carry on.
423.3.When the tag generally is sticking out.
423.6.When this is because you put your sweater on inside-out.
423.9.When you did this on purpose and with the sole intent of annoying people and pretending not to see what's wrong when they tell you.
424. When you sometimes intentionally create an unpleasant atmosphere at the dinner table by insulting someone, just so that no one will bother you with conversation.
425. when as a child you ask (santa) for a Chemistry set / Microscope / Telescope when peers want Action Men (Dolls for boys) and Pedal Cycles......
426.When in a train trying to calculating the distance between 2 tunnels by counting the seconds and guessing the trains speed....
427. When the big dilema is stay indioors and deal with people or go outside (in the sun... with bugs) and not deal with people
428. When your teacher tells you that the current theory about matter is that it is made up of smaller and smaller bits and eventually waves, and you ask him if that means matter doesn't exist at all.
429. When you have only drunk alcohol twice ever, but drink energy drinks and alcohol at the same time just to see what happens, because someone told you it has interesting effects.
430.When you are shocked by the realization that said alcohol actually makes you enjoy people's company, yet at the same time still try and observe yourself, and laugh at your own silliness.
431. When you very nearly delete a whole post because you don't want to break a two-month lurking streak.
432. When you wander off alone at a party/wedding and explore the house the people are having it at.
433.When you MUST correct everything that is written. When it irritates the crap out of you when people act as an authority and are completely wrong. When you begin to go ENFJ and think these people should be shot (and have to complain to someone) and because you're upset you hit the sweets and plot against them instead of letting it go and playing games like you want to.
434. When you go to a family gathering and find yourself seated between- facing outwards toward the trees vs inward like everyone else- all of the men talking about politics and all of the women talking about babies and you have no desire to contribute to either conversation (although the men's conversation is slightly more interesting because it's interesting to hear viewpoints which differ from yours, just as a matter of perspective). Instead, you'd rather watch the insect who lands on the ground at your feet. What is it? Some sort of beetle, but what? You watch that beetle for who knows how long, thankful for a real diversion.
This is why I had trouble in sports. The grass was always so much more fascinating. At least I never wandered off after a bug during the game
435. When people ask questions repeatedly you tell them shut up
436.When you go camping you believe life is a sleeping bag
437.You did badly in tennis because you were trying to estimate the volume of the court
438.People tell you to show discretion when all you're doing is telling the whole truth
439. When you have a congenial memory surface in your thoughts. Upon analyzing the memory you realize it was in fact a dream you had years ago, but had apparently miscategorized as real. Then the paranoia sets in.
440. When you say things in conversation that you expect to be common knowledge before realising it was an idea you came up with.
441.I discovered at the age of three that Santa wasn't real but I pretended for seven more that I believed it because I didn't want to let my parents down. I was never disappointed about it myself
442. When people around you say 'I know what you mean' with emphasis on 'know' and surprise in their voices.
443. When you enjoy inventing new ways of killing people.
444. When everytime an airplane goes over head, you imagine world war 3 taking place. And feel extremely paranoid for a good 10-15 minutes.
445. You know you're INTP when the O'Reilly Show drives you insane for reasons other than different political opinions. Argh!! Make it stop! Make it stop!
446. You secretly hope to the only survivor or one of very few survivors of a zombie infestation so you can explore public places - without the public
447. When you apply the same deodorant every morning without realizing that it's been empty for a month.
448. When you forget you have deodorant until you see it. That is why you need multiple deodorant.
449.You create a chair out of the piles of books in your "workshop" just so you can sit while avoiding the others in the house.
450. When you're excited to walk home from work, because it means you can walk slowly...to read more of that book you have in your hands
451. when it takes you an hour to come up with your username, another hour for the password
452.when you edit the same post 5 times in 1 minute
453. when you're really excited to discover there are new INTPs on the forum while you've been away!
454. You know you're an INTP when you think it would probably have been easier if your Mum had died rather than now coming to live with you for the foreseeable future.
455. When you are lectured about doing the 'right' work and not your own freelance education.
456.When after said lecture, you start to work, but due to fear of operant conditioning, make sure it looks like it doesn't have any effect.
457. Sometimes you wish there is an off button that turns your thought process off to let your brain cool down a bit.
458. when you are convinced you aren't human like everyone else
459. everyone says you're intelligent, even if you don't think so yourself. (not sure about this one)
460.you're a walking dictionary.
461. When you fully intend to read everything on that interests you, but it ends up on a things to do list. You will eventually get to it, but not for a month or more
462. you never heard of Myers-Briggs until yesterday, but found this site and read the complete thread within 30 hours of the results of the test - despite going to a baseball game last night and having the parents visit from out of town for 19 of those hours (of which 3 hours were spent on a golf course).
463.you're happy to finally find others as weird as yourself, which doesn't make you feel less weird but less alone. (I don't mind feeling alone (I prefer alone), but I do not feel a need to be/feel unique either.)
464.can't make a statement without a qualifying remark. Although I probably could, but it would feel incomplete and not totally correct.
465.uses the phrase "pretty sure" instead "know" or the implied "know" to come across less arrogant.
466.know a total of 9 people's birthdays. (1 of which is my own. 3 share the same birthday as me (1 of which I don't know personally). 3 are my sisters. 2 are not my parents. 1 is my wife's that I remember because it's 122. The last is my daughter's which is 6 months after my anniversary which is part of a password to another site.)
467.you can't find your car keys which are in your hands even after transferring the keys between hands to check both pockets.
468.you believe that you can own enough pencils so that no matter how many you lose you can still find one within 15 seconds but do not know how many pencils that would be.
469.you hate people that spell "loose" when the mean "lose".
470. you are "pretty sure" you could do most people's jobs much better than them with little or no training. This doesn't make you feel superior to them as much as it just makes you feel tired, because you don't even want to do the work you have to do let alone do their work the right way also.
471.you commonly refer to others sub-par work as "all jacked up", because it would take too long to explain why the way you would do it is so superior.
472.you would rather work on what you think is important rather than what your boss thinks is important while knowing that this will hurt you at review time because you feel that how you spend your time is more important than the money.
473. you don't listen to the radio in your car on the way to/from work despite enjoying music because you want to maximize time without distractions to think.
474.you tell your wife that you can tell she lost 5 pounds. She is so overcome with emotion that you noticed until you further clarify that you don't mean it as a complement. You think it means more because you're making it as a statement of fact instead of just trying to make her feel good. You believe this to be an important distinction which should make her feel even better about herself, but she walks away thinking that you may have insulted her. You walk away with a sigh but still believe it is a valid point. (this happened to me this morning.)
475.when you think to fast to write while handwriting, you combine the words with, and the, to make withe.
476. When your deepest desire is for the day to have more than 24h, so that you can study more, but when you have more time you waste it procrastinating.
477.When you can't sleep and think about problems you had over a year ago, because the solution at the time wasn't completely satisfactory. And you wake up at the next morning and actually have a better solution.
478.When you can talk with an ENFP about his and your MBTI type for hours and never actually say a word about your feelings.
479. sometimes you feel you have the double-think skills to be a prophet or a dictator, and this freaks you out
480. you stockpiled all sorts of textbooks and information when you were a kid, just in case your bedroom was somehow blasted back in time and you had to re-educate the human race.
481. when you stockpile all sorts of seemingly useless info in your brain, convinced it will all be useful at some point
482. When the only thing you got in trouble for in preschool was stealing books from the teacher's office... I'd already read all the others.
483.When you spent primary-school (high schools and primary schools are separate facilities here) going from school to school (we moved a lot) reading more-or-less everything in each library's fiction section, and more than a few informative books too (encyclopaedia’s being a particular favourite).
483.5.Doing the exact same thing in high school.
484. when you are aware that everything happening around you can be defined by probabilities, and this knowledge that can't be refuted by any scientific means legitimises your procrastination, which freaks you out
485.you construct a lot of run-on sentences
486.a logic flaw in the movie you just saw bothers you more than the hunger in Africa.( and when you feel obligated to finish you food because of Africa, you think…what is wrong with Africa, and throw your food away anyways while trying to solve Africa’s problems without doing anything, and you lose your train of thought.)
487. This is like reading my brain....
488. you avoid catching taxis, because if you don't do the expected "have you been busy" back-and-forther with the driver, you have to deal with the awful, tangible silence.
489. no matter how tidy you aim to be, you always have miscellaneous piles of stuff on the floor, that only get shifted when they become too awkward to step around
490. you notice that your lips are chapped while in the shower, and knowing that you have the tendency to forget to do simple things like apply chapstick you commit to doing so when you get out of the shower by repeating "chapstick chapstick chapstick" over and over in your head, and when you finally get out of the shower you reach for your deodorant and touch it to your lips before realizing what you're doing.
491. when your mother constantly complains to you that you need to wash the peanut butter off the knives you use BEFORE you put it in the dishwasher, but you keep leaving it anyway (not out of spite, honest!)
492.you remember a website you want to check, and go to type it into the bar, only to type the address of the website you're already on and you spend a few seconds confused as to why the window didn't change.
493. You remember a really good example of when you were absent-minded but by the time you hit the first key you've forgotten it. And curse, because it's nearly bedtime and you know you'll remember it 10 minutes after going to bed.
494. you hate when a song gets stuck in your head because it constantly interrupts your train of thought
495. You want to create the same thread on different MBTI forums and cross reference the answers. Just to make sure these are more valid traits of INTPs.
496. When it occurs to you that you're not an INTJ
497. You've thought, or even said the phrase "*insert appropriate term* is an illusion"
498. When your mother has to drag you away from the gigantic volume on Jung.
499. When you find it a lot more fun to walk alone and imagine you can destroy anything/form patterns on walls/windows/floors/ control objects/ rearrange your surroundings as you see fit, than walking with ACTUAL people and TALKING.
500. When your walking down a crowded street while listening to an epic song and it takes all the self restraint you possess not to dance like an idiot.
501.When you always walk in sync with the rhythm of any ambient or headphone music.
501.5.After which, you attempt to change up you footsteps, in hopes others won't notice you're grooving the beat, but each way you change it up seems to follow the beat anyway, making you certain you look like a confused runway model.
502.When you find it odd that the numbers of various religious booths at a campus event aren't proportional with their percentage of members in the local area. 4 Jewish booths (few local members), 4 protestant, 0 Catholic (most local members), and 0 Mormon.
503.You find yourself wishing more exotic (for me at least) belief systems were represented. Like Zoroastrianism, Buddism, Taoism, and Gnosticism.
504. when you feel relieved that you can finally say something that you thought made you sound crazy to a group of people who finally totally understand :P (That has to of been done in some form or another already..)
-504. When you simply can't restrain yourself and have to point out:
It's NOT 'have to of been done', it's 'have to have been done'
The 'of' habit seems to have evolved through interpretation of head language - you hear 'have to've been done' and transliterated as 'of'.
505. when you memorize the randomly generated password you get through email when you reset your password instead of simply using ctrl + C.
506.You think it would be a interesting to count all the "You know you're an Intp when"s and you think about doing it but actually don't. You then remind yourself that counting them would be pointless because the point of this thread was not to count, just to provide statements.
507.You hate all authority because they are doing it wrong.
508.When explaining a theory or idea and someone makes a joke comment, you take the comment seriously and explain why that comment, or the underlying principles of the comment disregarding the joke part, is illogical or impractical.
509. You wish you could be invisible and could just observe, as an immortal, with the ability to perceive every event happening at once, go back & forth in time, and drop in little toy piggies at whim, just to see how you can influence events with something so small and seemingly insignificant.
510. When your wife tells you that she is in love with an online guy and you insist that she check it out so she can find the truth of the situation...
511. you resist seeing a movie because it’s popular…
...If it's popular there must be something wrong with it...
512. When you are engaged before you realize you are in a relationship.
513. When you are cognizant of the fact that this is more of a Silly Little Things I Do thread
514. When your desk contains a variety of useful items, but you're unsure what any of them could be used for
515. you dread giving directions to strangers because you can't get over the thought you've probably sent them in totally the wrong direction. and now they're lost somewhere, shaking their fist and cursing your ancestors.
516. when you are going to sleep at a friends house and a train goes by, and you imagine that it is full of people being transported to concentration camps and you start to feel all creepy and want to go out and help them, but realize you will be killed for intervening.
You tell your friends the next day and they stare vacantly at you, before bursting out laughing and calling you insane. They have lived on the tracks for 10 years and it never crossed thier minds.
517. when you delight in esoterica that no one can relate to....
518..when you cannot read fiction any more 'cause its all been done before...
519.If when emotional and forced to make a choice Now, you make rash decisions...
520.when you don't get out much, but thats just fine...
521.take three years collecting the raw materials for your Project and don't ever expect show it other people...
522.you are scared how accurate INTP is to his personality...
523.Has theroized about Nomad nations
524. you know its just a silly test for fun but you think the results from a d&d character type test accurately describes yourself.
525. When it's 5 minutes to 3am and you feel more energized than you have all day.
526. When your mistakes make other people second-guess reality
527. When you finally figure out how easy(and boring) it is to be "social"(with the general population):
528.Your wide variety of interests allows others to connect with you at various levels, however you never connect with them
529.Most think you are 'cool' because you say what no one else will say and are often random
530.Some complain that you are often depressing in your conversations but they come out admitting that it made them think
531.You are often bored by the predictable patterns others move in
532.Their repetitive nature is also annoying...
533.You may go out to dinner/drink with a group but always end up leaving early to return to researching, writing, playing music, etc.
534.Regardless of the amount of people you know, you belong to no click, and always end up alone...willingly or not
535.You hate having to be in a group of more than three people because others start acting different than when they are one and one which is an overall facade and disrupts the analysis of searching for internal truths
536.You'd rather have imaginary conversations with people in your head than the ones you know in the external reality and often do so even when you're apparently talking to someone else(not sure if that one has already been said)
537.EVERYTHING ends up boring...
538. You become efficient when everyone else is asleep.
539.When someone refuses to have an argument with you
540.You laugh at "touching" moments in films.
541. You inevitably loved the movie The Number 23.
542.You can see clearly what is relevant and irrelevant, and invest our interest accordingly.
543.When you snap out of your thoughts and think you might be missing out on reality by not being very present, it not uncommon that you make a highly philosophical mental structure of what the present moment actually is, upon which you regard this thought as verging on mental insanity, and you then return to whatever you were thinking about.
544."When you fall in love, you fall hard, an all-or nothing phenomenom." (I read this somewhere and I think it's very characteristic)
545.You struggle to unite your scientific and spiritual thinking.
546.Had your strongest AHA-experience of your life the first time you read the INTP-profile.
547. You have a tendency to buy/download/steal books that could fill the library of Alexandria but never get around to reading them all through
548. When you read through a 105-page thread on a topic that interests you.
549. When you were aware that Santa Claus was a load of BS by the time you learned how to walk and caught your parents stuffing presents underneath the tree.
550.When children dreamt of becoming president, astronauts, lawyers, and doctors, you wondered if there was such an occupation as sleeper.
551. When you felt despair at finding out your English teacher loved cheerleading and realised we'd 'struggle' with the Hobbit. You honestly can't remember anything about english since.
552.When you were tossing and turning till 5am thinking about being an INTP and what it could mean.
553.Your favourite part of the day without doubt is the bus ride in the morning. Half an hour of sitting in the empty seats (I think they're supposed to be uncool or something) at the front with your ipod on and indulging in just thinking and the wonder of solitude.
554.You have at least 11 books on your bedside table. So many choices..
555.You keep wanting to muck around with your post because you feel like you've missed a lot.
556. When you rework the same simple math problem in your homework assignment about 20 times because you just can never be satisfied/sure of your answer.
557. when you can't find somebody who is worth tellig him your thoughts
558.when you don't want to look arrogant letting the people know what do you feel about telling them your thoughts. Being arrogant seem to be a bad thing in social life for what you have learnt about social life so far
559.when looking for perfection you tried always telling the true, then you realised that social life doesn't work that way. There are people who seem to have feelings and don't like the true
560. when it takes you over two minutes to notice that the durable, affordable rain jacket youre currently checking out is an awful neon yellow.
561. You need some dice but you have none, so you flip a coin multiple times and change the results into binary code
562. when logic leads you to the conclusion that the only thing you can do now is to trust that the universe has a plan and you just have to let it unfold - and you have to accept that because it's the only logical conclusion in the situation you are in once you have examined all the evidence a million times. Occam's Razor. Yes, it's improbable, but it's the only possible conclusion.
563. You have to go back through your posts/essays and mass delete "quotes" around words. Because you can't accept that the word only has one meaning!
564. you own every single piece of music youve heard and liked.
565. You know you are an INTP when you submit to the "notion" that quoting every other word is adding "merit" to your argument.
566. When a smartarse trainer put this slide up and asked our team 'how many Fs' and I looked, counted and said '6' and utterly ruined his whole presentation which depended on showing how we only 'see' in a limited way.
when after doing the above, your colleagues all look at you with awe and you just wonder how on earth they could not see all the Fs.
567. You wonder if you have ADD, and you take the medication just to see if it has the effect it should, only to find out it does, and you still know that you don't have it.
568.You remember something important and get up to do it, and when you get to the next room you wonder what was so important.
569. If you know every colour mould can have.
570. when you walk down the high street feeling like you are a different species to the creatures walking in front of you oblivios to all.
571. When you can have an hour long discussion with another INTP about the design of pies and pastries
572. Reading dictionaries amuses you.
573.You bring a book to every social event you have to go to, not necessarily to read it, but so that people won't try to start a conversation with you.
574.You spent all kindergarten trying to explain to the other (obviously intellectually inferior) children how magic and Santa Claus couldn't exist. You also didn't understand why the teachers didn't appreciate your intellectual superiority.
575.You have frequently been referred to as a music elitist.
576.Whenever that happens, you're flattered.
577.You think of saying something, spend a lot of time on putting it in to words, and then finally when you've formed the perfect sentence, you can't remember if you've said it or not, and don't say it in fear of having already said it.
578.You wake up, take your pyjamas off, then forget wether you were taking them off or about to put them on, so you put them on again.
578.You analyse your psychotherapist.
579. When you and a fellow INTP are out for coffee and the two of you whip out a venn diagram to turn your simple topic of conversation into a more complex idea.
580. When you value privacy so much you say fellow INTP instead of the INTP’s name
581. when you have to write a "personal essay" for english, complain about how stupid it is and what a retarded power play the teacher is making, and still manage to end up writing 30 pages about yourself without even meaning to, and feel like a douchebag for it and subsequently consider not handing it in even though you worked for hours on it
582. When writing a philosophy paper about the immortality of the soul in 330 words seems like an insult.
583. You think you're always right!"... except that you probably are always right since your claims can be logically explained and backed up with evidence.
584. You know you're an INTP when you talk about Star Wars post-coital.
585. look at your family tree and think you should be with an (whatever-origin) woman because there aren't any yet and it might be an improvement for genetic diversity.
586.think a kid could be a great research project
588. write this down at 1:40 AM so you can post it tomorrow (actually later that same day)
589.are happy you clarified that 1:40 AM is actually the same day and not the day before as many people wrongfully think
590. in retrospect. When pressured, you volunteer your thoughts on a subject to a group of people, only to have several of them ask for the meanings of the words you used and a few others ask if you would you mind if they wrote down what you said. So you end up repeating the same statement several times when you really didn't want to be talking in front of a group of people in the first place.
591. You have complete confidence and no confidence, all at the same time.
592. when you spend the whole day just waiting for those damned emotions to fade away as you know they eventually will ... and then peace at last.
593. When you treat your emotions as some foreign part of you that needs to be studied.
594. When you spend 16 hours straight on a Saturday and 8 hours on a Sunday working on an invention (with requisite charts and graphs and diagrams and 6 trips to Home Depot working on prototypes) only having eaten once at the start of each day, then realize that the market will die out/become obsolete before the product can be produced, so you trash the idea......and yet you are completely satisfied with the way your weekend went.
595. You know you're an INTP when you worry about inventing your own definitions for things without realizing.
596. When you feel like someone is lying to you and you are devising a plan to catch them in their lie, not because you want to bust them, but because you want to show yourself that your instinct was right
597. When you value honesty in others, yet cultivate in yourself the ability to deceive.
598. When you've spent days proving a teacher wrong, and actually being right, but failing to realize the cultural institution that the teacher can throw you out on your but for being so-called "disruptive"
599. The word Vindicated is soooo beautiful.
600. when you're irrationally irritated at the fact that, if only small minded people thought bigger, we'd be spared a lot of stupidity and a lot of pain.
601.I feel like I need to change the world, but I don't know how to go about doing it. I feel like my mission in life is to make small minded people think bigger.
602.Then, I feel like it's impossible. Even those who want think bigger can't seem to. Then there are those who don't understand it, fear it, and like the abused lives they lead. And there are the people who want to, but can't. No one is making an effort to change things, it's not like something HUGE has to be change...ok maybe it is.
603. You've thought of numerous 'great ones' in the course of reading this thread, but have forgotten them all (and eventually started jotting them down somewhere, starting with this one).
604.You've recently pondered the origin of something very obscure
605.You wish every government official had a council of INTP's they'd consult before any major decision.
606.You have crashed your browser by grossly exceeding the number of wikipedia tabs you should have open at one time.
607.You think a browser without tabs is like a day without logic.
608.You have to avoid laughing at a person when they use the word irregardless in a serious conversation, when it clear they meant regardless.
609.The murmur of mindless chatter is like nails on a chalkboard
610.You have answered a question using a word you know the person who asked doesn't know with the hope of getting them to go look it up and leave you alone.
e.g. "How are you?" "Copacetic"
611.You think a INTP convention would be ironic and interesting, but realize that it's unlikely that such an event would actualize anywhere but in the mind (Because it would be delayed due to procrastination).
612.You think a coma would be the perfect vacation.
613.You know all the details until you try to explicitly recall them.
614. You can't wrap your mind around the fact that some people find things like psychology and epistemology boring.
615. when you're in a very tense, unpleasant meeting, and upon realizing your adversary's reasoning is based solely on one point "I said so and I'm higher on the org chart," you relax completely, take out the metaphorical popcorn, and consider the whole affair to be an interesting demonstration of incompetence. And you only continue listening for amusement and to gather potential ammunition.
The really funny thing, is that up until that point, I'd been genuinely worried that perhaps I'd overlooked something or misread the situation.
616. You know you're an INTP when you wake up in the middle of the night or can't sleep because you know SOMEWHERE on the Internet you wrote "settle" instead of "subtle".
617. You know you're an INTP when instead of studying for the exam you have tomorrow, you spend +4 hours in the IRC, late night, talking about augmented reality, solipsism, biomimicry prostethics, videogames, music, and how much Anthile sucks.
618. your own boss commented that you are funny (funny here refers to a funny character and not funny because you crack people up with your jokes), weird and strange.
619. and you actually take that as a compliment.
620.your friends needed reassurance from you that your smiles and/or laughters are actually genuine.
621.after explaining a certain concept, the only response you get is the sound of crickets in the background and the funny faces from your audience.
622.and you don't actually care because all that matters is that you understand that concept.
623.can't finish your essay in time because you need 1/2/3 pages to illustrate ONE point. (but sadly, sometimes in the end, the marker still doesn't understand what the point was suppossed to be)
624.you get annoyed, for example while in class and your teacher is explaining a theory/equation/etc, you understand them instantly but your neighbour just can't get it even after multiple explanations.
624.5.and all you can think of at that moment is screaming: "use your LOGIC!! where is your LOGIC?!!"
625. you can't seem to get it why people use shortforms while chatting like: "idk", "imy", "ily". JUST SPELL IT OUT!! (oh im sorry if any of you here uses these, maybe this is just me)
625.5.and you actually apologize, like that.
626.after suggesting a few theories in response to your friend's difficult/complex situation and having them test it out, you check up on them a few days later not because you care but just so you can prove you right.
627.you are able to alienate your feelings, pack it up in a box and put it on the shelves till further notice.
628.you join this forum because you stumbled upon this thread while researching on INTPs and you feel the need to contribute because you get a sudden word rush and even though part of you feels like you can't be bothered to, another part of you just have to let your thoughts be known.
having said all that, yes i am new here and i think this thread and forum is prodigious.
hello people!
629. when you made someone angry, accidentally and you're not sure what to do. Does go away mean go away?
630. When you watch The God Who Wasn't There and your INTP boy basically has to tell you to shut up because you won't stop jumping ahead mentally and predicting the whole movie instead of just watching it causing you to say key points literally seconds before the narrator.
631. When, by e-mail, you use an elaborate tangle of screen caps of Windows error messages and virus checks to make a girl in the IT dept at work feel better on her day back from having H1N1 that ultimately ends in her clicking on a hyperlinked image that leads her to
http://www.webhamster.com. Complete with attaching someone who will undoubtedly not get the jokes, nor will they care to be Cc:'d, so all their naysaying in Reply All will only make you look sweeter by comparison
632. I misspell words quite often actually. Is this why I have a persistent feeling of shame?
633. When you drink kool-aid out of a wine glass, just because you like the incongruity.
634. You know you're an INTP when by the time you finish reading what was in parenthesis you've forgotten what the sentence was even about.
635. your friends that share at least one interest with you refer to you as "the brain" or something similar.
636.you read the rules for various events, such as car racing if you find that interesting, just to see if there are any loopholes that noone has found (or at least, not bothered to use yet).
637.in the process of reading those rules, you find that the persons who wrote them didn't even know the basic diffrence between a screw and a bolt.
638.your friends that do not share any of your interests calls you... No, come on, you don't have any such friends!
639.you think Vulcans are illogical.(because they are sometimes.)
630.you think everybody is an idiot, until proven otherwise.
641.you feel the need to point out that english is your second language and you have never been outside Sweden as a excuse for any misspellings or faulty grammar. Ofcourse, that only makes everybody read a second time to find faults, and point them out to you.
642. you refuse to let your friends into your house since they came without previous notice and are intruding on your alone time.
643.your antisocial friends call you antisocial.
644. Someone comments that you seem antisocial. You respond by explaining the difference between 'asocial' and 'antisocial', followed by a bunch of distantly related thoughts about literature, psychology etc.
When you see the same person a while later, you start talking about all the new thoughts you've had since that conversation, only to find that they have no idea what you're on about.
645. you definitely switch sides in case of an alien invasion.
646. When describing an activity to a friend, they respond with, "That sounds confusing."
You reply, "Yes, It sounds deliciously complicated!"
647. you find yourself using the phrase "you say ______ like it's a bad thing" almost on a daily basis.
648. When you are extremely inefficient at taking notes because you often avoid paraphrasing for fear of discoloring the exact meaning behind a word: "Oh geez, maybe I'll misinterpret it later and get this concept wrong when I have to refer back to these!" So you resolve to learn shorthand/symbols of logic or create your own so you can speedily get the main ideas down.
But you never do because you are too lazy
649. Your brain speaks to you.
650.You have no feelings.
651.You're a self important jerk.
652.You appear to come up with something random.
653. When you're taking notes in class, you sometimes find the professor's method of organizing his information is disorderly and lacking in structure, so you wait until all the information has been laid out so that you can re-systemize it before copying the text. Managing to copy everything quickly enough is of secondary importance.
654.During conversation, like many people, you often get stuck when that perfect word is on the tip of your tongue - but you refuse to continue or settle for a close synonym, and you will even consult a thesaurus to pinpoint that word before going on with what you were saying.
(This happens to me a lot when people ask me to define a word I've used that's fairly abstract. This usually causes them to think that I don't even know the meaning of the word I've used and therefore shouldn't have used it. )
655.When your computer gives you an error or you find a bug, if necessary you'll spend hours searching online for a solution, you'll download ten different software applications if they may help, and you often end up a complete expert in that area of programming by the time you find the intricate fix for what was a trivial problem (long after most people would have given up).
656.When you can't really describe anything as accurately as you want to without devoting at least a small paragraph to it. (This one I came up with after typing up the previous ones.)
657. When you notice a mistake in a group setting and don't say anything.... just to observe how long it takes for others in the group to notice the same mistake. (and after someone notices you wonder how many people were doing the same thing. How many were too stupid to notice the mistake?????)
658. Sometimes I have to ask if something is funny.
659. when you've decide you should make a Terms of Service in regards to having one on one discussions.
660. It would be nice to have legal recourse against stupid people.
661. You take a shot of Tabasco on a dare, even after the extensive lecture to everyone on how "This isn't the hottest hot sauce, not even close", and "Of COURSE I'll throw up, it's mostly vinegar!" You down it fine, but feel queasy 30 minutes later.
When asked how you felt about what happened NEXT, you respond, "It was the COOLEST bout of blowing chucks ever! It was all spicy, I was like a puke throwing dragon."
662. When you put milk away under the sink and coffee in your cereal bowl.
and
When you know exactly where the milk is upon wondering where the milk is, it is not in the fridge after all. Well maybe I didn't really know exactly, but my instincts knew I guess. Good thing, else bad milk
663. When your loyalties are as solid as a concrete column, and your interests varied and fleeting as the cars that crash into them.
664.A female acquaintance tells you that she could see a girl falling for you because you're "mysterious"
665. You remember everything, but not when you need to.
666.you not only read every post, but copy almost all of them down into a word doc to read later (which you probably wont (28 pages!!!)) after wanting to post after the 1st few pages
667.You come up with an amazing reply/comeback/argument but forget it before you can say/post
668.You find it extremely difficult to start and hold a "pleasant" conversation
669.You are a die-hard Douglas Adams and Monty Python fan
670.You reference obscure things (movies, books whatever) and feel disappointed when no-one gets it.
671.You constantly experiment on your friends
672.People yell at you to shut up when you start to explain something
673.teachers specifically ask for people besides yourself to answer questions
674.you hate loud stupid people with every fiber of your being
675.you avoid eye contact at all costs
676.you aren’t surprised in the least when the focus of the thread goes to pieces
you find a better way to say something after the fact ^ you aren't surprised when this thread goes off on tangents
677.you have accepted the fact that you are insane,(i have lots of other thoughts on that, but i will restrain myself lol)
678.you make a compilation of this thread and forget to save it.
679.you invariably forget to save important things
680.You can’t remember any specific examples of the concept you are trying to explain until much later.
681.you have anticipated and accepted the fact that no one cares but plow on anyway
682.at a dance, rather than dancing, you come up with complex theories of the subtle social structure of the masses
683.you see people you know on the street and avoid them like the plague on the premise that they may say something to you
684.your parents say "it looks like a bomb went off in your room" , you reply that it is "organized"
685.you laugh whenever you read a post that said "or is that just me" because you generally do the same thing
686.you dislike dealing in absolutes and pepper your conversations with, "generally", "usually" and "pretty sure"
687.you rarely laugh at jokes, but crack up at something you just thought of, and then wonder why everyone has just looked at you like you are crazy
688.You use /’s, " " 's and parentheses too much
689.you have spent all day coming up with these, but only remember the ones you wrote down.
690.you spend 10 minutes deciding which smiley/picture goes best with what you are trying to say (and then decide not to put one up)
691.you come up with some more and edit your original post
692. When you notice a mistake in a group setting and feel compelled to point it out, but don't as you don't want attention.
693.When the only suitable adjectives for "attention" are "unwanted" and "negative".
694. Your train of thought regularly ends up generating a list of specific Google queries you intend to look up later, but then end up forgetting most of. Questions are a sort of by-product of your normal thought process.
695.When your alarm clock resets to 12:00 after a power outage, you just memorize the time offset instead of bothering to set the time correctly. Time is all relative anyways.
696.You often take a break from thinking deeply about something to find that at some point you've unknowingly picked up an object in your hands and have been playing with it for some time now.
697.You sometimes say a phrase, sentence, or even a brief dialogue out loud just because you want to hear what it sounds like.
698.You have an irresistible urge to flip back to the previous page in a book to double-check the exact phrasing of a sentence.
699.Typos stand out like a sore thumb, even when you're just glancing at a piece of paper.
700.You frequently think about how weird it is that the cold you are feeling on your skin in the winter is in fact an absence of heat.
701.You don't bother charging your cell phone, because if it's actually important someone can find another way to get in touch with you-- right?.
702.You frequently observe the present moment from the future, perhaps as a chapter in a book... and then you think about the fact that you're doing that, and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. Then you make something up when someone asks why you just laughed out of the blue.
703.You learn new concepts or facts by thinking about them until your internal model has adjusted to the point where this fact is innately obvious. As a result, you refuse to "just memorize" things, and it can sometimes take a long time to build up a complete theoretical foundation to support a new idea.
704.Your focus inertia is massive: it takes forever to get started on something, but once you get started you are likely to continue working on it until no longer physically possible, to the exclusion of everything else.
705.You are constantly making tons of observations which you find fascinating, but no one else seems to. What to do?
706.You rarely ask questions in class, for fear that it was already addressed and everyone else got it but you were zoned out at the time.
707.When emotions come into play, there is inevitably an incredibly painful battle with your rational mind. This may possibly manifest itself as an imagined conversation.
708. When you pick at people's statements and propose opposing possibilities, not to annoy them (although some seem to think so, claiming that you're trying to start an argument, ironically, as by saying that they are potentially starting one) but to check their reasoning (which often doesn't satisfy your standards), and yet you criticise yourself for being too passive and agreeable in other situations.
709. You find the statement "There's no "i" in Denial" terribly fulfilling.
710. you know you're an INTP when other people care about your social life more than you do
711. you are put on the spot, you either preform brilliantly, or fail miserably
713.you despise using the telephone
714.you know the answer immediately after the question is said but don't say anything, despite a 1-5 minute silence while the rest of the class figures it out (or till someone says anything)
715. When you kind of wish you had a large scar on your face so that you would be forced to wear a cool mask - and take it off for dramatic effect on occasion.
716. YOUR BEING A CHAMELLION, to observe without exposing your true self...the facts is, you like to be alone, suddenly being very talkative and socialised with others...but not to make friends with them, you just want to know their behavior and thought for your own reference data....
717.YOU NOTICE THAT YOU ARE LOUSY LEADER
718. If you develop your "J" you can perform style INTJ leadership.
719. you are all alone at christmas and don't really care.
719.5. you are not alone at christmas, you feel alone, and the only thing you want is to be left alone
720. When the best Christmas present you got was having your house to yourself for 6 hours on Christmas Day! (for the first time in four and a half months!!!! Blissssssssssssssss)
721. The Greatest Super Weapon is "MY BRAIN"
722.when you almost always add too many qualifiers most of the time because you are unsure whether what you have said is exactly, or at least in the very close proximity to what you said and you wind up with a sentence that gets lost in your mouth while you think about the etymology of the qualifying words you used and everybody think’s you’re talkative and don’t have as much inclination to value your speaking or ideas because they think they are only as good as their own.
723. when you like to get books for <insert-holiday-here>
724.when you are already prepared with at least 5 or 6 different arguments on why being politically correct (see "<insert-holiday-here>") is either bad, good, okay-ish, or only acceptable in certain situations
725. When you wander around having conversations with people you know in your head...
726. ..your car becomes a daydreaming capsule.
727. When phrases like 'Daydreaming Capsule' enchant you
728. When you play one-man scrabble/chess/games
729.You quickly get out of topic.
730.You're secretly formulating your ultimate winning strategy for your next game of Monopoly.
(You see, my secret is to go for the oranges, they're the highest probability roll spaces on the board, besides jail, which has several times the landing rate of other spaces due to the number of methods of arriving there. Then, 6, 8, and 9, high probability rolls when throwing 2d6, give those properties a trickle down effect. Never fails! ;D)
731. when your teacher says you can have your test paper back, and you pull a novel in paperback format out of your bag and tell him it's fine because you've already got one.
732. when you're proud of your dad's board game skills
733. When your parents call the pastor.
734.When teachers tell shout at you to wake up and stop trying to think so deep into things.
735.When you notice completely random things.
736.When you're staring outside while everyone's staring at the dead guy on the floor.
737. somebody makes a relationship thread about you.
738. You actually have to analyze whether or not you like someone (Think of the lyric "I want to know how I feel about you but I can't do the math")
739.You think that lyric is amazing.
740.You are aware that you heard above lyric once and not in the song so it's possible the words are wrong but are too lazy to look it up.
741.A teacher calls on you in class and you had the right answer but you forgot the question before you said it so you just blurted an answer out. (That cost me a piece of candy damnit!)
742.(This will only apply to me but I'm assuming in the same situation you guys would be the same way) Our percussion class has a chart posted of the different pass-offs (playing tests) and every time we complete one, we get to put a sticker by it. Being able to put the sticker by it is enough motivation to get me to learn said pass-off. Not the fact that it's my dream and plan for the future. Not to get better. No I just want the STICKERS!
743.Once you have been motivated you do amazingly in anything but never call it that until you realize how far you've come.
744.You always assume there is someone better and calling yourself good is somehow bad.
745.You read through this thread as another check to make sure you are in fact an INTP regardless of how many tests you've taken
746.You still have your doubts
747.You thought up great responses/examples of INTPness as you were reading this thread but forgot them all as you got to end so you can finally post them.
748.Even in your absentmindedness, you've developed the ability to hear things from far away if you need to focus on something.
749.You actually tried that spelling out music thing and played the combination of the word "Music" listed earlier to verify that it in fact sounded good.
750.You are Too lazy to find that comment and quote it.
751.You swear that post/message was NOT originally going to be that long but you kept thinking of other things
752.You're friend says "We have a test in psychology today" you've been absent and ask "Crap do you have the study guide?" When they give it to you, you read over it once in the time it takes to walk to lunch (about half a song, yes that is how I measure time) hand it back.
752.5.You score very high on that test
753.Your friends call you a genius but you deny it
754.You failed your advanced placement test on purpose to avoid the expectations of advanced classes
755.and yet you still complain that regular class people are too slow
756.You second guess half of these as not really being INTP characteristics thinking possibly you were mistyped (despite above mentioned points)
757.This thread was scary accurate and you are interested to see if others here agree with your points
758.Analysis is your best friend and you can do quite quickly
759.There are smiley's you wish to use but don't know the context
760. When it's five in the morning and you thought it was only midnight.
761. when your in a group of people and don't say anything until someone says something that makes you type them (ENTJ) to which you laugh even though its not really funny and everyone stares at you
762. When you become so frustrated by someone using a logical fallacy in a debate that it causes you to feel physically ill
763. When you enter the library in the morning to pick up a book and before you know it the librarian is asking you to leave so they can close.
764.When you stand up from your desk/workspace, get slightly dizzy, and realize you can't remember the last time you ate.
765.When the experience of having someone actually know what you're trying to say in the midst of a nonsensical rant makes you want to squeal with happiness.
766.When you rarely do what your parents ask you to do for one of two reasons: they never gave you an adequate explanation for why you should do it, or you accepted that it should be done but then forgot.
767.When your friends shake their heads despairingly as you explain your latest scheme.
768. When it's 8.45pm and your daughter comes in and asks when you're going to cook dinner ... oops
769. When you try to start "living like a normal", but quickly return to your INTPness after failing in it SO badly.
770.When you start laughing your butt off in random situation because of some unrelated thought and explain others around you that you can't tell them cause they wouldn't understand.
771.When people think you're stupid for taking seriously some abstract joke, while you were just taking it further to even more abstract realms for the laughs
772.When you are accused of arrogance after saying gentle to some idiot that "it isn't about what you feel or like, it's about what is true"
773. when you create similes for things, then name the similes, then reference the simile's name at a later date and expect people to know what you are talking about
774. You construct discussions in your head between you and some other person, with whom you have never discussed the topic, and get a bit upset over how ignorant their opinions are.
775. You go on to find out that they have exactly the opinions you thought they would.
776. It never occurs to you to study people when there's people around to study.
777.You have to check with people if or not conversations you remember having with them actually occurred.
778. Others think that you're a weirdo
779. You raise you eyebrow when someone jokes and laugh sarcastically then move away...
780. You easily notice anagrams and patterns and got bored on the cliche
771. You look like Simon Cowell on the mirror
782.Everyone doesn't know Araererweart
783. You enjoy Tactical RPG
784.You think Glee is Gay
785. You hate sports and others that will make you move
786. If you always think WWJD
787.If you change Cinderella's fate by killing the dragon and get the Prince as a reward.
778. If you can see yourself as Jung or Lovecraft.
779. People constantly ask you if you're mad or if something is wrong. You get a shocked look on your face.
780.You enjoy speaking in metaphors. Mostly to find those who are "worthy."
781.You enjoy paradoxes.
782.You always take on the roll of devil's advocate.
783.You find it impossible to start any task but, when you do you have to be dragged away kicking and screaming until its finished.
784. When its hard to care
785. If you became world dictator, you’d immediately implement a system of eugenics.
786.You want to slap anyone who embraces evolution but abhors genocide.
787.When playing chess against Death, you opt for Byzantine with dice just to make things interesting.
788.When playing chess with normal people, you make random moves and throw away pieces just to make the endgame challenging.
789.You’ve devoted years of time and energy to master an obscure system, then completely lost interest once it no longer presented a challenge.
790.Your comments in a college class were considered more interesting and informative than the prof.’s entire lecture series.
791.Your room/office looks like it was hit by a tornado, but you know exactly where everything is.
792.You have driven a non INTP into a comatose state simply by answering their question.
793.You've ever refused to memorize how to do something 'by the book', because at least one step was superfluous.
794.When explaining something, you naturally omit all steps that are 'given', 'understood', or just plain 'common sense', resulting in complete confusion for the person you were helping.
795.You worry that the delay while your post is moderated may render parts of it redundant.
796. There are memes in your head and in-jokes where you're the only one who's in on the joke
You attempt to play chamber music by recording yourself on the computer instead of finding other players
797. when you have no qualms about debating the ethics of genocide
798. you question statements that are meant to be supportive of your own viewpoint.
799.You might be an INTP if you look at the percentage of the world population that shares your characteristics and realize that you're an endangered species*.
*'Species' used incorrectly for comic effect.
800. when a single comment sparks a thousand questions and possibilities to ponder over.
801. when you stand in a queue and behind you are two dumb girls prattling inanities in a very loud voice and it makes you feel physically sick to the point where you consider turning round and punching them in the face.
802. When you derail threads
803.When you try to re-rail threads, despite the obvious hypocrisy of doing so
804. You know you're an intp when a logical fallacy bothers you the way the spot bothered Lady Macbeth
805. when you remove some sort of delicious foodstuff from its wrapper, then throw the food in the bin and put the wrapper in your mouth – regularly
806. When thinking up with something clever to post in this thread, you go off on a mental tangent and find yourself ten minutes later contemplating a life as a cockney chimney-sweep
807. when you envy cephalopods for having tentacles.
808. When you constantly laugh while reading this topic, because it just describes you!
809.when you know it’s not “foodstuff” until you begin the digestive process
810. "You're feeling nauseas? Meaning, you feel as though you are inducing nausea? Well then, I suppose I should feel nauseated."
811. you feel compelled to answer rhetorical questions.
812. When you can't seem to understand the huge beef everyone has with furries.
813. If you think about asking/saying something to someone but think about something else instead. Once you have come full circle in your thoughts and look at the person with a puzzled expression you ask them, "Hey did I ask you ________ or did I just think about asking you _______?"
They then look at you with an equally puzzled look on and answer "No, you haven't said anything for a half an hour."
You now realize that you were just having your own little version of that conversation in your head, along with a few other subsidiary thoughts.
814.You have Merriam-Webster.com on your favorites list just in case you think of a word that you've been saying for years but are unsure how to spell that fits the context perfectly (like subsidiary).
815.When, for once, you happen to ask someone a straightforward question about a claim they are making and all they can do is talk in an illogical circle. You then walk away and never speak them unless necessary with the justification of, "S/he doesn't know what they are talking about".
816. You constantly have to translate what you've said because you have strange phrases for things. (Example: It is the anniversary of the creation of the Shadow. Translation: It's Shadow's birthday or I'm picking up my babies from daycare. Translation: I'm bringing my drums home from school.)
817.You've asked to leave class because they were playing a game and getting too worked up and annoying you.
817.5.At first you try to block it out and have conversations with imaginary people in your head.
818.You have imaginary people to discuss with in your head.
819.It's so loud you can't hear the other person speak (translation:you can't hear yourself think) so you ask again to leave the class.
820.You realize you aren't really helping your team and use that as an argument for leaving.
821.You're teacher takes you out in the hallway claiming he's tired of you wanting to leave all the time. Making the argument that if you can't tolerate this, you won't function in college to which you make the argument that the maturity level will drastically change.
822.Later after successfully leaving the class you think of another point you could have made: What college class plays family feud to teach material?
823.You finish an assignment in those 20 minutes, getting more done than you did in the other 40 because you can actually hear yourself think.
824.You have argued why homework is useless for you and why it should not be taken as a grade, even a completion grade because completion grades are grade socialism
825. When you don't know what happened in the last 15 minutes of the lecture because the professor said "if time goes to infinity then dx=0 (nothing matters)" and you zoned out thinking about what that can allude to
826.when something insignificant doesn't make sense in a movie and you leave complaining they never explained it
827.5.or you demand a scientific explanation on how they violated x number of laws of physics and forget what the movie was about
828when in a really important conversation you're quiet because you're actually thinking about the grammatical errors of the last sentence that person said
829.when you apologize for making small talk (true story)
830. When you ask someone a question - realize while delivering question verbally that it may be perceived as marginally 'stupid' - conceive of what potential snarky, not-entirely-helpful self-aggrandizing answer(s) they may fire back - conjure up an equally (if not even more so) snarky riposte, a locutionary shot to the gut - all before they're done answering - their answer turns out not to be any of these things, faith in the innate goodness of people restored, even if only momentarily, come to ponder the long term consequences of being so 'defensive' all the time, question if this is in fact your fundamental and intractable nature, to always prepare for/assume the worst, or if it's something worth trying to change - try to be more open and 'good' at dinner table, doesn't quite go as you'd planned, wonder if your holding people to an impossible and selfish standard; wonder why you shouldn't do this, visualize your personality and tendencies as 'you' hunched over a small hole in ground out in the middle of a rain sodden field at what is probably mid-afternoon on an overcast day, with your hands firmly grasping iron handles on either side of said cavity - from which things are thrown at your face, things you can't quite - no matter how hard you try - identify or make sense of (Tide detergent boxes, brass eagle statues, dirt, etc.), and this bombardment never stops, you try to let go of the handles but fail...they're [your hands] stuck; you know if only the barrage would cease, if who or whatever is behind this what-you-can-only-assume-will-be lifelong face-pelting would give it a rest (!), and you could see down into cavity, you'd probably have much more thorough and circumspect 'understanding' of things in general but that even if this [presumed] impossibility somehow was made possible, this understanding would be tempered by the knowledge that existentially, life, and everything it entails, is meaningless - you realize this is all just a very gussied-up cliche, hate yourself for relying on a cliche in expressing what you feel may be something important, you listen to music and continue to wonder why you prefer pacifying these aching uncertainties to pursuing them further, more passionately, with twice the gusto.
831. When your mom just exclaimed, "You are always so logical! Are you ever not logical or do you ever make a decision not based on logic?! Your like a Vulcan!" and then, "You're a Vulcan!" as you walk away.
832. while we dislike being illogical, we're perfectly fine with being nonsensical. Unfortunately, most people don't understand the difference
833. When you are seen as "fascinating"
834. When you are the first person people ask when they don't understand a certain aspect of what they're studying.
835.When you can explain said principles perfectly, but fail to be understandable in a day-to-day conversation.
836.When you have been told on more than one occassion to be "so right" about something "it hurts" and then expressed disbelief how somebody could behave as stupid as that theory.
837. When you ask if what you just posted was clear.
838.When someone you know tells you about their relative who left there family to be with someone they met online on a game and you are more concerned with which game it is so you name off a list of ______ to which they give you a weird look.
839. ..you expect the Spanish Inquisition…..when you don’t want to answer a question.
840. When you stare at random objects for a long time and tell yourself that you will photograph it. then tell yourself that's useless because you know there would be something else that you would stare at.
841.if you wonder that someone has posted something similar to this, because you managed to get through half way (giggling like a little girl) before starting to skim through it.
842. when you wonder which test was done once, and if another was done once and the third done three times, or twice each... or if it means the three tests were taken five times each
843. You doodle on your lecture notes and escape back to your thoughts during the parts of lectures that you already know but suddenly become attentive when new information is presented before lapsing back into your own thoughts. At the end of the lecture you can tell how much and when you retreated into your own mind by reviewing how much and where the doodling is located on you notes.
844.You sit in your room hoping family members won't call you to come meet their friends. They inevitably do and after a few curt greetings you look for an excuse to leave the room or move away from the people present (I go to the toilet when I don't actually have to go, get myself a drink in the kitchen or just walk into another room and pretend I was doing something in there if someone comes to investigate). Eventually you think enough time has passed for you to safely make your way back to your room.
845. When the highlight of a night of drinking is finding someone who knows who Plato and Jung are.
846. When you have an idea about having an idea that you are mentally ill until you were seven years old, and that your whole school and out-of-school life is only a simulation of your normality, a great conspiracy created by your parents in order to make your life perfect, or at least to seem so... and then you find it actually fun
847. "The Truman Show" made you question the motivations of everyone you knew and whether you were the star of your own Truman Show and the movie was a sneaky way of some protestor trying to alert you to the fact.
848. You find the common use of the phrase 'In theory...' objectionable
849.You've made it to page fourteen... or fifteen, you can't remember and don't want to simply go back a page to check, but have so many ideas buzzing around your head that you just have to post.
850.You kept getting amazing ideas, forgot them, so you FINALLY ( after seeing it suggested a billion times ) write them down.
850.5.Luckily, pencil and paper were already nearby... otherwise that wouldn't have happened.
851.You frequent this site, but it wasn't until seeing this that you made an account and this was your first posts.
852.You're mother would scream at you as a child, but she would say "YOU AIN'T SUPPOSE TO BEING DOING THAT!" and you would correct her by saying "While 'ain't' isn't completely incorrect, 'aren't' makes you sound like less of a heathen.
853.You enjoy calling people heathens.
854.And plebeians.
855.You agree with 98% of what's been said, but you're sure someone you know has just gathered a group of their friends, they all made accounts, and they're all posting these things to make you feel like there are others like you, but it's all just a big joke to make you look like an idiot.
855.5.You're on to them.
856.Irritation boils in your core when someone repeatedly asks you what's wrong, despite you telling them 'nothing, I'm just thinking'.
857.You don't have to tell someone how you're feeling, should you be feeling, you're music says it for you.
858.Everything has a loophole. Everything.
859.You become frustrated when small-minded people won't expand their minds. Then question why you're feeling such an irrational emotion, they're stupid. Their minds can't expand... but what if?
860.You really don't know the meaning of a word 100% but you use it anyway, look it up later, and realize that you've been using it right. You're a fricking genius.
861.You learn the hard way that just because people say they want you to be honest... doesn't mean that they want you to be honest.
862.You would love to have kids with multiple people JUST to see what they would look like.
863.You doubt the ability of yourself and otherwise too much to lead, but want to punch the jerk off who thinks they can boss your around in the face, but you wouldn't get physical. That would mean that you would have to be physical. So instead your focus a glare on them when they aren't paying attention - they will begin to both feel and hear a light insistent buzzing that will become louder and stronger until... "Huh? Oh, no. I didn't catch any of that... sorry."
864.You come up with your own complex rules for something extremely simple. ( When I play solitaire, the only way I can win is if i get all four decks lined up without having put ANY cards onto any of the aces ).
865.Question whether you should even post this or not...
866. You are an INTP if you listen to someone and it goes way over your head. So you ask them to explain and they say, "A, B and C." You don't know what they mean so you ask them to define, A, B and C. When they patiently tell you A = D, E and F; B = G, H and I; C = J, K and L, you are completely swamped. You can't remember what B was so you ask them for B again. By this time they grow impatient. They tell you you are a complete idiot. You react by slumping in a corner. You vow never to talk to anyone again.
867. When you constantly say 'or is that just me?'
Or has this one already been posted?
868.When all of your friends call you weird.
869.When you analyze all of your friends.
870.When you believe 'honesty is the best policy'.
871.When you lose track of time very easily.
(Especially when doing homework)
872.You have a sense of humor no one else seems to share, often bursting out laughing at a 'joke' that was never intended to be funny
873. You Tick your teachers by constantly pointing out their grammar/spelling mistakes on a test, only to hear them say the old "I teach _______, not ENGLISH CLASS" line.
874. Your teachers ignore your patiently raised hand when they are asking questions. (Especially annoying if you've got to go potty)
875. You often get caught up in imagining some amazing project, only to realize how much time and effort you would expend on said project and giving up.
876.You enjoy lurking on other personality forums and laughing at how odd everyone else is. (This may be just me, I'm not sure about the rest of you)
877.You do/say something, and everyone stares at you. You say, "What, you've never heard of ________ before?" and no one knows what you're talking about.
878. When you can't read mystery novels because inevitably, the only thing that's mysterious to you is why the characters haven't solved the mystery yet. You knew from page 2!
879.when you give people examples like 866.
880.When a person says something that you know to be inaccurate. After listening to them speak, you get an understanding of their logic they are using and what level of understanding they have on the subject. Then you play out the conversation with them in your mind, and decide not to speak up after all when you realize the energy your will have to expend lecturing this person, and deconstructing their current inferior model is not worth the outcome.
881.When you actually calibrate how much attention you are going to give a person talking to you based on how interesting they are.
882. When you have Jung, Plato and Nietzsche on your iPod
883. When you try to explain something and it all comes out in fragments, all at the same time too! I really wish somebody would figure out telepathy already.
884.when you realize people want you to lie to them
885. when you press the button to open your garage door and the wickedly powerful spring on the garage door opener rips loose from its fastenings with a groan and a whoosh and ricochets around the garage breaking things while you stand there watching, and you find yourself thinking "Isn't that interesting?" instead of ducking
886. You are an INTP when you come up with an elaborate assassination plot for the guy who saved 49 cents by using a cheap bolt instead of one that would actually last more than five years...
...then have an internal struggle over whether this assassination is morally justified
...then broaden the terms to ask whether any assassinations are morally justified
...then deciding to conclude whether it matters if something is morally justified
...then deciding what you really need is a good definition of "moral"
...then you wonder if the semantics of the argument are really that important
...then you have a Descartes moment and decide it's all relative
...then you remember how much you hated that "it's all relevant" cop-out idea
... and then you realize your english paper is due in 2 minutes. damn.
887. when you have no fixed opinions on anything. One moment you'll believe and argue a certain point strongly, the next moment you'll switch sides and argue the opposite point. And this comes naturally to you.
888. After spending a week in constant company you feel lonelier than if you had spent that week in isolation.
889. When you're in a chemistry class and you come up with the riddle 'What do holes in the ozone layer have in common with carpentry jobs?', which you still think is brilliant.
890.When your riddles are so awesome you don't remember what the chemistry teacher said the latter half of the lesson.
891. You know you are an INTP when your 'J' father tells you to get a grip on reality and you patiently reply with a lecture on how reality does not really exsist and getting a grip on it would be impossible. Your father then walks away muttering "Where did I go wrong?”
892. When you're not absolutely horrified by the idea of spending two days in the forest alone with a few rolls of bread, a book and a pen (check out the "what did i do" thread in human relationships).
Sounds like heaven to me, but somehow I doubt most people would agree.
893. You read this whole thread in one sitting.
894.You become convinced that you can actually talk some sense into someone advocating a theory which has NO basis in scientific fact, and profiting from it (That means you Jenny McCarthy)
895.You can turn a nigh incoherent dream into a nigh coherent story in the space of an hour
896. In the middle of class you consider the probability of having deja vu about another deja vu. "I think I've thought about myself thinking about this before" (I'm probably not being coherent)
897.Pondering the fact that I can imagine a picture while listening to music yet find it hard to do the opposite.
898. You have ever worn the same outfit more than two days in a row and didn't even notice untill a coworker/friend/family member said somthing.
899.You then looK at said coworker/friend/family member with a confused look and say "What? Is somthing wrong with it?"
900. You didn't know there was anyone else like you before you found this forum.
901. when everybody else seems crazy, and everybody else thinks that you're crazy!
902. When you wish you could ignore the ringing phone.
903.When check your answers again and again, because you always feel you might have made a mistake
904. When you have the most brilliant response, but then forget it seconds before posting it.
905. You didn't know there was anyone else like you before you found this forum.
906.You didn't even know what Myers-Briggs types were three days ago, but this forum is already at the top of your favorites list.
907.You think this thread is a better description of INTPs than the ones at Keirsey.com or INTP.org.
908.After reading the first page you skipped to the back to see if the last poster had compiled a comprehensive list yet (you know, to save time), and seeing that they haven't you're now planning to do it yourself, but realize you probably won't get around to it.
909.You can't be bothered to actually compile the list right now because you're simultaneously posting on two other forums, reading four different news websites, and trying to learn Dreamweaver, Unity and FL Studio 9 at the same time. You also feel guilty that you're no longer practicing the Spanish, Hindi and Dutch that you were obsessed with a month ago.
910.You already feel more comraderie with the people on this forum than you do with anyone you've ever known IRL, including family and long-time friends.
911. you spent several minutes suspiciously wondering whether someone was accusing you of not being a true INTP, but just mistaking yourself for one. You eventually decided you have better things to think about
(911.5?. If I'm accusing anyone, it would be myself. Paranoia and all)
912. when you've got to think of these things. You cycle through them all over again and they drive you crazy becauz none of them gets finished.
913. When a novel sentence structure gets you excited.
914. You've always dreamed of rewritting the constitution of your country and redoing the whole structure of the government to work at maximum efficiency, but you've never gotten around to it.
915. When you try to have a discussion that at first is deep and somewhat meaningful and then turns to nothing because of the other person and you become disappointed and decide the person was not that interesting to begin with.
916.When someone says "How can we be friends when you're so smart and I'm so dumb" and you reply that there are no smart/dumb people and that you are not smart just talking about something interesting that you took the time to learn about only to get the response "That was where you were supposed to tell me I was smart" Ugh is that some rule of social protocol?
917. you rewrite LOST's fifth season based on some glaring miscontinuity you've seen in an episode linking to another episode where the stated continuity had now been rendered moot by the miscontinuity presented in the later episode. But as you perfect your own version in the quest to be coherent and continuous, you find out you've only complicated things more by introducing plotlines even more convoluted than the plot you planned to rewrite because of those thoughts of "wouldn't it be cool if X and Y meet C and F at event H and at time U, only for character S to realize that it was them meeting their future son in the past only to come to the further realization that it is all part of V's plan to ensure utter chaos and the end of the world if D does not reveal that he is the half-brother of……?" etc, etc (I’ve worked on Doctor who and Star Wars dicontinuity)
918. You know you're an INTP when you doubt whether the above example warrants INTPness.
919. you copy-paste all the interesting posts from this thread (among others), and chats with friends into word documents to peruse later. while the documents steadily grow you don't re-read them
920. You frantically look for your lost pencil after daydreaming only to realize it's still in your mouth
921.You rather use a pencil than a pen.
922.You know you're a Mental.
923.If you like someone of the opposite sex, you will analyze everything that happened in any interaction with them afterward down to every possible detail to figure out how it went. Deep down inside you know it's absolutely useless because it has never worked before.
924.Once you figure out the person you like, you grow bored of them
925. When you *can't* use somebody else's computer just because their Firefox doesn't have the right add-ons installed and their taskbar is not set to at least 3 taskbar buttons high like yours
926. You understand that theoretically, no one on this board has ESP
927. you appreciate Deutsch grammatical structure because if a person has any desire to know what the full meaning of What a sentence is, they can't interrupt you.
928. You feel a little bit sad after 60, because you received neither a laugh nor the satisfaction of having any significant impact on the highly desired but improbable determent of such questions being asked in the future
929. You stop to consider the order, format, and general structure of your multi-quote reply (featuring elements you considered "difficult" to group).
930. You wonder what it would be like to be a brain (and eyeballs) in a jar looking at yourself in a mirror.
931. You narrate moments in your life (as they happen) from the third person perspective.
932. "Context" is your favorite word
933. You almost had to reply to the suggestion of compiling a list of these characteristics because there would have to be versions and ...
934. the only natural position for such a list would be at post zero, not somewhere between two arbitrary contributions/posts.
935. you lost interest in the opposite sex for about two months, because after writing a program that demonstrated an AI breeding proof-of-concept, you couldn't see people as anything more than bio-mechanical novelties.
936. is how you came to be agnostic.
937. You've lost points on essays for over-usage (moderate by my standards) of parenthesis, long (albeit not run-on) sentences, and too much opinion (however well-formed).
938. when you get increasingly frustrated with to, too, and two because you never use the right one the first time around.
939.you set your alarm specifically to do work that you didn't finish the night before, only when you wake up you end up not doing any of the work you intended to do.
940.when you feel obligated to ask if someone is all right, you can't help but feel a bit awkward when they tell you how they're feeling, because you're not sure how to deal with that
941.when people ask you what you want for Christmas/your Birthday/celebratory event you don't answer (either because you don't have one or because what you want is way too expensive)
942.when living in the wild for the rest of your life seems like a good idea.... until you realize you wouldn't have access to the internet
943.when your one true love is your cat
944.you get disheartened by the human race and their petty squabbles. So he doesn't agree with you, get over it or try and see it from his perspective.
945.you didn't realize how long your post was until you actually submitted it
946. You think you're no good, but think that other people are worse.
947. You think others are great, but think that you are much better
948. you try to analyze(add,subtract, multiply, divide...) numbers even when they are phone numbers
949. Can walk into a room full of philosophy professors and sound like one of the homeboys…
950. When you lose every pen you own.
951. Don't play politics
952. Can go a week without talking to anyone
953. You find yourself incapable of using a dresser
954. when you cannot think of a life without your computer
955. You've lost faith in humanity more than twice
956. When you think for someone when trying to determine what they're thinking
957. you think you know very little about a specific subject but realize there are self-appointed experts in that field that know less than you do
958.the number of typos and mis-spellings in the forum dedicated to your personality type is amazingly low
959. Monday through Friday, you go from dorm room to class to dining hall to library to dorm room. Saturdays and Sundays vary only in that you don't have classes
960. When imagining your ultimate team is more fun than making it or having it.
961. you can't seem to NOT make fun of Christmas;
962.you say 'I hate you' or 'This is stupid' and immediately following 'Actually, I don't it's just....' (i.e. Actually, I don't hate you, I'm just frustrated at your ignorance and wish you would look at the facts instead of saying what everyone else is saying, especially since they, as a whole, are wrong.) Yes, I actually do this.
963.you edit your post multiple times because you don't want to double post, but you just thought of something
964. you have to be reminded to eat
965. When you try to figure out how to open a can without using your arms.
966. when the world is still so small
967. when you come to the conclusion eating takes too long, and decide to combine all your food items into one (EX: Lunch: Peanut butter sandwich, yogurt, crackers = Peanut Yogert sandwich with crackers stuffed in it)
968. When minutes after discovering you can shoot frilled toothpicks out of a straw, you've twisty-tied a quiver and have a second barrel planned as your next project.
969. You read through 19 pages of an intpforum thread in one sitting and end up wanting more.
970. when you spin a pen or book up in the air, try to catch it, and fail epically
971. When the second you discover you are an INTP you go through great lengths to find out everything about what an INTP is, what a jungian typology is, get as many opposing viewpoints as you can to judge the validity of these typologies, then go and research all of the other types too, until you have 4 safari windows and innumerable tabs open, you have joined three different forums, have ignored six texts from your girlfriend, and you forgot what you were doing when you first took the stupid personality test in the first place.
972. Cringes when your professor uses the word "Irregardless".
973. My teacher often assumes I'm not paying attention when I stare into space. It's very aggravating.
974.Has a list of words, I'm trying to learn and use
975. You learned words as you read them, so you often mispronounce things, which makes you seem like you don't know what you're talking about, though you actually do
976. You frequently feel an urge to mix chlorine and acid based cleaning products together to see what happens.
977.You consider building a home made fume cupboard to do it with
978. When your friends are sad, you are more interested in analyzing their way of thinking than actually supporting them
979. You like to make plans and rules, but have no intention on following them
980.You think people that do stuff by the book are stupid
981. In fact, you think people are - in general - so stupid that they shouldn´t be allowed to make their own choices. You, however, require absolute freedom.
982.You find it difficult to grasp that some people actually choose a career in HR or accounting
983.You have placed all your friends and family in the MBTI grid
984.You like to insult people, but always with a smile
985 You think some posts by other users of the INTP forum are inaccurate and should be commented on, but you are to lazy to do it
986. You would rather die than be in the center of a big bachelor party
987. Every time you try to give people compliments, it just sounds fake
988. When you´re asked to do a quick spell check on a paper, you end up re-structuring the whole thing. You also suggest that the content should be re-written because of logical errors
989. You know you should probably eat something but you´re to lazy to leave the computer
990. When you finish your homework the last day and STILL get an excelent grade.
991.When you don't understand what the hell someone meant, so you just nod and laugh.
992.When you can't help yourself with finding patterns on the floor and walking on it.
993.When you correct everyone, even though you know it'll piss them off.
994.When you go writting this even though you know you'll be late for school/work.
995.When you have a great idea, but keep it to yourself cause you know everyone will hate it.
996. You get irritated when you realize you can't press Ctrl+F while searching through a book for a specific phrase.
997. You despise talking on the call so much that you don’t even call to get it cancelled. They’ll figure it out when you stop paying them
998. You’ll eat anything and everything but before attempting a new dish you compulsively consult and consider a dozen different, but very similar, recipes. You follow none of them.
999. When you have certain ‘friends’ that you keep around for no reason other than the analysis, wonder if that’s wrong then analyze yourself as well.
1000. 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.
1001. Yes! Really, the only reason you haven't gone crazy is because of internet and all it's glory.
1002.You have analyzed yourself multiple times, recognizing all your major faults, but you're too lazy or just don't care enough to fix them.
1003. Whenever I am driving with a person talking to me in the passenger seat, and I can't hear them well enough, my first reaction is always to turn up the radio as if that is going to make them louder. but the other person doesn't know that I am having a mental lapse, they just see me rudely turning up the radio while they are trying to talk to me.
1004. When I'm walking around I'll try to look up and to the side for a rear view mirror.
1005. Attempting to write ONE thing in response to a comment, you end up with three, and then a fourth explaining why you have three.
1005.You hate your phone, never listen to your voice mail, and often pretend you didn't hear your ring tone. (or name…when you don’t want to talk)
1006.(Which reminded me on the bill front!) I have a device in my car from a no credit loan dealer that prevents ignition if I don't put in a code given to me on payment.
I've since completely disabled the device, yet still fully intend to have every payment in on time.
1007.I now forget number three.
1008. You make intuitive leaps of understanding, drawing interesting parallels between unrelated topics.
1009. Then you completely second-guess what you've just said, and suspect you might be wrong.
But you've already spent far too long reading, editing, re-writing a simple post on an internet forum, so you just 'submit reply' anyway, because who knows - there's probably some truth in there somewhere.
1010. Get irritated easily or nervous when it comes to large conversation even though you're interested into it.
1011.Feel emotionally detached while just not giving a care for other people.
1012.Over-analysis of anything you are attempting to do for fun.
1013.You'd rather stay out of eating with people than eating with people.
1014.You have spatial-based thinking style of analyzing people's location and avoiding them to keep your sanity. Something as an instinct.
1015.You prefer to talk and go away instead of talking all day long with the so-called pricks that bothers you.
1016. Love trying to understanding the concepts on unanimous objects.
1017. your grandmother laughs at you and calls you funny when you 'tell it like it is'
1018.You talk faster than normal because your train of thought is going too fast for you to catch up.
1019.you get the "oh, your so quiet" or "oh, she's just shy" comments a lot
1020.when you question whether that story should be posted or if it's too confusing/irrelevant.
1021.When you have to correct someone about something said incorrectly about you
1022.When you are calm until someone says something stupid or wrong, then you attack them furiously.
1023.When your friends know that just because they are spending the night with you doesn't mean they will see you all night.
1024.When the only real religious policy you have is tolerance.
1025. When your head hurts from staring at the computer too much.
1026.When your friends tell you that your shirt is on backwards and you tell them you don't care.
1027.When you borrow a book and end up not reading it.
1028.When you look at yourself in the mirror and think, "Is that really how I look like? Is that really me?"
1029. when you spend weeks or months planning to go to an elaborate event in which you're supposed to wear a suit and tie (Wedding, communion, fancy party, etc...) in a tee shirt, then it's 50-50 whether you actually end up doing it, entirely dependent on your mood on the day of the event
1030. you demand a scientific explanation on how they violated x number of laws of physics and forget what the movie was about
1031. and you cant enjoy watching a movie because while everyone else is being sublimated by the virtual other world you are wondering how they took that shot or how they did the makeup
1032. when you often lose arguments with yourself
1033.when you have to say (because it's driving you nuts):
'your' is posessive - this is a response to all your wrong usage of 'your' and 'you're'
'you're' is a contraction of 'you are' [the 'a' of 'are' has been replaced by an apostrophe]
so: you're driving me crazy with your inappropriate use of 'your' and 'you're'
1034. When you're society's definition of an eccentric loser but you're too lazy and absorbed in your hobbies to care.
1035.When you really can be happy alone, and resent being pressured to socialize.
1036.When you're smarter than 99% of the people you meet but will fall behind them because you lack focus.
1037.When you think everything can be analyzed, including love.
1038.When you instantly notice when people use a word incorrectly in speech, and are tempted to point it out. (but under pressure can’t speak correctly yourself)
1039. your thoughts fly all over the place and you wonder about each but are disinclined to control them while other people wonder why you don't settle down with something and get it done.
1040.when you have a conversation like this: I love you!"
"Neat!
...I mean... I love you too
1041. when you've answered "Hmm let me think about it...." to a question like "Do you love me?" "Are you having fun?" ect...
1042. When you contemplate for eons something witty and relatable to that of an INTP to say, to make an acceptable first impression on your first post.
1043. when you are always in some hidden corner of your school during lunch
1044.If you ever have, during a midday nap, set the alarm clock to something like 16.47 because you believed it to be the optimal time to get up, having a productive day as possible, only to completely disregard it when the alarm finally rings.
1045. 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?)
1046. I have that problem with most things. If I'm asked what I'd like more for dinner, A or B, I would start thinking about all the pros and cons of each. I'd think about what's more expensive, requires less effort, what tastes better, what the other person may want, how long it will take to make etc etc. I will just stand there staring into space before finally replaying; I dunno, you decide.
1047. when people mistake you for an inanimate object
1048. You write controversial statuses on Facebook just so you can spark a debate, but you hate debating face to face because you have no time to think about anything you are going to say.
1049. You view a work translated from another language into English to be a corrupt version, even though you can't read the original language.
1050. The other day, I questioned someone as to how not acknowledging someone walking past you is rude
1051. You sit down for breakfast, stare at the "Use by" date for the bread, and speculate to yourself what life could be like by then.
1052. Only when you finish your breakfast do you realize that the 30th of May was over a week ago.
1053. the fact that all of your thoughts are not profound disturbs you
1054. you leave your car with someone and - as you hand over the keys - specifically instruct them to not use the steering wheel lock because you lost the key to it ages ago....
Three weeks later you actually look at your car keys... wonder ...what's this funny one for? ...and realise not only is it for the steering lock, but has been on your keyring - where you put it - for the entire 6 months since you bought the car....
1055. When asked why you are smiling, your most usual reaction is to think "why does it matter, I'm smiling?"
1056. Later in life, after you've given yourself permission to have non-profound thoughts, just for fun! ... you then get embarrassed and even ticked off when someone suggests that such a thought you've expressed, is shallow.
Fortunately, still later on in life, you finally realize that's okay too, because it was probably all just a big game anyway.
1057. You know it's futile to tell anyone some great idea or profound thought you have because no one will understand it.
1058. You are supposed to do useful work, but prefer elaborating a logical refutation of Rules you follow because you were told to.
1059. You fix spelling errors in quotes without caring if anyone else notices.
1060.You are able to find out information without letting on that you wanted that information. (I love doing this, and I have many techniques for it, the most direct being asking the question, but in a context that makes it seem like it's just a random question. (and that's not my only way, of course, that's just the most direct.))
1061.You abuse parentheses. (might only be me) (count the number in this one post, if you want.)
1062.You spend five minutes deciding if you want to post something, then five minutes deciding how to say it, then another five minutes trying to think of a better way to say it, then finally just delete it entirely. (It happened to this sentence, but I caught myself doing it since I was just writing about it, and forced myself to post it anyway.)
1063.You have way too many tabs open, but don't want to close any because you might totally forget about it.
1064.If you become obsessed with something, nothing will stop you but...
1065.If you get distracted from it, there's a good chance it's not happening.
1066.You have a set of rules that you live by, but they're your rules (which you've learned help you in certain situations, more like good advice to yourself), and if someone else imposes a rule on you, unless there's a good reason, you don't pay attention to it.
1067.You get annoyed when people try to make you be more social.
1068.Your watch is basically a part of your body. (Because you don’t use it except to get places)
In ten to twenty years (2020-2030, when it's possible), it will be part of your body.
1069.it's 2:00 AM!?!?!?(see)
1070. when accused by a friend just today of speculating too much on a video game. Extroverted feelers have no idea.
1071. You spend more time and effort on cramming things into your waste-paper basket than you would by just emptying it.
1072.You think of confusing people as a sign of affection.
1073.In computer games, you either load and replay the same scene over and over again because after every time you pass it, you feel you could have made it with using up less resources, or you completely forget saving, and only remember you should have done it when you are just about to get defeated.
1074.Your friends(if you have them) consider you the most normal person of them, while everyone else holds the opposite view.
1075. Everyone thinks I'm insane.
1076. fever could mean I have a simple viral infection, but it also could mean I have avian flu!
1077. You notice that somebody has every other post on a page, and you remedy that with a double post...
1078. Substantial purchases, such as a car or a computer, are contemplated with much more ease than minor purchases such as clothing.
1079.I feel as if I have a little flow-chart in my mind for substantial purchases, which makes it easy to decide on whether or not to buy.
1080.However, for little things like clothing, there is a lot more thought that goes into it- probably more thought than warranted. I can see an item of clothing that I find attractive, contemplate the price, utility, and such. Then I will try it on, and I might even like it. Yet, I usually decide not to buy it before I get to the register. Way too much thinking for a $40 pair of jeans.
1081. cheating the system is more appealing the following it even if your own
1082.errors from others is expected but never from yourself
1083.if you are not good at something its because that something is useless and irrelevant
1084. it bugs the heck out of you when someone uses the wrong terminology
1085.Knowing the problem is more important then fixing it
1086.you talked your way out of liking someone when thinking that they wouldnt like you
1087. you’ve been accused of over analyzing more then ten times a day
1088. you have a great sense of humor but suck at telling jokes
1089. having a "group project" is a punishment
1090. Going to a friends party seams like a duty then pleasure
1091.Answering the phone is as appealing as is slamming your finger in the door
1092. Your bases of what you analyze ranges from Absolute Truths and High Law to the meaning of what type of food you like and what that means about you
1093. It bugs the heck outta you when someone calls you sensitive or emotional
1094. Your at constant tug-a-war with your playful and serious self
1095. You want to slaughter people when they call you when you are doing a task
1096. "what animal are you" is a serious philosophical question
1097. attraction to another 'INTP' doesn’t sound appalling
1098. When your significant other asks, "Why can't you talk to me the way you talk to yourself?".
1099.When you rotate between 3+ books, moving from one to the other on the slightest onset of boredom untill you finish them all.
1100.When you promise to fix your broken e-signature some other time.
1101. your mother makes fun of you for how much you think.
1102.you bring books with you to parties, weddings, and movies.
1103.you would rather research DNA than attend a party.
1104.you would rather research DNA than just about anything else you could be doing.
1105.you convince yourself to like someone based on how the relationship would work logically.
1106.you convince yourself not to like someone based on how the relationship would be illogical.
1107.everything's better when you're alone.
1108.you correct your grammar mid-sentence.
1109.you have sudden realizations that you are a person with a name, body, and place in the world.(again…because you do it so rarely but realize you’ve already done it in the last month…the you move on with your life and just don’t care)
1110.you can never leave the house without forgetting something.
1111.you love making lists but almost never finish them.
1112.you love creating rules but don't enjoy following them.
1113.someone says the word "system" and you immediately perk up.
1114.people know you're smart but never treat you like it because they think you're really immature.
1115.you're a chameleon and blend into whatever situation or group you're in.
1116.you love learning until you're required to do it.
1117.you could live without seeing people for weeks on end and be completely content.
1118.you dream of having your own library.
1119.you would rather go to the San Francisco library than Fisherman's Wharf.
1120.you get away with a lot because people assume you're off in your own little world when you're actually listening to their conversations.
1121.when you're supposed to be listening you're actually off in your own little world.
1122.you have strict touching guidelines.
1123.your sense of humor seems to perplex everyone else.
1124.the word "poop" has always been and will always be funny.
1125.you know at least 5 synonyms for "poop."
1126. you're always left out of the loop
1127. you snap because people keep interupting you (even once is to much) for trivial garbage....And they have the audacity to be offended by your reaction.
1128. Or when someone tells you to stop listening to music with your headphones while you're in a public place, but you really don't want to because music is way better than their voices talking about the least interesting things.
1129. when you refuse to own a cellphone because it allows others to contact you more easily
1130. when you regularly hang up the phone on your friends
1131.when you make excuses to avoid social gatherings with friends
1132.when you use irregular amounts of slashes, hyphens, and parentheses
1133. when you wanted to add "except in this post, because you feel self-conscious about it" to the end of the last point, but you would have had to put it in parentheses, which would have negated the entire idea
1134. when you are constantly looking over and editing everything
1135. when you correct your friends' spelling and grammar mistakes
1136.when you correct the grammar or spelling mistakes of the grammar worksheets handed out in your English class
1137. when your teachers seem both to like you and hate you, because you're constantly late for the class, lose worksheets all the time, question everything they say and begin heated discussions about completely unrelated topics (often physics or politics for me) with your friends in the middle of a lesson; on the other hand, you understand the material, are enthusiastic about it in most cases and show genuine interest
1138. when you feel compelled to own books, rather than borrow them, because you think you might need or want them at some future point
1139. when you make flow charts or lists about topics that do not at all require it, then promptly lose them or throw them out (as they have no real purpose)
1140. when you argue with yourself just to ensure that your actual view is correct
1141.when you are always reading at least three books
1142.when you love being alone
1143. when you like long car rides because it gives you time to think, and because people never uphold conversation during long car rides
1144. You become lost in thought while solving a problem and have to follow your train of thought backwards to remember what you were doing to begin with.
1145.You've developed ninja stealth skills as a result of hiding from cars while taking long walks at night.
1146.You have a folder on your computer somewhere with 'first chapters' of at least ten novels you're never going to write, but keep anyway because you never know.
1147.You fly into a homicidal rage at the sound of doorbells, telephone ringers, and people knocking on your door.
1148.You learn calculus/symbolic logic because it makes you feel like a sorcerer.
1149.After studying logic symbols, you write first-order proofs of completely mundane statements because it's like a new toy.
1150.The words 'Oh, that's, uh, interesting' fill you with a sick deflated feeling.
1151.instead of greeting people, you say this “Uhhh... Introductions go here, try again.”
1152. 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.
1153. Sometimes I'll keep re-reading the same two pages for half an hour.
1154. when your father says "Who could last without a phone for 2 weeks?" and your first thought is "I could" then you decide whether or not you should say it. At first, you think maybe you should, just so it's clear to him that you are different than he is. Then you realize he may take this as ungratefulness because he worked hard to get you that phone. Then you start to wonder if it's a true statement at all since you like all the nifty games and stuff on the phone. Then you realize it's been 30 minutes so even if you said it now, he'd have no idea what you were talking about anyway and start thinking about someone else.
1155. when figuring out the quickest way to fold boxes and bus tables is a much more fun part of the job to you then greeting people, telling them to have a nice day, hostessing, serving a table, or *gulps answering the phone. You'd also rather put orders into the computer than actually talk to the people to find out what they want.
1156.When contently sitting alone, expressionless and thinking, you suddenly realize how sad you look to everyone else. Your eyes water thinking about this. You're not sad, mind you, your eyes are simply watering. Filled with confusion over why your eyes are watering, you realize that you now look ever MORE depressed to outsiders.
1157. When you're at the Gym and you hear a fitness trainer giving tips to her client about 'molding' men properly. While you feel exasperated, you're also somewhat amused since they literally could be parodies of themselves.
1158.You wish Fox News was a parody. (Although considering how ridiculous Fox is, probably everyone who isn't Republican feels this way)
1159. When you realize that other people in the room can see you when your lost in observing other people as if you were a camera and they were a movie.
1160.When your embarrassed to talk with your friends about what TV shows you watch.
1161.When you go on a thinking rant
1162.When your parents fuss at you for not being social enough, and force you into social situations, which makes you develop social anxiety.
1163.Then your posts reflect your stresses and worries in life when you don’t intend them too.
1164.When you get overstressed, and then explode like yellowstone will in 2012.
1165.When you’re sitting in class, and you’re thinking about how stupid and biased the teacher is, and how the education system is flawed.
1166.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.
1167. You know you are an INTP when you secretly feel like you are better than everyone around you, even though you spend 95% of the time talking smack on yourself.
1168.You know you are an INTP when you have the most brilliant life changing idea or story to tell someone, and two seconds after you start telling them you realize you have no idea how to put it into words.
1169.You know you are an INTP when someone says the most braindead idiotic thing and you resist every urge in your body not to decapitate them.
1170.You know you are an INTP when you the only thing more annoying than people saying stupid things is when they tYp3 lIke Thi$$$$!!!
1171.You know you are an INTP when people are amazed at how much random things fly out your mouth.
1172.You know you are an INTP when you can't help but notice the last statement has probably already been said
1173. When you're terribly afraid that getting wasted that one and only time when you were a teenager might have lowered your intelligence by destroying brain cells.
1174. Having a rigidly unyielding attitude towards the vanity of your fellow man, especially if it gets in the way of others in a practical way.
1175. Feeling bad over being constantly inclined to nurture your own vanities.
1176. Or you often consider ways to rehabilitate cognitive decline caused by substance abuse.
Or that was caused by years of hanging out with people who, uh, how to put this, aren't exactly INTPforum material.
Or caused by the natural aging process...
Or a broken educational system...
1177. When you correct your significant other's grammar in the middle of an argument.
My wife hates this.
1178.When you're called a 'manipulative bastard' and you reply 'I'm just judging how people will react!"
1179.When you pretend to have a plan all written out but really it's all in your head, so when you're remembering what you had planned you adsent-mindedly pretend to shuffle through papers or look through files. Or maybe this is just me?
1180.When you wish everyday that you had the knowlege of everything, but you spend way too much time thinking of how to use your other two wishes to make sure that wish isn't ruined.
Addendum: Well, when you spend too much time thinking of ways to phrase a wish that will make it impossible to mess up
1181.When you have an idea of what to put into a post, but you forget what you were going to type, but after reading through the post you remember so you go to edit it back in, but you forget it again.
1182.The amount of commas in that sentence hurt me, but I had to leave them in to explain the pauses and to seperate the logical arguments and I haven't the time to actually rewrite the sentence into something more coherent.
1183. when you'd rather stay in the background and fail rather than risk embarrassment in seeking out a partner for a group
1184.when this is your thought: Have you been in my brain lately?
Seriously, stay out, you never clean it after yourself.
1185. at least once a day you realize you are more than just a mind, and, o look I have a body! [true story, usually happens when I'm absorbed in reading, and haven't yet realized this today]
1186. you discover truths about reality [almost daily] that no one else seems to either: care about and/or understand.
1187. when traveling to/from work/school/the store/or just out traveling, you only remember getting in your car, then stepping out, finding out your in a parking lot, and not remembering how you got there.
1188. you have half your hard drive full of notepad files, holding you random thoughts/discoveries since no one else wants to hear them.
1189. you can't understand why people are so religious about making up a bed EVERY freaking morning!
haven't read last post so I am in hopes this isn't dead... death is another favorite topic.
1190. I'm incredibly clumsy, lazy, and procrastinating but I am really trying to get out of all three of them and actually do stuff. I am extremely agile though. But I hate sports
1191. when you just now experience what everyone else has been calling depression. Atleast thats what I think it is, or maybe I'm just hungry.
1192. After being in an almost constant state of depression (doesn't seem like that long) I have come to do away with the notion of 'depression' and accept the way I'm living now as life. It is a ton easier that way than actually "being" depressed. I don't think I'll really get out of this (not even really a 'slump' anymore, it is just reality), and I don't intend to. I struck it full force and just accepted it. That may not be something many can just "do" though; to give up many of the things of pleasure in life rather than just attribute the loss of pleasure to some temporal season. The idea strikes many people, I'm sure, for some reason... as quite absurd.
1193. You put off your three week English essay until the night before, but realize that there's no chance in hell you'll be able to finish it, so you decide to just tell the teacher and turn it in late. Then when the teacher extends the due date two days, you again wait until the last minute and again decide to just turn it in late. Then, when the teacher extends the due date until next Monday after Thanksgiving, you put it off until the last minute and AGAIN decide to just turn it in late. Then, when your teacher forgets to collect it for three more days, then extends it two more days, you work for about an hour a night at midnight to finish it and turn it in nearly two weeks after the due date for full credit.
1194. you are simultaneously considered near genius and retarded. your iq surpasses your eq by more than 60 points.
1195. you blithely launch into an abstruse topic without introduction and naively hope folks are on board.
1196. laundry, dishes, and other menial chores are neglected until their odor and/or color is viewed as being unappealing to potentional guests.
1197. you secretely enjoy when people deem you weird, although it would be a pejorative for most people.
1198. while others turn away from the screen squeamishly, you hone in on the details of an eye surgery.
1199. transfixed by a topic, you get genuinely upset when after six hours your bodymind demands food.
1200. you think about thinking, about thinking, about thinking, about thinking, until well you eventually realize you're thinking about thinking, then you can't get the idea of why thinking about thinking is going on in your mind, so you start to analyze what thinking is only to find yourself back in the loop.
[I've spent about 3 days in that loop, seriously sucks, don't think I ate or even slept well. Or is that just one for me?]
1201. People don't understand that you are looking at the stars to contemplate their physical/metaphysical dimensions, not to be romantic.
1202.People fall in love with you, get fustrated, try to make you jealous, fail, get angry and announce that they are ready to move on before you have even realised that they liked you in the first place.
1203.You have been on about 20 dates with the the same person without realising that they don't just want to hang out.
1204.You long for a PA who will do all the boring things for you and leave you to create and think.
1205.You withstand pain longer than necessary to understand and conquer it.
1206.You wonder why people don't just become virtuous instead of being evil and trying to hide it.
1207.A few hours without stimulation and you are ready to cut your wrists.
1208.You have a headache but do not get off the computer.
1209.A relationship consists of genuine friendship. Anything else is too complicated.
1210.You wish that all libraries were 24hr.
1211.Captured, your thoughts before breakfast would be a philosophical masterpiece.
1212. when you seem to attract babies retards and girls with depression and anxiety issues without even saying a word
1213. When you fancy someone only to find intimacy with him/her repulsive and back off.
This is why I don't get girls.
1214. the line between emotions and emotional dissonance fades.
1215. When you are willing to admit to yourself that Deity seems like the only hope, and that he/she/it can pull it off because he/she/it is smarter than you, but you get hung up on the fact that it's smarter than you. Your thought process should sound something like this. "I spent so much time thinking about this and it CAN'T make sense no #$%$%^ way."
1216. it matters too much if it's cliché
1217. You realize that the best way to indicate to another person which way you're passing while walking, is to lead with your shoulder.
1218.You spend 80% of your time walking, looking at the sky. (Trees and clouds are more interesting than most people).
1219. You secretly want to sneak into a college class you've not enrolled in.
1220. Your computer desktop is incredibly neat and organized while your room is in ruins.
1221. In group activities you work out the problem yourself then advise the group once you've solved it.
1222. You take personal offense when your teachers label Wikipedia as a tool for 6th graders.
1223. You try to find patterns in license plates or house numbers.
1224. You double numbers in your head when you're bored.
1225. You memorize objects in certain areas just to see if you'll recall that object when you walk by that area.
1226. today I achieved not speaking out my mind in class today, and in my religious class I decided not to bring up arguments to ideas, because I realized, most people think I am trying to cause trouble... when will they ever learn? It is hard hold back when you can see all the errors and lapses reason. Why don't others just see this as useful information and be thankful that we where there to help in the error
1227. when you realize you made a major step forward to self reward after you finally, somehow, and you still don't know how, broke the barrier and began talking the the girl[or person you are interested in] and found it quite easy and intriging. (or is this just me)
1228. When you can answer any question from a friend with a combination of a head nod, shoulder shrug and smile..;')
1229.When You hang out with a group of friends for 2 weeks, everyday. And say a word, and they point out thats the first time you've spoken in 2 weeks. So you look at them, shrug and smile:')
1230. You really are always right, though. You don’t have an opinion unless you have confirmed it.
1231. when you feel absolutely compelled to point out facts such as that one no matter how irrelevant they are to the given situation.
1232. When your mind's tendency to wander increases ten fold when you have an assignment due the next day.
1233. When you go into robot mode when someone is in your field of vision because you think they are watching you.
1234.When you try to visualize how a day in the life is for a random person you see in the city.
1235.When your sense of humor extends from slapstick to sarcastic wit.
1236.When someone asks you for your stance on a situation and gives you a confused look when you argue the other side, but then shows signs of agreement when you pose the counterargument. (lol this can get you into trouble even though you basically said nothing.)
1237. when you have the overwhelming tendency to disregard anything others say unless what they say is akin to your point of view.
1238. When you decide to organize 50+ gigs of music in the actual file for no reason at all
1239. you can play an entire cd and forget to listen.
1240. You write in your head hugely complicated stories that you know are never going to get written down.
1241. You listen to music so people don't think your weird when you stare of into the distance for hours.
1242. You have been dumped before you knew you were in a relationship.
1243. You have been told you talk much without even saying a word. (I roll my eyes every time someone say that to me)
1244. You get up from the computer, immediate having to go the bathroom and being very hungry.
1245. You are an expert in a subject that will never ever require use
1246. You started this thread in the hope that a few, trustworthy people would respond and no more, and where rather put off when it became too popular.
1247. When your room's deco consists of piles of books
1248. when you are reading more (many more) than one book at a time
1249. when you keep notes from books you are reading
1250. when you plan to write a super book but keep putting it off because there is so much information you still need to consider
1251. That you feel no affection for people in films, even in the most sad moments.
1252. You find that time is so slow when you mind is being underused, but then when it gets to finally start, time just decided to jump ahead and wtf just happened to the last 10 hours?
1253. You think daydreaming should be a national pasttime, and they should have a daydreaming competition in highschool, and daydreaming teams in college.
1254. Decide to go to sleep but realize it is not worth the effort so you stay up longer than you should, inevitably using more energy and more effort...
1255. When everyone around you thinks you think you know everything, but you understand how much you don't know, and no one will believe that you don't think you know everything. Or is that just one for me?
1256. others become frustrated because you hide your work in progress until you have the complete and perfect product which is free of incompetency
1257. When you pass college calculus one with an A minus, but never once took an algebra class, then decide to take an algebra class, and realize why you made mistakes in calc, and that most of your logic was spot on.
1258.When you tell people about the above and they say you are crazy and you thank them
1259. When too many thoughts completely inhibit your productivity, but you don't consider the heaps of books, clothes, projects, and various assorted items scattered all about to be of any consequence to said productivity.
1260.When you make a bullet point about productivity and then laugh at the thought that you have ever actually been productive.
1261.When you write bullet points about productivity instead of actually doing something productive like sleeping or practicing guitar
1262. When you correct your teacher in class but your teacher regards your points as stupid and illogical, he/she laughs, and everybody looks at you like you're crazy. While in fact you just think they completely misunderstood what you meant and think that it's perfectly logical. You are right and the teacher is wrong.
1263. When you meticulously calculate the most efficient route when grocery shopping, while taking extra caution to avoid people who know you. You're not above hiding behind merchandise and other people in this endeavor.
and whenever you're out in public and hear 'Hey <insert your name here>!' you mentally cringe, feeling like a deer in headlights.
silly extroverts, can't we just ignore each other? or can't a smile/nod suffice?
1264. People ask you all the time why you're grumpy when you're just thinking.
1265. You treat the mental replay of a conversation with more seriousness than the actual one.
1266. you can't remember whether the conversation you had with someone actually happened or was imagined.
1267. When you are reading a novel and try to classify the characters' personalities.
1268. After a few hundred pages you put down said novel and label it as "bad", because you couldn't classify the characters' personalities and concluded that the author sucks at creating characters and such author doesn't deserve your time.
1269. When you smile(smirk), laugh, say nothing, and are prideful when someone tells you that "you're the weirdest person I've ever met"
1270. I just realized I think almost entirely in science, math, and philosophy.
1271. you are calm when others are panicking
1272. I never ask others how they are doing, it's the funniest thing.
Also, I agree with the greetings.
1273. When you find an forum for INTP's, and promptly spend the next 3 and a half days glued to your computer, laughing at the posts on said forum.
1274. When your parent/gaurdian asks why you're laughing and you just point at the post 'cause you can't talk through the laughter, and then your parent looks at you and asks what's so funny about that, 'cause they didn't understand the post, much less see anything funny about it.
1275. When you read 24 pages of posts about how you know you're an INTP, agree with 75% of them, and then wonder how all these people know you so well, since you can't recall meeting any of them.
1276. you have no discernible identity(besides being an INTP)
1277. When, while/after reading pages 1 through 25, you realize(d) that, among the laughing (from being able to relate to 90% or so of the list), you found a logical explanation as to why you do the things that made you giggle.
1278.You found comfort in the fact that I put a "d" in parenthesis following the word "realize" because it acknowledges my specification of "while" and in the fact that I specified "or so" after "90%" to acknowledge that I can only give a rough approximation.
1279.The use of "when" at the beginning of the first sentence irritates you because it's already supplied in the title of this thread.
1280. When the weather outside is beautiful, you have a day off........
-and you're still stuck in front of the pc at 3.15 PM.
when everything seems to be going well.......
- but nothing has meaning due to compulsive thinking.
When you get enthusiastic about going out for a walk, due to moment of not thinking compulsively......
-but by the time you're ready and shoes are on, you've come up with at least 4 reasons why it's useless going outside: sunburn, hayfever, bored with scenery, scary dog next door.
INTP on a bad day. I'll add some positives when I'm positive.
1281. You implode from questioning whether or not you're actually an INFP.
1282. When you listen to songs and are irrevocably turned off when the singer squeals "you and I" instead of "you and me". Even in conversation, noticing and noting general goofs like that.
1283. When you visit once every six months or so.
1284. You and I" is only wrong if used as an object. "You and I went to the store" is to my knowledge a grammatically correct sentence in English. "The store went to you and I" on the other hand, is wrong. Here "you and me" would be more appropriate. "You and me went to the store" is fishy, but seeing as it's pretty popular, it might replace "you and I" completely in the future anyway. Perhaps you were aware of this. Anyway, it should be noted that "you and I" is not wrong period.
1285. ...you cannot stand the fact that almost every poster is saying "when" even though it is already in the title.
AND:
...you hate it if someone noticed that before you did.
1286. you're surprised that The 5th Element wasn't about boron.
1287. you go to a play at which there are friends whom you have not seen for months, but instead of socializing, you find a piano in the basement and practice until the play starts.
1288. you would rather hang out with your 9-year-old INTJ brother than with pretty much anyone else.
1289. instead of listening to music on the hour-long commute to school, you listen to books on CD.
1290. you don't solve the easiest problem in a math test because you were really tired and bored.
1291. you dwell in the future to get away from your present.
1292. you find humor in the fact that your social/emotional life is so messed up.
1293. You ruin even the sweetest compliment your SO gives you with your logic.
1294. People say you're brave because you tell teachers when they're wrong, when you're simply bothered by their abuse of logic/consistency.
1295.You have told people you are secretly an android sent from the government. They have believed you.
1296.A 160 IQ is sexier then a 6-pack -- or for male INTP's, a double D rack.
1297. your main ability to socialize with people is to ask a ton of questions.
1298. You watch certain social interactions with amused disbelief, and then when your friend, who has been acting irrationally due to his/her anger asks you to come to their defense and agree with them, your initial thought is "well....."
1299. You want to reply to every ignoramus who has stupid comments on youtube, but end up not doing it because you think : ' What's the point ?'
1300. You are frequently asked 'What's on your mind?' and your general response is a bored look and 'Everything.' Which is very true.
1302.You read faster then you can talk and are terrible at reading out-loud due to reading so fast, but are always the first one done when doing an assignment.
1302. In addition, you also type faster then anyone you know, simply due to speedy comprehension and spending so much time on the internet.
1303. you think getting ideas quickly doesn't mean you're smart
1304. You know you are an INTP when you are walking across a frozen pond, knowing it is still probably thin, and when you get close to the middle, you simply MUST push down a bit harder, just to know.
1305. You know you're an INTP when you do stupid/unhealthy things just to know what happens.
1306. The statement,"It's not what you say, but how you say it." prompts you to speak in polylingual sentences, adhering to local sentence patterns.
1307. x- you wonder if there's any possible way to solve for x, short of simply counting all the posts in this thread. Then realize that it doesn't matter because even if you did solve for x, the next poster would derail the numbering system again.
1308. you have no faith in people's ability to continue a sequence that you leave off for them...
1309. when you make connections where there should be none, causing everyone and/or yourself to think you're paranoid.
1310. when you join a seemingly random forum to post seemingly random things for seemingly random purposes. such as one liners like- everything is not what it seems.
1311.when your goal is to have a goal, or your task is to get on task.
1312.when your working you feel as if you are the only person whos ever done a days work, and when you are lounging you feel as if you are nobility and shouldnt ever have to work a day of your life because of the integrity of your excellence
1313. when your friends+family loves the same things as you, but you think you have the true deep connection they will never experience without your help. then you show them, you observe their reaction and gauge your initial opinions of that person, and hold on to that information till you can see what a 3rd party thinks, the 3rd party say exactly what you thought and then you tell the 3rd party how bizarre it is how people can share their thoughts with one another. then tell that person, that the subject really isnt that complicated and if they just show some effort then maybe they will understand but before they they lose interest...you already have. and you look for an excuse to explain to them they dont need to know this stuff, and how other things are more important and interesting while all they can think about is what you said, and the eagerness to pursue new avenues of life with a renewed spirit of adventure
1314. when your intstincts are always right, but you dont trust their influence on your decisions because you are afraid of acting impulsively and subsequently impulsively decide to catagorize your intstincts so you can better tailor them to your desires.
1315.when other people depend on you to be correct because they have taken your word on it
when you say dont take my word for it
1316. When you have memorized the easiest way to escape from a room so you don't have to talk to someone.
1317.When you have considered permanently getting rid of your phone.
1318.When you learn more at home, on the computer, than you do in school.
1319. When you realized before you go to bed and you have not talked to anybody and thought it a good day.
1320.When people say something you know is completely wrong but you figure whats the point and just try to ignore the nagging in your head that wants to shout at the moron.
1321.When someone mentions how smart you are even though you only impressed them by actually reading something and understanding it.
1322.When your room is a mess but you know exactly where everything is but then after cleaning it you have no idea where anything is.
1323. you space out while you're spacing out.
1324. You've been called a sociopath, and have actually wondered if it was true.
1325. You regularly talk to your computer.
1326. You find that Weird Al's song White and Nerdy describes you perfectly, and the song Virus Alert gives you chills and goosebumps.
1327. You actually do know the real number that these are supposed to be, because you've read and counted them all.
1328. You've fallen asleep at your computer.
1329. You feel sometimes that your pets are the people who understand you the best. (Bonus points if you have a cat.)
1330. You can speak Klingon. (Don't know if someone has posted this before or not, sorry if it is)
1331. You have spent over seven hours at the computer without getting up to eat, drink, sleep, or go to the bathroom, partially because some of those functions don't require leaving your computer alone. O.O
1332. You know over fifty different smilies made out of letters. (Bonus points if you've trained Microsoft Word to do a few extra, or have figured out how to.)
1333. Emotional poetry/long strings of numbers? What's the diff? Neither makes sense.
1334. You look over a research paper you've compiled to check for faulty reasoning, citation errors and punctuation errors, and find that there aren't any.
1335. You're the Listener.
1336. You try something really niche that almost all other people in your age group would never think of doing, then when you've done it, you feel that it's not up to standards.
1337. You noticed that I split an infinitive in the last point.
1338. the only answer to the question "what are you thinking about?" is "what aren't I thinking about?" (and the only correct answer to that is nonexistent because as soon as you've thought of it or it's been said, you've though about it)
1339. When you're thinking so hard about the topic that you come up with ten times as many ideas for posts than are actually on the board already, but don't post a lot because the others are so close to you that it's a legitimate concern that they're already posted
1340. When mentors don't last as long as a good stick of chewing gum
1341. great minds hide out alike.
1342. get really annoyed if I need to eat or something similiar when I'm in the middle of reading something I consider important at the moment.
1343. I'm really messy, and I don't find the time to clean or something like that. Even if I don't work, study or anything else.
1344. also become really frustrated when feeling people don't get my point in arguments. They always seem to overlook the obvious, and it bothers me a lot! I don't know if someone already posted this.
1345. You know you're an INTP when the prospect of waiting in-line quietly among strangers is so repulsive that you'd shoplift to avoid it
1346. When you start reading this list and realize it is too long and should be summerized.
1347.When someone talks to you while you are doing something you don't even sense it, and after you finish what you are doing you ask if someone has talked to you or something.
11348.When you want to take a bath or another routine work you don't realize you are doing it until you have finished it cause were thinking the whole time while doing it and then you ask yourself "did I just take a bath?".
1248. You find yourself continually gnawing on something (pencil, your shirt, whatever) when reading or otherwise concentrating.
1249.You prefer reading books in English if that's their original language even though it is not your primary language.
1250.You prefer English to your first language, in general.
1251. You see Diamondeye's under script of "INFP Infiltrator" and momentarily daydream if it would make a good name for a trading card game piece
1252. even the conversations in your head tire you.
1253. Your 'boss' has a love-hate relationship with you: she loves you because you solve her problems and make things work. She hates you because you decide what you do, when you do it and how you do it.
1254. you look very calm on the 'outside' but 'inside' a circus of ideas tumble like acrobats around forming new formations, structures and associations.
1255. you keep forgetting al these uninteresting chochoresr however you spell that)
1256. procrastination is your middle name
1257. you cannot detect a lot of logical thinking in a great deal of your fellow humans
1258. you are allergic to anybody and anything that tries to tell you what to do or how to do something
1259. you know that a result is nothing without knowledge about the process
1260. you are amazed by the lack of reflection-skills of most people but at the same time find it an interesting phenomenon and try to analyze the mechanisms that apparently prevent reflection or diminish the quality of it
1261. You set up ssh linux-mac between your slow downstairs computer and your fast upstairs computer so you can avoid being interrupted by random and unnecessary displays of physical affection.
1262.When ever someone approaches you must free your hands in case they attempt unnecessary physical contact
1263.You contribute benignly to a conversation in moderation and then some wishy-washy socialite calls you anti-social and plays the hero by "pulling you out of your shell."
1264. You invent an imaginary illness to mess with someone, and then google it to see if it's real.
1265. some thing catches your attention and you drop everything & completely cut off the outside world until you have satisfied your curiosity/desire for knowledge of the matter. Only to realize five seconds later that you still aren't satisfied and want to know more
1266. when you roll your eyes every time you hear a sorority girl say: "SO, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LIKE PLEDGE {insert sorority name} NEXT WEEK!" .. Yea.
1267. when you'd rather spend the evening pwning n00bs on black ops then go to a frat party.
1268. you still remember almost everything you learned in anatomy and physiology back in high school, which annoys the crap out of people when they want to talk about science/medicine to try and make you feel less smart. Sorry. You will FAIL.
1269. when you'd rather read The New Yorker than Vogue.
1270. when you can never make up your freaking mind cause you objectively see the positives and negatives in every situations.
1271. When you play scrabble-like games and words like festooned, larynx and exuberance pop into your mind even though you are not competing in your native language.
1272. When you have a functional need to post out someone else's errs and inconsistencies.
1273. your well intentioned friends/family take you to a restaurant for your birthday and ask the waitstaff to sing to you. Upon realization of what is going on you inform the waitstaff that they are "Degrading yourselves as well as me. Please don't do this." Then shrink into your seat as they plow ahead with their ditty.
1274. you have no use for calenders...or watches..or anything signaling the time and date. Most likely because you'll be late anyway.
1275. when you can't believe how accurate this thread is about you
1276. you always believed that almost every characteristic which matches you were exclusive yours.
1277. you are very different from your family and friends and asks if yourself is an alien, from another dimension or you are having a dream.
1278. you hate to be called chameleon, cause chameleons change colors to show their feelings, not to camouflage, and you dislike to show your feelings. The only ones with camouflage skills are cephalopods, which can change their colors (even seeing only black and white), texture and size (at least octopuses can) - I'm sure this one is just me
1279. you think what animals could create a more advanced civilization with the appropriated conditions (I think octopuses would if they could get out of water and use their tentacles like hands (maybe this is why aliens have tentacles))
1280. you have thought many things to put in this thread but you forgot after 27 pages without recording it anywhere
1281. if parallel worlds really exists, you want to know yourself in them
1282. everyone always said that you "have so much potential" and they're still waiting and waiting for you to reach it.
1283. you go to the kitchen to refill your (half full) glass of water and you think of the periodic table and you realize you're pouring milk into your water.
1284. I was once sorely tempted to pour water into my milk (because it was whole milk, and whole milk sucks), but then I realized that the water would not only dilute the milk fat, but also all the other components that are static in all milk regardless of fat content. So I sat, somewhat sad. Then I reluctantly drank the whole milk
1285. If someone appears abruptly and unexpectedly while you're deep in thought you get the crap scared out of you.
1286. At one time when you felt fear, you objectively took a step back and said, "this must be fear I am feeling, what a strange sensation," and then proceeded to analyze the situation and the emotion.
1287.when you notice the answer in the question: What is there to analyze about Fear? When you break it down in its simplest form Fear is a Hope that we do not think will form into reality. We fear something because it is contrary to what we wish would happen. We fear sharks in the ocean because we hope we won't die. The only way to not experience Fear on a daily basis is to have absolutely no dreams or desires. If that happens your basically the living dead!
1288. You begin to make a new thread or post, become too apathetic / lethargic to post all that you've typed up, think about submitting it anyway with the word, "Nvm", then realize you want to be even more internalized, so you don't even make the thread / post in the first place as a statement of your apathy / lethargy / sullenness, and make yourself the sole witness of the would-be post / thread.
1289. You try and replace social skills with an intimate knowledge of the Myer Briggs personality model.
1290. you have a whole list of conceptually exciting things to do, but you endlessly find yourself doing "one last thing" before your never start that list.
1291. you have so many tabs opened in your browser that you can't see neither their titles nor even favicons (and you aren't bothered by that fact because you still orientate perfectly in them); when you try to clear it up and start searching for tabs you can close you find that almost every tab is still interesting and you can't close it before you read through it (and instead of closing tab you open three new), so this mess can last for weeks.
1292. When you notice that the knee highs you're wearing are different colors in the afternoon and the first thought is "no nonsense."
1293.When you've spent too many minutes looking for where you parked your car.
1294. Made extensive organized to-do lists and HOPED to follow them but never got to them.
1295. Bought an expensive planner just to become more organized, but ended up losing it, then trashing it after getting frustrated.
1296. During animated films, laughing when some cute little animal gets hurt. But not laughing at the premeditated jokes made throughout, and thinking "Ah, expected it".
1297. Getting made fun of for collecting shiny stuff, then defending your shiny stuff collection to death.
1298. Going into hiding, and creating artistic masterpieces, when in a really bad mood.
1299. Unconsciously figuring out escape routes in social situations, then actively following them.
1300. Pretending to text or be busy on cellphones to avoid petty small talk.
1301. You don't feel the need to prove yourself or your point to others during arguments, as long as the information in your head makes sense to you. This often leaves people confused.
1302. you realize that your version of "multi-tasking" involves absent-mindedly eating, tapping your foot, and mumbling 'yup' to all questions asked while actually managing to focus on your work (which you are only pretending to do; while actually thinking about your currently minimized webpage)
1303. someone says you are condescending, but you tell them they took what you said personally, and you being right has nothing to do with emotion
1304. Actually, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
1306. When you make odd facial gestures as you pass people in the hall at work so often that they begin to make them back at you. There's something satisfying about reversing conditions like that. Originally, I was uncomfortable being forced into the "standard" hellos with a happy smile as I passed my coworkers in the hall. Now, they are uncomfortable GIVING me the standard hellos, and must resort to discomfort and awkward expressions when they pass by. *snicker*...most of them just ignore me now.
Oh, and...
1307.When the above situation's impact on your career is of less consequence to your mental condition than figuring out how to work chess back into your schedule without having to stick to a schedule.
1308. Yep. And your socks may, or may not, match (and you might have to check to be sure) based on an accepted norm of the definition of "match", though, that is, in your humble opinion, an idea that is highly open to interpretation and/or debate when you consider all possible intricacies/factors implied in the concept of "match/matching" when it comes to a thing such as socks [including but probably not limited to] considerations of thread count, style, material texture, thickness, height on the calf (and/or ankle and/or thigh) and/or the merits in wearing socks that differ in color/pattern schemes between the two as opposed to wearing two identical items (possibly including the fact that an impromptu puppet show to explain this whole concept would be much more difficult if both socks met the mainstream criteria for "match/matching", and you are begining to suspect by the dumbfounded look on the face of the person you are explaining this all to that perhaps a puppet show would be more on their level...)... though you suppose it might be prudent to admit that this whole theory of whether of not your supposedly unmatched socks do in fact match came about because you likely couldn't be bothered/counted on to remember/get around to dealing with what we could refer to as the "clean sock bucket/basket/pile" in such a conventional method as pairing and putting away, because really there are much more important things to think about in life anyhow.
1309.You’ve been before quoted with the phrase, "Of course they match! They both fit, don't they?"
1310. you pass people and exchange bland plesantries but you don't make a sound above a whisper because you were too busy thinking about something else (usually the person you exchange plesantries with.)
1311. You hate the idea of money.
1312.And know that quadruple posting will annoy your fellow INTP's
1313.You know said INTP's will understand your quadruple posting yet still be annoyed
1314.I would say sorry but you know that I'm not.
1315. you stand back puzzled of why persuedsmile612 did not edit all of his replies into one post in the first place, instead of making four posts in total, thus decrease the chance that the fellow INTP would be mad at him
1316. When at work/home your mind is constantly x number of stepa ahead of your machin and it's unbelievably irratating! "Computer! Read my thoughts and do things!!!"
1317.When at home/work your machine is having a good day but then your body can't keep up with how fast you are thinking... Agrh!
1318. you don't understand the reason of paying for an education, when you can get the same and more at the library, and only pursue an education as a vehicle for providing evidence of getting a job, which in turn, is a very frustrating process.
1319.A tendency to create run on sentences, which makes total sense to you, but none to the professor who relentlessly slashes through the paper, leading you to lose points in that department, but you continue regardless as an evil plot to piss him/her off.
1320.Forced social situations that have no route for escape, forces the mind into shutdown and emergency coping mechanisms, in which you turn your focus 100% inward and entertain yourself with your own thoughts which can be quite dark in nature. At that point, because you have no control over your facial expressions, people eventually stay away from you.
1321. you purposely bombed part-time summer job interviews with witty sarcasm. You walked into a place that you didn't really care about, answered the stupid questions in a smart-ass way, and left the place completely positive that you didn't get the job. But if it were a job that you did care about, you put in some effort into answering the questions normally.
(and then almost went broke as a result)
1322. you suck at spelling, but are excellent at using big, rarely used words. although few people understand it when you say things like "the traits that make up a persons personality are discrete, not continuous.".....which usually results in the reaction, "what do you mean by low key traits?"
1323.you also know your an INTP when everytime you look up at the night sky you see it as 3D, instead of a 2D "backdrop" like most people probably see it instinctively.
1324. you constantly use phrases like "I’m sorry I’m late (or) I’m sorry I cant make it there, Ive just been sooooo busy", even though you know damn well that you’ve done NOTHING all day except sit in your basement thinking about physics and how harmonic oscillation explains everything in the universe.
1325. You "wasted time" as a child, building elaborate, detailed structures and floor plans with legos.
1326. When people comment on how you seem intimidating, or "too quiet", you quietly take it as a compliment then proceed to stay quiet. They often mistake it as a weakness, and continue talking about mindless nonsense.
It is only once they get on your bad side, they realize it was a mistake, but by then it's too late, because at that point you have unleashed the demonic wrath of mental fury upon them
1327. You are about to close [a ridiculous ammount] of tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?"
1328.And you never want to close all those tabs. Ever
1329. someone suggests a change and you immediatetly start the flow chart in your head of all the possible scenarios that could be affected by the suggested change and they look at you waiting for an answer and when your flow chart is finally finished you wonder why they're still looking at you waiting for an answer
1330. When you show up late to your first date
1331. you were by accident (you had the wrong time in your head) half hour late on your job application
1332. You hate the rules of a fixed schedule so much that you break the rules of a day schedule, which means bed time at 5am, and wake up time at 5pm.
1333. When you see a flaw in someones reasoning and can't help but blurt it out.
1334. You feel at home here...But you're an outsider everywhere else
1335. You don't "see" flaws, you interpret them.
1336. You're the last one to know about the latest drama.
1337. When told you are allowed to think of absolutely anything except a large pink elephant in the middle you can accomplish this deed.
1338. You are watching tv, realise you haven't been paying attention to what just happened because you were in your head annalysing the universe and human nature so you rewind it to see what you missed, space out again, realise you just done exactly the same thing so you rewind for a second time, space out again.... repeat until too angry to pay attention to the tv and switch it off
1339. Your brain switches to autopilot mode
1340. You like complex numbers.
1341.You wish you had been born a robot.
You know robots aren’t born
1342.If you are answering a question online, you write 3 pages, because you feel you have to cover EVERY possibility.
1343.You want a neural interface. If there was a place to sign up for one, so that you could be the first in line for when they invent one, you'd sign up right now.
1344. you have an impressive list of bookmarks that you will never visit again
1345.on that note, you've given up taking notes in class because you know you will lose them anyway
1346.feel like an jerk when you finish the test before anyone else in class
1347.and feel like a God when you discover you aced it
1348.Try to play it off like you don't care that you passed it while resisting the urge to perform a heel click.
1349.silently insult the other students for finishing after you, doing worse than you, all while knowing you didn't study at all o.o
1350.find the aforementioned notes a year down the road and store them for "later" use
1351.there are pieces of scrap paper strewn about your room/car/office/any void space with various plots to take over the world, paragraphs that could magically flourish into a best selling novel (if you ever gained enough interest again), or my personal favorite...
The annual budget that could potentially increases your fiscal profit by almost 50-60%...that was 3 months ago...you're still broke....
1352. Somewhere along the way you gave up on using bookmarks. you just leave important stuff open in tabs indefinitely. you’ve had tabs open for years before.
1353.you never buy anything new if the old stuff still works.It seems wasteful. plus you don’t like having to change
1354. You come up with numerous theories about life, and existence in this world continues proving those theories again and again.
1354.Your sleeping schedule might coincide with someone living in China.
1355.You think the morning news show people are a waste of time and space.
1356. oh yeah, you hate the media with a passion, and would never think about stooping to that lowest level of spineless fluffery
1357. You also hate the zombie people who are caught within the media's spell.. watching them mindlessly react to the headlines is a form of torture.
You are convinced that zombies are taking over the world.
1358. when you realize that you have a body…and you cut it for no reason
1359. when you think that nobody is more creative than you, but as always, you are not sure about it
1360. when your boss say that you have some kind of psychological problem, and you think he is right
1361. when you plan to kill your boss, and you find that this service is not available in ebay.
1362. you're too lazy to carry out your elaborate plans of world domination, so your version of annoying people is playing mario brothers on blast.
1363. there are any number of professions you might be extraordinary in, were you to feel that they encompassed something large enough to be worth the while. So instead you dabble around and everyone thinks you don't know what you're doing...but you do: Everything
1364.When you go through the dining room rather then the main hall just to avoid your parents.
1365. When you're response is "no" when someone knocks on the door and asks "are you in there
1366.when you enter a you might be an INTP foursome, and you realize it could be your biography
1367.you watch the news to learn about current events, and to exercise you fallacy catching capabilities
1368.when you realize that you have to make a progress report 10 seconds before it’s due, and say ‘nothing to report,’ hoping that they don’t realize that you forgot what you were supposed to be doing and actually have nothing to report, but think that you are reporting ‘on schedule’.
1369. Watching a hockey game fills you with existential anxiety.
side note, not attached to anything(Perception day is when god looks at earth for what it really is, and kills himself)
1370. I think many of us are prone to slight obsessive compulsive behaviors.
1371. You spend a Saturday in cozy pants only to realize on Sunday that they're on backwards
1372. When you get off of the elevator and walk to your living arrangement... only to realize that you're on the wrong floor.
1373.when you read this list and think: I've done it before. I'll do it again.
1374.When you realize the first thing you would do with a time machine is use it to win arguements you were involved in, or at least point out some logical flaw you missed. (Rare, but it does happen) or to rewrite historical arguments and proof them from logical flaws.
1375. this is your first time ever posting on a forum
1376.You found out you're a INTP over a month ago and you haven't left this forum and been lurking the intire time
1377.You are willing to read this thread on your phone while waiting in the main office of your high school
1378.You are currently posting this at a friends party on your phone
1379.You are also frustrated that you can't remember any of the other things you wanted to, that you thought of over the past month
1380. You will get bored of any job.
1381. You sometimes walk into doors.
1382. You can't grasp why anyone would want to wear high heeled shoes.
1383. You can remember all you friend's phone numbers but you never call first.
1384. You have spent time hiding in a toilet cubicle to avoid having to make small talk.(if you don’t want a shark to eat you and you can’t put it in a cage, you put yourself in a cage)
1385. You are reading at least 4 books, on 4 different topics, at the same time.
1386. You have at least 5 projects brewing in your head - none of which will be completed.
1387. You have never understood why anyone would study for days/weeks before an exam.
1388. You often avoid traffic accidents because you anticipate the other drivers' mistakes.
1389. You're always the last one to cop on that someone is in love with you/gay/on drugs/all three.
1390. You are better at English 2nd language spelling and grammar than most native speakers.
1391. You often spend more time logically organising a paper/letter/report/forum post, than it took to actually write the contents
1392. You have 10 browser windows open on different topics that you're kind of reading over in small snippets until you get bored and move to another one.
1393. people accuse you of not being interested in others and you're totally surprised.
1394. You solved the labyrinth...before you were told the answer.
1395. I check the weather forecast several times a day, even and mainly when I 'know' (can never be sure) I'm gonna stay inside all day (especially when the weather is hot and sunny, and when they're hot chicks (2 or 3 exposing their boobs) tanning/toasting at the swimming pool, which is visible from the balcony (we've got a swimming pool for the block of flats). In fact I do sometimes go the swimming pool :
1396.when every one left due to thunderstorm rain (by the way I think it's one of the best moment to go there (just after the rain) : air temperature got down to an acceptable level, but the water is still hot enough, and above all : I'm alone)
1397.when there is this chick I suspect to be 4 times more smart than the other bitches.
-sometimes I plan to go there because of the preceding condition, but I decide finishing reading/procrastinate/whatever and forget about swimming.
1398. I discussed more than 1 hour with the girl ... in my head. But I don't even know her name (hardly exchanged more than 5 words with her, which in fact is quite a lot for me in that kind of situation)
1399. By the way it takes me between 5 and 30 minutes to check the weather on internet, I don't use classic information (with a tiny sunny or cloudy icon which is supposed to tell you the weather for half a day) to do so. Instead I prefer detailled graphics like theses
http://www.vigilance-meteo.fr/fr/eur...tails/S076300/ and when I want to have even more precise forecast I use aeronautical forecast which look like these :
LFBO TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC
METAR: LFBO 221104Z 30009KT 270V330 9999 BKN017 BKN021 20/16 Q1020 TEMPO 4000 -DZ BKN006=
TAF LONG: LFBO 221100Z 2212/2318 30010KT 9999 SCT020 BKN035 PROB40 2212/2214 5000 -DZ BKN005 BKN012 BECMG 2214/2216 BKN035 PROB40 2302/2306 BKN012 BECMG 2312/2314 CAVOK=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR in case you want to understand
1400.Is it necessary to tell that I sometimes find myself reading things about physics, thermodynamics just because I checked the weather forecast and wonder for instance "how much power is there in thunder ?" ? <- I like the end of this sentence with 3 punctuation signs, but it lacks symetry '? " ?' or '?"?' would have been prettier but incorrect.
1401. I started learning German a few months ago just because I found 'new' (new for me) techniques of learning (some of which are Pimsleur and Michel Thomas) that I wanted to try. The hard part is to force myself to continue this learning regularly because I don't really need to speak German (but it may be useful later, I can't be sure).
1402. Most of the time I am very succinct when I talk to anyone (except for example when debating), but in my mind it's the contrary. Writing is difficult because I'm supposed to focus, choose words, and above all because my writing/typing speed is far slower than my mind (this is very annoying, someone should design something to plug the brain to the computer, maybe an INTP had already done so but is too lazy to build it (problem : it may crash the computer)).
1403. Read it elsewhere and do it too : stop in the middle of a sentence because I can't get back in mind the exact word I want, or sometimes after 15 to 30 minutes I can interrupt a friend speaking : "The word I was looking for was "blabla"". That's the kind of moment when people can think we don't care what they were saying (which also happens a lot !), only close friends understand (well, in fact they say they understand but are anyway in doubt).
1404. I stopped watching the news and disabled the widgets news on my startpage because I think it's too stupid and meant to distract us from the real important happening things such as economic disaster and creating a police state. By the way there is more than a year since I hadn't a television set at home.
1405.I'd really like to apologise for the mistakes of English (I'm French and know it's annoying) and will receive any correction/critic with great interest (even small ones such as "this phrasing is grammaticaly correct but..."). I think this last sentence is useless as INTPs may not bother to correct even if irritated by mistakes
1406. When you nearly kill your laptop's battery reading this forum because you didn't realize it was unplugged until page 13.
1407. Your friend tells you something that requires intuited context while you are clearly not paying attention to even the words themselves, so you say, "What?" at the exact time you are saying this monosyllabic word, the sounds you've just heard shape into words and the context is filled almost instantly, and when your friend repeats himself, you appear to not be listening, but rushing to cut him off with an "uh huh" or "okay." (You do this because you think you are making up for your obliviousness.)
1408. The seemingly random numbers you use may very well be significant to you and only you.
1409. You're a robot, yet ironically, you're unreliable.
Gah, I told my friend I'd drive him to the airport, but then last night, got lost in analyzing MBTI, causing me to sleep late. fml.
1410. The only time you might ever reuse a glass is when you are holding the drink's container, provided you don't forget that it's in your hand. Or when making a concentrated effort to drink quickly at the fridge and to remember that you're standing in front of a fridge.
1411. You hate giving advice and you try to make that known to others but people still ask you about all of their little problems,
1412. You end a relationship by simply ignoring your partner.
1413. You analyze everything and when you realize that you are analyzing something irrelevant, you begin analyzing your reasons behind analyzing something irrelevant.
1414. You dream about living in a house alone where you can't be bothered by people/the government and don't have to pay taxes to support a useless institution.
1415. When trying to describe yourself as "not a people person" you have said "not a person" and didn't correct yourself.
1416. " I'm sure that everyone has considered building a time machine, just to settle the argument about if Jesus really did all those miracles, and to prove that dinosaurs really did exist on the Earth millions of years ago. Would make life a LOT easier if we could end all these arguments about what actually happened in the past."
I was actually saying that I would like to go back in time to when I was younger and point out to my younger self where I overlooked an otherwise damning detail of my opponent's arguements.
1417. WE figured out santa wasnt real at this age because we reasoned that it was nearly impossible for santa to get to all of the good children of the world presents at that speed and still be able to drink his cookies and milk. And now WE calculate temporal displacement and wind resistance and all other factors if he could do it.
1418. You go great lengths to avoid certain parties like pretending to be sick by inhaling dust and sneezing the rest of the day. If you dont mind going to the party, you actually go.. and not go through with the painful inhaling dust procedure.
1419.You've had childhood arguments with children about the existence of santa.
1420.You can be so fake sometimes in social situations, but it comes across as realness, that other fake people are actually impressed at your wisdom.
1421.You're relatives children ages 2-6 visit you and as much as you hate them, they're somehow REALLY intrigued by you and follow you around asking you questions, and once again you lock yourself in the bathroom to avoid them and vow never to have kids
1422.when you were a kid you tried to get your parents were to get you a(n) [insert weird and unusual animal that you could experiment on and still have as a pet here]
1423. You perceive your own judgement, stronger than your judgement judges
1424.There's at least one area of intelligence in which you could replicate something relatively complex, verbatim (ex. in a drawing, the dialogue in a movie, a string of symbols/numbers, etc.)
1425.Proving someone or something wrong is more attractive than proving yourself right
1426.The closer to needle-thin precision, the closer to truth- even when trying to be "perfectly" apathetic
1427.Your own social association patterns existed before you learned mainstream ones
1428. You walk from room A to room B. While walking between the rooms you stub your toe on a stool. You decide to go from room B to room A and stub your toe on the stool again. Yet again you leave room A to go to room B and stub your toe for the third and final time within a 30 minute period.
1429.Your ESFP girlfriend just broke up with you because she asked if you thought she was smart. You reply in the most tactful way possible, "No.".
1430. You know your friends personality type, but not their favorite color/number/style of fighting
1431. People are either repulsed by you, or tell you "I feel I could open up to you".
1432. When you draw insanely complex mazes for fun.(logic, physics…ect. Mazes count)
1433. you pity your fellow classmates who don't know:
What Ontario and Quebec are
The Location of Poland
About the Swedish Colonization of Delaware
Who Adolf Hitler was, and why he was a horrible person
(They are all true stories. The person who didn't know about Adolf Hitler, believed that there was no possible was he could be bigoted because he was born in the 1890's. This person was thirteen years old at the time).
1434. you start reading a paper when its placed upside down or sideways in front of you. Then 5 minutes later you realize what you're doing then face it towards you.
1435.you painfully talk your way out of watching romance movies with friends. especially movies with robert pattinson.
1436.you're really OCD about at least 1 thing.(and you actually think it’s real OCD, not just something you say to make a point)
1437. Discovering the INTP profile led you to a frenzy of other research about exactly how well the INTP label fits.
1438.You've read all 1497 posts
1439. You suck badly at sales jobs and customer service.
1440. You think Walmart is the best place to shop for clothing.
1441. Believing in something and standing by it, is more just like playing a role. In fact, acting upon anything is much easier when you have a good idea of the role you want to/can easily play, in a given situation. But you do think about it, if it's "given" to you by someone else
1442. You think and second guess so much your not sure if your INTP, or an introverted ENTP, and then this leads to deeper thoughts,and then you cant sleep.
1443. when that girl you were thinking what if she asked me out finally does and you say maybe
1444.You annoy everyone because there are just too many choices on the menu.
1445. You take really long showers due to it becoming a think tank. The mixture of white noise helping you focus and the stimulation of the hot water creates a hyper focused environment.
1446. You spend 10 minutes writing an important email to someone instead of just picking up the phone and telling them.
1447. You have post-it notes all over your desk.
1448.you gave up on post it notes
1449. You spend an hour trying to decide between two computers to buy and finally choose a completely different one
1450. Your teacher asks you to think of an object which best relates to you and you go into a mental warzone searching for the thing which best fits. In the end, you come up with something stupid because of your inability to retrieve anything worthwhile in the mental chaos that ensued.
1451. You brought dead bugs to show and tell.
1452. People think you're slow at thinking because there's quite some time before you reply to what they're saying. In reality, though, you're lightning fast; it's just that you're having a mental shootout over a lot of things, like the possibilities and implications of what's been said, whether they'll think you're slow at thinking because you haven't replied yet, or whether you should say anything at all, and then finally decide to reply, but then forget what you were going to say.
1453. When your curtains is pretty much always closed.
1454. When your cellphone is more off than on.
1455. When you find solitude drinking more giving and comfortable.
1456. When people are seeking for an emotional reply, but you don't have any/badly fake one/or reply using logic instead.
1457. When you do most of your shopping online.
1458. When at a family dinner (christmas/birthday etc.) you go analyze-mode and can't stop thinking how fricking stupid everything is.
1459. When you know your family members personality better than themselves.
1460. When you can predict the "social game" four steps in advance, but still being a terrible "player"
1461. When you can't decide between pizza or burgers for dinner.
1462. When you start a project and complete it 50% the first week and it takes 2 more years before it's finished.
1463. When you prefer texting (email/sms) over facial 1on1/telephone.
1464. When in a conversation with several friends simultaneously, you think of things to pitch in with, you speak, then there's silence, a "what the frick"-moment and the conversation continues.
1465. When others comment on how different you are from online to offline
1466. you start thinking in the middle of a conversation with another person and then they snap fingers in front fo your eyes and ask you where the hell have you been
1467. when you ignore other people's call's - your phone is on but you really don't care about someone is going to call you
1468.when you start analyzing when something goes wrong to calm yourself down
1469.when you need a days and weeks to decide what to order from a menu and you enjoy it
1470.when you feel uncomfortable saying "happy birthday" and then get scared when someone is over-excited
1471.when you get obsessed with something and start thinking about it over and over in every possible way
1472. you occasionally forget to eat for an entire day.
1473. you break the speed limit while driving and check for cops in a paranoid manner the entire trip...
1474...And while checking for cops you think up logical excuses to use 'just in case' you get pulled over...
1475. ...And by the time you reach your destination you realize that you have yet to decide on a logical excuse because you keep finding flaws (that no one else would notice) with the ones you have been making.
1476. When you see a message you want to respond to you take an extra hour to post it because you want to make sure it's perfect and that you've thought of everything beforehand. Sometimes leading to the material never being posted because you forgot about it.
1477. When you second guess your spelling prowess on simple words and look them up before finalizing so you don't feel you'll be judged.
1478. When people ask you for advice, you preface it with a disclaimer so you feel justified when what you say upsets them
1479. whenever you socialize, you have to run through a list of social rituals in your head and select the appropriate ones, while dealing with a nagging doubt as to whether the one you've selected is correct or not.
1480.You walk around with your eyebrows contracted from thinking too hard. You fail to understand why everyone thinks you're full of rage, until you realize that the question "What are you so angry about?" really means "Why are you contracting your eyebrows?"
1481.You practice certain facial expressions in the mirror, in order to avoid problems like this:
(I always have to avoid the one on the lower left)
1482. You'd rather read books by Stephen Hawking and the thought of writing a thesis paper excites you.
1483. You have to start thinking about cleaning your room, but you're still not motivated enough, and you eventually/reluctantly clean it a month later.
1484. you find all the flaws in your own arguments before they do.
1485. You construct really elaborate worlds/cities/etc. and make plans of that nature.... they just don't ever really exist...
1486. When you know how you want your drinks mixed. You know that your perfect margarita is 2.5 oz good Reposado tequila, 1 oz Gran Marnier, 2 oz lemon-lime Gatorade (it's the perfect sour mix. Not too sour, not too sweet, not overpowering. You can still taste the tequila and liqour), 0.5 oz lime juice, very well stirred (at least 100 rotations @ ~120 rpm), then strained over fresh rocks (stays ice cold much longer). Or whatever your perfect mix is.
1487. When you use music / tv / audiobooks to help you sleep (by drowning out the incessant bull____ that's constantly going on in your head).
1488. If you are annoyed that "incessant" and "constantly" are used in the same sentence to convey the same meaning.
1489. If you find that your conversational style is more influenced by screenplays than actual interpersonal experience. (Aaron Sorkin's dialogue in my case)
1490. If you can, and often do, spend 45 minutes chain smoking and pacing in your driveway in the wee hours of the morning constructing arguments relating to drug policy / economic policy / the USSC's gross abuse of the Commerce Clause / religion OR use that time to have a fake conversation in your head where you are explaining the details of a passion / hobby of yours to an imaginary listener. And consider this time well spent.
1491. You love Jeremy Clarkson, but you know you're really more of the James May sort.
1492. You think the line between right and wrong is black on one side and white on the other (no "shades of grey"), but the line itself is extremely squiggly (highly dependent on circumstance).
1493. When you spend most of the day doing deep statistical analysis for a mechanic for an RPG you're developing, and the rest of the night rocking back and forth like a madman, when you realized what you had just done with your time...
1494. ...mostly because you realized that you had planned to make a zodiac killer-level cipher today, and had totally over-booked your time.
1495. You chain-smoke acting cigarettes, because you don’t want lung cancer (I’ve actually built Lego cigars for this purpose)
1496. You spend your spare time thinking about what you can do in your spare time
1497. Get angry when remembering or recollecting a time when people were acting so out of order
1498. Get really upset about misunderstanding and wrong accusations against you
1499. When you sometimes wished you didn't think of the stuff that comes naturally into your head
1500. When you check out GRE books and books on math because you think it would be fun to run through the book and do the problems.
1501. You can ace a test on multivariable calculus while half-asleep, but you can't figure out how to turn on your shower when you're fully awake.
1502. When you found an excuse to get out of a concert when you could have gotten in for free, while others planned to attend and paid more than $50 to get into that same concert.
1503.when you always have hated Lefty-Loosey Righty-Tighty, because it's either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Sure, one part of the knob is being turned left, but the other side is turning right, so it's a zero net gain. They should say Clockwisey-Loosy, Anti-clockwisey-Tighty, but no they had to stick with their stupid mnemonic device
1504. You've been told that you need to learn to lie. And by others that you need to stop lying.
1505. But you already lie with such proficiency that no one knows, yet still tell the truth and hurt their feelings.
1506. you frequently have meetings with your parents with them frustrated with how you behave.
I had one today, apparently they hate that Im in my own world inside my room, and don't interact with them, and that I look too cold/isolated.
1507. You are cognizant of the fact that “meetings" is nonsensical because you’ve already met the other person/people
1508. someone tries to help you by 'fixing' you but you insist that you are not broken.
1509. you walk in circles, roll up into a ball, shut yourself into a pantry, and end up trying to stand on your windowsill while you're pondering the deep mysteries of life.
1510. you pick out the flaws in your argument before you even say it.
1511.when you check your 6 o’clock position on average of 3 times a minute in a new place/situation
1512. When you immediately calculated how many seconds per look that was.
1513.when every time you have an emotional response you think you're an INFP.
1514. When you're told that your family will be gone most of the next day so you plan to go to bed early and wake up just about if not a little after they leave in order to capitalize on the potential alone time.
1515.When you make plans such as going to bed early, but then stay up several hours later than intended.
1516. You ace classes by studying off wikipedia and laugh at everyone else who spent $200 on the book.
1517. 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.
1518. a slow internet connection makes you consider suicide.
1519. When any true lull in thoughts makes you consider suicide
1520. Many times you've been asked why you are in such a bad mood, when you actually aren't.
1521. People can't imagine you cry unless they've actually seen you do it.
1522.You argue for ages with your mom every time she tells you to tidy your room. The actual tidying lasts shorter that the argument.
1523. No matter how early you start preparing, you will always barely make it there in time, if you arrive in time at all.
1524. You've talked much more in your head than in the, so called, "real world".
1525. Although you may become anything (super-human, ruler of the world, national hero...) in your fantasy world, the key word here is "become". You can't just be an anything. There must be an explanation how you became such, and it has make to sense.
1526. Sometimes you're happy all day just because you had a great success in a fantasy of yours.
1527. People who communicated with you only over the internet consider you much cooler than those who know you in person. It's not that you lie about yourself or anything, you actually are cooler when writing then when talking.
1528. Your presence is usually so neutral that nobody minds having you in their company. Not the sporty, fancy or whichever group at school, not those much older or younger than you; not even your older brother or sister minds having you at their party. But they don't really enjoy your company either.
1529. When you're young, adults consider you very mature, and your peers consider you very childish. Well, it depends on how well they know you, of course.
1530. When everyone's talking and there's a loud atmosphere in class and you are not already a part of it, you start randomly yapping and yelling just so you would contribute to the loudness.
1531. You participate in the hit-each-other's-shoulder sort of games and go around school yelling "...und das Deutsche Volk Sieg heil!" at people.
1532. Nevertheless, your schoolmates would describe you as reserved.
(Okay, I suppose the last few are just me I think. Tell me if I'm wrong.)---you’re wrong, I do that too and get in big trouble for it.
1533. You find religious, atheistic, agnostic or whatever explanation about life universe and everything else to be very terrifying. Whenever you think about the essence of... you know, look above, it seems discouraging and hopeless. Yet, you think about it a lot. Somehow, for some sinister reason, you like it when that feeling of hopelessness hits you.
1534. After three hours of reading something you realise that you are hungry so you tear yourself away from the computer and decide to make something quick so you can get back to your intersting topic, you grab a burrito pull it out of the package, put in on a plate and open the microwave... only to see the burrito that you made three hours ago already in the microwave staring you in the face.
1535.After exasting all the other books in your house you decide to go ahead and read the bible front to back, just so you could know what it says and maybe one day it could help you in a debate agaisnt someone whos religous.
1536.When you write a reply on the Internet you consantly go back and change the way its worded and add things in so much that afterwards its becomes a jumbled mess of retardedness and even you have forgotten its origional meaning.
1537.When you want to take advantage of the nearly free classes that the Air Force offers but you just can't because every time that your abour to somebody TELLS YOU THAT YOU SHOULD BE TAKING A CLASS... so you don't do it because you don't want that person to think that you are only taking that class because of what they said... (or is that just me)
1537.When someone says "Hey, whats up" your thinking, why are they talking to me? What is it that they are trying learn by speaking these words to me? Are they looking for a certain response? Are my car keys still in my pocket? what kind of mood are they in? Should I make a random joke? Are they looking for sympathy? Why would they look to me for sypathy? Hey wait a minute? Where did they go?
1538. you know that you had at least 20 more things ready to put down here but just can't remember them anymore.
1539. If you are terrified, dumbfounded, and slightly relieved about many if not all of the characteristics listed in this thread about INTp(s).
1540. You’re confused mostly because you read this thread in its entirety(or atleast tried) and saw that people posted your thoughts as if they were commanding you or telling you what to do, but you are aware that that isn't what you want to do anymore because they just said it so you try to think of another possibility and then you realize it's going to be a vicious fucking circle so it discourages you from posting.....or something like that. I don't know. I'm still feeling the side effects of it, which brings me to the next one
1541. You’re at a constant tug-of-war with yourself.
1542. You get lost on a completely different thought while reading and still keep reading. (If you understand why this happens, you'll notice it happens with many other things you do as well, as if its a predetermined system in your train of thought.
1543. Even though you fit the perfect portrait of an INTp, if an official test were to tell you otherwise, you would be at a loss of what to think because you almost value your own personal beliefs less than systems that have been deemed viable; Even thinking of this kind of scares you or disturbs you in some way so you don't take the test.
1544. If this thread was your first post.
1545. If you question if you really are INTp or not and try to test this by attempting to put on one of your 'personas' so to speak into action without being consciously aware of it, but then you start pondering about how subconscious systems work and go off to search about things on the subconscious.
1546. You don't care to make an intro because you'd rather just squeeze right on in and hope nobody notices and tries to make you say hi and introduce yourself or you get pressured into giving out your name/other personal info blah blah etc.
1546.5. You take all of this into account while making your first post)
1547. You can't decide whether or not you want to stop trying to think of new ideas simply because you like the way this numbering system is that you've adapted to.
1548. You really enjoy while day dreaming
1549.You will have different version of your day dream
1550.Sometime, you will continue making your day dream from the previous one
1551. You hope your day dream will come true one day.
1552. Most of the time other people think you spend doing homework or learning, you actually spend daydreaming.
1553. Sometimes your night daydreams are so exciting that you can't fall to sleep.
1554. you can sense a debate and perk up
1555. you refuse to proofread your work as the thought process has already been reviewed multiple times in your head and checking for grammatical accuracy is not nearly as important as the thought meant to be portrayed. Of course you point out the grammatical mistakes in everyone else's writing.
1556. you say something only to be reminded 5 or 6 months later you said something because people finnally understand it and apparently take it as good advice.
1557. for over a month, you have been putting off a 3-5 page paper due in 10 hrs and you haven't even begun the inception stage.
1558. You go to any store to purchase items for a project, end up cataloging the entire store and trying to figure out ways to use many of the other interesting items. At checkout you have lots of items for lots of future projects but forget all or some of the items that you originally went to the store for. You go to any store to purchase items for a project, end up cataloging the entire store and trying to figure out ways to use many of the other interesting items. At checkout you have lots of items for lots of future projects but forget all or some of the items that you originally went to the store for.
1559. you constantly come up with places to put things that you need to remember later.
1560.You never check them and all of those places eventually get just as cluttered as everything else around you.
1561. You say something to someone. They didn't understand, so you explain it. The explanation leaves them more confused than they were to begin with.
1562. When you jump thought patterns and action plans so much that you keep realising you didn't finish something.
1563. When you zone back in and are so unaware of your environment that you ask "what?" before realising you aren't part of or have no reason to want to know the other people's conversation. It's a question aloud to yourself just as much as it's a reflexive, ill-considered question to those around you.
1564. When you simply cannot connect with certain extroverts, or they with you. Neither party knows how to deal with the other's conversation style or how to talk about the other person's interests.
1565. You are positive there's no such thing as a "yes" or "no" answer.
1566. Your most common response to "yes" or "no" question is "it depends".
1567. You have gone on week-long, usually longer, information-gathering jags to resolve even the most trivial questions that get caught in your head.
1568. faced with an order to take quick action, you are paralyzed by the hideous voice inside your head that whispers "why?"
1569. You find that repeating yourself is tantamount to Chinese water torture.
1570. You know exactly why the word "pedantist" applies to you.
1571.. You can find humor in nearly any tragedy and/or absurdity and have sadly accepted the fact that, for the rest of your life, you will continue to be outcast from any polite social group that deems your stifled laughter to be inappropriate 'cause you just... can't... help... yourself....
1572.people call you rude, but why…you were only telling the truth
1573. You stare at a word for so long that it seems unfamiliar and doesn't make sense.
1574.You interpret an alternate interpretation of a joke and it takes you five minutes to finally realize the original punchline.
1575.You're not sure if any of what you're typing here has already been posted, but you're too lazy to check.
1576.While sitting on the toilet, the answer to something you were thinking about five days ago pops up crystal clear.
1577.You cringed internally at the misplaced participle in the previous sentence.
1578. when you ask yourself why are you thinking about what you are thinking and try to stop only to have it worsened.
1579. We are obsessed with the unknown, and bored of the known.
1580. Its hard for us to not complicate things.
1581. We always said the opposite that what people want us to say, even for the sake of that devil's advocate status does ring a bell. Its always make people around me go nuts.
1582. Guilty of finishing peoples sentences. I never really thought this was offensive until my senior year of high school. Now trying to avoid it as possible, but...well, its like a hobby I think? I never get tired seeing those annoyed faces.
1583. I have the awareness of a barnacle, or any other simple organism.(I use the term 'I' because I think that is not suitable for all INTPs)
1584. I'm very rude, I don't choose my tone of voice very well, I only have to breaks, very loud, or very soft(mumbling like). And I don't see my opponent by their age, way of talking, appearance, or any of that stuff. So people get confused sometimes.
1585. you have a love/hate relationship with the concept of infinity
1586.everything theatre scares you
1587.you put off doing laundry until its absolutely necessary
1588.you've classified cooking as an 'S' pastime. cooking for us is figuring out to turn the microwave on
1589.directions and instructions of any kind are utterly useless to us
1590.when introduced to someone new, you can't remember their name 3 seconds after shaking their hand
1591. You think dialogue directed at any potential psychics reading your mind
1592. when you seriously think about suicide and yet have found the most effective way (not sure about it)
1593. when you hate your mother judging you
1594. when you unlike you father telling you you're dry and heartless
1595. when you think your brother is sooo stupid getting focussed on people FIRST
1596. when you don't care about what your parents and family think of you
1597. when you leave the last friend you had cause he's stupid
1598. when you don't care about money
1599. when you think this world has to be done again
1600. not afraid of pain, death,
1601.You are your only friend.
1602. when you remember you felt something one day
1603. when you understand a person speaking a foreign language you never learnt.
1604. You start playing a song, begin reading part of a forum, and you realize half the song has passed and you have not heard any of it.
1605. You read about INTP's experiences and find you are the same and wonder, why the heck am I an INTP when there are 15 other chances out there?
1606. When you are walking behind a person or group that is walking slower than you and you don't want to pass them so you slow down and become irritated at their pace because you walk fast.
1607. When you try to comfort your little sister and the only thing you can possibly come up with is an awkward hug and a "umm, therethere".
1608. When you say you believe in Jesus just to get an idea of how strong atheists people are.
1609. When you talk to other girls and assume the only thing they will want to talk about are guys, hair and make-up.
1610. When you need to map your own personality so everything you've ever done makes sense.
1511. When you look at interactions with other people as a great way to add to the little world-map you're building in your head.
1612. When you have a sense of superiority,yet you are insecure
1613. When it takes you month even years to feel comfortable with a person
1614. When you rather stay home and chill in lieu of going to a party of social event
1615. When people are amazed by your quietness
1616. when girls say you’re too cute to be so quiet
1617. When you absolutely hate people yelling at you
1618. The more time you spend with people the lonelier you are.
1619. you don't call your friends for days
1620.When you question your abilities
1621.When you think you can make a difference in this world
1622. When you ask somebody about something you've been thinking about deeply, and the way you phrase the question answers it for you as you're saying it.
1623. When you then go on for a long time explaining to that person what you just figured out while not noticing the bored expression on their face.
1624. you seriously think about dumping a friend, or partner because they are not as intellectually stimulating as you would like them to be.
1625. nothing you write is ever complete. You're always going back, making corrections.
1626. you wish that you could just be a sensing being that doesn`t need food, water, or air, and that doesn't feel pain so that you could spend eternity traveling the universe learning all that there is to know. Along with that, can recall things with vivid accuracy, tell time and temperature to the smallest possible measurement without help from a device, and still be able to communicate with all other beings (for those rare extroverted occasions, of course.)
1627. you recall an experience and can't remember if it was real or in a dream.
1628. when you can't take someone's word on something after having asked them, then proceed to find out for yourself.
1629.when you start organizing people, not by social norms like favorite sports, music, etc., but by MBTIs
1630.when you start to look at people not as humans, but as MBTIs.
1631. you continue the train of numbers.
1632. when you play a game, you make goals and have to be the best, even though asians will always win.
1633. you have to question the previous poster by stating if asians win it's because there are more of them, but they don't win because there are more non-asians depending on how you define asians.
1634. Sadness generally plays out as a lack of affect and it may take days or weeks to realise you are sad about something.
1635.Happiness generally plays out as a contented lack of affect and it takes someone asking you "what's wrong?" for you to notice just how perfectly content you are feeling (or was, up until you were bugged about it)
1636.Enthusiasm generally plays out as over the top zealousness that makes you appear to be a lunatic.
And... often enthusiasm is caused by either your own noticing that you are sad-now you have something to go read about and figure out! Or, by someone actually knowing and understanding you enough to know that your answer "Nothing, I was just thinking." to that pesky "what's wrong." question is both perfectly honest and acceptable behavior on your part which does not in any way require them to continue to bug you about it.
1637. When you have a tough time taking the initiative to start homework that is due the next day.
1638.When you quit a debate team because they don't grade you off of logic, but off of speaking ability.
1639.When you take forever to learn something but can apply it to anything once you know it.
1640. when a well spent day includes getting up in the morning just to lay down near a tree and spend the rest of the day daydreaming
1641. your parents say that you're a disappointment and/or failure, and somehow you feel like you're succeeding more than ever.
1642.When you'd rather watch paint dry than the television because it's less predictable.
1643. When your most commonly used emoticon when chatting to a non INTP is *facepalm*
1644. When you know that you are more than capable of achieving anything , but choose to sit and ponder the outcome rather than create it.
1645. When you form a conclusion about a person upon first meeting them , and predicting how the rest of their life will play out.
1646. Answering questions with "I don't know" because you know that people won't understand the perspective you're coming from. Ever.
1647. Realising that your dog is more intelligent than 95% of the population
1648. When you don't study for the whole year , but manage to pass all of your Year 12 exams with a B
1649. you resent your friends for disliking your analytical nature, and feel you have to put on a dopey mask for them to accept you. you know your "friends" don't know shit about the real you, and these people never know how to deal with your depressive thoughts, and so they avoid you because your complex thoughts make them uncomfortable because they don't know how to cope with dissonance. so instead of venting your pent-up frustration you have to keep it all inside again, because other people only like you when you smile.
1650. You would become nocturnal just to prove a point.
1651.When you take video game perosnality tests.
1652. When your result is Sephiroth.
1653.When you know in your mind how to handle a situation, but the words out of your mouth never suffice.
1654. When you openly agree to go to a psychiatric evaluation out of your own curiosity.
1655. When you openly disclose that you are going
1656. when putting yourself in a venn diagram with others your characteristics are all encompassing rather than fitting into distinguished catagories even though they are extremely specific
1657. when you are popular with all the unpopular kids which you happen to prefer anyways because you like to see people exclusively rather than inclusively because you cant help feeling that you are leaving people out when you include others
1658. when you are popular with all the unpopular kids which you happen to prefer anyways because you like to see people exclusively rather than inclusively because you cant help feeling that you are leaving people out when you include others
1659. you recognize inside jokes other people have told and subsequently acted in congruence with the funny, thereby creating your own inside practical joke which provocates laughter from yourself because people think you have the insiders edge when really you are the outsider, who has their eyes open when everyone else has their eyes closed and closes their eyes when others focus their eyes upon you appearing as a blind messiah who preforms the solution but is the problem
1660. you are an insider, you know all collective information on any given subject pertinent to your field of expertise and serve as an effective guide for newcomers looking for the staples to keep their material together
1661. you know the future, but you figure telling people would ruin the surprise
1662. thinking about your past , you go way past your birth or conceptualization and even your ancestory to the first person who was just like you in everyway and whether or not their DNA managed to survive long enough for them to 're-incarnate' in the present time to live again and do the things they could only dream of before or if you are a copy of an ancient archtype doomed to failure which is an experiment of a spirit inhabiting a body and exersicing choices previously unexperienced
1663.you go too far
1664.you haven’t started something because you may go too far
1665. you say things to other people so perfectly that you forget what you said and cannot repeat it when asked to, yet other people remember what you said for so long that they cant understand why you said it
1666. you identify with book covers, you are the dreary lackluster face of humanity yet within you lies the secrets of redemption enlightenment and reclaimation. you are a wealth of information, a collection of beautiful imagery, an instruction manual, a novel epic once someone opens you up but you are closed book and practically useless until somebody finally takes interest in you, then you cant be left alone; people take you places, prefer your company, talk about you and even think about you when your not around yet you are just the face of a body of knowledge
1667. you don’t know you are, you think you are
1668. You probably read the first page or some of it, however jumped to this page to think of something unique to add knowing that it might be stated before but thinking it is irrelevant or badly phrased if it existed
1669.You still want to prove your self the best INTP even though you know logically it is impossible for human beings to be labeled better or worst.
1670.Unless you were successful at your career before knowing you an INTP you probably know you just made it more difficult but also it is now more rewarding , however you will eventually.
1671.You read this probably just to finish it quickly to avoid stating it in your response because that is not unique.
1672.you answer a complicated math question in your head, whilst others did it on paper. The teacher then asks you why, and you tell them that you found it easier. They look at you, bemused.
1673.you can build IKEA furniture without the instructions (or is this one just me?).
1674. After watching 'The Time Machine' in 3rd grade you work out a pass phrase that your future self will use to identify himself as legit.
1675. you join this forum and intentionally read this thread from the very beginning, until you realize that there are 35 pages and that no one else reads everything and it is therefore futile to try and do it yourself, so you simply go the last page and write this down, hoping that no one has yet written it.
1676. When you think Cleverbot (the AI) makes more sense and is easier to relate to than everyone you know except yourself.
1677. you spend ages writing a post here, trying to make it sound right for others, then give up entirely because you don't know...how to put it
1678.you notice a one pixel difference on your screen when you see one
1679.you are cognizant that a beat in a song is to mirror the heartbeat and cause you to become more involved by this factor and because of this people dance to the beat
1680. you constantly think that you need more time and are in a hurry to do stuff to have more time to do more stuff. When you finally run out of stuff you can do with the resources you have.
1681. you read through an aftershock from an earthquake without noticing
1682. you've heard tender females taste like chicken but you wonder if human males taste like rooster??
1683. You make others question their INTPness
1684. When your family sees you away from your hobby and says "finally!" before you glance, get a drink, then walk away. Never to be heard from again until hunger strikes.
1685.When the only difference between left and right is choice
1686. you're fun to be around, as long as it's in your own mind.
1687.you come alive at night, and drown during the day.
1688. you've had your INTPness questioned by another INTP, then thought about it a long time. Lastly, you came back to the same answer you had initially
1689. You will always identify with this statement, regardless of your age: "I have currently put on hold some of my previously pursued pursuits in pursuit of certain other pursuits which currently occupy my mind but the prior mentioned previously pursued pursuits are in no way forgotten."
hence the paradoxical urge for suicide and the wish for immortality, as nothing is ever complete.
1690. The prospect of human extinction does not phase you, but rather relieves you.
1691. You would most like a government run by scientists, and don't see why others wouldn't.
1692. Your ideas to wipe out stupidity, your general feelings about stupidity, and some of your ideas, period, are met with hostile glares.
1693. People don't understand how you can be so easily annoyed, and you don't understand how they aren't
1694. you ask your close friend a question about what something means and they ask if you're serious or not. (It was in Chinese. How the hell would I know? But I still should have... some how... *insert depressed onomatopoeia here*)
1695.when your event for the week is a day at Barnes & Noble.
1696.when you are carrying so many books at B&N, you have to continually set the stacks down and they keep falling over, so you ask the woman at the check-out if she will hold them for you whilst you continue looking.
1697.when you leave B&N with three bags full of HARDCOVER (cannot stress this enough; maybe it's just me, but those damn paperback covers just piss me off) books.
1698. When you find a book at Barnes & Noble and think, "This is great. It's just like a book I love at home." You buy it, take it home only to discover it IS the same book. Now you have to take it back.
1699. You've gotten a blank stare for taking a conversation too deep, as you detest small talk.
1700. No one understands your obsession with your 'boring' subjects.
1701. You don't understand people's fascination with vapid subjects.
1702. You use 'vapid' quite frequently to describe non-INTP things.
1703. You've given a blank stare only to realize in an epiphanic form that you should've faked an emotional reaction, and after giving it, you see a relief on the colleague's face.
1704. You're excited when someone quotes you, and continues your numbering.
1705. You're more into the theory of something than the thing itself.
1706. When told otherwise(for instance, trying to be smart but turning out "wrong") you pretend that you knew all a long and were just trying to confuddle them.
1707.You could take over the world if only people would listen to you.(or if only you could stand up in front of 2000 people and give a speech without urinating yourself laughing or in a more literal sense)
1708.You smoke in public to avoid having to talk to people, and give you a reason to be looking around at everybody.
1709. When your assignment in college is to write a thesis paper and you have conceived the entire thing in your mind, but will put off writing it down untill five hours before it is due.
1710.Your thesis paper is now due in three hours, you haven't started, and you are now
1711. you're still unable to figure out how to post a thread on my own and ask for advice here!
1712.when you failed in your exam in the subjects you can teach your teachers
1713.when you're very depressed and searching ways out in this forum
1714. You cry yourself to sleep at night.
1715. you realize the concept of creating a new thread is not the same as the skill to create a new thread but can't quite figure how those two differ even though it should be obvious they aren't the same
1716.You smile at the people who criticise you .....
1717. you know what psychology and personality people have got by reading their posts..........!
1718.you know you are an mature INTP when you forgive the rude attitude of less mature ones........
1719.you know you are an INTP when you sought to know the reasons of criticism rather than criticise........!
1720. you know it would take way too long to explain the intellectual framework for a correct assessment of the problem, so you end up gritting your teeth and placating.
1721. you wonder if there is such a thing as a psychological type because everyone else seems to think so. You look at INTJ and INFP and turn away. Maybe you are INTP or you missed one of the other thirteen.
1722. you purposely fail all courses all 4 years of high school and then pick up the pieces at the end just to provide a sufficient challenge for you.
1723. you try to get all A's senoir year because you have to prove that youre smarter than everyone else before you leave.
1724. you end up only getting C's becaus you’re too lazy to do the homework
1725. you spend ages trying to remember what it is you were thinking about a second back, and through conscious effort actually remember.
1726. When you fail to achieve the norm, because you're lazy, and either you're arrogant (according to others) or you can absolutely see the simplicity of what you have failed to achieve (and know it is beneath your abilities) thus making it ridiculously boring and not worth the initial effort. Except you know, you know, that you should have put in the effort for your own good, essentially making you an idiot, which can make you feel terrible.
1727. Your sense of direction could be surprisingly terrible, but surprises those around you with it’s excellence sometimes.
1728. You lose items on an occasional basis, but always manage to find them!
1729. When you get called 'weird' on a frequent basis.
1730. You put on a sort of conscious Fe mask, and are aware of your facial expressions and words when communicating with MORTALS. I PITY MORTALS!
1731. When you are convinced you are insane, find humor in it, and laugh like a lunatic.
1732. When you can't help but use intellect (either Thinking or expressing it) whilst communicating with MORTALS (I PITY MORTALS!) who have an astonishing number of fallacies in several words in just one bloody sentence. Oh, how you want to correct them! Oh, the effort! Nodding is so much simpler. You decide to resort to nodding!
1733. When you find yourself doing this quite often - the demeanor of a mad man lost in space
1734. you are given news about death, in most cases, you either don't know what to say, or say something sympathetic but Feel nothing. You are now probably curious to what has happened to that poor soul, and possess little streaks of envy. (Though, you could feel pretty bad).
1735. You can be a surprisingly patient person, because who cares about linear 24 hour societal clock-time?
1736. You delete sentences you have typed because you're not quite sure if you really meant what you have said. Same applies to Thinking something, then Thinking whether to say it or not, then resolve to not saying it!
1737. When nothing seems to make any sense whatsoever. (Sometimes..)
1738. Your behavior may not reflect your age. Screw 'acting like an adult'. Screw convention. Screw social patterns. Screw politics. Screw social correctness and expectations.
1739. Sometimes you find yourself conforming to what you previously said 'screw it!' to - but you are consciously doing it with something in mind.
1740. When nothing really seems to matter, strong nihilistic thoughts.
1741. You'd much rather be an animal of your choice. Like a turtle.
1742. When you think of the perfect thing to say or think about at the wrong time.
1743. You think the new YouTube sensation 'Gangnam style' is relatively stupid, but perhaps find some humor in it.
1744. you are on a subject 10 minutes after it has changed..
1745. you like your friend best when they start ranting about you being thoughtful and philosophical in their drunken emotional rage.
1746. you want to have earwax just so you won't be held accountable for not listening.
1747. You have earwax to quiet the outside, so your excellent hearing doesn’t hurt you as much
1748. you start counting at 0, instead of 1.
1749. You can't find something you're looking for even when it's right in front of you
1750. One of your parents insists on speaking up in a social situation, you were unprepared and are lost for words
1751. As a comment on your junior high school report card, teachers said you liked to be "left alone"
1752. There is always some things that you could do if you wanted to, but you won't do it, because you can do it, if you wanted to.
1753. When you prove yourself capable of something, interest in 'something' immediately declines.
1754. You don't think you have to prove yourself to others if you have proved yourself to yourself
1755. You've read every single personality type to decide which one you would most like to be, just in case you see a description you like more, despite knowing you're an INTP.
1756.You enthusiastically start a project or learn something, get very good at it and then get bored and quit.
1757.You can talk in front of hundreds of people when necessary with confidence and always win debates, yet decide to sit quietly thinking to yourself during a lot of conversations.
1758.When you argue a point, it's not just to convince the other person but also a little bit to convince yourself.
1759.You join communities or make friends, get to know them well and then get bored of them and move on.
1760.You try to categorise your friends, family and pets into MBTI types. Especially pets, they're more interesting to categorise than people because of the challenge.
1761."Yes or No" tick boxes annoy you because you have pages you could write about things.
1762. you will die a horrible death, unless you forward this to so many friends and you are curious to find out what it will be like to die a horrible death …
1763. Because you never had so many friends to begin with...
1764. you secretly believe that INTP is the best type, but search for reasons to disprove yourself, and find none.
1765. you have a washing basket in your room yet still thoughtlessly leave an unwashed pile of clothes on the floor
1766. you are walking about in the smallest area possible to walk around, listening to the music to it's highest volume possible only not to hear a thing that's going on around you, and even though your eyes are wide open you wouldnt see and/or notice an elephant if placed in front of you.
1767. You keep talking to yourself wondering if people are thinking that you are crazy because you are talking to yourself with your lips moving in the street, and after 5 seconds you get lost in the irony of the subject, then you try to find a new subject to talk to yourself about, but the irony has amused you so much that you cant think of anything else to think about, and then the loop makes you laugh and ... you tell yourself with your lips moving: "Now they all definitely think that i am crazy", and then you have a smirk on your face and you feel pleased with yourself.
1768. When you keep wondering how an ideal partner for an INTP can not be an INTP, in other words how can anyone ever tolerate YOU!
1769.When you read 10 pages of this and then you lose the whole feeling of being "special" which is the only constant feeling you have ever had since you were 4 years old.
1770. You live a second life within your own mind and spend more time developing yourself in your second life than your first one.
1771. You get some iTunes gift cards for your birthday and spend two years thinking about how to use them
1772. You obsess over getting the best stat rating for a RPG character, or the weapon with the best damage rating over time, or the best value for money when shopping online
1773.You create your own maps in your head, and can visualize them
1774.Your head/imagined conversations are more fun than reality
1775.You collect new words when you write and they pop out of nowhere, because everything JUST SEEMS TO FIT OH MY GOD AWESOME ITS LIKE PRETTY COLORS
1776.You imagine marriage & having children with someone as they walk by in public
1777.You spend all day on youtube absorbing the input
1778. when you find that your deepest, most productive and insightful conversations are with yourself
1779.when you realize that yes, most people in this world are absolutely delusional
1780.when you find outrage with the fact that nobody ever seems to comprehend the idea that empathy could change the world
1781.when you understand that conciousness goes beyond human life
1782.when the dogmas of materialism are shattered to pieces
1783.when you reach comfort knowing that nobody is ever going to listen to what you have to say
1784. You've actually integrated Newtonian mechanics into the way you intuitively perceive and interact with the world, because the naive physics everyone is born with isn't good enough, even for navigating through daily life.
Bonus points, relativity or quantum mechanics.
1785.You've learned a foreign language, even a relatively commonplace and useful one, but when the opportunity to use it arises, you usually just say nothing, because expressing yourself in your native tongue is exhausting enough.
1786.Your meta knowledge _about_ social situations and skills is impeccable, even if you've rarely bothered to put it into practice.
1787.You use words like "impeccable," even if no one would ever describe you as such.
1788.You're holding yourself off of the "dating market" so you can work on your "market value" even though one of the biggest things limiting it is lack of experience.
1789.You frequently describe things as "markets" which people don't normally, (though it's obvious to you that they're governed by market forces such as supply and demand) e.g. "dating market."
1790.You harbor fantasies of amassing great wealth by taking advantage of stupid people, even though the very idea of marketing/pandering to stupid people offends you, and you consider it beneath you.
1791.You think that humans not only evolved, but still do.
1792.Along with this, literally almost everything else you believe is deeply offensive to most people, and vice versa.
1793.You thought "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
1794.Now that you realize it's satire, you think "It's what plants crave!" is an appropriate response to any sufficiently idiotic proposal.
1795. When, after surfacing from introspection, you cannot differentiate subtle sarcasm from earnest truth.
1796. You consider the comment "you have a very well developed Fe" to be mildly insulting, probably because you wish you didn't have it in the first place.
1797. You are fascinated and/or envious of the INTJs Ni and may or may not have tried to force an artificial Ni to experiment with what it would be like.
1798. You have visited a psychiatrist out of 'curiosity'
1799. You hate repeating explanations and often wonder why people didn't just get it the first time... I mean, obviously the logic was perfectly sound and clear to follow, they should have thought of that themselves.
1800. Some people can produce a temporary illusion of intelligence though, which is until you realize that they lack the cool-headed cynicism which makes you win in the end
1801. you get exited about a situation or something you imagined and start walking in circles in your room ( Fast rhythm ) and keep doing that for half an hour with a stupid smile in your face then stop after you realize you look stupid and sweaty
1802. you hate abbreviations but are forced to use them
1803. you wonder why people ask your advice but never take it, then complain to you when what you predicted happens to them >.<
1804. after explaining human behaviour, your partner looks at you with a blank expression n just nods
1805. you understand people far too well and just wish they'd get with the program and leave you alone
1806. you're generally lonely/ alone and actually understand the difference between the two
1807.. you have no real friends yet everyone seems to think you're cool yet eccentric :/
1808. you're everyone's counsellor
1809. you keep wondering why people think you're a good listener when you really don't give a crap. There are much more important things to contemplate than, 'why doesn't he like me?' *bangs head against desk*
1810. you stay up all night thinking and reading about what a thinker and a reader you are.
1811. You regularly talk to people without looking at them, or even in thier general direction?
1812.you stay in bed because you are not finished thinking
1813.you have to try it even though it isn't working
1814.you have to say it anyway though silence is better ...
1815.you wonder why you must figure it out when no ones else cares ...
1816. When you accidently use up all the hot water taking a shower because you got distracted thinking about the properties of water while playing with how it moves across your different body parts. And your roommates have don't understand the explanation 'I don't like long showers...they just tend to happen...'
1817.When you ask people to give you the ' short story' so they won't mind when you ask them 1000 questions. And because sitting quietly during the long story is painful.
1818. When your idea of a really good conversation working on your relationship is spending half an hour reading wikipedia pages on psychological theory out loud to your partner.
And when, although you know they are just trying to change the subject, they come on to you in the middle of said wikipedia reading out loud.
... When wikipedia ends up being foreplay.
1819. When your phone breaks and you still haven't replaced it after a month.
1820. You know it's possible to regenerate female because you've bothered to figure out a working Time Lord genetics system that involves quaternary genotype with diploid phenotype to produce the genetic variation seen onscreen. Since the Doctor clearly has two different X chromosomes (as at least three of his forms have shown male-pattern balding, a partially x-linked trait, and several of his other forms have NOT shown this tendancy) it is entirely possible he may one day regenerate into a female.
1821. You spend an hour walking round a music/video or clothes shop...picking things up...and then leave with one item.
1822.you can’t do class work in class because there are too many distractions, so you wait till you get home and remember everything in class word for word.
1823. You're posting in the comments section of an internet site and write 3+ paragraphs proving, disproving, or analyzing someone's statement and/or argument even though no one will bother to read what you said.
1824.Your parent/friend/etc. is trying to tell you something important, but you constantly have to ask: "wait,what?"
1825.You try to explain necessitarianism, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, or the like to your friends and get blank stares despite wording your explanation "simply."
1826.The numerous accidental misuses of your/you're on this thread so far have made you cringe.
Related: You find the ridiculously common (on the internet) statement "your an idiot" to be both infuriating and extremely funny.
1827.You always laugh at irony and/or blatant hypocrisy.
1828.You're rendered speechless by the following quote, taken from a post on Yahoo Answers:
"How about the Bible, how every detail has been proven true? That's more than science can say. And btw...though Christianity is a relatively new religion, all other religions before believed in the same exact God we believe in to this day, the One and Only. Know your facts before you make claims."
1829. Your computer is your best friend.
1830. You're watching a quiz show only to be screaming the answers at the T.V screen (because, you know it can hear you).
1831.You miss entire classes because you're daydreaming.
1832. You make sarcasm an international sport.
1833.You've never felt more understood than after reading this forum.
1834.you generally don't bother registering to a forum unless you feel a strong sense of community there, or you believe what you have to say will truly benefit those who will read it.
1835.you believe most things you have to say will truly benefit those who will read it.
1836.you generalize terms so that you spend less time thinking about using them and more time flavoring your conversation (example, whine/cry/moan/complain/bitch all mean the same thing, even if you know their specific differences.)
1837.you have no problem admitting you don't know something or don't understand a concept, even though you pretend to understand to reduce the time spent dealing with that person.
1838.you strive to be special in a subtle way that doesn't call attention to yourself, but so that you'll feel unique when someone tries to get to know you. (For example, I know and use 24-hour time any chance I can)
1839.you believe you're capable of murder without remorse or traumatic consequences, even if you prefer it to occur out of necessity.
1840.you can be unbiased even in the most questionable of circumstances.
1841.you dislike and sometimes utterly refuse to jump on the bandwagon, even if you believe you may truly like what the fuss is all about, and after the initial hype have no problem becoming a fan.
1842.you become viciously annoyed when something you enjoyed years ago that everyone else criticized you about becomes the new "it", because you also are annoyed at "I liked this before it was cool" hipsters.
1843.you feel like you can be given power without abusing it.
1844.you want to be the best at games or certain intimidating skills (ie, marksmanship) without having to put any work into it.
1845.you like the aesthetic of contractions.
1846.you don't mind giving up a material item or food if you believe someone else would appreciate the thing or flavor more than you.
1847.but on the other hand it's agitating when someone automatically expects you to share.
1848.you seriously doubt you'd get along with someone like yourself, but believe a mutual understanding of this fact would make it a smooth relationship nonetheless.
1849.you like expressing how you feel even if you intentionally forgo doing so most of the time, but get highly agitated if someone tries to shush you or make you 'calm down' just because you're a little excited.
1850.you worry if people will think you have latent issues when detailing your problems and hope they don't think those issues are the cause of those problems.
1851.you get offended when people have a separate trivial opinion (ie, don't select your favorite color as their own).
1852.you hate it when people only want to take part in something solely because of an involved ritual (will only drink tequila if the "lick salt, bite a lime" bit is included)
1853.you secretly enjoy those rituals just as much as the person annoying you.
1854.people don't understand how you can resent someone for years and hold grudges, but get visibly upset in an argument and feel absolutely fine in 20 minutes.
1855.you're hoping to find someone on this forum of your sexual preferences (opposite sex if you're straight, same sex if you're gay) to get to know, and are afraid they don't exist.
1856. people tell you over and over again to clean your room/office and you say ill do it later.
1857.When you sacrifice some common sense for knowledge.
1858.When you constantly forget books/papers for class
1859.logic is more important than family
1860. Flirting makes you uncomfortable, actually, any complement of you body in general makes you uncomfortable. Unless it something that only other INTP's might say like, 'wow your feet aren't veiny at all, good job', thats ok.
1861. You spend time in your backyard practicing awesome moves that characters in your favorite RPG do.
1862. You kept track of the line items as stated within this thread and then figured out the percentage of your own similarity to the general personality of other INTPs for personal comparison to them.
1863. You know you're an INTP if you can't understand why or how someone wouldn't be able to figure out how to calculate a simple score based off of these points; that being the total number of items listed that describe you divided by the total items available, giving you the percentage of your similarity to other INTPs based off the various given data.
1864. you often spend hours just sitting and thinking without seeing what your eyes are looking at.
1865. You ask your partner, "What are you thinking?" during intimacy.
1866. Your stock answer whenever anyone asks you 'how was it?' is 'alright' or 'OK'
1867. You have no use for contents insurance
1868. You are/were that kid in highschool who would refuse to round up numbers in math and write them down for a dozen decimals in the name of accuracy.
1869. When you have a presentation for tomorrow you should have started weeks ago, got an extra 2 days to do it, and still haven't started it yet, but you're confident that you'll get a good grade.
1870. You have a shortcut for a dictionary you bring up every time you see a word whose exact meaning you don't know.
1871. When you spent so much time on the internet that you're thinking in English instead of your native languages.
1872. When your idea of a sleepover with classmates is to just sit there and listen not because you're too shy but because you like it that way.
1873. When "Oh there's a name for my idea!" is a frequent reaction to being told about a philosophical system you haven't heard of before.
1874. you're disappointed someone else gets the credit for your idea
1875. you lay down to go to sleep, but get an idea in solving a math/physics problem you thought up earlier so you're forced to get up and spend the next two hours working on it in lieu of sleeping. Then you hope someone else performs the experiment because you're more interested in proving it can be done than actually doing it.
1876. If you were to commit suicide, the ideal method would be by getting sucked into a black hole.
1877. you are impatient to post your statement, and can't go through 38 pages to check if it has already been posted.
1878.the time spent adjusting the temperature of water to perfection is more than the time taken in the bathing process itself.
1879. When somebody compliments you and even though you know its basically true you will try as hard as you can to deny it
1880.When you're watching some news or politics debate show on TV and someone (usually a disingenuous politician or ideologue) says something so violently, offensively, stupid and incorrect you have to stop watching and pace around arguing with them in your head
1881. You have been called a genius on many occasions, but it can still take you up to a minute to figure out how to open a door.
1882. you torture INTJs by using their assumptions against them, and you enjoy it.
1883.when 42 is actually a distinct possibility.
1884.when you realize that the mask you thought you were wearing is who you've really become.
1885.when you can feel time passing, and instantly remember all the other times that you made yourself aware of that feeling.
1886. You're not about working hard. You're about working smart. Efficiency is the word you live by
1887. You successfully got rid of the habit of always looking at the ground while walking, but only by replacing it with "staring at the sky".
1888. you can make an educated guess about pretty much any concept. Even if you are wrong, you could explain to people how you got to that conclusion.
1889. you can't stand anyone reading something for you. Gimme that paper/tablet here!
1890. you have asked your teacher a question about their subject (some concept) and they couldn't answer it. You found out the answer and never told them, because it wasn't relevant anymore.
1891. it wouldn't be against your nature to supply your opponent with a good argument. And often, you think you could have made a better job at arguing against yourself. And you do.
1892. you don't appreciate it when people try to use the same argument over and over even if it's no longer (or was ever) relevant.
1893. you taught yourself to swim by figuring out what was needed to keep your face (periodically) above water. It worked on the second or third try.
1894.you are ready to be proven wrong about anything. You would even enjoy that
1895. You spent too much time as an adolescent attempting to read difficult reference works in languages you haven't studied.
1896.Your basic way of relating to unfamiliar people is to analyze them.
1897.Your sixth grade teacher called your mother to tell her that you're making up words.
1898.You placed in the top 10 in a state academic competition, but ended up getting a C in the class in question because you couldn't be bothered with the routine homework assignments.
1899.You would have no problem admitting you were wrong in an argument, but it happens so rarely that this remains a mostly theoretical possibility.
1900.You took Ancient Greek in college because the main reason to study a language it to gain an appreciation for grammar and phonology and to be able to make independent conclusions about literary texts; you think language study for purposes of communication is highly overrated.
1901. you know you're INTP when you've invested more time in working out exactly what you'd say to a genie than on anything with the slightest amount of applicability to the real world.
When you compulsively open every link you come across into a new tab so you can check it out later.
1902.When you double-post because you forgot you could just edit your original post to include your new point.
1903.When you experience occasional bouts of strong motivation that don't lead anywhere and are subsequently distressed by how little you get done.
1904. When, after discovering you can't actually delete a post, you decide to edit it so as to be *absolutely clear* that this is the unintentional double-post you mentioned in the last post.
1905.When you can't get off INTPForum to go to sleep, even though you've been sleep deprived for basically your entire life.
1906.When whether or not you should write something down becomes a major decision because you misplaced your eraser.
1907.When an Internet connection is much higher on your list of priorities than it really should be.
1908.When the popularity of social networking sites baffles you, but you will vehemently defend Wikipedia against any and all attackers.
1909. You frequently experience such spontaneous revelations as the fact that you are a brain inside a body, the fact that humans are, taxonomically speaking, apes, or what day it is.
1910. you are astounded that some INTPs actually want interaction through a forum
1911. You find yourself wanting to do several things with your time all at once, but you find yourself unable to make a final decision, so you wind up wasting the time passively browsing the Internet.
1912. you say "ouch" with a few second delay?
1913. you feel like punching through a brick wall or performing a Fatality because people around you WILL. NOT. SHUT. UP.
1914.You have this insane impulse to correct people's grammar.
1915.You can't watch many mainstream TV shows because you can't sit through a single episode (barely tolerate the stupidity).
1916.You instantly google words you don't know because it ticks you that you actually don't.
1917.People miss the punchline of your stories. At least that's what happens to me all the time. I'd be talking about something and then I'd be finished and people would still be waiting for me to continue, all like, "Oh, that's it?" And I thought it was clear that I was done talking. LOL.
1918.You're pretty good at debate and answering questions.
1919.You analyze your actions and thoughts too much and too objectively. It sucks living with a critic in your head.
1920.You don't understand and detest dramatics. I cannot bear people who overreact and are too emotional.
1921.You have a personal bubble which people should never cross. My classmates back in school used to tease me when I'd warn them, "Personal bubble. Be careful of my personal bubble" every time they got too close to me.
1922.You don't have many friends but you're close to the few friends you do have.
1923.You keep editing your posts because you keep finding something to fix/rephrase.
1924. when you have to verbally establish "facts" (like things existing) before you start a discussion because facts are relative
1925.when you haven't eaten anything all day because if you leave your room you would have to actually interact with someone, so you emerge only at midnight to feed.
1926. When brainstorming is your natural state of mind and you wonder what it would be like to have no thoughts in your head.
1927. When everything is so relative that everything has so many different meanings that you really cannot decide anything about it.
1928. when someone comes over and you think,"well i guess im not eating today".
1929.critiquing is like seeing in color, you can't not do it.
1930.L is your favorite death note character.
1931. when at times your deadpan humour/sarcasm is too convincing.
1932. you seem to use terms "analogy" and "(not) mutually exclusive" more than an average person.
1933. you leave a way out in your sentences (well, maybe not all of them).
1934. when you get (slightly) irritated when you realize others didn't want to know your honest answer and would have preferred a simple lie.
1935. when one of the cool ways of being mean is answering the questions the people ask and not the ones they meant to ask.
1936. at the time before browsers did not have tabs, you had a lot of instances of the same browser running.
1937. you appreciate the subtle differences between synonyms.
1938. you question everything. Yes, even these two sentences
1939. You often indulge in substance abuse, not to party or be happy, but to slow your head down to a level on which it can function the way society requires it to.
1940. When you're convinced that you know how to make the world a better place, yet you're still too lazy to try.
1941.When you discover that people are actually as stupid as they seem, and its not an act.
1942.When your reason for most of the world's problems is, "There are too many people."
1943. you look at posts such as "you know you're an X when..." and begin to think about the sociological reasons behind people's need to feel a sort of "togetherness" by sharing various situations related to a single trait of said people, when in fact many of those traits apply to all people, and we are simply stating the minor social faux pas and mishaps we would normally hide from others. When you do this, but can still enjoy reading all the things INTPs do as your mind also reels upon all the side-implications of this sociological ritual.
1944. You read every fantasy book you can find to compare the systems of magic in each book in order to figure out how magic actually works
1945.You forget your next point while writing your first point.
1946.Someone asks you to make a decision and you ask for details as a way of stalling only to ignore what they say and make a split second decision anyways.
1947.You wonder what number this thread is up to, but you are too lazy to go through every post and count.
1948.You notice a grammar mistake immediately after you post this and immediately edit it.
1949. somebody in a senior position (be it at school, at work, at home) asks you to do something and your initial thought isn't "ok" but "Who does this person think he/she is?!?l Why do I need to do this??? Do I know a better way of doing it?".
1950.When you find an excuse to go for a walk on your own (out with the dogs) and you see somebody else who wants to be friendly and talk. How dare they. Why are they even here? Why couldn't they have walked somewhere else?
1951.When you read a statement and can counter said statement with eloquent prose. Someone then verbally makes the statement and you can't remember your argument nor can you bring yourself to counter the statement incase the person looks at you.
1952.This is the only forum that you're not banned from.
1953.When somebody causes a minor inconvenience to you whilst driving. HOW ON EARTH DID YOU PASS YOUR TEST? WHY CAN'T YOU CONCENTRATE ON THE ROAD. I HOPE YOU HAVE A CRASH.
1954.When somebody sees you approaching in your car and still tries to cross the road. DO CARS BOUNCE OFF YOU? ARE YOU REALLY THAT MUCH OF A MORON?!?!?!?
1955. One of the only reasons you have yet to kill yourself just to know what the afterlife is like is because you still have hope that immortality will be discovered in your lifetime.
1956. Your habit of randomly Googling stuff you're curious about lands you on every government watch list ever.
1957. When you have overthought a situation so much, you have convinced yourself an opposing argument is true. Then, instead of being satisfied, you overthink the thoroughly chewed morsel again, doing hours of research, until you reach a conclusion completely different than any original postulations. The issue finally comes to a close when you follow a link referencing a minor detail from a movie you always meant to see, so you decide to just go ahead and watch that movie.
1958.(I know feelings on this next one might be mixed, but I am throwing it out there because it is how I feel and am curious if you guys feel the same)
You don't like to smoke weed because, instead of relaxing you. it makes the world seem more frantic. Iinstead of giving you silly carefree stoner thoughts, it makes the regular ones spin so fast you can't catch them any more. Afterwards, you turn into an exhausted, slumped over mess who feel like they just ran a marathon.
1959.As much as you always think and say you can use a break from your own head, you have found you actually *like* how it is always active and spinning, and *prefer* to keep your head clear from drugs that bring it down.
1960.You type something and delete it because you realize it sounded like something crazy a person who was drunk or on drugs might say, except you are dead sober.
1961.Instead of taking a pain pill for random mild to moderate pains, you ponder and study it.
1962.You edit a post two times after rereading it, even though you proofread it multiple times before. You fix the minor grammar snafu, as well as acknowledge the unrelated statements you made in your post seem like they are connected, but they really aren't and it was unintentional. But you still feel the need to acknowledge that you caught it too
1963. you assume people think like you, but then realize that everybody are idiots
1964. When you truly feel accomplished when you speak up in a large group for more than a few minutes.
1965. You have a great speaking voice...but you never use it.
1966. You learn to sing or play an instrument but you have no desire to play it for anyone else.
1967. Every part of you is seeking the design for the "Life PAUSE" button!
1968. Money would buy happiness...because then you wouldn't have to work with all those coworkers and clients.
1969. You have at least 3 monitors...displaying at least 3 instances of Wikipedia and/or Dictionary.com simultaneously.
1970. You own at least 1 musical instrument that you can't play.
1971. You can find everything in your organized chaos until your housemate moves something of yours...Now you don't know where ANYTHING is and you're in a fit of rage.
1971.You eat the same thing most days just to avoid making a pointless decision.
1972. A random conversation between you and your friend leads you to look up the Wikipedia article on rhinoceroses when the conversation only contained rhinoceroses in a metaphorical context.
1973.You have conversations that contain rhinoceroses in a metaphorical context.
1974.When you find Captain's posts above not only personally insulting, but also grounds to lose faith in humanity.
1975.You regularly make halfhearted attempts at using psychic powers/magic/the Force because you feel like your mind is powerful enough to manipulate reality without relying on your body.
1976. when you're about to give the compliment: "one could plot only your frontal cheek/jaw silhouette in a coordinate system and it would still be sexy"
1977. When you realize that everybody is just too stupid for you
1978. you dislike the fact that people stopped counting after the first two pages of this thread.
1979.you momentarily doubt if you should read the whole thread before posting so you don't write something that has already been posted.
1980. You debate with your ENTP boss every day and still think he's a great friend and a father figure.
1981. You're already analyzing your 2 year old child's personality to determine their type, even though the results will always be inconclusive
1982. You can't help yourself when something is incorrect, so you go try to find someone to explain the incorrectness to, and they don't care, they thought that motivational poster was funny.
1983. you have to consciously force yourself to understand that when your significant other says "I don't know" they do not mean: I haven't interpreted sufficient data on the subject to feel comfortable offering even an opinion with any certainty. They mean: I do not know and I am okay with that
1984. you are almost always the first to get out from a workshop/seminar/group meeting/class/etc.
1985. you carry a notebook everywhere containing every small idea of yours.
1986.When a debate with a friend makes you look up articles corresponding to the topic of the debate, which makes you look up even more articles until you're fully distracted.
1987. using formal words instead of conversational speech just for the fun of it.
1988.Not caring about your/others' feelings.
1989. In the phase before an exam when everyone else panics you and your best buddy threw with pens and made really bad jokes and couldn't stop laughing while everyone else had a book in their face and tried to last-minute study.
1990.You don't understand the concept of trying to appeal to an adult who obviously knows less than you.
1991.You didn't know the answers to the easiest questions in every exam, but you were the only who could answer the most difficult ones. (You actually take pride in not knowing the easy ones)
1992.You didn't chose your classes by your interests, but by the likelyhood of passing without studying at all.
1993.You were the first to finish a difficult task in class and the teacher wanted you to explain it in front of the class and you saw it as a punishment.
1994.You stopped doing homework in 3rd class.
1995.The teachers just accepted that you are always late.
1996."Religious class" is just another expression for "endless discussion with stupid s***head"
1997.You questioned why girls have more time to finish a 100m sprint than guys but stupid people didn't get easier tasks in math.
1998.You always sat in the last row but after 10 minutes you had to sit in the front row.
1999.(For foreign speakers) You didn't learn any english in class, you translated yu-gi-oh/magic cards in 3rd grade, played pc games in english and generally spent all your free time reading english wikipedia articles because they are better than those in your language.
2000.You started smoking/drinking way to early but it didn't influence your grades whatsoever.
2001.You didn't know most of the names of the people sitting in the same room as you.
2002.You didn't know the names of the characters in your english book.
2003.Most of the guys you hung out with were stupid, but atleast they weren't boring.
2004.You hacked yourself into having administration rights on your school pc's.
2005.Teachers interpreted your sarcasm as stupidity.
2006.You actually tried to leave the room when the teacher said "You can go if you're not interested".
2007.When your parents asked you about your latest exam you had already lost it.
2008.When you got your school report you forgot it in school.
2009.You never had a timetable and you just followed the other guys to know where your next class is.
2010.You played pokemon on your calculator.
2011.You looked for 30min straight out of the window without moving or listening at all.
2012.You build various construction (including catapults) with borrowed pens because you broke every pen your mom ever bought you before losing it.
2013.You underlined without using a ruler.
2014.you could read every handwriting imaginable.
2015.You did take notes, but you didn't take notes about anything the teacher said (except it was wrong or stupid).
2016.You never read a book you had to read in school.
2017.When you had 4 hours to write an essay you wrote exactly 1 1/2 sites.
2018. You fell out of your chair regularly
2019.you almost died at least 10 times, but didn’t realize it until a day later
2020. You don't dance.
2021.When you enter your car you sit there for 20 minutes thinking about stuff.
2022.You will never bother buying a new car as long as yours is still moving.
2023.You question the arrangement of stuff in the supermarket.
2024.You don't ask for directions.
2025.You purposely drive into nowhere.
2026.cats > dogs
2027.You know a couple of phrases in 10 different languages.
2028.You sometimes notice new stuff in your home eventhough it was there for 20 years and you lived there for 20 years.
2029.You don’t know the current date and you don’t know what day it is.
2030.90% of your stuff doesn't serve any purpose.
2031.You have one pair of shoes 2 jeans and 500 t-shirts nobody else would want to wear in public.
2032.Your day isn't 24 hours long, it varies between 70 and 2.
2033.You enjoy exploiting the rules of games more than actually playing them.
2034.You lie down in the shower.
2035.pooping involves 2 hours of doing nothing.
2036.By the age of 20 you have visited the hospital 245 times because you constantly fall, walk into things or use the force to make heavy stuff fall on you.
2037.You occasionally don't leave your room for 2 weeks.
2038.You don't answer calls: You look at the phone and wait for it to stop ringing.
2039.You love burning things.
2040.You weren't aware that you could feel sad for the first 15 years of your life.
2041.You actually have fun posting an endless list about things nobody should care about.
2042. you feel like you are almost the only one left posting on intpforum because everyone else has a life
2043.you don't remember what colour your hair/beard is.
2044. when you get stared at for doing or saying something that you thought is common knowledge and/or obvious. Even better/worse if they think you are joking when you are dead serious.
2045. you make mental notes to do things, but as soon as you get a chance to do it, you already become focused on something else and forget,
2046. You can't do or think of anything practical, even when you try....
2047. when constructing cute sounding "cool" phrases feels like hover skating on a laser plane
2048. you can't stand to have a round number of posts
2049. When you forget nearly everyday to actually close your front door -- it seems closed. It looks pretty closed, but you never remember to keep pulling until you hear the "click". So, your evil cats wait until your back is turned and push it open and break out for the sole purpose of tattling on you to your security-conscious INTJ, who informs you again that apparently, even closing the door isn't enough. You're supposed to lock it, but who can remember all that when walking into a house
2050. your textbook makes a mistake that you wouldn't have made.
2051. one day you’re interested in the 2008 icelandic financial crisis, next day you're interested in pickles
2052. the textbook makes more mistakes than you do
2053.When 100% on an assignment lowers your grade.
2054. You researched the INTP Forum registration questions even though you knew the answers, because you were curious about the alternatives.
2055.You've been called "broken" or "heartless" because you didn't reciprocate someone's feelings.
2056.You've lost friends because you never called them back.
2057.People think there's something wrong with you because you don't have any friends, while you don't understand how some people can have so many friends and still be sane.
2058.You prefer the company of animals to humans.
2059.You feel irritable and panicky when you're amidst a crowd.
2060.You cut your own hair because you don't like people touching you.
2061.You cringe if you see someone dropping food/crumbs on, or otherwise abusing their computing device.
2062.Your computing devices (of which you have several) are like family members to you.
2063.You haven't taken a shower for a few days and you're fine with that.
2064.There's a high probability that you're a minimalist, simply because not owning stuff means you don't have to put it away or clean it.
2065.You have an exceptional spatial ability that allows you to find anything in a colossal mess.
2066.In a meeting or group situation you always find the seat that is away from everyone else.
2067.You shudder if someone wants you to try something off their plate or wants to try something on your plate.
2068.Nothing gives you more pleasure than learning about how some new system works. However once you've learned how the system works, it no longer interests you.
2069.You have a lot of half-finished projects.
2070. When you plan your day with a 5 minute buffer to leave the house because of habitual walking out the door without everything you need (i.e. phone, money, food, water, keys, etc) and reentering after having said goodbyes and then frantically searching for these items as the 5 minute buffer is drawing to a close. Then upon exiting again, you realize you set something down inside, while looking for the first thing you needed, then awkwardly enter again "Third times a charm, bye for real this time!" Of course after all of this you grabbed the WRONG thing anyway but are already halfway to your destination before realizing this. Sigh...
2071. If you going somewhere, you always take same path when going back. (maybe it's just me)
2072.Conversations with you are possible only under following circumstances:
- The other party must be communicative (because if conversation is out of your field of interest, you become passive listener)
- The other party must have similar thoughts as you
- Thematic must be interesting to you, which means in field of your interests.
- Ideally, you know second party well
2073.You almost get hit by some vehicle because you're lost in your mind even when crossing the street.
2074.You briefly analyze the people around you and trying to get conclusion about them.
2075.You have your own word inside your head, and you are more there than in reality.
2076.You think that reality is just matter of perception which leads you to conclusion that this world is probably just simulation.
2077.You are against drugs, smoking, and all but you're willing to try some hallucinogenic drug only because you are enjoying much stronger effect of imagination.
2078.You don't care about your look.
2079.You don't care what other thinks about you.
2080.You are jealous to other younger "masters" in your field.
2081.You are afraid to drive a car because you easily get lost from this reality.
2082.Your thoughts in unrelated situations often brings you the solution for the issue you are experienced before.
2083.You are amazed with brain and mind in general.
2084.You refuse to listen to the class because you are convinced that you already know all that and even more.
2085.You'd like that you have computer integrated in your mind.
2086.You imagine about inventing time machine and traveling through the time and fixing the things, but you're in same time really concerned about possible consequences to reality you know. However, you would still do that.
2087.Sometimes you are lying in bed for hours and can't sleep because you can't get rid of too much thoughts.
2088.You often think that you have right even if the science says different.
2089.You are convinced that you can break laws of physics.
2090.You don't care about clothes, neither do you like it.
2091.you make a tshirt that says:
Procrastination is a learning method,
it teaches me I don't need to study to be smarter than you :P
2092. You get accused of being rude by your boss, because you are so engrossed in your work that you don't notice when others say good morning, then have to not concentrate until the others all show up and have said their good mornings.
2093. You argue against even when you're not playing devils advocate.
2094. the highlight of your day is finding a word that explains something very "neatly" and efficiently.
2095. When someone tries to highfive you, you simply say, "no."
2096.You have never (ever) said, "x is nothing to joke about"
2097.Someone tells you that they're offended by some joke you made, so you make more jokes about the same topic
2098. You have an essay on the Spanish-American War (or some bs like that) due the next day. You type up the first paragraph, and then the next thing you know, you're an expert on spatial dimensions. You also realize it's midnight.
2099. You correct the grammar of a question in a grammar test.
2100. You try to be sincere, but come across as patronising instead.
2101. When you avoid your university lectures because you accidentally made friends and don't want to be seen by them because you hate small talk.
2102. That voice in your head never shuts up - it's 3AM I don't care to know what magical powers our DNA may hold.
2103. You attempt to engage in conversation with someone and end up making them feel awkward instead.
2104 You jump from one concept or task to another as you bore easily
2105. When you give up on stating your opinion because apparently you are always wrong or crazy.
2106. No matter how hard you try to be "normal" and fit in you end up standing out like an awkward sore thumb
2107. You try and mirror an individual's personality because it's too much effort to try and explain yourself to people 24/7
2108. When you're a 21 year old female but have the same hobbies as a 50 year old man
2109. When having researched the supposed issue of over-population and concluding that it frames the question badly and is not a real problem in itself, yet there are too many people.
2110. When the only way you can show genuine affection towards others is by insulting them.
2111. you have a nostalgic feeling when you take a step outside.
2112. You know you're an intp when you don't study for your finals until the last moment, and still you get high marks
2113. when you register for an internet forum to respond to a 6 year old post.
2114.when you are certain that somebody else already corrected those mistakes, but you didn't want to read 40 pages of responses
2115. You want to discuss controversial political issues with the teacher, but the teacher just wants to compliment you on your success in class.
2116. And your friends call you "master of useless knowledge"
2117. You've lost sleep some nights plotting a masterful revenge scheme
2118. When in full fledged super-think mode you've had to control the impulse to start talking out loud and hand motioning like an insane person, this especially occurs after interesting lectures or during interesting readings done while out in public.
2119. If you perceive someone as requiring a more than average effort on your part to explain a concept to then you just don't bother
2120. you could easily spend more time disclaiming your statement than making the actual statement.
2121. you cried about Mufasa's death, but not your own grandmother's.
2122. you can't remember what happened in the movie detail-wise... just the general conclusion you might still draw from it regardless. (Details? who needs em.)
2123. your first response is, "Numbers are just symbols for something else."
2124. You have an idea or notice something about the situation moments or minutes before they realize it/your prediction/idea becomes obvious.
2125. your brain holds onto random facts like 'a flock of crows is called a Murder'. But if someone asks your social security you're screwed.
2126. When people ask why you studied for and took the Linux sysadmin certification, you reply with: "I wanted a permanent backup plan that doesn't involve subjectivity or people."
2127.When you have more than enough college units for a second degree (maybe two) but because your interests of the moment were so varied that it doesn't add up to anything coherent or official.
2128. You psychoanalyze your psyche even more under stress.
2129. you stare at whatever for so long it takes you three minutes to realize that someone's trying to get your attention.
2130. The more you have to explain an event or story, the amount of details you include decreases logorithmically each time.
2131. You derive universal principles from the video games you play.
2132.you do. Something in your mind, and think you actually did it in real life, only to find out that nothing has actually happened.
2133. When you put your hand on the stove and it doesn't even hurt 'cause you're so busy thinking about theories
2134. you create people in your mind that are embodiments of different parts of your brain, so that you can finally have varied but interesting conversation
2135. When you can sit in your room for hours on end thinking about math and science, but the moment you are placed in a classroom of the same subject, your mind stops working and you want to throw up because of the insanity of the other people.
2136. you’re struggling to sleep, even though you've been awake for more than 50 hours... Brains in like PING mode, and can't switch off, even though you're developing a headache and a twitchy eye.. And might collapse at work a while later.
2137. someone describes your focus on your work (AKA current obsession) as intense.
2138. When you think your Alma Mater should have issued you a participation degree for all the pieces of degrees you completed/didn't complete.
2139. you contradict yourself halfway through your post but don't want to fix it
2140. When you are supposed to study for the history exam (about Rome, England, Germany, etc) on Friday, but since today is only Monday, you end up opening 20+ tabs to learn more about history of the universe and try to find out why it exists.
2141. When you have a supernatural power to know exactly when you should start writing your research paper. And it is usually less than 8 hours away for the deadline.
2142. When you refuse to memorize most of those Math formulas in the textbook but create some for yourself to use.
2143. When you actually spend time thinking how awesome life as a fly on the wall would be. Not in any particular setting.
2144. When you hate people for disagreeing with you. Especially since they've not spent nearly as much time thinking about it as you have!
2145. When you aren't even 40 yet and you know society is driving off a cliff.
2146. When you spend time thinking about things none of your friends care about.
2147. When you wind up in a scientific field after spending half your life thinking you were meant to be an Artist.
2148. When you satisfy human contact from a telephone conversation.
2149. When you look at somebody, hear "God, don't look like that!" and you think it's your face.
2150.When you give an objective facts (or is it critique?) to person you are close to and he can't understand why and... you can't explain why.
2151.When teacher have no logic in giving grades so you just stop caring about her classes.
2152.When you can't imagine what will you do in next 5 years.
2153.When you sit at home and think what other people can do in their free time, cuz you have no clue what to do besides reading and listening to music.
2154.When you hear your name only when someone needs to ask a question which nobody can respond.
2155.When you don't understand people who are trying to hide their feelings but still behaving like they have some.
2156.When you think it's better to stay and take no actions and everybody say it's better to do something and then regret it.
2157.When you use more foreign language than your native because no one nearby can understand you.
2158.When you laugh at authorities and everybody see you rebelious.
2159.When clever teachers try hard to take your talents and thoughts outside but you see them just as stalkers.
2160.When you HATE how somebody can say the loudest such things even if he/she isn't sure or just doesn't know the truth and thinks otherwise.
2161. If an INTP said something so specific and certain (e.g., a specific number), you can be darned sure they checked for correctness first."
2162. you've decided to browse the INTP forum and read about people procrastinating instead of actually doing the work due in ~12 hours that'll bring up your grade
2163. Your significant other always tells you that you don't care.
2164. When you observe many individuals on the Internet, hoping for something interesting.
Disappointment is followed, but you continue anyways.
2165. When you are more saddened by the senseless destruction of a machine and impartial to the loss of human life
2166. When you try to say 5 sentences at once in an attempt to not forget what you were going to say because your brain has them prewritten and somehow stuck them all in the same file, stacked.
2167. When you continue a conversation from months ago and have to tell the person what they said so you can add a single extra sentence and they look at you funny.
2168. Its fun to do math in base 9.
2169. If you automatically began reading this thread from the beginning and didn't skip a part.
2170. You often wonder whether all these characteristics are much more general than you'd like them to be, and that you're actually inclined to think "I do that too!" every time you read a new comment.
2171. You wonder whether this is just a group self-illusion, and that you're actually using "INTP" as an occasion for trying to "fit in" somewhere (since you were never the type of person who cared about fitting in, and, now, you start exploring your adolescence frustrations).
2172. You like to tell yourself that you're more "intelligent" that most people around you, but, even more, you enjoy the word "evolved".
2173. Instead of just simply playing The Sims you ponder the similarities between the virtual world of the game and our own universe which in turn leads you to postulate a complicated hypothesis concerning the very nature of reality and how everything we experience on a day to day basis could potentially be a highly detailed and sophisticated computer simulation. Then you get bored and start a fire for those pitifully stupid sims to deal with before wondering if our own technology could advance far enough to the point where constructing a conscious virtual universe would be possible
2174. Your favourite thing in the world to do is read science textbooks, but you never get around to it.
2175. You walk past a television that's playing a Sportsball game, and when the fans start to cheer wildly, these are your thoughts:
-Why are all those people going insane?
-Because their favorite Sportsball team scored a goal.
-Why would that cause them to lose their minds, beat their chests, and rip out their hair from sheer excitement?
-Most likely it harkens back to our ancient evolutionary struggle for survival. We have an instinctual need for dominance over others hardwired into our brains due to millennia of natural selection. Since we no longer need to struggle or dominate to survive, thanks to our technological and cultural advances, that old itch isn't getting scratched. Therefore, we simulate the struggle with Sportsball, and experience dominance vicariously through our chosen team when they achieve the arbitrary goal better than the non-chosen team.
-Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Now, what were we doing?
-I don't remember, but we've been standing here staring off into space for about five minutes, and I think that lady over there thinks we're retarded.
2176. you refer to yourself as if you are multiple people
2177. When you come to the painful conclusion that someone has already been in your single brain of (at best) 40 varieties and decided how you would think and therefore generally live.
2178.When the gravity of realizing you're not even remotely close to unique and alone in your daily machinations hits you. You rested in your uniqueness but thought of yourself more like one in say..
2179. When you try to keep order by numbering ideas but like the dramatic effect (but admittedly lazy) wordsmithery.
2180. You're hungry, ignore the hunger for hours. Realize you have to eat, or you'll faint. Cook dinner for 5 people (but you live alone). Bring dinner to eat by the computer, but you forget to eat it. (Ends up eating it cold anyway)
2181.Your dad tells you your apartment looks like "a drug dealers house", yet you cleaned (parts of) your apartment yesterday.
2182.When your dreams are more like reality than reality itself. (If reality really is reality and not a dream)
2183. you like to mess with people's heads, and then laugh at their pain.
2184.When questioned on it, you deny that you know a thing. If you admitted it, the fun would stop.
2185. When you find that 9x9 Sudoku puzzles are too easy so you either try to make more challenging ones or create a puzzle on a larger grid.
2186. you can't pronounce half the words you know.
2187. you read a lot but rarely use any of the words you learn aloud, and are embarrassed when you mispronounce one or simply refuse to use it because you are afraid of mispronouncing it.
2188. You rebel against anything and everything you have to do - even your favorite things.-at least in your head
2189. You`re a fan of something before everyone else picks up on it and then you lose interest in it because it`s popular.
