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Well, perhaps democracy has simply made revolutions less bloody. If one considers the primary purpose of a national revolution to be a change in regime, then democracies arguably effect a revolution with every change in government, just without the bloodshed. Perhaps there has been a slow...

External differences do not show anything apart from those differences themselves. It is fallacious to assume that simply because some persons have different physical features and skin colour, then they are necessarily less intelligent (for example). Also, intelligence is at least partly...

Yeah it's difficult to identify what caused it since there was no readily apparent cause apart from the work itself (I had suddenly developed a fear of missing urgent deadlines - which is of course stupid because I don't think there's any job which has no deadlines at all). Several people told...

Historically, people have by and large discriminated not on the basis of genes (which are invisible) but on the basis of skin colour, a phenotype which can be caused by various different combinations of genes. Why skin colour? Simply because it is the most apparent? This shows that racism is...

Yes, I have friends at work. I used to find my work meaningful. I used to do pro bono cases which I found meaningful but currently I'm not even taking on a single pro bono case as I feel demotivated and disinterested in my work. I'm not sure what changed in my life, I've taken meds, taken a...

It is not innate because different groups of dark-skinned people were discriminated against by lighter skinned people despite being the most genetically distinct on earth - the negritos in the Philippines and African-Americans historically. Instead, it is a social construct that seems to rely...

I used to not dread going to work. I used to be able to go through with the daily routine just fine. I've tried various things. I just went to a dinner with friends and it was OK but I still didn't feel motivated after that. It's like there's just this funk I've fallen into and I don't know...

How do you overcome a persistent feeling of dreading going to work and feeling demotivated to do anything, even things you used to like?

Happy New Year to everyone who's celebrating it today!

There's so much literature still referring to the 1920s as the "twenties" - now there's another twenties.

Perfectly plausible. Which is why the Big 5 is more scientific than MBTI: it allows for continuums instead of strict dichotomies (which matches the actual personality distribution of the world that largely follows a normal, rather than bimodal, distribution).

Linux is beautiful. KDE Plasma's graphics and UI are way better than Windows and Mac. Necrotised this thread as I didn't want to create a new one. Linux users, what distro do you use? I use Kubuntu.

Surely I can't be the only one.

Doesn't tensorflow already do that?

Bunkum, I'm male!

I had 2 ideas that would have worked but other people got around to doing them first. 1 of them is an automated money changer machine (already done by another company) and another is a design of ceiling-mounted bladeless fans that sucks air through the centre and blows it out the sides of the...

Unfortunately no.

I play the piano, guitar and bagpipes.

Get started on TensorFlow. Probably anyone's best bet.

Wondering how to get my brain back and out of a funk...

I went back to work yesterday. Wish me luck.

I'm currently trying to be on a ketogenic diet both to lose weight as well as for its purported health benefits. Is anyone else here trying this as well? What are your experiences?

Myers-Briggs doesn't have spectrums (at least, the original Myers-Briggs). You're one type or the other. That's based on Jungian function theory.

Sounds like a readable programming language would be a good idea. Like perhaps some sort of variety of VB.NET that is even more English like. It's a bit sad that the tradition of English like languages, e.g. COBOL, BASIC, Macromedia Lingo etc. are going away. Maybe they will be revived one day...

How's the project? Any demo?

Yes, you are right that Christianity has a tradition of meditation as well and, in that sense, it is similar to Buddhism. But Christian meditation has a different focus - it is focused on the contemplation of God (contemplative prayer, scripture memory etc.) and building a relationship with God...

Well but autism and asperger's aren't really mental illnesses, are they? They're more like a birth condition; perhaps the mental equivalent of having a mole. According to Wikipedia schizotypal personality disorder is characterised by "severe social anxiety, thought disorder, paranoid ideation...

I'm a former INTP married to an ENFJ. It seems to work (but maybe it only works because I became an INFP).

Any advice is helpful. Much appreciated. I won't do the Buddhist style meditation, though, as I'm a Christian. I'm praying in tongues instead. It helps somewhat.

Everything counts. What did you do in college?

I just read this on Wikipedia: Seems like it's not Asperger's that's correlated with INTP, but Schizotypal personality disorder. Either way, it seems to explain the high incidence of mental illness on this forum.

Or XNTP or IXTP for that matter. MBTI and Jungian function theory suggest no. The Big 5 (insofar as it correlates to MBTI) suggests yes. What would the Jungian function ordering for somebody with an ambiguous type be like?

I am currently trying to get out of burnout. Till now, I have no idea what precipitated the burnout until I dreaded going to work everyday and felt suicidal. Statistically, my profession (law) generally has a high burnout rate so I am probably in good company. What's encouraging is that others...

I'd major in Esperanto if such a major existed and become an Esperanto poet or songwriter or something.

Hobbyists included. I'm sure this has been done before but I was just wondering. What do you like coding in? My current poison is Quasar (https://quasar.dev).

I'm on Olanzapine at night and Sertraline in the morning. I've been thinking of stopping my medication, fearing that it's making me worse. Anybody else have experience with these meds?

I do have my own projects. I have a currently unprofitable shell company (https://customautosys.com). But I'm not even getting interviews for computer programming jobs (they probably toss my resume the moment they see that I don't really have "real world" software engineering experience). You...

Result of not having a job...

I had a great deal of anxiety just doing my normal work. I'm trying to overcome it. Also, I've been finding that I did not enjoy my previous line of work (I was a litigation lawyer). I've been trying to find a job as a computer programmer instead (I also have a relevant degree in that), without...

I'm back...after a long hiatus. I have nothing to do as I am currently unemployed (although I could go back to my previous job). I'm here to hopefully seek support from like-minded people, even though I'm now an INFP.

https://bigfive-test.com/result/5da5d250e108cb006217e960 Neuroticism - high Extraversion - low Openness to experience - high Agreeableness - high Conscientiousness - low

Here again after so long...maybe this community will help.

I've been off the forum for a long time and decided to take a look today. I had a mental breakdown this year and quit my job for 2 months. Diagnosed with delusional disorder. I kept imagining that the files I was handling would blow up (not physically but figuratively) - I worked as a...

I feel thoroughly sick and tired of my pointless committal application. What a stupid waste of time. And it was my idea originally. Now I can't get us out of the darned never ending adjournments.

Have we not a single black, or at least non-white moderator? Why isn't a pointless thread like this closed? Anyone could always post more evidence of black swimming athletes in the US but the idiot who started this thread and those on his side would almost certainly remain determined to shut...

Overall, you scored as follows: 9% scored higher (more nerdy), 0% scored the same, and 91% scored lower (less nerdy). What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: Supreme Nerd. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!. :storks:

I just wonder if there is any place in the world where it could be favourable to be a Chinese man.

Why do we get disappointed? Is there some evolutionary reason for it? Does it aid some other mechanism?

Actual: INFP Ideal: INTP Attraction: INFP So I love myself but wish I never changed.

Why is it that tiredness creates the need to write? I guess the feeling of being trapped is something that we feel an especial need to escape from.