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I believe it's less to do with focusing on something, and more to do with self-control. In those sorts of situations where meditation is meant to give an advantage, the two things that will slow down your reflexes are emotions, and conscious thought. Meditation is all about controlling those two...

One of us. One of us. :smiley_emoticons_mr

I would like steampunk more if the aesthetics included any other colour than shades of brown. There's no reason they couldn't use steel instead of copper, or use black clothes dye on coats.

The problem with any attempt to discern the best way to treat someone for trauma, is working out whether the person is genuinely overcoming their problems, or just getting better at hiding them.

It's just the old stereotyping that says if you don't talk about your feelings then there must be something wrong with you. The introduction says it all really "popular notions about what is normal or healthy" It would be hard to make a conclusion about why the people who didn't talk were better...

The longest I've ever had a job for was a 9 month industrial placement before I started at university. I enjoyed it very much, but that was probably more due to the novelty of leaving school and my parents. 9 months was no time at all, if the job was permanant, I would have probably started...

Cannibalism? :elephant:

But then why bother calling it a fetish at all, most people associate the word fetish with a sexual attraction. If you insist on using a word like that and not defining what you mean clearly it only complicates and confuses things. :storks:

I'm INTP, but N is my weakest preference. When I first became interested in the MBTI, I wasn't sure whether I was INTP or ISTP, I decided I was INTP, but for the wrong reasons. I had decided I was N but with a strongly developed S. Trying to think in terms of N or S can just lead to confusion...

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I think I'm motivated by success itself. It's the warm feeling I get when I've finished a task and I think I've done it particularly well or cleverly. I don't want fame or fortune, I just want to solve problems that other people can't. I'm demotivated by having to do anything I find irrelevant...

I always keep my doc martens well polished, but I think it's because I care more about my boots than about how I look in them. I used to wear converse because they were comfortable, but then everyone started wearing them, and I was also tired of having to buy a new pair every six months so I...

A lot of forum posts that I visit via search engines link you to a simple text archive of the page at first. I imagine this would save a hell of a lot of bandwidth for these sites. Does this site have such an archiving feature already, and would it be easy to implement if not?

I have returned, possibly temporarily, or not, depending on how bored I am. :phear:

You missed cake.

[/INDENT]The junk shot doesn't try to clog the well up, it's used to clog up the BOP. The problems with it are that whether it works or not, it could strip the BOP of any remaining functionality, it depends on there being at least some obstruction inside the BOP already (i.e. half closed valves)...

Akira. Still a great film, even though the dubbing is a bit crap in places. (I prefer watching subtitled anime to dubbed because the translation doesn't need to be altered for the timing to fit)

I fart in your general direction (it was a friendly fart btw :) )

I thought it was the Romans :confused:

I think that's meant to be a coughing smiley, you'll have to use your imagination and pretend it's sneezing :mad: <- this is me in the middle of sneezing

Some people may be born with a fetish, some peoples fetish may be a result of experiences in their life, it would depend. The question as to how that manifests or develops is horrendously difficult to answer unless you consider individual cases. There may also be chicken-or-the-egg problem to...

So what you're asking is not why people have fetishes, but how that fetish goes from being something inside their head to something they actually do?

Depends on the fetish and the person some people into some fetishes, choking etc. have brains whos pleasure centres activate in response to pain. For people into role playing it may be some sort of escapism People into some things like BDSM may have some underlying psychological problems People...

Not the sort of music I normally listen to, but I love this. The song was the intro to Ghost in the Shell 2nd gig YouTube- Yoko Kanno- Rise

Happy people don't complain... ...therefore happy people don't get noticed. This is true across the whole internet not just places frequented by INTPs, if you look on just about any blog or any forum, in posts where people are talking about themselves, the majority are about their 'problems'...

Self-perpetuating negative thoughts. I get terrible depressive moods that can stick with me for anything from a couple of hours, to the end of the day or weeks. Although if it lasts more than a few days it's probably an actual depression rather than just a bad mood. They appear out of nowhere...

Eye contact is horrible but I always try because apparently I'm meant to

Amon Amarth is great, but their sound gets a bit samey after a while. I love Turisas, but only for the sheer cheesiness rather than any musical appreciation.

There is little in this world I hate more than music like this, although it's barely music at all

The meadow is a hallucination. In reality you have your head stuck in a toilet and have just learned toilet cleaner is a powerful hallucinogen

Anything the person in the flat above plays

Saffron Efficients (INTP) That is actually quite an accurate description of how I like to excercise

You frequently feel an urge to mix chlorine and acid based cleaning products together to see what happens. You consider building a home made fume cupboard to do it with

iso-tonic type sports drinks have magnesium and other minerals that do the same thing, which is probably more convenient than pills. I'm not sure if it would work for hand pain from writing though

And me, my mum taught me how to hold them properly because she didn't trust the school to teach me right. I've got the same callus on my joint, but I think they're actually a growth of bone from pressure being applied for a long time Number 12 on that diagram is brilliant

Try changing the angle of the paper or the height of the desk or the angle you hold your arm at. Changing the position of your arm and wrist may remove tension somewhere and help your hand

I tend to get too into the mindsets of characters and end up stuck in what I see their mindset as when I'm not reading. I see myself as sam vimes sometimes, and one of the wizards at others

inventing new plurals is easy, inventulating new verbs is hard. The fox lives here: http://skia.deviantart.com/gallery/

Do saints get special t shirts? (or any other form of attire) and also... can I become a saint even after stabbing loads of people to death? And another question that even God himself didn't know when I asked him... where can I get my parking validated?

Bill McTolkien ontinues conversating with David Baxter "Interviews? Coincidently I was in that line of work up until recently" ("And those "interviews" are the reason I'm a 100 million miles from my home now" he thought to himself)

*waves politely*

(continues conversation with David Baxter) "Mine's Bill, Bill McTolkien. Actually I have been hoping to find work that gets me off the standard duty rota, too long spent doing manual labour gives me terrible back pain, but the doctors tell me it's just in my head." They were right of course, and...

Happy birthday :elephant: I was going to buy you some imaginary shoes but I didn't have time to go to the imaginary shop

This nearly broke my record for the time it's taken me to reply to someone. :rolleyes: I'm from Birmingham and study at Birmingham uni. I went to Swindon once but left quite quickly

I enter conversation with the guy in the suit and say: "You look like you can afford the return journey, are you here on business?" Amidoinitrite? :confused:

licenses are cheap, but lessons and tests are expensive. Then when you start driving properly on top of the cost of a car and petrol, you get monetarily raped by insurance and car tax.

Name: Bill McTolkien Age: 22 Appearance: 6'0", Caucasian, Dark hair, wiry build, beard, wears very old black trenchcoat Background: Parents died in strange circumstances when he was 3 years old, no other family could be found and after being passed around a few orphanages he was eventually left...

I feel I have traits that are superior to the majority of people and I also have traits that are inferior to the majority, and I also have ones that fall in between. The question as to whether I am superior as a whole is ludicrous. It is without definitions of superior, and the number of traits...

I got my learners licence as soon as I could, but I've had it three years and haven't even sat in a driving seat yet

I believe something along the same lines to the original post, but when describing the rest of the human race I wouldn't call them judgemental selfish or stupid. Humanities single and overarching problem is the absence of open-mindedness. This single thing can be at the root of those things, it...