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It is merely a very shorthand way of saying "this person is most motivated by such and such."

That's all tied up with Enneagramic preferences, isn't it? Some sources say 4w5 is the most common INFJ Enneatype. Fours are very concerned with authenticity. Fe cordiality naturally pushes the subject to, say, express a desire for an ill acquaintance to "get well soon" as a mandate of social...

I don't hate INFPs; I only hate things about them. The ones I know are unexpectedly conforming, quite deeply invested in social status within whatever strata they choose to reside in. I honestly expected more from them. I was a bit let down when I began to discover them IRL, seeing as I had...

P.S. my french is poor these days, so i will refrain from writing too much. but actually, i understand it in written form quite well, donc si tu peux m'ecrire en la langue ca serai excellente. j'aime regarder, par exemple, des filmes avec des sous-titres en francais, et je comprends cela...

read anything good lately? do you write in french? english? i would want to read your writings. im going through a bit of a block. the written word seems futile at times. i was talking to my friend about what a conscious process language is, and how i would prefer a medium that goes beyond...

my life is also pretty evocative of 'P,' but i posit that this is normal for 4w5. actually, i havent been at all enthusiastic about music in the last few years. maybe it's strange, but silence is now my preferred form of music. im pretty sure im HSP, so im overly sensitive to sensory stimuli...

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You have bipolar disorder? It seems to be fairly common among the NFPs, whereas INFJs seem more likely to suffer from unipolar depression. Are you still passionate about art? I suppose my path through life winds and zigzags a lot but my dad says perseverance is what counts, and I persevere...

yeah. i can scarcely imagine the glory of your sex life, young & attractive Feeler women all over youz wit dem infallible pick-up lines

I'm more of a spontaneous Skyper... Tonight?

It's hard to say...if you read it, you'll see exactly what I mean. It's totally an INTP book. I can't imagine a personality type that would get off on it more or more effortlessly.

Because I'm, a la method acting, attempting to write from the mind of a character who is an unhealthy INTP male. But, admittedly (:o) also because of this: INTPs are just conceptually cool.

Thanks! A lot of these are great and useful answers. I'll go through and reply when I have some time. Sometimes I identify so much with the content that it makes me feel like I might be INTP. But that's normal for the 'esoteric INFJs,' from what I've seen.

I have one I think would appeal to INTPs, perhaps because it is written by one. It's called House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski. It's quite brilliant. I'm also reading Peter Pan, currently. PP might not seem like much (Disney movie comes to mind), but the original J.M. Barrie deals with...

The others all made sense, but this one sounds a lot like Ni. Care to explain further?

Interesting. He's never struck me as unhealthy. What's in it for him?

What a tolerant, open-minded community this is. This place is like the Switzerland of the typology forums. Certainly a nice place to vacation...and I would imagine to inhabit. Keep those filthy immigrants out lest they despoil it!

True to your tagline, I see! Not so, not so. I'm very interested in the character as an individual, fine-tuned by idiosyncrasy in its universal and natural forms. I just need to get the rough edges defined properly, which the Myers-Briggs types help me do. It's like sculpting a sculpture...

I disagree. Isolation? Disembodiment? Lack of exercise? Ignoring physical needs like eating? Fashion sense? Hygiene? Posture? Mannerisms? I need to know.

What kind of writing do you do? I write fiction, myself, though I struggle with consistency. I rely too much on the famous Ni shower-moments, but honestly that's where the best ideas come from, to me...that coupled with Ti means I end up going around in circles a lot and not producing much...

At the height of NF fashion, I'm something of an actor. If one were interested in 'becoming' INTP in, say, the way Heath Ledger became the Joker by locking himself in a hotel room for months or Christian Bale became the guy in 'The Machinist' by starving himself or Jared Leto became Mark David...

I think it's totally cool how they're much smarter than me in ways, but I know unfortunately not all males are ready for that sort of thing, so that NT women might still face sex-discrimination even in places like academia, and that sucks... I wish someone might pick up the practical slack...

Not so poorly. I was just looking at the micro-conversation we had 1.5 years ago...it's nice when you can unearth long-ago missives and measure by comparison the progress you've made. AvPD had taken over my life and just recently I have begun to open up again. I'm pretty sure these two...

How do female INTPs differ from the males? (Nice to see you again!)

Nice chatting. We should do it again sometime...

I saw this the other day. Apparently, this guy gets attacked on all sides by scholars for presenting his audiences with misinformation, but I chose to focus on the ideology of the film rather than the factual arguments it tries to make. The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98DfrVjxCQg...

I'm something of an author, and it occurred to me some time ago that it might prove beneficial to utilize methodologies more obviously native to other forms of artistic expression. In contemporary acting, for instance, it has become somewhat commonplace for actors to take preparation for roles...

Thanks for the replies thus far. It's interesting to me that the INTPs who have participated have had the same experiences with academia as me, and feel about the same about it as I do. I, too, felt very constricted by the book-and-blackboard approach, so much that the emphasis on grades really...

Is your life moving now in the direction you were hoping it would? I remember dispensing "advice" a long time ago...

INFJ forum is NOT more interesting! Lots of drama, popularity contest-ing, attention-seeking, conspiracy theory...hence why I turned to the dark (INT) side. Maybe to you guys it's interesting... O_o

Certainly!

As much as I am interested in the females among you, my purpose for this interview is to gather data that might be useful to me in writing a male INTP character in a piece I am working on. Nevertheless, please feel free to answer even if you aren’t INTP or a woman. I would enjoy reading either...

You still around?

See, that is where things get truly slippery, because what you are doing is engaging in wishful thinking. When you consider the sheer demand for meat, then you must see that there is good reason to believe that these animals are NOT living the idyllic lives they allegedly -- at the word of the...

Unfortunately, I find myself in the above trap often enough, but not because I don't care to know the truth. I just don't really have the time for research topic after research topic. Unfortunately, laziness also plays a part. But that's what INTP friends are for! Not that they are immune to...

I'm ambivalent about it, but I've learned I need people a lot more than the INTs do. The reclusive variant of INFJ is this very liminal type in ways. We're not like ENFJs or the NFPs, who tend to be more aware of what is "cool" and who duly thirst after acceptance, belonging, status. They're...

I just got your message; I hadn't logged in for a while. Do you not get on here much anymore?

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm the real deal, baby. :elephant:

I can certainly understand eating animals -- it's all part and parcel of the circle of life, one of the prime laws governing the world we live in, and one which we certainly did not decree. But to me the blatant disregard for animals, the utter lack of respect for them, is just another symptom...

Systems can and do change over time. Western society has certainly undergone some very gargantuan leaps in the last several hundred years. Maybe it begins with just a few people, but these people have the ability to influence other people, who in turn can influence even more people, eventually...

what's up, Dux? You still around? I've officially turned to the NT side now. I no longer care about relationships or romance, but almost exclusively for gathering knowledge and carrying out creative endeavors. Muahahaha.

I abstain from ingesting animal products, but I don't like calling myself a "vegan" for the connotations. I personally have a problem with temperance, so the only effective strategy if I want to eat in a way that isn't detrimental to my health is to cut out meat, dairy, eggs altogether. I...

Hey, Dux...been a while. How are you doing? I got tired of being such a whiny nincompoop, and so I left to sort myself out some.

He is very wise and disciplined to do so; the ego is an all-consuming, ever-growing danger to the well-being of the host. The ego is perhaps a more potent distorter of reality than many hallucinogenic drugs. He knows he's not nearly as altruistic as you perceive him to be. INFJs are very aware...

Ah, yes, Radiant Shadow is quite impressive, though he's loathe to accept compliments. I don't know if you've noticed; it secretly cracks me up. subwayrider's angst, eh? lol How's your life?

Yo, it's OK. :P

I'm alive, but thanks for worrying. I've just felt the need to be more alone with my thoughts, lately. I get to see people at school every day, so there's no social deficit. How are you?

I am sad roughly half the time. I don't think there's anything wrong, since I've been this way as long as I can remember. Thanks, man. I've just been busy with school, so I don't get on but to post whatever cool quote comes to mind. How are you doing?

Caffeine gives me comedowns so bad, I feel like killing myself during some of them.

Go on. EDIT: I'm actually very interested in the Four-wing. See... I'm 4w5. I wonder about the nuances in 4w5 vs. 5w4 and others. Do you subscribe to tri-type? I haven't read anything on it yet. I noticed each type is connected to two others. I assume one is the healthy integral and the other...