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Where my dad works, a physics Ph.D was hired from the outside because he was a physics Ph.D. I think that he ended up in research. I hope that you are right on both counts: the completion of our knowledge of physics is more important than my entertainment. :) -Duxwing

Tell her how her having sex with her boyfriend when you are around makes you feel, and ask her therefore to stop. :) -Duxwing

Drinking arsenic, leaping from cliffs, getting an art major... Why would half not find permanent work? :confused: Some of the other fifty percent change their sub-field of physics or find private employment. Recent advances in physics may open entirely new fields, and dark energy...

Are we discussing the likelihood of finding physics work after getting a physics degree, or the usefulness of a physics degree when seeking employment? I agree with the latter and not the former. The definition of 'worse' depends on the above question because anyone who can speak and write...

Personal experience should not be hastily generalized because individuals can differently experience the same phenomenon, which may change with time: other physics majors may have more easily found work than you did, and physics majors' employment opportunities may have changed since you stopped...

Happy New Year! :) -Duxwing

I agree with Paradox Paradigm and The Introvert and suggest requesting forcible commitment. The steps to requesting are simple: 1 Find a nearby psychiatric hospital that specializes in violence. 2 Remove everyone and every weapon (firearms, blades, cars) from your house lest you hurt the...

Te users sometimes ignore Fe values by adopting a 'tough' or 'practical' mindset, deriding people who lack it. When an Fe user experiences this derision, they feel pain, which they can so study as to discover which value the Te user ignored. -Duxwing

If your friend would leave you because you refuse to futilely be injured, then you need a less egotistical friend. If your significant other would leave you because you refuse to act against your conscience lest her being proven wrong make her experience abandonment or ego-pain, then you need...

Bring me a crossbow with a thirty-round magazine and a nine-hundred round-per-minute rate of fire, and I'll eat my hat. -Duxwing

A counterpart to the "Worst Gifts You've Ever Gotten" thread. -Duxwing

Awww! :) -Duxwing

Want to talk? :) -Duxwing

Yay! Christmas! :) Whereas at our house, my dad, brother, and I about a week ago bought a twelve foot tree in about three minutes while our mom was answering her phone in the car. Everyone put it up together, and my mom and brother decorated it. We dressed up and had a nice dinner, and I...

Post your witty retorts to such common remarks as: -"How could you?!" -"What goes around comes around." -"Everyone has the right to their opinion." Exemplary retorts: -"Thus!" -"Tether-ball exacts harsh justice." -"It is indeed your right to be wrong." -Duxwing

Merry Christmas, INTP Forum! Here post your Christmas pictures, stories, wishes, ideas, etc. -Duxwing

I have sappy moments on demand in my imagination. :) -Duxwing

Would you please PM me your e-mail address? :) -Duxwing

Give the ad companies time, and they will better advertise: merely twenty years ago advertising largely could not be targeted at individuals. Indeed! -Duxwing

Internet users often encounter advertisements, the content whereof depends on each user's browsing habits and become increasingly compelling with the amount of available data. I have noticed two possibilities: 1) Advertising Approaches Perfection As the amount of data grows, so does the...

I wrote a lengthy and heartfelt reply in Google Docs, saved it, and forgot it. I'm so sorry! :o Hopefully the time and effort that I put into editing it will make your waiting worthwhile. *hugs* -Duxwing

Wow. That's rough. :( The field may change because plenty of new physics questions may arise if the newly-discovered Higgs Boson badly meshes with the Standard Model. Einstein is... different. -Duxwing

It's perfectly alright. :) Awww. You're welcome. -Duxwing

Therefore, in your view, professional physics is to INTPs as SEAL Team Six is to ISTPs? -Duxwing

I'm taking AP Physics B, and I love it. :) My teacher is funny, kind, loves his subject, and has always helped me with my extra-curricular physics questions. The labs have sometimes blown my mind (spectral lines of hydrogen) and the math can be beautiful. I also feel safe... so soft and warm...

Ohhh. :( Extended small talk makes me want to scream in rage. My Christmas is quiet: mom, dad, brother, and presents. :) We open our gifts, take pictures, and retire to our rooms to enjoy. If you loathe holiday parties, then without drama stop attending them and instead send a nice card...

I collect them! :D Awww. Yay! My child-like Fe makes me want to be hugged, especially by you melty FJs, and yes, my romantic expressions almost always are pure: figuring out what my feelings are (and to whom they are) and what to do about them is hard enough without having to careful about...

My experience with INFJs has been overwhelmingly positive. :) The only unmanageable downsides were applicable to any type. --- History Teacher Kind, intelligent, understanding, and helpful even in my worst moments. We pipelined so well that she once wanted to yell at me, and I told her...

Coincidentally, the statement "Only a sith deals in an absolute" is an absolute. Getting those groups to cooperate would likely allow negotiation: As long as deathly violence is necessary, I propose that the best solution is lawful war. (see my earlier proposal) -Duxwing

By inherently violent you mean that anyone in some circumstances or for some reason might commit violence? If you do, then your claim is true and weak: a "violent" person so often personally commits violent acts that they significantly endanger others. The sadism is strong in this one. :P...

If we can cooperate, then we can forcibly commit violent people to mental institutions, where they can be treated or warehoused. On a side note: are you enjoying imagining these virtual wars? A conflict of interest could cloud your judgment. Or we can make love and money instead of war. :)...

What happens when someone is a sore loser, leaves their machine, and shoots their 'fairly-playing' enemies? War occurs because cooperation sometimes fails. -Duxwing

Godel seems to assume that an objective, definite set of "positive" properties exists. -Duxwing

Hello! :) -Duxwing

Without structure, our thoughts would be freer and therefore less organized; perhaps the trade-off therefore would not be worthwhile. -Duxwing

Re: Texas is at it again (creation vs science) You also have to find scraps of paper, and the context is personal applications (not headless servers, etc.). Therefore we instead ought to send letters through the mail? I said that I computer can, not that it always will. Agreed. How do...

Cognisant meant that a neuron is so huge, hot, noisy, and messy that present instruments cannot distinguish its individual subatomic interactions, which experience the quantum 'observer effect' that you mentioned, and that we therefore cannot perfectly model a neuron that experiences presently...

Re: Texas is at it again (creation vs science) Go on... :) Please explain, you're just denying it and arguing ad-hom. Copying can be done by hand, press, or computer. You say that hand is better than computer. Therefore in your argument remain only the hand and press. Almost no-one has...

Re: Texas is at it again (creation vs science) I didn't say to a computer: I said on a computer, where the process is Right-Click -> Copy -> Right-Click -> Paste. Furthermore, a computer can automatically make thousands of copies and throughout the world distribute them in milliseconds...

Re: Texas is at it again (creation vs science) Humans are wetware and therefore lack such non-volatile memory as a HDD: we are terabytes upon terabytes of RAM. Copying a four-hundred bit poem on paper is hardly trivial when compared to copying it on a computer, and as the length of the poem...

Re: Texas is at it again (creation vs science) You're comparing apples to oranges; e.g., no-one can perfectly and forever memorize five trillion (500Gb) of text whereas the brain's facial recognition technology remains unmatched, and one cannot copy information from one brain to another...

Your Borderline Personality Disorder likely greatly contributes to your confusion about yourself. Therefore, curing it may reveal your type. :) -Duxwing

Hello! :) I'm only a year older than you, and this forum has tremendously helped me. PM if you need debating advice. -Duxwing

Only if you have mass. :p -Duxwing

Some would even say that we are in the Post-Post-Modernist phase, upon which and others history can cast humorous light. Around 1700, people began to question their traditions in the Enlightenment and instead believe Rationalism or Empiricism. Then they questioned the Enlightenment's focus on...

:_( I'll miss you and your snuggly softness. *hug* -Duxwing

Awww. :) I'm glad. -Duxwing

The helicopter's engines roar while it hovers high above the desert. Daniela flips the autopilot switch to HVR and leans over her seat to look at Noah. His teeth are chattering beneath his helmeted head, and his gloved hands are tightly folded in the lap of his wingsuit. Daniela's Ukranian...

Analyzing and rebutting is easier when one is calm. -Duxwing

I agree wholeheartedly. We had Rachel's Challenge (i.e., Fundamentalist, Evangelical Christianity in a school-friendly wrapper) present at our high-school, and while I was absolutely revolted, I felt the pressure to conform. Luckily, some of my friends have Fi in higher places than I do, and I...