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I must also express my love for the Hudson River School, and, on a related note, the Romantic paintings of John Constable. I wouldn't say that I have a favorite period of art history, but I think I could express my tastes more accurately my naming some of my favorite artists: John Constable...

I love all kinds of music. I've been on a Jethro Tull/Beastie Boys kick recently, but more generally I like classic rock and psychedelia, funk, blues, jazz, some metal (stoner/doom, thrash), old-school rap, and some electronica (mostly psytrance). I'll listen to anything that catches my ear really.

William S. Burroughs has referred to marijuana as a "sensitizer", by which he meant it essentially amplifies whatever one was feeling or experiencing. I think this is part of it, but not all of it. Marijuana also acts as a muscle relaxant, which aids in the experience of euphoria. I love the...

Just watched Cosmos stoned out of my mind. Best idea ever.

Man & His Symbols by Carl Jung Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Way of Zen by Alan Watts Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien VALIS by Philip K. Dick Ulysses by James Joyce. In addition to these, H.P...

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Ulysses by James Joyce The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Also, I second Slaughterhouse-Five and Fahrenheit 451 (I haven't read any of the others except The Catcher in the Rye, which I think is overrated.)

Hey guys lets not mistake the finger for the moon. We all like to get high; the method is secondary.

A master reading list sounds awesome, but who would regulate it? Obviously we couldn't have a poll for every suggestion.

Sleep is like a drug that everyone takes. I always loved dreaming and the way it allows one to essentially visit another world for a period of time. I'm partial to Jung and his theories but I'm sure there's more to it than that. I've been thinking recently that dream consciousness is kind of a...

I always thought the high from blunts was more intense, which is another reason I like them. Also Wu-Tang.

It's all about the blunt. The blunt is like Joint 2.0; Better taste, more weed, slower burning. I don't know what its like everywhere else but here in Massachusetts I barely ever see people smoke joints. Its all about the blunt.

It's not that marijuana and other substances are legal in Holland, it's more accurate to say that the laws are simply not enforced. They can be however; just a year or two ago authorities cracked down on the sale of psilocybin mushrooms in Dutch coffee shops. Which is a shame really. Psilocybin...

Everyone should do drugs. Everyone.

Maybe I would, but not really on any conscious level, at least until I had the border completed. They're the easiest pieces to find, and to assemble, and once I have a solid base (so to speak) then I begin to assemble the rest. I'll need to assemble the piano portion eventually, and if anything...

Maybe, but I always thought of Bloom as more sensing than intuitive, and even as more feeling than thinking. Stephen Dedalus, on the other hand, is INTP to the core. Also, pretty much everyone in H.P. Lovecraft. Both heroes (Walter Gillman, Randolph Carter) and villains (Wilbur Whately) display...

I always just find the edges first, assemble them, and then work inward.

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I like to drink but I hate drinking if I can't smoke. It's like listening to a symphony wearing heavy earmuffs.

420 on ya mind one time. Just kidding. I do love to smoke though. I imagine that marijuana would be more popular with INTPs than alcohol but we'll see.

What is your name? Dylan Where are you from? Marlborough, Massachusetts How old are you? 19 Gender? Male How did you find out you were INTP? I took an MBTI assessment in Computer's Class in high school. It described me very well and I was intrigued at the concept of being in a group...

It might seem that way now but at the time it was a big deal. Even today really you can tell how innovative it was. There's no real set-up for the show, no wacky scenario to supply humor to the show. It's just four friends in New York dealing with life. It's also far more bizarre than most...

MDMA was actually used to stimulate interpersonal connectivity before it broke out of the psychiatric community and into the mainstream. Highly recommended. Also marijuana, aside from being awesome, is also a great way to meet people as it is a very popular drug. Also, if you're looking for...

Curb is fantastic especially when you consider that all of the dialogue is improvised by the actors. I love how more often than not Larry is just a victim of circumstance and/or everyone around him is acting in a completely irrational manner. Having said that, I think both Seinfeld and...

I picked "elder" for its mythological/fantastic qualities, and also because I used to be in a doom metal band called Elder Serpent. I picked "toadstool" due to its association with the Amanita muscaria, which is the classic red-with-white-spots fairytale mushroom. I wanted something psychedelic...

Progress is often made through opposing forces. The unfamiliar situation stimulates the mind in new and interesting fashions, allowing previously unavailable information to become integrated into consciousness. The same sort of stimuli tends to nullify the mind. The ethical/emotional scenario...

I don't know how I left out Woody Allen when I have one of his quotes in my signature.

The Allman Brothers Bands are the reigning kings of jam and have been for 40 years. Way better than the Grateful Dead in my opinion. I saw them live last year with Widespread Panic (also worth listening to) and they absolutely blew my mind. Listen to "Mountain Jam" or the Live At Fillmore East...

Philosophy You scored 25 mental chops, 11 work ethic, 23 bullshitability, and 4 practicality!

I'll start. Bill Hicks George Carlin Louis C.K. Stephen Wright Conan O'Brien Larry David Any other suggestions? Criticisms? I'm always looking for good comedy.

Yea I got verbal too.

Always nice to see someone else who loves the mushroom.

Spaghetti with meatballs, pork and sausage. Also marijuana and acetaminophen w/codeine (Rx).

In all seriousness I don't think that a single body could remain alive for over say two hundred years. However, if we developed a method of transferring consciousness to organic or mechanical bodies which can be continually tended to and repaired when necessary I think that some approximation of...

If you can play the guitar with a reasonable degree of proficiency you should be able to play the bass no problem. I've been playing the guitar for about seven years, and while it remains my primary instrument I actually prefer to play the bass; I love to groove. In short, I don't believe the...

Did you really open a discussion about eternal life with a Nickelback video?

While I think DMT and other drugs can facilitate very profound experiences I do not believe they grant the ability to perceive what the human body does not have the ability to perceive already. Saying that DMT literally opens up perceptual doorways to other dimensions is like saying that LSD...

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...should be required reading for all INTPs. A perfect combination of philosophy, literature, mathematics and poetry. I recall someone describing his work as an extension of purely poetic consciousness to it's furthest limits. As bizarre and intellectually stimulating an author as one can find...

Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Hawkwind Tool Electric Wizard The Infinity Project The Sword Earthless Creedence Clearwater Revival The Bee Gees Sleep/Om/High on Fire Sonic Youth Funkadelic KISS Jethro Tull Mahavishnu Orchestra Ash Ra Tempel Wu-Tang Clan Notorious B.I.G. The Beatles The...

I can personally say that smoking marijuana has effected me positively, allowed me to examine myself more objectively, and stimulated contact with the more emotional/artistic aspects of myself. Smoking alone is a valuable, almost meditative experience, and with the right mindset can lead to...

Knowledge of color is different from experience of color. You could read about Disney World your entire life and it still won't be anything compared to the experience of actually being there. Factoids and tidbits of information may or may not be acquired experience, but a different perspective...

I've actually heard that alcohol is more of a gateway drug than marijuana, and if you're familiar with the effects this does actually make sense. Alcohol, in addition to being severely habit-forming, has effects much more akin to stimulants in low doses and sedatives in higher doses. Marijuana...

If you like Robert Anton Wilson you should read the Illuminatus! books he wrote with Robert Shea while they were editors at Playboy back in the 60's. Enough drugs, conspiracy theories, and crazy science fiction to fulfill the most far-out acid fantasy. Leary's eight circuit model of...

If you're gonna take shrooms you might as well take LSD. While in terms of dosage LSD is stronger (LSD: Threshold dose 25-75 micrograms, Standard dose 200-500 micrograms; psilocybin: Threshold 2-8 milligrams, Standard 20-40 milligrams) the chemicals effect the same portions of the brain and...

I've read that INTPs in college are among those most frequently busted for drug or alcohol violations. Having said that, I love drugs.

Yea I did post the thread on the Dark Tower. I thought the ending was a bit cliche, but after thinking about it I think it's perfectly in tune with the series as a whole. As for the best book in the series I'd have to go with either The Wastelands or The Wolves of the Calla.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners are more accessible, but Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are more rewarding. Stuart Gilbert's analysis of Ulysses is highly regarded, and serves as an excellent ball of string for navigating the Joycean labyrinth.

In about the past year or so I've been reading a good amount by and about Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, whose primary contribution to psychology was his theory of the collective unconscious, the archetypes that comprise it, and the way it expresses itself it man. He believed that each man and...

Great writer or the greatest writer?