I test as INTP, but I must be marginal. When I was travelling around reading the threads for the various types, (search on "know you're XXXX"), I identified with lots of them.
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I found these ENTP posts to be hilarious, and I've done things similar to this, if not so outrageous.
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When you oftentimes have the overwhelming temptation to walk up to a stranger on the street and say something like:
" I just had a great idea for a kid's show called 'Remorse'. Just a bunch of little kids expressing regret. Like 'I'm sorry for painting the cat, mommy.' I think it would be a great chance to bring people together. Don't you?'
and then walking off like nothing happened.
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. . . when playing with your 4 year old you make all the baby dolls have limps and creepy accents like Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects.
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BAHAHAHA!!! When the Jehovah's Witnesses came to my ENTP cousin's house, he pretended to be possesed and started writhing around screaming, "I LOVE SATAN, 666! 666!" IT WAS HILARIOUS!! <--- this was written by an INTP
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The best was when a group of really drunk guys was hitting on us and they were asking us what we do and all of my friends looked at me so I told them I worked at the big zoo by our house. They oooohhh'ed and aaahhh'ed and talked about how cool that was and I agreed. They asked what I did at the zoo and I told them I was a herpetology podiatrist.
Of course, all of this was done straight faced while my friends were laughing so hard they were almost falling off of the chair.
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INTJ (and I don't even show a J)
when you realize decades later that someone was hitting on you
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INFP
when decades later you still remember killing a spider and feel bad about it
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ISTP
And you know you're ISTP if you built some workbenches and shelving in your garage out of odds and ends you had lying around, but then never organized/put anything away. And if you store half of your tools in the kitchen where the pots and pans are supposed to be.
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INFJ
when you walk into a room and can feel the emotional mood immediately
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Of course, many of the posts were pure bombast. People seem to ignore the statement by the MBTI foundation that it says nothing about ability, that it only applies to process. I saw it here on the 'know you're INTP' thread. People thinking that if A then B implies if B then A. If INTP, then intelligent => if intelligent, then INTP. Both of those assertions are probably false. The second is false by contradiction, just from my personal experience, let alone looking at the wider world. To prove the first would require that we examine every INTP in the world. An impossibility. Of course, all that is required to disprove it is to find an INTP who isn't intelligent. If the MBTI foundation statement is true, such a person exists.
Anyway, after all the research, I decided that MBTI had some value, but was flawed and incomplete. Just like the first time around. Still, it's fun. And can provide an alternate perspective.
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I found these ENTP posts to be hilarious, and I've done things similar to this, if not so outrageous.
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When you oftentimes have the overwhelming temptation to walk up to a stranger on the street and say something like:
" I just had a great idea for a kid's show called 'Remorse'. Just a bunch of little kids expressing regret. Like 'I'm sorry for painting the cat, mommy.' I think it would be a great chance to bring people together. Don't you?'
and then walking off like nothing happened.
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. . . when playing with your 4 year old you make all the baby dolls have limps and creepy accents like Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects.
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BAHAHAHA!!! When the Jehovah's Witnesses came to my ENTP cousin's house, he pretended to be possesed and started writhing around screaming, "I LOVE SATAN, 666! 666!" IT WAS HILARIOUS!! <--- this was written by an INTP
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The best was when a group of really drunk guys was hitting on us and they were asking us what we do and all of my friends looked at me so I told them I worked at the big zoo by our house. They oooohhh'ed and aaahhh'ed and talked about how cool that was and I agreed. They asked what I did at the zoo and I told them I was a herpetology podiatrist.
Of course, all of this was done straight faced while my friends were laughing so hard they were almost falling off of the chair.
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INTJ (and I don't even show a J)
when you realize decades later that someone was hitting on you
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INFP
when decades later you still remember killing a spider and feel bad about it
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ISTP
And you know you're ISTP if you built some workbenches and shelving in your garage out of odds and ends you had lying around, but then never organized/put anything away. And if you store half of your tools in the kitchen where the pots and pans are supposed to be.
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INFJ
when you walk into a room and can feel the emotional mood immediately
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Of course, many of the posts were pure bombast. People seem to ignore the statement by the MBTI foundation that it says nothing about ability, that it only applies to process. I saw it here on the 'know you're INTP' thread. People thinking that if A then B implies if B then A. If INTP, then intelligent => if intelligent, then INTP. Both of those assertions are probably false. The second is false by contradiction, just from my personal experience, let alone looking at the wider world. To prove the first would require that we examine every INTP in the world. An impossibility. Of course, all that is required to disprove it is to find an INTP who isn't intelligent. If the MBTI foundation statement is true, such a person exists.
Anyway, after all the research, I decided that MBTI had some value, but was flawed and incomplete. Just like the first time around. Still, it's fun. And can provide an alternate perspective.
