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			<title>Egyptian INTP</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:58:44 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Egypt. 
I've been lurking around the forum for the past 5 months after taking an mbti test & reading the description for my type ; I...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Greetings from Egypt.<br />
I've been lurking around the forum for the past 5 months after taking an mbti test &amp; reading the description for my type ; I was amazed at how accurate it described me , it litteraly knew stuff me that I didn' t know about myself.<br />
Then I found this forum &amp; after reading the you know you're an intp when... thread I immediately signed up as I was really happy to finally find out that there are people really like me bec prior to that I was starting to feel really different from all the people around me &amp;  I would never find someone who could really get me ; but after signing up &amp; reading some of the posts around here,  it was like I'm in heaven as I have never met  an Intp in real life (&amp; especially here in Egypt) . It took me 5 months to write my first post as I was really hesitant to do so ( maybe cause i'm 95 % Introverted) . Anyways I hope this isn't too long .<br />
I'm interested in music(esp metal &amp; hard rock) ,playing guitar &amp; singing , philosophy, reading.<br />
P.S.:If you have any questins regarding Egypt or Islam I would be really happy to answet them<br />
Thanks.</div>

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			<title>borderline insane</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:57:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm guessing this is the place for crazy ideas... so, here I go.  
 
God is a dimension.  
 
According to some people there are 10 dimensions, the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I'm guessing this is the place for crazy ideas... so, here I go. <br />
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God is a dimension. <br />
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According to some people there are 10 dimensions, the last one of it being something that encompasses everything, every universe out of the whole multiverse. According to the same people, beings that &quot;live&quot; in a lower dimension are incapable to see the ones above them. They explained it like this- if there would be a 2D person and they would come across someone in 3D, they would only see fragments of them as the lines would cross. They would have no idea what they just saw. <br />
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Now... if this theory is true, and there are actually other universes out there, it would be reasonable to say we could never make contact with the full thing. <br />
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Also, according to some religious theories god is an entity that knows everything. <br />
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If he sees everything,, he must know what happens in other dimensions. <br />
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If he is capable of this, it means that he does not &quot;live&quot; in a dimension- he is the dimension. <br />
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This would of course mean that everything people believe about him is  essentially true.</div>

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			<title>BOOBS!!! And other borderline content: Thread Split</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:03:16 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>When I see jiggling, giggling boobies I get the urge to shake a leg... :D</description>
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			<title>normal people</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:14:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Are sensors the "normal " people ?]]></description>
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			<title>Perception of Time</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:10:35 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi :) INTP heavy here 
 
I do apologize if this thread has been made before, but I haven't seen it. 
Anyway, I was browsing other forums and only...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hi :) INTP heavy here<br />
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I do apologize if this thread has been made before, but I haven't seen it.<br />
Anyway, I was browsing other forums and only came upon it once, but I can't seem to find it again.<br />
Anyway, it was on how the Guardians/Idealists/Artisans/Rationals view/perception of time was uh...minimally drastic...but different from each other, i.e. the types focusing on a certain aspect of time and how it affects them...<br />
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It was along the lines of: <br />
SJ's ( Si) dominant perception function): focused on 'yesterday/past'<br />
NF's: on 'tomorrow/future'<br />
SP's (Se) dominant perception function: 'now/present'<br />
NT's: a little more interesting, you could essentially say the 'present' as well, but it's not like that, most of the types have a very 'linear' perception of time, a concrete past and present and future, although I have seen videos over at the NFgeeks saying the NFs aren't as linear, but still have a little concreteness in the theory of time. Anyway, this <i>might</i> be confusing if you haven't considered it...<br />
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Edited: thanks to  Own8geInk, and sorry for the different terminology, edited for clarity<br />
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It's basically another extension of people's perception's (e.g. Do you think in pictures or words? [better phrased as visual/non visual thinker)<br />
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also, when Einstein described his perception ( and thoughts ) on time, everyone went crazy and ballistic, dont take this as condescending, but that seems more 'common sense?' (not putting down ANY of his ideas...lol)<br />
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anyway, (TL;dr) just curious on your own perception (And VIEW [as they are different]) on time.</div>

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			<title>Feedback for Political Map</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:43:25 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I have been working for some time on the typology of political currents or trends . I think this section is appropriate. I spent last night to set up...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I have been working for some time on the typology of political currents or trends . I think this section is appropriate. I spent last night to set up the graphics.<br />
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I wanted some feedback to see if I was wrong in my assumptions. Will you look at these figures and tell me if the ideologies match your type or that of people you know.<br />
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Here is the Map:<br />
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Here is the Table:<br />
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The debate on political trends on the Internet is popular and there are many differing opinions on this subject. Often, because of the lack of information, people are struggling to define the particular political groups they belong that have an affinity with them. There are also many people who are unfamiliar and who are poorly typed alas. There are also speculators who make a guess between two beers ...We find everything on the Net...  but this is not what i search for.<br />
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I need strong advice based on on objectivity.<br />
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I have seen several times the graph grid Authoritarian Libertarian, and I noticed that most people on the forum were Libertarians. I am also Libertarian and I'm INTP.<br />
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It might seem that ideologies are arranged randomly on the Political Map. This is not the case.<br />
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The human mind is divided into areas that are mathematically and symmetrically opposed.<br />
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I do not know about you ...<br />
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I appeal to your analytical side. I would like to make improvements. Can you give me information that I could include in my table and that I would not have thought.<br />
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For example, I do not know what ideologies belonging to essentialism have in common.<br />
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Or what characterizes each quadrant?  <br />
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Recommendations. Ideas and suggestions are welcome.</div>

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			<title>Expressing yourself</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:02 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I hope I'm posting this in the right place, I really don't want any trouble  :-)  
 
A couple of days ago my aunt contacted me on the phone, and...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I hope I'm posting this in the right place, I really don't want any trouble  :-) <br />
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A couple of days ago my aunt contacted me on the phone, and asked me if I could help out a little girl with something for school. I told her that I would try, but I can't promise anything, especially since she didn't know what the problem was, so I couldn't look into it. <br />
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Since there are about 10 years between the girl and  me, i also had my doubts about it... my school years were long gone,. <br />
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Anyway, when I got there I had to check out her book to see what it was about, and after a few minutes of reading I realized that i actually know the topic quite well. It was all very logical in my mind.<br />
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But then, when it came to explaining it to her, it was very awkward, a few times  I even managed to confuse myself. In the end we did some exercizes, until she seemed to at least have a clue.<br />
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So what I want to know is howcome we make fools of ourself all the time when it comes to talking?</div>

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			<title>Giggling, Jiggling, Boobies</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I've been watching videos on YouTube from Extra Credits and Jimquisition, the really interesting ones being about women playing games, the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I've been watching videos on YouTube from Extra Credits and Jimquisition, the really interesting ones being about women playing games, the objectification of women in games and all that gender studies stuff.<br />
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Finally I've figured out what's been bugging me into watching all this.<br />
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I see their examples and I wondered what was so bad about them, it's damn near nudity a lot of the time but nudity isn't that offensive so I figured there had to be something else, so I pondered a while about portrayals of men I might find offensive, the muscle bound jar-heads from Gears of War annoy me, but not much, I've seen male models in nothing but their briefs, it's a little off putting to see on Ellen (I doubt she liked it either) but if that were a game protagonist it wouldn't stop me playing the game, heck there's many games targeted at guys almost exactly like that.<br />
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Then it hit me, the Twilight books/movies, or Justin Bieber, they irritate me somehow, but why, what is it about these examples that gets under my skin when less blatently crude or exploitive media dosen't?<br />
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I think it's because of what I'm going to call &quot;womanification&quot;, likewise the male equivalent is &quot;manification&quot;, I think it's essentially outrage at an obvious deception, in the most offensive examples of either type the character (Bieber's public persona is a character) is something irreplicateable. I mean a guy sees Bieber on TV, of this is first exposure there's no initial reaction, then he sees the girls going nuts about Bieber, then the camera goes back to Bieber and a disconnect occurs in the guy's brain, on one hand his subconscious is telling him that if this is what women want then he should study it, emulate it where he can, but consciously he's very much aware that Bieber's this smug little shit, a turd polished to a gleam, and that's something the guy desperately does not want to be.<br />
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Say you're in bed and your partner asks you to moo like a cow or pretend you're a relative of theirs, it's exactly that heinousness, it's not the role play that's offensive, it's the role itself in the context. So when a woman sees Kasumi running down beech in a bikini, gigantic boobs jiggling as she giggles like an idiot the rage comes from the realisation that no woman would so enthusiastically degrade herself like that, in a single scene the portrayal of character is already internally inconsistent, it's a blatant lie, and however much it may stupefy guys it's precisely what she (the veiwer) doesn't want to be.<br />
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Now how many of you we're drawn here by the title? :D</div>

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			<title>The insights of own8ge will be posted in here. #Own8ge_Dump.</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:57:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[---Quote--- 
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</div><b><b><b>Subject 1: </b></b></b>There is no objective truth. You are trivial.<blockquote><b>Why what we think is irrelevant.</b><blockquote>Everything we think is a result of our social organization; a system  the individual makes up based on social presumptions that root back to  the very origin of our subjective perspective. Assumptions, that if  being viewed from an objective point of view, are quite pathetic.  Breaking down to the confrontation of truth that everything we think  simply makes no sense.<br />
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Now why is this so? I will try and explain that below.<br />
Everything we think is formed by the perspective we think in. You could argue there are many different perspectives to think in, but for MBTI's sake, let's say there are 16. 16 different perspectives of thought. Every perspective with each own kind of discernment. Discernment based on a specific perception and developed through a way of prioritizing. This creates a complex of relevancy. What is rewarding, ought to be true. Isn't that what truth is? The accomplishment of prediction?. Anyhow, every perspective has it's own truth. It's own truth based on a perspective, which in that specific perspective is indeed rewarding and true. But when we would observe that <i>truth </i>from contrary perspective it wouldn't be considered truth but irrelevancy. This counts for everything. You can argue against everything, it all depends on the goal. If the goal is inner peace, making new friends is a wrong pursuit. If the goal is getting yourself acknowledged, making new friends is just wonderful. It all depends on the perspective.<br />
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Now why is it then, that there is no line of agreement? Well... That is because everything we think is a cause of sociability. Everything we think is based on our social organization. We can't think outside of that box. We can transform that box so that your thoughts are based on imaginative figuratives, but even then it is based on our social organization. The definition of being conscious is thus: To process social information.<br />
Social information which is being processed by being contrasted with our worldview. A worldview that is made up by presumptions. As presumptions are based on the perspective we are in, we start being biased as soon as we <i>exist</i>. And because we all are biased, the only line of agreement is that what seems ordinary. A <i>most votes count</i> pursuit; which always break down to the question: &quot;Is this rewarding?&quot; If it is rewarding, it is still only rewarding in a specific, or multiple specific, perspectives. Perspectives that are based on presumptions. :)<br />
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</blockquote></blockquote><b><b>Subject 2: </b></b>Introversion considered from another, also true, perspective.<blockquote><b>  Introversion considered from an objective POV.<br />
</b><blockquote>- We introverts always want to mind our own business. So we think about conveying the point that we want to mind our own business. The people surrounding us must understand that we want to be left alone and thus we display avoiding behavior. And so we are constantly focused on this: &quot;I want to make sure that I want to be left alone.&quot; We do this so that we can think, detached from that surrounding us. But that comes across to the others, specifically extroverts, as selfish. They are probably somewhat like: &#8220;Why are they thinking about not wanting to speak to me?! Am I not relevant enough? What a jerk! Whom is he to avoid ME!?&#8221;<br />
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- White lies need to be sustained. The introvert, to tell a story always tells white lies. He can't give the full truth as we reflect subjectivity. Subjectivity can't be explained through a matter of objective truth.<br />
The white lies has a social purpose. A social intention. This intention must not be broken. If for instance the intention was to raise harmony, this intention will be that what we sustain. If we wouldn't sustain that intention, we simply have no reason to think. So to think, is basically to sustain an intention. <br />
 To portray his intention convincingly, requires the person, the introvert, not to be a hypocrite and live up to their intentions in order to portray them onto other people. These intentions however, are white-lies. And so things do not always turn out as we expected. The intention we had though, must be forced. So we would get ourselves in trouble, just to live up to our own logic. Ha. What a terrible faith has humanity xD<br />
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</blockquote></blockquote><b><b>Subject 3: </b>Why Functions require their contrary.<br />
</b><blockquote><b>As an example: Why Pe usage automatically implies Pi.</b><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Pe (Ne or Se) is the function to describe the conscious-mindset where you are completely focused on the perception of the now, the present moment. If all you sense is the present moment, the conclusiveness you will require to have thoughts must incline something to draw conclusions. If all that you perceive is the now, your conclusiveness must have something to string information from what you perceive together. You must discern with a certain knowledge taken into account, otherwise you couldn't discern. This knowledge POV is Pi.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I'm currently reading <u>The Adjusted American: Normal Neuroses In the Individual And Society</u>, and one of its contentions is that love is a neurosis. Their contention is that &quot;American marriages are unstable because Americans marry for love.&quot; I'm going to quote some passages, hopefully to generate some discussion. Given our tendency in the West to glorify love, I find the authors' contention especially fascinating. I'm curious as to what you intelligent folk might think of it. As far as I can tell, it seems spot on, but I lack experience in such things nor have I given it much study beyond this. <br />
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Firstly, love is viewed by them much as hate is -- that is -- love is generated, in part, by an alienated aspect of the self projected onto someone else.<br />
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				Men love much as they hate; the mechanism of the one emotion is an inversion of the other. When a person alienates from himself some quality or potential which he despises, he projects it onto someone else, where he hates it. Conversely, when he alienates some quality or potential which would like to experience in himself but does not, he projects it onto someone else, where he loves it. The people he loves, like those he hates, are merely convenient targets for his projections.
			
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</div>And so opposites attract. . . <br />
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They advise against the concept of love full of equivocations among definitions for that term(mature love, romantic love, young love, etc.), instead defining it as the following. <br />
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				For the sake of clarity, we have restricted the word love to that attraction which based on the projection of alienated but desired characteristics. Such projection leads to an intense desire to be with the person on whom the projections are hung, to exhilaration when he is present, to depression when he is absent, to possessive jealousy, Our usage is thus consistent with the kind of feeling an American usually has in mind when he says, &quot;I love you.&quot;
			
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</div>In this sense, they seem to be elevating a nurture explanation over a natural one. I've read some studies indicating that love is chemically similar in the brain as the effects of cocaine.  A quick, lazy search:<br />
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<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205973.php" target="_blank">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205973.php</a><br />
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However, they caution elsewhere that, while love may be fun (due to its resultant feelings, &quot;Yet at best love is a temporary euphoria&quot;), it is not a stable basis on which to base marriage. In this case, I wonder about the direction of causality. Does the cocaine-like high lead to an increase in the tendency to project, or the other way around? Do they happen together by strengthening each other (I'm being a bit lazy here, but I'll probably add to it later)?<br />
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				It may be that the phrase &quot;mature love&quot; is sometimes intended to convey the idea of this kind of relationship, but if so the usage is misleading, for it implies that the so-called &quot;mature love&quot; is a natural outgrowth of romantic love. This is hardly the case, for love leads in the opposite direction. It is no accident that the greatest tales of love end with the death of the lovers; there is simply no other plausible ending that would not conflict with the myth of love. Love may form the basis for a charming weekend, but it is an unstable foundation for marriage.
			
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</div>In any case, marriage often fails if based entirely on love because familiarity provides cracks in the projections. Instead of trying to create a bond by which both parties can be happy through intimate association whereby each individual mirrors each other for self-growth (think of an intimate/candid friendship), couples in marriages become more concerned with whether they love each other. Since love is a fleeting emotion, American marriages tend to fail. Indeed, love wasn't the original basis for marriage, but here I'm obviously not saying earlier bases were necessarily better. <br />
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A Neurosis is a non-organic barrier to need satisfaction. People &quot;love&quot; those on whom they hang those beloved alienated projections. Projections induce a neurosis when it presents a barrier to need satisfaction. When a person is viewed as the sum of projections the need for intimate association, at least via the marriage,  is blocked. When a need is blocked, tension rises, and then fighting, adultery, etc., ensues. <br />
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I posted a different article about love being similar to the effects of cocaine on a different forum and some of the members became really inflammatory about it. I'm not sure what to expect here. <br />
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How might we integrate such a thing into the MBTI? It certainly seems to fit with studies that indicate that the types are actually often better off not marrying their opposites, despite the attraction.<br />
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What do you think? Is all this bunk? If you think so, with what model would you suggest it be replaced and why? What are your personal experiences on the matter? To what conclusions have your personal studies lead in regards to this subject?</div>

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			<title>A Former Subway Worker Made a Breakthrough Discovery in Math</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:19 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Sounds like an INTP, or at least is living the INTP dream 
 
Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Sounds like an INTP, or at least is living the INTP dream<br />
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<a href="http://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/unheralded-mathematician-bridges-the-prime-gap/" target="_blank">Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap</a></div>

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			<title>Rote Utilization.</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 05:04:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I recently paid for an IQ test. There were several sections (vocab, mathematics, etc.) and you received a score for each section, the mean of the...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I recently paid for an IQ test. There were several sections (vocab, mathematics, etc.) and you received a score for each section, the mean of the scores was your IQ. My highest scored category was 'rote utilization', the score was ten points higher than my overall IQ. I looked into it and it seems like this would be the short term memorization of a set of numbers (codes, phone numbers). Can anyone elaborate more on rote utilization?</div>

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			<title>Using shadow functions</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When do you use shadow functions or try to "compromise" with them? meaning use them as a form of novelty even though you know your not optimal at it....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>When do you use shadow functions or try to &quot;compromise&quot; with them? meaning use them as a form of novelty even though you know your not optimal at it.<br />
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Te: when making a decision, which can be forever but sometimes I  will just tell myself to be decisive if necessary and organize my plans<br />
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Ni: I try to visualize the whole of a system or situation without really having any exact specifics; try to look into the future like world events or technology<br />
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Se: doing solo sports such as skating, surfing, jiu-jitsu where I attempt to act in the immediate environment (idk if this is different then Ne, never liked team sports much but always thought it was weird I was into individual sports being an intp)<br />
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Fi: trying to understand individual values of others, expressing what I really think<br />
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- I have heard using too much shadow functions can bog you down or be deceiving as your mainly efficient with your main functions, but its good for insight and new ideas</div>

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			<title>Id, ego and super-ego</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:48 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I considered this rather interesting and it might enhance your understanding of MBTI. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego 
 
I...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I considered this rather interesting and it might enhance your understanding of MBTI.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego</a><br />
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I didn't really read it myself though. I'm too lazy, I can't be bothered with &quot;objective-education&quot;.</div>

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			<title>Gravity</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:49:55 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>In a cosmic landscape primarily made up of fermions and bosons, where the fermion has a negative force of attraction (meaning it contracts) and the...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>In a cosmic landscape primarily made up of fermions and bosons, where the fermion has a negative force of attraction (meaning it contracts) and the boson has a positive force of attraction (meaning it repels) perhaps this implication has a major impact on how we think of gravity. What if large densities of fermion interaction, such as planets, provide this sort of attractive force since the fermion numbers heavily outweigh that of empty space, while the cosmological constant is a repulsive force primarily governed by an excess of boson forces ?</div>

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