Recent content by Claytoe

I think that good teaching, writing art etc. should make me feel like I invented every concept. :D When something become clear rather than having it makes the process and concept feel native. it seems less likely to me that I have more eureka moments than any other human in the history of the...

Bear with me here, I am going to come at this sort of sideways. Dan Savage has put the idea of a perfect circuit in my head. He describes masturbation as a perfect response circuit, where you both deliver and create the pleasure that you experience, which make it more effective (though not...

I like you. There is a point when you are stuck with only bad choices, but bad choice is still choice. Choosing how you meet you fate (or in this case WHAT your fate is) I think highlights just how important choice can be. Ultimately we choose the choices that are presented to us yes, but it...

I think social phobia goes too far for me, its more of an aversion to the imposition of other people and their randomness. Watching people get humiliated is physically painful for me as well though, as is my preference to be bored quietly by myself rather than bored with other people. I think...

This reads very true of me. I got tired of being considered a crazy party person by people I have no recall of. I also got tired of having no recall of people. All in I think by days of heavy partying (Start on Wednesday wake up Monday morning) lasted 1 year, maybe a bit longer. Curiosity...

Small towns in Peru, Chile or Argentina the Andes close enough to a tourist town. Maybe 40 minutes outside of Mendoza, Argentina, perpetual Autumn framed by some of the most stellar mountains in the world. The internet won't be blazing fast but money talks there and the services exist in the...

Ultimately your own authority is the only one that is absolute, making a choice and standing by it gives you authority. Is a prisoner of conscience confined by authorities or his choices? A journalist refusing to divulge sources and spending months in prison as a result for example. Need...

If you are always saying things like "lack of emotion" it makes me FEEL like you haven't been paying attention to what people are telling you here. Feelings aren't irrelevant to an INTP, they are something to mitigate when making choices and approaching information. Recognize that having an...

I am constantly thinking about endemic issues, those involving supply and demand are doubly interesting. The infinite-supply solution seemed initially reasonable, though I felt intense mechanization, nationalization and concentration of food production was probably the right way to go. The...

Thats part of why the whole piece makes me emotional. Its a call for rational and kind world, a call that I have made with 1/1000th the eloquence. His suicide makes me fear that he ended up feeling that the world he hoped for was impossible... That being said he had underwent ECT in an attempt...

That was really illuminating Jennywocky, thank you. Its really important to highlight that they are dispositions rather then behaviour sets. I 95% of the time test as an INTP but I see huge portions of myself really well reflected in a couple of other temperaments.

I am not normally one to quote at length, but this always really hits me in the gut when I read it. Maybe its not Authority that bothers me but the presumption of absolute need for it. "if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed...

Oh hey buddy, welcome. Short response is yes. Authority doesn't like me either though to be fair. I recently start a new job, there are a lot of rules and red-tape, things I hate, things that if I pay attention to annoy me. So most of the time I am in dreamland or getting things done in a...

I have always felt like I am really open with my emotions with people I trust. What those people feel maybe something else entirely. There are two basic premises people close to me could observe to have a more communicative relationship. 1)I don't often want to talk about my feelings. 2)I...

I felt a lot like this when I was in high school. I totally lacked that 'killer edge' that people seemed to me to all be in possession of. So I did as you said you have decided to do, to manufacture it, show my asshole to assholes etc. It worked to get people to stop getting my my face so much...