Recent content by mu is mu

Are you interested in dialogue? We can do that elsewhere, if so. But I won't derail this thread. Some people really do want to stop masturbating, and not just for religious reasons. I would have liked to see what your thoughts were with regard to the rest of my post. Your worldview is...

I resist it for religious and moral reasons. For me masturbation was never a temptation or even a thought until I was almost 24. At that time masturbation led me down a dark road that I never could have imagined myself taking. I feel fortunate that I did not end up looking at pornography...

This was definitely an A+ post, Blarraun. I wish I had known all this when I was 14.

If you really are 14 years old and are already contemplating this type of thing with that kind of intensity, I have almost no doubt that you're an INTP. Your writing style is much, much more advanced than that of most 14 year olds and your thoughts are far more developed. Why would a 14-year-old...

I have encountered a number of INTPs in the math and statistics departments at my university, both as students and as professors. I have also encountered many, many other NTs there as well, including INTJs and ENTPs (who, as you say, differ from my type by one letter). All of my statistics...

What exactly did you have in mind?

I agree with this. The INTP imagination is one extremely powerful force; many of these social anxieties and other types of fears we tend to have stem from unreasonable thought processes produced by our own minds. It has been my experience (and the experiences of other INTPs) that one of the...

This is an interesting challenge, although I'm currently inclined to think that my comment under question was stated somewhat inaccurately and deserves to be reworded. But before I attempt to address your challenge, I would like to know how you regard personality theory (or functions), exactly...

I was a bit surprised to discover the content of this thread after I had predicted what it would contain based on its title. As I and a few others on this forum have expressed many times, INTPs are significantly different from the (vast) majority of people, particularly in the area of...

I was incredibly impulsive until 21. That was when I realized, after much reflection, that my efforts directed at any serious long-term goals would be inhibited by such behavior. This realization sparked the related realization that my incompetence in pursuing long-term goals would prevent me...

Respect people and perform your duties competently. In my experience neither of these requires extensive social interaction--the people I typically encounter seem surprisingly accepting of social reserve. But in some situations you may have to behave in a way that might seem borderline...

No, because in my experience there is oftentimes a presence of social pressure which discourages such behavior. The sentence I just typed, if uttered around most people I know, would almost certainly draw more attention to its relatively abnormal vocabulary rather than to the meaning of the...

I initially attended college because of a financial obligation--the state would pay for my tuition. But I didn't attend college until a year after graduating high school, at which time I went to a huge university and loathed many, many things about college in general. I attended a community...

Rook, you seem like the high school senior I was six years ago. If you're anything like I was, you'll disregard any advice that doesn't appeal to you and thus be forced to learn through time and experience that an INTP's imagination can be naively idealistic and selfish. Considering my...

Don't. Corny INTP responses aside, I would have to say, as others already have, that my strategy depends on the situation. And in all seriousness I have to wonder why I would engage in social interaction for which I was not obligated to participate in, as I am not at all a...