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The A.T. goes through your state!

Backpacking is a wonderful break from the stupidity of the SJ world. I find fellow hikers to be more "real" and down to earth, if you'll pardon the cliches. I like to hike for months at a time through forests and wilderness areas. It's extended down time: having nothing to do but walk and think...

Definitely. Not at all. Probably not. Of course. I think, "This is so cool."

Those social rituals aren't easy for us to decode. Have you ever read Nicholas Boothman's book, "How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less?" It's a little manual for getting along in the SJ world, it explains all the stuff that they know intuitively but doesn't make much sense to us. The...

If I had my way everyone on the world would walk around wearing one of those "H! My Name Is" stickers.

Currently... Big Bang Theory, House, SVU, Conan, Mythbusters, MI-5, Mother Angelica, Women of Grace.

Yoda.

I used to have "Women like scifi, too!" as a .sig. Maybe Voyager? Without 7 of 9, of course (damn Brannon Braga and his hormones).

I think it's very common with us, just not very useful. CBT and meditation can help.

I followed through on a lot of "what if..." experiments as a kid. Thank God my parents were patient. One of my mom's favorite family stories (--now, it wasn't so funny when it happened) is from when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. I knew that toilet paper went into a toilet. What happens if you...

Oh yeah, all of what you described sounds very familiar. I think one of the hardest things for INTPs is working out is how much they want to participate in the mainstream/ESFJ culture and what they're willing to do to do so. For me that's not a fixed line and I renegotiate it frequently. Some...