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@THD The second chat... O.O That's like a conversation straight out of a censorship parody. -Duxwing

*poke* Kool-Aid, not coolaide. :) -Duxwing

Emotional reactions are like Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, except they don't strike for justice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94 -Duxwing

One can love science or philosophy or "rationality" and find meaning and spiritual fulfillment in pursuing them, but so doing does not make one's relationship to them religious: religion's defining characteristic is one or more assertions about supernatural entities or phenomena. -Duxwing

Very well put. I'd like to add that one can become emotionally attached to but not passionate about a given career and therefore be afraid of doing something that might disturb the attachment. Instead think of the benefit: if your initial attraction is right, then you'll be certain, and if it...

Perhaps I'm just in denial of your decades' work experience, but you may just have been unlucky: my dad socializes at work all the time--even an occasional prank or two--and he's been employed at the same company for years despite lay-offs. -Duxwing

Existential crisis and existential despair are not philosophical conclusions but irrational, emotional reactions to unsolvable philosophical problems that arise because of insufficient intrapersonal skills. Existential problems generally begin with a pathological misapplication of reductionism...

I actualize my desire well before it aches. -Duxwing

Though I can't relate to PhoenixRising's description, I agree with yours: I love affection! :) -Duxwing

Re: 60 year old offs himself in a meticulous manner. Lays out his life and logic on website. INTP or other? He seems to be a narcissist who wanted to achieve immortality by publicizing his death and could not face the grisly consequences of aging. His descriptions of the last months of his...

*bursts out laughing* Oh good grief. Let's start with the obvious: religious people believe in supernatural entities, and atheists are the loonies? And of course religious people are happier; I would be, too, if I thought that I were immortal and could achieve eternal paradise by doing various...

I was once a Catholic. -Duxwing

I've been philosophizing ever since I could think. Ethics was my first field, followed by theology, then logic (which soundly thrashed theology) then metaphysics, then ontology, and then finally epistemology. I rarely read much of anything, fell into existential crisis at age sixteen, and once...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Qkzj5bStU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Do1Qkzj5bStU I feel strong and capable. :) -Duxwing

1.) I want a kind, harmonious group of friends who can engage in discourse and imaginary play with enthusiasm, dedication, and sincerity. 2.) Do all of my homework and then play with these friends or my toys. On vacations, go somewhere memorable and significant, preferably somewhere where I...

I don't understand what you're asking for. -Duxwing

Awwww, you're welcome. :) And thanks! -Duxwing

Happy Birthday! :) *big, warm hug* Tick-tock roll the wheels of time, Carving out each instant, I see that you're growing fine Happy birthday, my friend. You hold that logics rule the day As a wise God watches over Yet I've never seen you pray Perhaps I've misunderstood you, my friend...

Indeed. I totally bought it. :) -Duxwing

... o.o How do you know all of this? -Duxwing

I have it, too, but I recognize that it's not a good defense mechanism. I instead use it to chill and calm my mind when debating and thinking. -Duxwing

SQUIDWARD and SPONGEBOB wait by a bus stop. Squidward has a strange object in his hand. Squidward: I am sick and tired of that bright disk. I want to blow it up and let darkness fall over the mountains and valleys. But all I have is a brick. A lead brick! But still just a brick. And...

Thanks for the feedback, guys, and thanks for the compliment, Cooley. :) You touched upon my worry regarding this design: turning velocity into rest mass seems like a rather strange feat because the hypothetical engineer (who I suppose, if crazy enough to ride an antimatter engine, is crazy...

Consider a ship that accelerates by annihilating antimatter. The energy released in its engine equals the mass of annihilated antimatter multiplied by the speed of light squared. As the ship approaches the speed of light, its mass exponentially increases, but so does the mass of its...

As mentioned above, one reason is that some tests can be solved by brute force trial and error or deduction as opposed to knowledge; however, another reason is that an easy way to produce a normal distribution of scores is to simply give average students too little time to finish, and test...

Re: Hado: Caring for people is a very Fe activity, and the physical, procedural nature of medicine plays to Si while diagnosis and learning fascinate Ti and Ne. It's an unhealthy career choice, but an appealing one. Re: OP: Ouch! Talking this issue over with your family could help you salvage...

Congratulations, Cooleydudey! :) Fulfilling a childhood dream can feel deeply fulfilling. Have a big hug from me across the pond. EDIT: And I imagine that your dad feels proud: "My boy is just like me". -Duxwing

I use neither, but rather a 'boardroom' of ENTJs. -Duxwing

An agora of INTPs An asylum of ENTPs A tribe of ISTPs A pack of ESTPs A library of INFPs A vanguard of ENFPs A studio of ISFPs A clique of ESFPs A corps of ISTJs A hierarchy of ESTJs A lair of INTJs A boardroom of ENTJs A guard of INFJs A cult of ENFJs A hospital of ISFJs A classroom of ESFJs...

Erm, well, no duh we want those things, but what are the specific problems that you've found, and what are the trade-offs between the extremes that you've proposed, for example, that between civility and individuality? -Duxwing

Re: Regarding betrayal and inductive reasoning. A band of ISTPs. A boardroom of ENTJs. A lab of ENTPs. A club of ESTPs. -Duxwing

Exhausting outdoor physical activity combined with discipline and a lack of sleep as described by Architect should reset your sleep cycle. In detail: Step 1.) Wake up whenever you feel like waking up. Step 2.) Find the nearest mountain and climb it. Step 3.) Return home and will yourself to...

An essential cognitive tool for any thinker. @redbaron Occam's Razor chooses among the previously imagined and created hypotheses. -Duxwing

Oh, most of the ones at my dad's company don't, either. -Duxwing

Some are hiring programmers: my dad tells me that anyone with a degree in computer science can find a job where he works. -Duxwing

But that definition still diagnoses the pacifist in Atilla's horde with ASPD; a conspicuous lack of emotional (as opposed to cognitive) empathy in the absence of philosophical concerns seems a better indicator, though not a complete definition. -Duxwing

The diagnostic criteria for ASPD seem to assume that individuals should adopt the mores and norms of their culture, and this assumption leads to contradictions: If I were a pacifist who lived under Atilla the Hun and categorically refused to rape, pillage, and burn resisting cities (social...

The answer to that question depends on what, how, and to whom. -Duxwing

And even if he were a dog, then should we kill him for being sick? Doing so seems more like putting him out of our misery. -Duxwing

Re: Why learn physics by yourself Must. Resist. Urge. To. Use. Tiny. Quotes! Cannot. Resist. Urge. To. Talk. Like. William Shatner! :D You held that large atoms are more magnetic than smaller ones; however, the ratio of electron spins, not the sheer number of electrons...

Might habituating yourself to these triggers help? -Duxwing

Re: Why learn physics by yourself That's no fun. :( I hope that you're feeling better now. Although calling someone crazy and a crank does nothing to reveal the truth, so doing does not invalidate the arguments of those doing the calling: I'm still waiting for your reply to my rebuttal of...

I don't like film. Every shot spent in one place is one that could have been spent in another, and Archie brings up a whole bunch of other difficulties with film that I didn't even consider before. Moreover, film frames seem to work like specialized, single use sensors in an age that has...

INTP: Te (Extroverted Thinking) (20%) your valuation of / adherence to logic of external systems / hierarchies / methods Ti (Introverted Thinking) (85%) your valuation of / adherence to your own internally devised logic/rational Ne (Extroverted Intuition) (55%) your valuation of / tendency...

Awwww, thanks. :) I like both your ideas. But they can easily be manufactured and replaced. -Duxwing

I think that you're expecting too much of the poor guy: he won't be able to taunt the church if he's dead. -Duxwing

I see the terrifying effect of social narratives and belief systems that specific individuals or events can control through tradition and emotional 'links': the preacher can sway their emotions and convince them of irrational ideas with disturbing ease, and everyone fears the utterly harmless...

Conversely, one could equally well hold that "sex is" fun, "really undeniably" fun, but in the absence of normally present "pheromones," it seems gross much like life seems dreary and dull when one's synapses too quickly re-uptake serotonin--or even that the reaction of 'gross' is a misfiring of...

Re: Why learn physics by yourself I had incorrectly interpreted that you were asserting that the Standard Model is consistent and complete. Whoa, whoa, chill out. :) I didn't make a claim of total ignorance: I was just surprised by what I thought you were saying, which was that our...

Re: Why learn physics by yourself The present physical theories still need work: Relativity and QM don't get along, and the scientific community calls Dark Matter and Dark Energy "Dark" because they don't understand them despite their being calculated to comprise much more of the universe than...