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*shudders* The virtual overrides the real. -Duxwing

Re: Why learn physics by yourself Please present us your data, procedure, calculations, hypothesis, analysis, and "resultant theory". -Duxwing

Oh! So that's why I had those dreams wherein my legs felt like lead and my mouth couldn't scream. Fascinating. I've had true sleep paralysis once during a night of five dreams--some epic, some false awakenings--and little sleep. I saw, plain as day, two little girl ghosts coming toward me...

Re: Why learn physics by yourself This conversation will go nowhere if you reject the current scientific consensus because of an intuition and then demand that we give you our credulity. Until you're ready to listen to the textbooks, seeya. :) -Duxwing

Re: Why learn physics by yourself The movement of charge creates a magnetic field. Atomic electrons have a charge, and they orbit their nuclei at nearly the speed of light in either a 'northward' or 'southward' direction depending on their quantum 'spin'; each electron therefore creates a...

Step 1: Create a link that could upload my mind to a computer in an emergency. I would be freaking ticked off if I died in an accident. Step 2: Everything that PhoenixRising said, except I would replace my four-chambered heart with a turbopump Step 3: Add the ability to increase the size of my...

I needed a few dollars for a subway ticket. This very nice woman gave me the money and said that she understood because she had children of her own; I thanked her, bought the ticket, and felt terribly guilty thereafter. I still want to give her a proper thank-you for her aid. -Duxwing

Re: High on Cheese (not the user) Ugh, cheddar! It's like a crumbly, waxy, cheese-flavored eraser. >:-[] I like Mozzerla, Gouda, and Pepper Jack, all soft and young. I also don't chew cold cheese: I taste it with the roof of my mouth and swallow pieces whole. -Duxwing

Welcome! I'm glad that you're seeking help. :) If you want to change careers, then find something that you're passionate about: a good way to start looking is to examine your past. Find what you always did anyway; for Architect, a user here, that thing was computers. He always managed to...

Schizophrenics--even paranoid ones--needn't have debilitating psychotic breaks from reality because their hallucinations may cause delusions that only affect specific parts of their minds, e.g., their beliefs about a certain ethnic group. So you're discrediting your primary source, then...

(forgive me if my writing sounds caustic) Have you ever talked to him or been certified as a mental health worker? His psychologists did both while you armchair diagnosed him from thousands of miles away. -Duxwing

You may be in the grip of your inferior Fe. -Duxwing

My point was that I think that leaving and coming back is pathetic. -Duxwing

I concur with Fukyo. -Duxwing

Poor guy. :( His problem seems to lack a solution: --Not everyone is a passionate genius. I, for instance, despite my debating abilities, am neither passionate nor a genius. This point is not inasmuch material as fundamental. --Even among geniuses, approaches and ideas on education differ...

Ah, yes, guilty pleasures. :D Telling an ESTJ some truly wild interpretation of a piece of postmodern installation art--the full on, "this bent thumbtack represents man's inherent..."-- could be very fun for you. -Duxwing

Sometimes baffling an xSFx with some ontology makes me feel proud of my intelligence; my feeling of pride is especially great if said xSFx realizes and admits that he or she does not understand but nonetheless agrees because his or her admission of intellectual weakness is an implicit compliment...

Precisely, and from this summary we can derive manifold conflicts: Where '1' is the Dominant, '2' is the Auxilliary, ... '8' is the Devil' 1 vs 2, 3, ..., 8 2 vs 3, 4, ..., 8 3 vs 4, 5, ..., 8 ... 7 vs 8 28 conflicts per type multiplied by 16 types for a total of 448 different psychological...

Fi sets an ideal that I described, but only the Fe portion of the ideal--the warm and fuzzies from helping people and the global context--remains conscious; conversely, the Fi portion, which consists of a narcissistic orgasm wherein the INTP feels their own genius (genius being necessary) and a...

I will sometimes crack jokes that I know will be poorly received for the sheer joy of upsetting others. I should stop that. -Duxwing

Booyah! *smiles and spins around on one foot like a top* *Fe glows* -Duxwing

Partly, yes. :) -Duxwing

INTPs often complain that their trickster inferior Fe leads them on disastrous quests for love, validation, and appreciation, and their MBTI-aware peers often call this problem inherent and intractable by anything but aging. I tentatively counter that those whose minds Ti dominates will...

Rrrr *scribbles with pencil, cigar half in shadow underneath the slowly swinging, squeaking ceiling light* They would likely be based on who controls the connections between computers (or virtual machines) and programming regulations. And who chooses, creates, and maintains the facilitator...

*puts on his ISTJ hat* Might the individual minds be subsumed and enslaved? How do we prevent violence and voyeurism while permitting law enforcement and searches? I suppose that an central controller could control all connections like a telephone operator. Current police laws could...

No, I meant "would" wherever I said "would". So how did you mean your point? -Duxwing

We can quite easily test your hypothesis about visual acuity. If you wore glasses to see better at a distance before you started tripping, then you had 20/40 or poorer vision then; the prescription of your glasses may even directly or indirectly tell you what vision you had. If taking the...

How exactly would a hive mind function? Would individual minds still exist? If so, then how would they interact? If not, then what would replace them? Would individuals still have ultimate authority over themselves, or would their will be bound to that of the hive? What advantages would a...

I don't actually know how to take that. :storks: My response would depend on the situation: e.g., I would be wholeheartedly logical in an abstract discussion of suicide, but I would tell someone to "drop anything and call a hotline" if he or she were about to kill themselves because suicidal...

Russian Literature: Tundra, tundra everywhere, but not a drop to drink. :D French Literature: And then I kissed her, and she grabbed my baguette. I slapped her! It was modern art! German Literature: Ein, dzwei, dri--we are choosink ze langvage, heah! Ein, dzwei, dri! Ein, dzwei, dri...

@kvothe Thanks. :) Yet I don't think that I'd be alone in trying to help: despite INTPs liking to reject and abhor their Fe, their replies to cries for help or simple, depressed moaning on this forum have been--in my admittedly limited experience--repeatedly and prevailingly positive, caring...

I am the same way. Perhaps Ne imagines possibilities, and Ti wants to fill them out to make the physical system logically 'complete'. However, when I design virtual physical systems in KSP, I try to maximize elegance. -Duxwing

White. Breakdown: --Dad is American ----Grandfather is American ----Grandmother is British --Mom is Polish ----Grandfather is Kashubian (Polish/German hybrid) ----Grandmother is Polish Like any American, I'm a mongrel. -Duxwing

Wise words. :) -Duxwing

My answer depends on several criteria: 1.) The royal in question: marrying the eldest daughter of the monarch puts me in line for the throne and therefore not only requires me to as monarch when my parents in law die, but to serve a tour of combat duty in the British armed forces. I would not...

Quite an interesting reason. I wonder if I should adopt it. It seems to work for you. :P :D -Duxwing

A therapist can be that trusted other, and going it alone has left you here. *glows* :) Thanks, and I hope that this problem clears up for you. -Duxwing

Then find someone to help you pick yourself up: whether you're relapsing or just in a rough spot, trusted others can help you see what you otherwise miss. -Duxwing

You might just be in a rough spot in your life, but your weeks-long loss of interest in otherwise pleasurable activities and sense of detachment worries me. If you feel that the last inventory didn't capture you well, then look up the Beck's Depression Inventory. -Duxwing

>_< I'm sorry if I sound pompous, but my literary voice really sounds like this. You used it just now: "Agreed. I prefer plain English, plainly spoken. Three line format?" One Two Three :) -Duxwing

You could be depressed. This inventory might help you find out whether you are or not: http://counsellingresource.com/lib/quizzes/depression-testing/qids-depression/. -Duxwing

Like I said, I'm cured--I think. -Duxwing

I'm sorry to hear your troubles, too. Like Architect said, the future might bring hope. :) -Duxwing

Why, this is so sudden, but, but--I accept the nomination! :) -Duxwing

Thanks! :) I couldn't fix the title, but I fixed the repeated "irk". -Duxwing

I don't mind at all: I've been off the treatment for a year now, and I took Concerta for six months. -Duxwing

I wish you luck in finding a good education, and while I can't help you with finding a better school, you can do by yourself what your dad did with me by picking up any 19th century novel and looking up the myriad words that you won't know; granted, they will be useless ("unctuous," anyone?) but...

I have gone to American public school in one of the best schools in one of the best educated states in the country, and I suffered ADHD/I for a long time until I got proper medication, six months of which eventually cured my symptoms. My dad taught me much of my words by reading advanced...

What do you want to be, SpaceYeti? -Duxwing

And when I read Wikipedia, I at times derive "pretentious idiots" from the prose: I sometimes leave articles paragraphs lighter by being brave enough to say that a subject possesses (e.g., "my running") a gerund, or that something is something else, or just using "because" as a logical operator...