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Dear Forum, Great... here come Fe and Fi again-- oh,look, it's a twin-tailed whip this time! how creative-- this time they want me to find a junior prom date. Ideally, I can somehow get out of having to carry out this mortifying high school mating ritual; otherwise, let's make the date...

Dear Forum, Here is the first chapter of my drama "Patria Mori," a reflection on the themes of nihilism, universalism, existentialism, religion, and patriotism. I personally recommend carefully reading and analyzing each paragraph to fully understand the meaning. Dramatis Personae Massucians...

Dear Forum, As someone who thinks deeply and often, from time to time I am rewarded with moments of incredible euphoria when I make a discovery, "blow away" the details of a system to reveal its essence via intuition, or finally, truly understand something greater than myself. And it is this...

Despite feeling like a lonely swordsman striking out against the Void each time that I wake up, I can still conjure up an image that never fails to warm my heart-- even if only slightly. It's that of a girl I like resting her head on my shoulder, cheek cuddled against my arm. When I think of...

Dear Forum, It strikes me as odd that human tertiary sex characteristics so deeply extend into the realm of childhood play that the female sex (transvestites and pre-transvestites being acknowledged as worthy human beings, but simply being ignored for being so few) plays predominantly with...

Dear Forum, Before my existential despair, I loved to act: telling stories, cracking jokes, using accents, and all to good acclaim (I've won a single third-place trophy in my regional Forensics competition). And especially improv, the thrill was extraordinary! Pulse-pounding, eyes-gleaming...

Dear Forum, Seeing as Extroverted Feeling is and INTP's Inferior Function, I seek to help us achieve some balance in our lives by acknowledging feeling not as anything of intellectual significance (excepting its study, of course) but as a part of the human condition. Armed with this truth, I...

Dear Forum, Man's dark heart is trivial to the horror I've experienced tonight. I dub it, ontological angst: the fear induced by the knowledge that the existence of reality is unprovable. It's like falling into an dark abyss wherein the world becomes suddenly fake, as if all your...

Dear Forum, Liberalism, existentialism, humanism, utilitarianism, relativism, monism, rationalism, empiricism, physicalism, subjectivism, all of these theories inexplicably appear very closely related to me, and it seems as if we could gain much by integrating them into a Standard Model of...

I'm so excited, I think I've made a discovery! Perhaps I'm just too tired and zany to see that others have already thought of this, but here goes. Let a stimulus S trigger an emotional response E in a being of free will, B Let B prevent itself from feeling E for three arbitrary periods, P1...

The hug, oft-portrayed as an act of heartwarming, sympathy, and bonding found both in life and art. To some, it symbolizes the affection present in the relationship between one or more beings, and to others, it is too much, too soon-- sometimes to the point of being gushy. I'll put my response...

And I'm glad that it's not love! No, it's the feeling of pushing the limits of my higher-order thinking. Finally, INTP forum, a place where I have to read something over a few times just to understand it: not intuitively, but at the conscious, thinking level. It feels different, like a cool...

Does anyone else have the experience of actually physically feeling their emotions? Not on the outside, like a cold hand, but on the inside, as three-dimensional volumes with texture and temperature that can be felt without touching, so to speak. For example, I experience catharsis as as cool...

I've moved this to the Philosophy and Faith section. -Duxwing

Dear Forum, In all my days as an INTP, I've always tried to keep my emotions from gumming up my Ti; while this is sometimes taken to the extreme during times of danger (conflicts) I generally try to prevent self-damage from occurring. Nevertheless, there have been times when all the logic and...

Hello, World It's certainly nice to meet you all, and the forum is well put together, but can somebody please turn the lights on? Honestly, a guy could-- *thudthudthudthudthudCRUNCH* OW! Ohhhhhh.... what kind of a person leaves the complete works of Nietzsche piled high at the top of a...