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ISTPs are very helpful to have on hand when building something: They are to the physical world what we are to the mental one. I remember buidling a Rube Goldberg machine with three ISTPs for my physics class, and while I handled most of the higher-up thinking, oversight, and math, they handled...

Bah, you people aren't even scratching the surface of needlessly complicated! :D How about a system of measure whose base length unit is equal to the same number of hydrogen ions laid end to end as there are attoseconds since the Big Bang, and whose whose base unit of weight (mass is for...

Your post gave me chills and goosebumps, and I agree. Well written! -Duxwing

*stands and salutes* Logica! Scientia! Veritas! -Duxwing

Ways to go: --Blown to smithereens, preferably with an unusual and unusually powerful explosive. --Burned to ashes and scattered in a symbolically and thematically appropriate place. --Buried in a symbolically and thematically appropriate place. --Stuffed or otherwise taxidermied. --Donated to...

Sensors show great appreciation for iNtuitve acts: technology, for example, is beloved by many Sensors, along with wit. -Duxwing

Flirting isn't about specific social signalling actions leading to a predictable conclusion, so don't worry about being able to do one thing or another. Rather, flirting is an expression of initial attraction and affection. Think of her feelings and your feelings, then do what feels right...

*tucks Jennywocky in* -Duxwing

Then rest. :) -Duxwing

"Out with the bad; in with the good!" is that a 451 Farenheit quote? But I'm glad that you were able to vent all that frustration out. If you're feeling less achy, then try finding the source of your lack of focus and untangling the emotions therein. Yes, that means Fi, but according to your...

Feel better after having vented? That was quite the post that you made. :) -Duxwing

I'm a suburban high school student and live with my ISFJ mom, INFP dad, and INFP little brother. Each morning I wake up at 06:30 to arrive at school by 07:20, the intervening fifty minutes being eaten up by morning grogginess and a surprising amount of roadway traffic. At school I study the...

Here are a few. We must strike back! :D --Creepazoid --Freakbag --Psycho --Nut --Clingy --Crazy --PMS Express -Duxwing

Oh, yes, I suppose that deriving all sorts of patterns of human behavior could be fun. It would be quite the reward for dear old Fe. -Duxwing

It seems like a very Se oriented activity, but evidently, it's not. -Duxwing

Whew. You really had me worried there. An INTP stripper. Wow. I do nothing of the kind, at least not consciously. Unconsciously, yes, and it can be painful to watch myself be ruled by these stupid hormones while I sit powerless to overcome this sort of 'glass barrier' that arises...

When I walk through a door, I go first and hold it behind me: my aims are utilitarian, yet people--even girls-- thank me anyway. But you're right: guys do get mixed signals from women. In this day and age, if a comment about a girl's body is not the equivalent of poetry about her eyes, then...

Oh, sorry! :D -Duxwing

Damage? I didn't think that you are damaged. -Duxwing

own8ge, this is exactly the problem that I've described. You raise a topic, I answer it, then you go off on a tangent from out of nowhere, spitting hate and arrogance. Unless you want me to ignore you, stop. -Duxwing

Well, after I found out that Absurdity and THD were mods, I was ready to believe that anyone was. :) And you sounded so... authoritative. -Duxwing

Wait, you're a moderator, too?

I'm no psychiatrist, but I agree with those who think that you might have ADHD-I, especially after that experiment with the drugs, and I also agree that seeking an adult ADHD expert would help. Also, who says that you have to work in an office? Have you ever considered the trades, the arts...

Moving the Goalposts is a fallacy in which a speaker asserts P, then, upon hearing a rebuttal to P, either asserts a hitherto unmentioned argument Q without acknowledging the rebuttal or argues that P is still true because of Q. My small knowledge of psychology points to Moving the Goalposts...

I can't understand what your positions because you keep Moving the Goalposts, thereby rendering each of my previous attempts at understanding useless. I am not the only one to encounter this problem with you, either. I suggest that you slow down when posting and try to put your point more...

The mods have a point: even my therapist agrees that I've become more "rigid" in the past 4 to 6 weeks, and when I look back on my posting habits, I've noticed that I've turned many topics into full-fledged debates on off-topic points when I very well could have split the battle off into a...

Just a point: not every INTP is like this. I've been in therapy for years, and all but one of my therapists 'got me' like the close friendships that you describe. I've never felt more at ease than with them, and I've had no trouble laying my entire life-story bare-- I've even made flow charts...

You're assuming that belonging to a certain group necessarily limits your intelligence. The top .01% monkey could be as smart as we are, and in the same way, a human in the top two percent of humans needn't be made dumb by the intelligence of the general population: his or her IQ scores could...

We have to weigh the cost of unmangling his language against the benefit of understanding what he means: in the end, he might have a fallacy under all that junk. -Duxwing

own8ge is incredibly arrogant. He really believes his intelligence great enough to justify out digging through his theories. Proof is a community endeavor, and if he doesn't want to cooperate, then he's schmoodled. -Duxwing

"Despite Chad’s atrocious writing, he is a lot easier to understand than you." Boom goes the dynamite! -Duxwing

Haha! An excellent point. :) Awww. :) Analogy? What the heck? I thought that you were being serious. :/ If you didn't and I weren't, then why did what you and LOR did amount to as much? Perhaps you aren't aware (we can't see ourselves from the outside) but you two really did...

Well I thought that you thought that these were a good idea. Remember that I can't see your face, etc. through the internet. True. -Duxwing

Psychology has moved on to Cognitive Behaviorism, wherein the patient's thoughts are modeled as well. Oh, OK. :) :D But if I can't understand them, then how do I apply them? So you're saying that I ask for too extensive an axiom list instead of inferring and thereby smother...

OK? I didn't say that they were. I was saying that INTPs don't lack emotions, and that saying that I am not an INTP because I have them is silly--Go to the Feeler envy thread for details. And I said that INFJ's are prone to creating lines of seemingly logical reasoning that fall apart when...

So I thought. I just wanted to be sure. Are you describing your approach, or asking me to take a new one? And before you cry "Sensor!" there are chunks of text missing, dude! :cool: I agree wholeheartedly. I agree that I am not. Hehehe! Oh, I never noticed. Did you edit your...

Oh, you're not out to get me? OK. :) Did I say that I want to? I don't think that I did, but if I did, then by all means point it out; I'd like to have a single, cohesive psyche instead of compartments. "Work..." toward what end? Forgive my poor memory. I agree. My presence here is for...

Perhaps you and I mean different things by the term "holistically". When I think of viewing the forum holistically, I think of the whole forum: every single relationship in the web of hundreds that come here with the same resolution, accuracy, and precision, with which I view it up close--a sea...

Sure, thanks. :) It needn't be. I was saying that the two concepts are not interchangeable in parlance, much less in proof. Sure. That's what my intuition told me to do, and that's why I don't use it. How eloquent! I agree. To be fair, I've never really tried. Wow...

Flag this? I don't understand. -Duxwing

Not logically: intuitively. Your argument proves that I'm insufficiently intuitive, not insufficiently logical. In fact, it proves a point that The Gopher made earlier: I am logical to the exclusion of intuition. A person driven by rationality and logic would do exactly that. A person...

*rankles his chains and bangs his cup along the bars* Hello-o? Anyone home? I've tried analyzing the forum's group dynamics, but, as I expected and warned you, I only noticed that the forum had far less arguing and was far more 'peaceful,' if you can call a desert peaceful: treating all...

I have a flow chart for that if you'd like it. But authenticity was brought up not because I think that what you suggest, in itself, is a bad idea, but rather that since I don't know how to derive it from what I know (which would include what I've learned) your suggestion seems arbitrary in the...

I still have almost no idea what you concretely want. Your descriptions are nebulous and seemingly perfectionist, and the delivery seems disturbingly manipulative. I feel like Socrates on trial, to be frank, and you all know how that ended. -Duxwing

Are you sure about that? I mean, he called me stupid more times than I have fingers. Thanks. :) Bum bum buuuuummmm. Uhm.. move mountains how, exactly? :confused: One turned into a debate, the other, an advice thread. I'm not grasping this... could you state it in more words...

I must admit that your choice of theme--an intervention--is either stunningly hypocritical or brilliantly ironic considering the crimes of which I stand accused. Also, simply imploring me to do what you say is quite difficult if I don't understand why you say it: --How is pointing out logic...

(Continuing on the joke) An excellent job. Go down to Luigi's on 3rd Avenue and ask for the number three, then mention Vinnie; you'll find your payment in a briefcase by the corner in ten minutes. -Duxwing

While I agree that space colonization would have prevented such a result in the hypothetical civilization, you're missing the greater thrust of the essay, which speaks at length about genetic fitness and advocates a reactionary version of what Teddy Roosevelt would call "the strenuous life" as a...

"Warfare" is indeed the right term to describe the conflict in which Socrates took part: the prosecution wanted him dead! O_O But I think that he, in his wisdom as an old man, knew that he faced the old generation while standing beside the new. Therefore I raise my Dying Socrates argument...

...which is not motion? Huh, wow, that doesn't sound so scary... ...until the tensor calculus hits you like a baseball at .9c. -Duxwing