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^ Yes, exactly. isn't it so counter intuitive how we end up resisting the very thing that would allow us to truly know ourselves and to heal? The ego gets to caring more about protecting its sense of self than it does about our own well being. That's a great video! ty for sharing. She says it...

well hullo! welcome to this den of owls. (as you can see, we're all a bit hooty :D)

+1 @Minuend and Polaris If you try and fail at something, usually it has a lot to do with a flaw in your approach. I find it helps to remedy failure to think about the literal causality of what you did and how it effected the situation, quite like the experience Polaris described. Answering...

@nanook - the pain of rejection makes sense in an evolutionary context, doesn't it? i think fear of being outcast or not having a place in 'the tribe' underlies so many neurotic fixations. anxiety and depression are at record highs, it's no wonder in this society of purpose where children must...

you could be having what i've heard called a 'brainstorm'. i can't find any references to link to, but i went to a neurologist some years ago that diagnosed the cause of my migraines as a large dopamine release. he explained how he borrowed the term 'brainstorm' from a description of epileptic...

.. and then the humble Architect we know uses the master key and enters the door to become the true ARCHITECT. best of luck earning your seat, i hear the questions are multiple-choice these days :3 ^ i tend to agree with you. hopefully one day physical limitations won't inhibit the full...

Animekitty - it sounds to me like you're describing the difference between Judgement and Perception. while the perception process constantly brings in and freely associates information, the judgement process delineates what's relevant and organizes that information into conclusions. the way you...

agreed! we need to science meta the shit out'a this topic :balance: methinks your IQ is 130-135. EQ may be higher than that though, as you seem to 'get' the emotional flow of conversations fairly well. well, it seems others neither perceive me as an idiot nor a genius, but something in the...

seems we've left you a rather gray man in a rather gray area :D (was that stupid enough?)

the premise of this reminds me of what's been discussed in this thread. ignorance to the scope of a topic can lead one to overestimate their knowledge/ability. on top of this, noobs often feel they have something to prove (because who wants to be seen as a fool; someone with lesser developed...

i wonder if this sort of outcome is inevitable? it seems rather unhealthy for one to place their feeling of self-worth on a (non-empirical) measurement of their abilities. and being that, by my best understanding, the phenomenon of intelligence is largely a manifestation of one's development, it...

ah, well now you're asking people to introspect on the topic, and touch upon what may be subconscious insecurities. i love going to this sort of depth, but i think it can be quite uncomfortable for some - especially in a public discussion such as this. what i got from this thread is that it was...

for you AndyC, i'd guess perhaps 120. Animekitty, i think it would probably depend on the subject(s) being tested, but in general you may come out ~110. you might score higher in abstract thinking from what i've seen, perhaps 120-140.

^ this. i think that someone with limited faculties may have less meta-knowledge of a topic, and therefore an inaccurate perspective of how much they actually know. if they've received demeaning criticism for their relative inability, then their ego may seek for self-validation to heal its...

:D you just totally made my day with this! LOL i think this is probably related to the intuitive/symbolic nature of female perception. i dunno if you've studied much of Jung, but he chronicled dozens of symbols (many of them animals actually) which relate primordially to sexuality...

actually, it's not purely psychological research (i.e. self-assay). the studies i'm referencing used physical measurements of blood flow, pupil dilation, etc. to determine sexual response, as in this example. as explained in the article, not necessarily. it seems these sexual responses are...

but what about the hermaphrodites?! :p i do have to agree to some extent about the method of addressing things, though. the LGBTQ.... acronym is becoming obnoxiously long. and they just added 'kink' i believe, which seems like more of a fetish than an orientation? but then again, what is the...

but unmatching socks can be cute :3 :D [persona building experiment = success!] btw, ever since Cog's comment, i imagine everything you say with a Russian accent. it makes things more entertaining ^__^

^ rockin it like Einstein? :D

^ditto (apparently even when other people take the test for me :balance:) i got ISFP for Cheese: lol, don't see you having Se, but the description of caring and peaceful seems to fit somehow :3

i got INFP for you Animekitty! (seems like that could be accurate.. although i recall you said somewhere you're INFJ?) EDIT: just realized someone else did one for you already :P but always good to have a second opinion, right :D

i like to be creative with my appearance, and fit it to my aesthetics more than to cultural expectations. i dress in kind of a hipster/emo style, sometimes with an Asian flair. black leggings or striped knee-highs with shorts or skirts, black boots or my converse tennies, flowy tunic tops, long...

^ this. it's funny for me. i've gotten a lot of criticism from people for being the weird INTP i am, so i tend to avoid people whenever possible. i'm good at being invisible :ninjahidewhite: a lot of the time when i end up engaging in conversation though, the other person tends to be very open...

i used to look at things that way. it's probably true to a certain extent. but in reality i think most of what most people do would have so minor - if any - effect it's not worth mention. then there's the question of why one would care to affect the rest of the world in the first place.. it all...

i wish o,o [/SPOILER] ever heard of mono no aware? oh well, y'know :D no reason to be creeped out at all.. not at all.

it's interesting how our psychological experience seems like a something. the ancients called this - what they thought of as the life-force in man - the spirit. and the spirit was something separate from and even beyond the individual, and moved him despite his will (this concept is still seen...

i've been in the process of watching Fate/Zero, which is the prequel to Fate/Stay Night. so far it's pretty good, character development is a bit shallow, but it extrapolates on Christian mythology in a magical sort of way. as such, it reminds me of another excellent series i watched, Saijaku...

the Doors, amirite? i'm not actually that old. but my nostalgic ISFJ dad played that song over and over... now it's permanently embedded in my brain (along with everything else from the 60s-70s) :ahh04: anywayz, i agree with other's sentiment, this is a cool intro. welcome to the forum...

if i had to pick favorites.. electropop, new-age/ambient, chillstep, celtic and melancholy piano make up a lot of my collection. with a dash or two of J-pop of course :yuri:

i think it's likely a lot of people feel like you do. some may resort to denial in the face of obliteration, therefore appearing less affected XP biggest flaw.. i dunno, what do you guys think? being the ego-centric, biased human that i am, i don't trust my own opinion about myself to be as...

sounds like a thinker's paradise ^__^ 1. Do you think super-intelligent AI will be A) indifferent, B) benevolent, C) malevolent, or D) accidentally homicidal? 2. Once interstellar travel is possible, where do you want to go and/or what phenomenon do you want to observe? And why?

that bear video is pretty cringe-worthy :ahh04: but i think it's more that he's being dismembered while still alive than the fact he dies afterward (or does he? can't entirely tell if he's dead..) it seems like often people conflate death with suffering, although they're not the same thing...

i got Chaotic Neutral, which sounds 'bout right to me.. but Chaotic Good and Chaotic Evil are close seconds. CHAOS :D bwahahaha! ___________ Alignment: Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXX (10) Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (17) Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19) Lawful Neutral --...

everything changes. i think the next iteration of evolution in a social platform always seems like 'the end' to those who interacted in the previous form of the system. but being one of those people who adapted to the previous age, i do miss the more personal quality of the old internet. more...

welcome to the forum of wanderers and misfits! sounds to me like you're likely to fit in well with all the rest of us outcasts :phear: finding one's calling.. what an enigmatic topic! i think this is something ultimately very personal, which can best be answered through a candid questioning of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXJ6ssJxPc (btw @Reluctantly, thanks for the link. ended up in quite the enjoyable rabbit hole with that genre of music ^^)

i think a lot of the time Te and Ti and Te and Fe are confused with one another. Te and Ti are both functions of logos, but because of their orientation to their ethical counterparts, they end up expressing themselves quite differently. i've seen it often where someone articulating...

not necessarily. this is a complex behavior that any type can execute. for example, Fe would be just as or even more adept at contriving and applying rules and schedules for a group of people to live by. but this behavior is even more about context than type. someone lead by Si or Ti could...

i think these are closely related in reality, but i made that choice in order to reflect my principles. privacy means a whole lot to me, as does personal freedom. probably partially because most my life i was deprived of those things :P i wouldn't want to be tortured, but i think having my...

i'm involved in a project called Cognitive Type, where we're attempting to quantify the cognitive functions using reading of facial cues. (Auburn's the project leader, he outlines things here if you're interested in the basics.) i can't tell what your type is accurately just from...

this is interesting, i'm glad you exhumed this topic ^^ _________ So.. 1. The right to free speech/Freedom of the press. $500 - these are basically the same thing, but probably most important to me. places like INTPf would likely be shut down without this one D: 2. Freedom of/from religion...

Exactly. i couldn't get into math until recently, when i took a college course which explained it as a language which describes the relationships between things. that seems like a beautiful and exciting idea to me, i have a lot of interest in math now. before that, it was presented as being all...

i like the direction this thread is going! the topic of archetypes is a difficult one to integrate into a typological system, not because it's irrelevant, i don't think, but because it only partially relates to the cognitive functions. from studying (and experiencing firsthand) analytical...

i admire your dedication. heh, yeah i tend to dislike stereotypes primarily because they encourage people to adapt to cultural ideologies instead of being themselves and growing in an authentic way. i think the video is kinda funny/cute in a way though.. #dorkysenseofhumor it seems there are...

reminds of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoP3C76ioTU EDIT: from what i know, a lot of girls are into the more feminine, sensitive, and typically geeky guys. but perhaps i'm just a geek.. who hangs out with geeks.. and has a thing for geeks :balance:

heh, one would have to keep such a system conscious, or else they may end up with a peculiar fetish! of course, i suppose getting off every time one achieves a goal isn't the strangest thing.. but it seems like it may be healthiest to align objectives with similar instincts; perhaps social goals...

i like that approach, it's a broader yet more nuanced view. seems there would be abundant opportunities to find motivation in every moment, since we're always operating on some survival instinct. perhaps this wouldn't be necessary, but i wonder how you'd go about redirecting a psychological...

@OP - y'know i tend to feel the same way; that what i have to say isn't all that interesting and it's likely no one will respond. but i think it's important not to let depreciative thoughts like that discourage you from interacting - after all, we tend to be our own worst critics. i wonder, do...

i see, what a clever interpretation of the scripture. so if i understand, you're utilizing the intrinsic fight-or-flight response to drive yourself toward psychological transformation. it's a forced adaptation not unlike what social frameworks impose upon us, at least in principle. this...