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I'm not much of a trustworthy source on this matter, but as someone who has pondered and come close to going homeless just for the sake of it, I do have something small to say. Zen could be a great goal to seek, but is Japan the only road to take? The whole idea you are looking for is to gain...

Hmm... Philosophyking87, I sense a very slippery slope. Just because a maxim is good for the majority of people does not mean that two different maxims, one for the general population and one for a more specialized portion of the population, would not be even better. Take the maxim: "I should...

Hmm... Planning, organization, articulate empathy, imagination... When I try to combine all of these into one facet of humanity I think of our tendency to create useless bits of cool stuff. Animals simply don't do this often, if at all. We started by building massive pyramids, making huge...

Have you ever TRIED to smash a pair of scissors with just a rock? Cutting rock with scissors, on the other hand, is much easier than you would initially suppose...

Sorry if it came across as irritating, I was going more for "thought-provoking" really. I was 'not being serious' in the sense that I could come up with counters to all of my own statements, but stated them anyway; similar to the sentiment you yourself demonstrated. I'll drop the debate on human...

I find I must disagree with most of the arguments here for why humans are superior to animals. I would disagree more so with most of the arguments for why humans are "monsters" in comparison to animals. Anyway, I find myself with time to elaborate... How many species have humans attempted to...

It is a little off topic I agree. I might pop up in that thread after I read through it. In the meantime, I'm curious as to what extent each archetype can be "trained" into an INTP by life circumstances. If Abraham Lincoln had been born under different circumstances, would he have kept to...

There must be some aspect of Funyuns that make them better than Doritos. This could be used for marketing purposes. The ticking of clocks is useless.

@AureliaSeverina That was an awesome test. I had taken several MBTI tests, but none of them with individual functions. It returned me as INTP, but with enlightening differences. Now that I think about it, I am capable of going into this weird Te-Fi mode when debating in a more formal setting (or...

Drawers are most certainly not useless. I currently have mine wired up in such a way (with chargers, electronics for an internet connection, etc.) as to produce a perfectly normal-looking piece of furniture with headphones coming out of it. The headphones play internet radio music basically 24/7...

Eliminating all those already mentioned and those I simply fail to recall right now: Theory of Nothing by Russell K. Standish (free PDF! :D) Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (free HTML! :D) Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman (free PDF! but it's a download...) Merge...

I can imagine all of those archetypes except the one I quoted. If a loyal, confiding INTP does exist *shudder*, would it not be Si-Fe? Also, now I'm going to compulsively notice when each of these variants shows itself in my daily activities... Actually, I'm bound to start actively looking for...

Bombing innocent women and children with bombs dropped from planes is not useless, since it gives pilots an excuse to meet their minimum flight requirements for their licenses. (Not to mention it provides a place for *cough* certain large governments to dump their excess bombs.) This link is...

Interesting thought with the barrier...any idea what would constitute or create a barrier between two perspectives? (Are you thinking different cultures, different religion, or am I missing it altogether?) I tried using the student example as a somewhat concrete example, but I suppose it was...

Empty space is not useless as it is often used to make light bulbs functional. EDIT: ninja'd... High School competitive sports are not useless because they provide an excellent excuse for hanging out with specific females of interest. OGLE-TR-122 is useless.

Ah, I was focusing on the relationship between the teacher and topic being taught, as well as the student and the topic being taught. I realize now that I generally disregarded the relationship between the teacher and the student. It gives new perspective. ;) A possible relationship: It seems...

I'm still mulling over your last post. I find myself agreeing that analysis and context work best together, but I still find myself specifically stating when context is explicitly used, since it is so rarely explicitly used... In an attempt at finding examples of the tools in action, I decided...

Hmm, you could classify them as per their level of abstraction... Let me take a stab: (My system could include the relationship between the observer and the observed as a thing to be observed itself, or it could just include the relationship between different observed things; I'm not sure...)...

Well, this framework for understanding is coming along well enough to get me interested enough to actually post; I congratulate you on having the perseverance to stick with such a large project! I find your hierarchy tool remarkably interesting, as it not only seems to contain both context and...

0: ...you think you find a pattern in the answers to an SAT-style test, and then are certain you made a mistake when a new answer breaks your pattern. (If you happen to be relatively certain of that particular answer, you will modify your pattern to fit, making it wondrously complicated if...