BurnedOut
Your friendly neighborhood asshole
xD, just thought I'd make a light hearted thread for all the MBTI armchair philosophers before cooking up a serious one, (I promise you, the confessional booth of this forum will be hounded by me in some time soon)
So, turns out I keep testing as an INTJ as an adult than as a teenager but even as a teenager, I had nagging suspicions about being an INTJ given how 2 of the most important people in my life are IXTPs. Father is an ISTP and my uni pal is an INTP.
Uni pal has ADHD, inattentive subtype and I suspect myself to have ADHD of the hyperactive subtype (which my uni is also accommodating on paper for my disruptive behaviors in class). I am always on the motor and my Se plays a huge role in my behavior despite it being an inferior function - I need things to make sense sensually otherwise I am revolted by it in the form of sensory overload or anxiety and because of synesthesia, a lot of stimuli becomes extremely salient such as fabric of my clothes, colors in general, textures and certain sounds and it affects my thinking too, giving it a very a sound foundation of Se to Ni and Te. I am nowhere as attuned as SPs but it does not mean that sensuality is not salient. My uni pal on the other is not as mindful of the aesthetic experiences but he has a whole different perception of the world that I find fascinating.
He swims and revels in concepts, systems and philosophy. Like me, he is also doing a double masters with the first one being in creative writing after graduating through film studies. He is a very good poet who writes legitimate poetry with metrics, meters and all the thingamajigs in it. His exam answers read like Das Kapital and he can make a retarded academician sound like a visionary with genius theories. He's a genius-level VIQ and average PIQ. In addition to all this, he's researched deep on the genealogy of Indian language and the Indian caste system (because he carries the guilt of being the upper caste, and I don't
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He constantly disrupts classes and gets the profs in a corner the moment they fuck up with their line of logic and is generally regarded as a kind-hearted philosopher. He also has a need of resolving conflict or steering clear of it, is emotionally gullible and his number sense sucks very bad - which means lots of expenditure and his house supplies constantly running out which is a problem I don't have most of the times.
We are poles apart in our reasoning style. He has a compulsion to trace the entire system of logic back to its most precise form while I have a compulsion towards using systems of logic to maximally optimise a real-life outcome. I could only explain my philosophy of life in terms of Pragmastism which does not dispense with theorizing but does not get sucked into highly abstract conceptual systems which argue with reality more than trying to reconcile it. As a result, he has a profound distaste of mathematics and I don't and I find mathematics, especially probability to be quintessential to the foundation of my systems and theories.
We share a great philosophical bond where the argument is always about how pragmatic or how logical and us trying to outgun each other with logic. Socially, I come off as laid-back but rigid in my ways with very strong boundaries while he comes off as kind and friendly and easygoing. Sometimes, I have to often disillusion him of social events because he gets taken advantage of, especially by 2 unscrupulous XNFPs.
So, turns out I keep testing as an INTJ as an adult than as a teenager but even as a teenager, I had nagging suspicions about being an INTJ given how 2 of the most important people in my life are IXTPs. Father is an ISTP and my uni pal is an INTP.
Uni pal has ADHD, inattentive subtype and I suspect myself to have ADHD of the hyperactive subtype (which my uni is also accommodating on paper for my disruptive behaviors in class). I am always on the motor and my Se plays a huge role in my behavior despite it being an inferior function - I need things to make sense sensually otherwise I am revolted by it in the form of sensory overload or anxiety and because of synesthesia, a lot of stimuli becomes extremely salient such as fabric of my clothes, colors in general, textures and certain sounds and it affects my thinking too, giving it a very a sound foundation of Se to Ni and Te. I am nowhere as attuned as SPs but it does not mean that sensuality is not salient. My uni pal on the other is not as mindful of the aesthetic experiences but he has a whole different perception of the world that I find fascinating.
He swims and revels in concepts, systems and philosophy. Like me, he is also doing a double masters with the first one being in creative writing after graduating through film studies. He is a very good poet who writes legitimate poetry with metrics, meters and all the thingamajigs in it. His exam answers read like Das Kapital and he can make a retarded academician sound like a visionary with genius theories. He's a genius-level VIQ and average PIQ. In addition to all this, he's researched deep on the genealogy of Indian language and the Indian caste system (because he carries the guilt of being the upper caste, and I don't
) He constantly disrupts classes and gets the profs in a corner the moment they fuck up with their line of logic and is generally regarded as a kind-hearted philosopher. He also has a need of resolving conflict or steering clear of it, is emotionally gullible and his number sense sucks very bad - which means lots of expenditure and his house supplies constantly running out which is a problem I don't have most of the times.
We are poles apart in our reasoning style. He has a compulsion to trace the entire system of logic back to its most precise form while I have a compulsion towards using systems of logic to maximally optimise a real-life outcome. I could only explain my philosophy of life in terms of Pragmastism which does not dispense with theorizing but does not get sucked into highly abstract conceptual systems which argue with reality more than trying to reconcile it. As a result, he has a profound distaste of mathematics and I don't and I find mathematics, especially probability to be quintessential to the foundation of my systems and theories.
We share a great philosophical bond where the argument is always about how pragmatic or how logical and us trying to outgun each other with logic. Socially, I come off as laid-back but rigid in my ways with very strong boundaries while he comes off as kind and friendly and easygoing. Sometimes, I have to often disillusion him of social events because he gets taken advantage of, especially by 2 unscrupulous XNFPs.