'WOW. THAT WAS RIDICULOUS. I FELL SLIGHTLY LEFT OF CENTER AND SLIGHTLY BELOW THE CENTER ON THE VERTICAL AXIS. I JUST FILLED IN THE DOTS IN REPEATING PATTERN SO IT MAY NOT BE AN ACCURATE RESULT....|||It may have been mentioned already, but getting married doesn't have to be expensive or involve a religious setting, at least in the US.  You can get married by a JP at the courthouse in most places...|||So I played with this for a bit, and depending on the length and sample of text, I got David Foster Wallace (twice), H.P. Lovecraft (twice), Charles Dickens, and Cory Doctorow.   Which didn't tell...|||Don't forget that the finishing blow in the big fight at the end must be shown as a series of intercuts between three different camera angles, and at least one has to be in slow motion.  So far...|||Oh, I know. And if I'm upset, it's not over this and I'm certainly not upset with you. Being tactful and saying what's socially expected and accepted just got a little tiresome, so I decided to just...|||Why do you think you need to defuse this slowly? It doesn't really sound like a potentially explosive situation that's going to 'blow up' if it's not defused.  And I don't see why you'd need to do it...|||I concur. Profound shit is one of your hallmarks. ;)|||Possibly. It would have cost me the friendship, although I doubt that's worth very much, so no, not priceless. Just valuable, or worthless, enough to go with tact rather than speaking my mind. It...|||An example of the use of hard learned tact and social grace:  Friend/acquaintance of mine announces she's 'expecting'.  I smile and say, 'Congratulations!'   When what I really want to say is,...|||chemistry |ˈkeməstrē | noun 1 the branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed; the investigation of their properties and the ways in which they...|||Whenever I've had that kind of a break-up, the subsequent anti-psychotic meds wrecked my libido too much for that.  (jk, I'm not on any meds, and I mean no offense. Solfonny's post needed a...|||Wait, are we talking about inter-personal communication, or inter-personal connections?  Like who understands you, or who 'gets' you?    Personally, I don't think I'm that hard to understand, in...|||I'd agree with that observation, but I don't really know what to make of it in terms of explaining 'why'.  It may have something to do with the new year, and spring being sort of associated with new...|||I generally dislike argument and debate. In my observation, most people feel compelled to (quickly, reactively) take a stance on everything, and aren't able to change their stance on anything once...|||Wow.  Honestly, it sounds like there was some mutual interest there, you explored a relationship, but it didn't work out.    It's tough when you fall deeply in love with someone and they don't...|||Canadian baby is the nicest.     I usually just have coffee and painkillers though.|||I'm not big on color coding gender in general, and I have some issues with the pretty pink princess marketing angle, but the use of pink and blue in the PerC profile block doesn't irritate me any...|||What I don't understand is how come, when things are ok, people are always asking me, What's wrong. and, What's the matter? But I don't think I've ever had anyone ask that when something was...|||Love. $15.00 and a pair of sneakers. Tuesday.|||I used to think I had a picture of misstheground by my computer, but I've recently been informed that it's in fact just a stick figure drawing.|||OMG! Yes, we should like so totally do that!!!!   On second thought, let's not and say we did.  On third thought, let's not even say we did.  (On fourth thought, is having four thoughts about...|||Sure.   I was going to respond in a PM or VM as it seemed tangental to the initial post, but then I realized MindSlinger knows what he was getting at better than anyone in the OP, so maybe it's...|||We're good. Basically what kind of rubbed me wrong was the line about,  ...assume the native Indian culture, popped into existence today. No history behind, it just started today with all the rules...|||It sort of is. Fred argued a lot with his friend Richard about it.|||lol. It's not a current or previous focus of interest.  I guess it falls under the greater umbrella of design though, which does sort of intrigue me. Like there are different knives for slicing fish...|||Do vocal lyrics have any place in music, or are they mere distractions from the true point of music? Would Fred have had a different opinion on this if he'd ever heard the blues?  <bums a smoke...|||Greetings! You seem trustworthy. Join us.   (And I will give a cookie to anyone who gets that reference. Although I don't bake, and I do lie.)   Also, I was also unsure about the MBTI forums,...|||Yep, I agree with the post note. Thing is, you don't have to have a war. A war is some kind of conflict between people. This is what I was referring to with Terra Nullius. There was no war of...|||Fair enough. :) I'm guilty of unfairly assuming knowledge on your part; we're INTPs, we know things, right?   Ok, so in the US, 'Native American' as an ethnic/minority status is something conferred...|||This isn't exactly answering your question, but I don't self-id as Native American, no.   But that statement in itself's pretty loaded with implications that speak to the question in the OP.  No...|||That would probably be best, if I'm going to participate in this discussion. I looked up how to spell it, even. And I can't pronounce Fred's last name either, apparently. :/|||This is why people think you're 50. Most people who are 50 don't get this, let alone most people who are 30, or 25, or... :)   But no, you're not the only person. My suffering is very important to...|||To misquote or paraphrase Bill Gibson, 'In the future, communications will be faster and denser.' The people communicating on Twitter seem very fast, and very dense, to me.   I'll see about giving...|||Thank you kindly. :)  lol. And yes, I totally fumbled my summon Jennywocky roll there.|||What do you mean 'we', white man?   That said... nonexistent or still traditional? It's the nature of cultures to clash when they come into contact; you're asking me what the world would be like...|||Nietsche was pretty awesome. He also drove himself insane.    And, he was pretty expansive in his philosophies. Would you care to narrow the field a bit in regards to the topic of discussion?|||It's not types so much as certain people. Jennywocky reminded me recently that when someone's refusing to engage on a rational level, you're totally entitled to engage them with your Fx (<- I hope I...|||I ignored or discounted these things until I was in my early 20s.   And then I had a moment of realization that life was mostly distress and misery, and it felt really good to wash my face with a...|||Ok, I'll play. But eleven pages... really? But I got a cool little badge of colored bands that makes me think of the 1950s! :)  Reserved Inventor.   PersonalDNA | Your True Self Revealed - Fast...|||This is kind of off the topic of the OP, but that topic is pretty complex so I'm going to respond to this while I continue to consider that. :)  First off, just take it as a compliment that you're...|||Despite knowing better of the specifics, I'm going to continue to imagine this exchange as occurring between William Burroughs as the passenger, and Jackie Gleason as the bus driver, and it's all...|||Yeah, half the time I may as well be summoning Cthulhu too.|||Most of the conversation I have is just formalized exchanges. And at this point in my life I'm able to be very selective about whom I converse with beyond formalized exchanges.  And even still,...|||Flaunting gender conventions, I can both read a map and ask for directions, thank you very much.    My sense of direction is pretty good, I think, but I get my directions flipped around in the...|||As I said, this has given me a lot to think about personally. And I'm still thinking about it.  But I've been thinking about the question in the OP as well, and I'll try to address that a little. ...|||I'll have a go at a more serious response.    This morning, my life seems like; You know that great song by that one band who were really, really good? I haven't heard that song in ages. You don't...|||You know how sometimes you find yourself having to explain to someone what the difference is between a metaphor and a simile? It's kind of like that.|||Wow. I can't say I can totally relate to everything here, it's given me some stuff to have a serious think about. Thanks for sharing.|||Yes, but it's often that way when one lives in a popular vacation spot, whether that's Hawaii or the INTP forum. ;)|||Sure.  Let us know what we can do to help.  Should we stare at you for extended lengths of time, engage in awkward conversation, just fail to connect with you on some level? We are here to not be...'