'Are you me?!  I still really like fantasy, but the thing is that it has to be really good to be good at all, whereas science fiction can still be stimulating if it's not that great. There's way too...|||Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.  I'm on the second one and I'm pretty sure I have a new favorite book. xNTP literature for sure, SO MUCH BRAIN PORN|||Eh, cut it with the false modesty, people. If you're intelligent, you  know it, and the standard for that is not compare yourself to  Einstein. When I get called that, all I say is welp, it's my...|||Amen to that. I have a somewhat contradictory ambition to living an ascetic lifestyle though, has anyone else experienced this? Like, I live in a one-room studio apartment containing all of my...|||I used to be a political activist in a somewhat fringe-y, but not extremist, organization. It has taught me two things: that I am absolutely terrible at that sort of thing and that it is not the time...|||Shockingly enough, Thinkers have feelings too. I'm pretty much a goddamn robot and I'm still in a very feely mood right now, for example. To the extent that I read the title of the thread about hugs...|||ENFP, definitely. I'd really love to see what it's like being a warm-hearted people person, it's a part of me I wish I was stronger. I don't find the idea of being a Sensor appealing at all though.|||Don't just read about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, read the transcripts themselves. I have seen very few politicians speak with such clarity, straightforwardness, reason and balance, and certainly...|||Seems like a fairly classic Melancholy/Sanguine/Phlegmatic/Choleric typing.  Which is quite useful to tack on to MBTI nonetheless, so hey, handy!|||While I don't think it's very strange, it might look weird. It keeps your mouth open, and unfortunately that makes most people look stupid because normally, sitting open-mouthed is an expression of...|||I don't like blue at all. My favorite colors are grey, black, white and brown. And tan. They're clean, simple and unobtrusive.  I'm clearly True Neutral.    It's not hard, you guys are just...|||It means you're a more mature and complete person than people who, for some reason, consider being a walking stereotype to be a worthwhile goal.  Some people have less strict tendencies towards...|||Oh yeah, I think most of us do that. For me at least, art in general is definitely less about the experience of beauty or craftsmanship and more about taking it apart and looking for meanings,...|||If it's about something personal or feely, then I try to calm the situation and mediate, if that fails, I run for the hills.  If it's about an ideological, theoretical or ethical problem and the...|||I did, once, several years ago, while unimaginably drunk.  I felt horrible afterwards. Never came clean, and I broke off the relationship a few months later. To be honest it was a symptom of being...|||I mostly do depraved things to words using my mouth or a keyboard. I've been told I also have a talent for accents, imitating voices, public speaking and, well, things related to talking. Good thing...|||Love. I've never had any interest in material wealth, I barely spend any money as it is. Books are cheap and all I'd miss if my income suddenly dropped would be buying nice clothes, but I can live...|||I use we when it's things that are defining aspects of the type of person I'm talking about. For example, saying we tend to take a theoretical approach to problems about INTP's is fine IMO...|||I find the idea of trying MDMA both interesting and repellent. One one hand, I just want to know what it's like since it's apparently so different to my everyday experience, but on the other hand the...|||I read fiction and non-fiction in roughly equal amounts.  Fiction: Postmodern, metamodern, experimental literature and other artsy-fartsy stuff. Not necessarily currently experimental, it's enough...|||I haven't added an avatar for myself on this forum because, while I realize people don't remember the usernames of pictureless posters, I kind of enjoy the anonymity.|||If you want to manipulate an INTP, stroke his/her intellectual ego. It has to be a discussion because that's our primary mode of forming opinions. You can't appeal to most conventional emotions, but...|||I spent 3 years of my life running around as a political activist on the programme side of things, debating, educating, writing, helping with organization and whatnot. Those are my favorite things in...|||ISFP's are some of my favorite people to smoke weed with. They show me beautiful art and music that I'm not very good at finding on my own or appreciating when I'm sober.  Also, good taste in...|||Remember, preference != ability. It's not that they can't think in abstract terms, it's that they don't particularly like to.  ...which is probably actually worse when it comes to the communication...|||Huh, for me it's the opposite. People have told me they appreciate my calm and how I'm really good with crises. Then again, I'm a far cry from the stereotypical monotone, I speak very expressively...|||I don't get the appeal. I can't even think of them as pets, they're just wild animals you happen to cage and own. I've always had dogs though and I'm a huge dog person, so I do need a connection with...|||Oh yes, seconding this. The man is absolutely brilliant and doesn't get nearly enough love. If you're looking for metamodernism, there you have it, distilled and pure. Reading his books takes you on...|||If anything, I'd love to have been born later. Being a teenager when the internet was new was pretty great, but modern teenagers are having an absolute blast. They're idiots, of course, but so is...|||Exactly this. If you're a young gay man in the American Deep South with ISTJ tendencies, you'll simply have to end up suppressing one or the other while growing up because there's an irreconcilable...|||Which is why I said if you think the concept of evil is valid. Not getting into that minefield of a topic...    Because that's what the word evil was invented to describe, I'd suppose -...|||The line is fluid, really. The main difference is that sociopaths are capable of emotional attachment to other individuals. They still don't have any notion of right or wrong. If the difference is...|||This. If you're looking at evolution, any line of reasoning that says they're here to... is missing the point, it should be they're here because. Evolutionary processes take place for a reason,...|||Only female INTP I know is naturally blonde.  ...she dyes her hair red. I think you might be on to something.|||Ah yes, the returning soldier effect. Not nearly as significant as you'd think. The Straight Dope: Are more male babies born after wars? And in any case - you're practically proposing Lamarckian...|||Keep in mind the idea of introspection verbalized in writing, the most natural thing in the world to INxP's, seems to be completely alien to the average ESFJ, so they stay well away from forums like...|||Mother Nature doesn't really try to do anything, but I get your point. Why would *paths work to remove non-beneficial genes, though? As mentioned in the video, a vast majority aren't violent.  If...|||Dear ESFJ,  It's not that I don't like you. I don't have anything against you, per se, and certainly no grudges or reasons to cultivate negative emotions. It's just that whenever you're in the...|||What do you mean?|||Psychopaths frankly terrify me. If the term evil has any meaning, psychopaths are it, and the most scary part is that they're not necessarily cruel. I feel it does say a lot about the way our...|||Dear ENTJ,  Chill the fuck out for a while, would you? I know you have big goals and all, it's great and I admire it. Thing is, there are other things in life as well and you're an intolerable...|||So, um, is this still the politics thread?  Broadly left-wing/egalitarian - socially liberal, economically socialist, politically a believer in direct democracy. I don't vote because there is...|||Huh, I actually pay a lot of attention to the way I dress, and somehow managed to develop a fairly conservative taste despite it not fitting my nature. I almost never wear things like cargo pants or...|||As long as you actually have the need and budget to keep such a position, I'd say the best types for it would be ENTP for a proactive, energetic advisor who feeds you ideas for improvement, and INTJ...|||Thought: A lot of INTP's in this thread seem to express a strong preference for sex in monogamous relationship over casual sex. Isn't this sort of an extension of the way we relate to people in...|||Probably an xNTP thing, I certainly feel similarly. We're probably on equal footing as the types that attach the most value to our views and knowledge, so I guess it's natural that we like being in...|||This is an untitled bit of writing. It's not exactly about me, the voice isn't mine - more of a highly exaggerated version of myself - and it's not about something or someone specific in my life, but...|||Read it. I didn't like Woman, it put me off Fowles for a while. Since then I've read The Magus (excellent, but much more of a literary tapestry to be savored than a raw emotional experience) and this...|||The ability to swiftly think, analyze, conceptualize etc. is a gift, what is a curse is the overwhelming compulsion to do so ALL THE TIME.|||Chalk me up for that crowd, I'm well past 17 but I went through a massive identity crisis at exactly your age. Of course, it is a common age for that in general, might not be an INTP thing.'