'I was raised in a strict Catholic family, went to Catholic school, hated it, rebelled against it, it probably helped form me into the anti-authoritarian person I still am many many years later. I...|||Flabbering gasbag|||Try Desolation Angels then. If you aren't melancholic enough by the end of that...you'll be downright depressed. :laughing:|||While some INFPs might be illogical as a rule, I think where our powers of illogica really shine is when we're emotional. Then we are tops. .   Personally, I think it's illogical that people ignore...|||I was going to suggest the Dharma Bums. I think Salinger is over-rated. So is Kerouac really,  but OTR and DB and Desolation Angels are good.  The rest are impossible to read.|||Neruda|||I know what NOT to do....don't invalidate whatever he's freaking out about by saying its not a big deal, or he shouldn't freak out about it. I'd suggest being supportive and see how that works. But...|||I've learned that for me, therapists are best used like hammers and chisels and screwdrivers, for a very specific pre-defined purpose. Like hammering a nail, or turning a screw, or shaping some wood....|||Funny. Just before I found this thread I found myself pouring over the farcebook page of someone I adored in high school a million years ago but was too shy and sensitive to actually ask out. But I...|||I want to know what other means. Twins and Triplets?|||I just tied it up at 27.91% for the youngests.|||I've written a lot, published a little, all of it nonfiction. For this INFP, the words only flow when I'm inspired so I have to tap into that to get a lot of words on the paper/monitor. I can't think...|||I don't think I could do yoga with all those birds yapping. :orange:|||Just for the record, I think it's a very biased load of crap.   First of all I think a literate person of any type can probably write well. I would probably prefer the writing of NFs though.  ...|||Or so it says here: INFP Careers   I'm guessing that an INFP wrote that.    Discuss.|||My 20s were miserable, punctuated with great joy and beauty, but always returning to misery. Fortunately things got better. If I could go back and give advice to my 20-something year old self it...|||I've made very few male friends since high school probably because few of them are feelers. If a person (man or woman) can't grasp feelings its hard for me to feel much for them although there are...|||An INFP can easily let themselves get steamrolled into feeling like you feel, and then reacting in a way that may be perceived as toxic to others.  In short, we can become assholes when we let...|||Much better thanks|||I'm up for some Bernie|||pretty fucked up|||I decided to post my thread in a different forum, but that went smoothly.  What is my usergroup, and how does it get turned on/off? I haven't changed any settings in years|||Right, the attachment icon is there in the start new thread window, but not in the reply to thread window. That's why I had to start a new thread to post the attachment instead of posting it in...|||I also don't see an attachment option when I reply to a thread, so I had to start a new thread to show this screenshot.   Where is the prefix drop down that I'm supposed to see?|||There isnt|||actually its the baby boomers forum and there is no dropdown available to me. I don't ever recall using a dropdown.|||and yet I still can't start one in another forum?|||and why was I able to start this thread without one?|||I get you must choose a prefix error. WTH is a prefix?|||This is good news. Helps clean up the unsightly, unsanitary apparition of those furry soup catchers known as beards and makes them look even more ridiculous too.|||I'm a tree hugger.|||I favor the split in principle because I fall between the cracks, but I despise the name Generation Jones as much as I despise Baby Boomer. When you paint an entire generation with one broad sweep of...|||Put it on his doorstep, light the bag, ring the bell and run like hell.|||I applied for something like 75 jobs last year and got none of them. I have 20 years experience. Finally something fell into my lap. This year I had too many jobs (but still not enough money)    ...|||A male vent would properly be termed cloaca. You need to rename this The cloaca thread.|||If what you said was very hurtful they will come around in either  a) a really long time b) never  But I congratulate you on apologizing. It seems to me that few people know how to do that...|||I don't know, whenever I look at the match questions for women who are 90% match they say something just like your cat example, which for me would be dogs. But usually it's something even more...|||Dude, OK Cupid says you and I are an 89% Match. Too bad we're both straight, huh? http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/069.gif  This confirms what I've suspected all along about OKC's algorithms...|||OK, with the caveats that I'm not only single and male but in a completely different demographic, I think I'm interested and I want to hang out is not really displaying the right level of interest....|||Now that we've seen your pictures, let's see some of the messages you sent. Those may need a haircut too. Don't be offended by the hair talk-I had long hair most of my life and only chopped it off 6...|||Someone sent me a Valentine! Someone sent me a Valentine! Someone loves me! I'm not alone!   Oh wait. Its a form Valentine from Personality Cafe Forums. Nevermind. A form Valentine.|||What kind of writing do you like to do?  I write nonfiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays.  What are you currently working on? A lot of nonfiction essays, from lyrical essays about...|||In the polyamours know of, this is anything but the case. Their enlightened thinking has been of a low level actually, and they tend to look down on people not gifted with their heightened level...|||Thanks you. No, he was not a member here, he was an at-large member of the club. It never occurred to me,  but maybe he was INFP. We never talked about that sort of thing. It doesn't matter what type...|||We lost a member this week. A friend of mine died somewhat unexpectedly Monday. I say somewhat because he had some serious illnesses and we never expected him to live this long. We think we have it...|||I used to move every few years. I've been pretty stuck since I bought a house. But I still get the itch.   I don't know if I feel suffocated by my surroundings because I always live in beautiful...|||Gray jays aren't called camp robbers for nothing. That one was way up in the bush, north of Pickle Lake Ontario. I've fed them by hand before, but never seen one that aggressive. That fish had only...|||I love insects. I get paid to study insects.  One of my regular website visits is to  Welcome to BugGuide.Net! - BugGuide.Net   Do not go there if you don't like bugs. :happy:|||God, I'm such a thread killer.   Well today I went to a friends house and fed chickadees sunflower seeds by hand. The bummer is, I knew I was going to do this and still forgot to bring my camera. ...|||I'm just happy someone else here goes outside.'