'I'm interested in eventually adopting a child whose life would more than likely change for the better from my involvement, but I really don't want to bring a child into the world. Existance to me is...|||My sex is male, but my gender is mostly feminine. Ironically I have brown hair, but my beard is red. :|  Also, the only INTP female I know has red hair as well!|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZAzh0TSAo|||http://i41.tinypic.com/zkmvjd.png  Leonard Bernstein and his gorgeous face.|||I'm debating where I want to apply to grad schools, and as a bassoonist, the choice of school basically comes down to the bassoon teacher at the school. I'm researching these people's biographies,...|||Jeremy Denk, pianist.  Congratulate Yourself, Beethoven|||There are children who need homes already. I don't need to make my own.|||My woodwind quintet is giving a recital.  The Program is Copland, Hindemith, Danzi, and Berio, but it will involve a man in a penguin suit playing the role of stagehand, meowed Christmas carols,...|||I'm inclined to think that maturity doesn't exist. It's just something extroverted judging functions make up.|||I never get angry.  A little over a year ago some bitch (I say that objectively, not angrily) drove her car into me during exam week while I was crossing the street, and my reaction was to joke...|||Episode 9, Season 4: Frock the Vote! - Preview 2 | Video Clips, Watch Full Episodes Online  Miss Phi Phi O'hara.|||Sharon Needles, performance artist, contestant on Rupaul's Drag Race Season 4  Very revealing interview: FOFA #1529 – Hitting the Mainline with Sharon Needles – 03.09.12 « Feast of Fun This...|||32700  My puppy using his Ti.  If there's anything that brings out my Fe, it's my puppy.|||Based on the style of your writing, you're for sure an INTP. I'm going to sum up that paragraph for you in what are basically your own words.  In junior high I had success in study but not in...|||Rachel Maddow Show - On Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney on Reproductive Rights Debate  This is what I know about the issue. I watched television for the first time in 6 months earlier this week, and...|||I would say that ENTPs are MORE likely to walk into oncoming traffic. INTPs are going to be cautious from the Ti/Si loop, where ENTPs will be more willing to take a risk and less likely to learn from...|||A couple of other threads on the topic:  http://personalitycafe.com/intp-forum-thinkers/58426-synesthesia.html http://personalitycafe.com/nts-temperament-forum-intellects/52901-synesthesia.html ...|||The differences are meant to compensate for the shortcomings of each individual while not making both hate each other.  INTP is Ti, Ne, Si, Fe. ENFJ is Fe, Ni, Se, Ti.  They each bring out the...|||You want an ENFJ.  I could go SO much more into this, but it boils down to:  You don't want another introvert because neither of you would leave the house. You don't want another perceiver...|||I do it to cover up when I earnestly say something completely idiotic, and then realize half a second later how stupid it is. Also, if I make a joke and someone can't hear me whether I mumble or...|||Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,   it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -Oscar Wilde  Oscar Wilde has some amazingly cynical quotations.  Human beings are,...|||I can kind of relate. I kind of think of myself as an aestheticist. I'm a musician, and music kind of forces you to use all of your psychological functions. With my musical training I've worked in...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthBIRr2JAY|||Why the guilt? That video is an aesthetic masterpiece. It's pop art, but it's still art.|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI02Rj5xhFM&t=4m30s  Feel free to skip to 4:30, but don't miss out on parts two and three!  Salome lusts for John the Baptist, who refuses her. Her step-father,...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bCN2ur3pg  You're talking way too much. You tell me one more time how I should live - I swear I'll bite your head off! I am who I am and I can't be no one else....|||I have a traumatic relationship with my ESFJ mother which triggers my schizotypal days more often than really anything else. The emphasis on Si in her thought process makes it so that really any...|||My Fi gets me in big trouble sometimes. All of the darkest times in my life that really left scars are the ones where I allowed Fi to dominate my thinking.   My lack of Se prevents me from learning...|||Things like this tend to pop up in the NT forum every once in a while, ( http://personalitycafe.com/nts-temperament-forum-intellects/64852-why-competition-between-intjs-intps.html ) but I've never...|||I saw an oboe masterclass given by a female INTP this semester. She gave the masterclass at my university as a guest, and I was astounded by her depth of knowledge. She also did something very...|||I do that to SJs all the time. Whenever they say something like, Well, that goes against my religious beliefs I just can't help myself. Don't they know they're kidding?|||She's a goody two-shoes in some respects, but she's not necessarily responsible. She doesn't really keep track of her commitments. She's not particularly inquisitive.  I'm not sure what you're...|||Care to elaborate?|||I have a friend whose type I can't decide on. I've narrowed her down in my considerations, of course, but I want to see what other people come up with.  Fashion is very important to her. She's...|||I wake up, and the day feels broken.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSiYa6hX1w|||These things exist because cultures have existed independently of each other and we recognize differences between groups. We don't have to be so cynical that we have to believe that humans naturally...|||Avoidant Personality Disorder in INFPs and ISTJs is an unbalanced use of Fi and Si, which are the Dominant and Tertiary Functions in both types. The types seem vastly different, but the disorder...|||My sister either an INFP or an ISTJ with Avoidant Personality Disorder. She likes cute things, hand crafts (knitting, crochet, et cetera), and tech stuff. Is there something that I can get her that...|||She's almost like a party trick. There is almost no situation that can't be made light of by imagining my mother's reaction. She's a sweet lady, but her naivete is astounding. She wants the best for...|||My mother is an ESFJ with really narrow life experience. She lived in a tiny town in northern Michigan where the whole town attended the one Protestant Church, and where there were no people of color...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur79USk425o&feature=related  Artists are supposed to comment on culture. That's the function of art. - Margaret Cho  The Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray by...|||Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Leonard Bernstein.|||Mostly I posted the thread because I wanted to see if people like @Fiddler  exist, so I'm validated that way.  I think in general I perform these kinds of music more than I listen to them, and I...|||For one of my homework assignments in my Orchestration class, I've been asked to pick a Christmas Carol, Patriotic Tune, or Folk Song of some kind and arrange it for an ensemble of woodwinds, but I...|||I'm amazed you caught Jackie Beat in that tiny blip! I mean, I guess it's a striking photograph, but wow! That's some Se for you.|||You're not independent. You don't have a driver's license. Driving is necessary in our society. Do your share!  That's what I get for being the son of an ISTJ who works for an automaker. He...|||I've developed a character who I put on who is an ESFP. I try to embrace frivolity as much as possible, because happiness is far easier to achieve when it's not necessarily tied to fulfillment. I...|||When I receive criticism in my bassoon lessons (which, as a bassoon performance student, are the single most important hour of my week) which imply that I'm not improving fast enough, or that I don't...|||I'm in a woodwind quintet right now, and we're having difficulty naming it. The flutist, clarinetist and I are all INTPs (I know, what are the odds?), the oboist is an INFJ, and the horn star is an...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeqC7Nr3yfw'