'Eh, 'authoritative' is the wrong word.  It's just what I remember and how it seemed to me at the time.   In pictures, the 70's look like more like the '60s, fashion-wise, but they felt more like the...|||'60s, yes, but not in the '70s.  The general public seems to think that Woodstock was when it started, but it was actually where it ended . . . . after that the freeloaders piled on and sank the...|||They like puzzles, and to them, we are definitely a puzzle.|||Eh, not 'love' . . . .  They ARE amusing/enjoyable at first, but after a while it sinks in that that the game we're playing isn't a game at all for them -- it never stops.   After that they mostly...|||If I had a dog that acted like an ENTJ, I'd shoot it. :tongue:  Seriously though:  No.  They're not worth the trouble it would take train them to act like a human being.  They're just too stubborn.|||1. 6 year old boy and girl in burning build, which child do you save? Since the 'rules' say answer everything as though it was a moral dilemma, even when it isn't ... I'll pretend that I'd save the...|||Eh, it's pattern recognition, mostly.   You compare BIG chunks of data to BIG chunks of experience, rather than breaking it down into small pieces.  You do use it for some things, of course.   If...|||Short answer:  If you have to THINK about how to not piss us off, you've already failed.  :tongue:  Why do you care if you piss us off, anyway?   If you have something to say, say it.   If you have...|||Well, we don't like KNOWING that they're wearing makeup -- just like we don't want to know how the magician got the rabbit into the hat.   We like to pretend that it's MAGIC.|||First, pull your pants up. :dry:  Now say to them, Hey, isn't it interesting when you've known someone for a long time and then all of a sudden you're interested in them (wink-wink, nudge-nudge, ...|||If we're talking about significant, relevant action I'm all in.  As for all this his pointless, spasmodic, thrashing about that seems to constitute the majority of most people's lives . . . . I am,...|||That's it, and you wanna know something else?     You wouldn't even like the rewards that society would give you if you played along, anyway.|||If you're in agreement, they can be very enthusiastic, determined, and supportive -- if they get it stuck in their head that you're not doing it RIGHT . . . .  GOD help you.  I generally get along...|||Yeah, I agree.   They sound like their problem is more that they're dull rather than that they're sensors.   You ought to go to a rock concert or an amusement park with a bunch of sensors sometime. ...|||Yup.  It's an INFP tendency to assign SO MUCH significance to every little thing, anyway.   Add in all the hype and hoopla surrounding sex and toss in an absolute lack of actual experience or a...|||Personally, I'd name it 'Blackie' just to mess with the SJs.  That's just me though. . . .|||That may be what was said, but what probably actually upset him was concern that you were about to re-interpret his 'feelings' using your 'thinking'.  That does tend to be a sore spot.  I find it...|||I'm running 3 virtual desktops at the moment, two tabs in firefox in this one, another has a remote desktop session into another machine with two windows (a database and a text editor), the third...|||Just keep them busy.   They're fine until they stop doing and start thinking.    Don't give them too many options when they have to make a choice, and don't give them too many reasons when you make...|||I suppose this is just my trait, rather than an INFP trait -- but I don't really care what the intention was, just the effect.   If I think a bus looks like it's going to run over me, I don't bother...|||Yeah, it's no different than religion or culture or whatever.  It's true that just because a thing has been used for ill, it does not mean it cannot be used for good.   It's also true that just...|||That's why I posted what I did.   I don't think that's actually all that common a position.   I don't personally know anyone who feels that way.|||Nah. It's way simpler than that.   We don't have a problem with knowledge, we have problems with it's disciples.   Some people DO brutalize and invalidate other people. I don't know why, just...|||Yeah, sure, you can do that . . . . :dry:    We don't have to hide.  We're invisible.|||So. . . . you're saying you didn't learn anything from your previous relationship? :dry:  If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion:  This time, instead of arguing, try to get along.  :wink: ...|||Well, I know this really isn't going to make you feel better, but . . .   This is going to happen a LOT in life.   You can't hang on to everything forever, you'll lose things you value all along...|||When I was in school, I was always too much of an outsider to have the opportunity to go to parties, and drugs never really had much appeal to me.   I drank a beer or two now and then, just enough to...|||No, absolutely not.   Trusting your feelings does not mean that you are passive and/or weak.   These are two unrelated traits.|||It's more like we don't have goals so much as a heading -- if that makes sense.  There really isn't a beginning or an end, just the journey.     The 'goal' is to go 'that direction'.   It's like...|||When I was younger, I saw my sexuality as this deep, hidden secret, that couldn't be shared with any but a chosen few -- or even better the chosen one.  As I've gotten older, I realize that sexuality...|||I dunno, I'm pretty much INFP, but I don't really get the wands and telekinesis, personally.   I like to make things move by smacking them with a wiffle bat.   </shrug>|||Eh, We're just naturally more fun than you guys.   Sorry, can't help it.   That's OK, we don't understand you guys either -- like, why do you nerds wear double knit pants and short sleeved dress...|||Organized anything isn't fulfilling.   The organization always ends up becoming the focus, and the purported purpose gets shuffled to the rear.|||I grew a beard when I was a teen, just to see how it looked.   I liked it so I kept it.|||I think I look my age . . . . I guess it doesn't matter much when you're in your 50's though.   Time doesn't mark you as much as experience does after around 40 or so, I think.   Age isn't so...|||Well, the math a non math major gets at most universities is a lot like the music you get from most radio stations -- simple, repetitive and sufficiently watered-down to be palatable to the lowest...|||My Ideal setting would be a little cottage by a clear stream in the middle of an endless forest -- Huge, deep-dark woods complete with trolls and ogres and fairies dancing in rings and dwarves...|||You are a Spatial Thinker http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/images/thinker_quiz/results/spatial.jpg   Spatial Thinkers:    Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of...|||Well, my personal opinion so far is that you are probably going to piss me off no matter what you do.   I particularly don't like the word 'game' in the above.  I don't play games with people's...|||I thought the first movie was great.   I thought the rest of them pretty much sucked.   I remember sitting in the theater for 'strikes back' and thinking he just decided that he was just going to...|||Yeah, pretty cool huh?   I grew up in the suburbs, but I had family who lived out in the country.   I never felt at home anywhere else, so getting my own place was the one thing that I always knew I...|||Yeah, I bought some land about 30 minutes out of town about 15 years ago.   Here's a shot of my house and a few samples of what various spots in my 'yard' look like . . . . ...|||Under certain conditions, it's a good thing.   In the general case, it bothers me.     How would you feel if you came home from work and found out that someone broke into your house and washed all...|||I think the observed behavior 'may not react well to compliments' is correct. I disagree with her belief about the reason.  I own my internal state. A compliment is an attempt to manipulate...|||Yeah, when I took the GRE, (it's like the SAT but for grad school), I scored highest on the verbal, then analytical, and lowest on the qualitative. Everybody else I knew who took it scored the other...|||Communication isn't always easy, especially since the initial slight appears to have been her accusation that what he'd been expressing wasn't genuine. Putting myself into that picture . . . . my...|||When I was programming, I did C and C++ on Unix.   That was about 5 years ago. Now I mostly do Windows admin stuff, plus a little Unix/Linux admin work as an outside contractor for small companies...|||I'd make a snap judgment about who I thought they were, and answer accordingly.     In general, if no warning bells went off, I'd say Sure, OK.    No sense rejecting a friend just because they...|||I've always had the same experience, but never associated it with my personality type. Most people seem to have difficulty seeing the problem in multiple problem spaces at the same time I think.   ...|||I'm kinda getting the idea that theres a tendency here for INFPs to approach relationships as either a complete merging of identities, or as two individuals seperated by an unfathomable gulf, or...'