'Also labelling them as hate groups/hate speech, i.e. people who have no right to speak or even exist as group only has the effect of making them feel persecuated and therefore  justifying their...|||Racism is a form of tribalism.  Humans have a natural tendency to form in groups and out groups.   The out group often gets dehumanized and everything ill in the world is blamed on them.    The...|||Would disagree somewhat.  The ideas might originate with Fi, but Fi generally doesn't impose its idea of morality on other people.  Fe is the function that tries to get everyone in compliance with...|||I hate the left/right paradigm because it allows people to lazily assume there are only two types of people in the world.   Also it makes people feel a need to downplay or even defend the worst...|||What bothers me is judging historical figures not through the context of their time, not through the their contribution, but rather through the prism of current morality.     Every era has its own...|||Internet allows us to listen only to sources of information that we like and never have our views challenged.  Bubbles form.  We forgot how to cooperate with the other sides.  Each side wants 100% of...|||externally it can be hard because the distinguishing trait  Ti vs Fi,  are both introverted functions and aren't always on display to the world.  INFPs can sometimes act very detached emotionally...|||I've found it the most difficult to distinguish between E and I in most type.   Because they share the same functions, and introverts spend some of their time acting more extroverted and vice versa. ...|||These I think are the two best INTP descriptions I'm aware of.   They describe the INTPs relationship with emotions.  See if they fit you?  INTP Personality Type: Thinker & Seeker  An INTP Profile|||It's a myth that INTPs are unemotional.   When it comes to emotions,  INTPs seem to have a harder time dealing with them, so often we simply try to repress them instead|||I too see ENTP, INTP and INFP in your descriptions.    All the talk about the need to be 'true to yourself' and 'fakeness' being the first thing you listed that you disliked in others in particular...|||I have had a hard time typing my family  I'm INTP  Father:  do everything by the book, follow a strict schedule kind of guy, First I thought ISTJ, but now I'm not sure.   He may have a touch of...|||This is Ti/Ne in a nutshell.  And yes, they can be difficult to explain to others.  You have to figure out how to a way to make it easily digestible for others who don't think the same way you do.|||I like to cook?    Not all the time though.|||I dated an ESTP woman and she was definitely very much into girly things while at the same time not exactly being the stereotypical girly girl.    For instance one of her mornings might consist of...|||The way the description was written was that when Ne generates the idea/concept, it seeks to have others validate the idea,  because since it's not a judging function, it's unable to judge the idea...|||You are probably an ENTP.   Second choice: ESTP (because a couple answers sounded a little Se), but I lean much more towards ENTP, enneagram 7|||Well there is at least one Ne description on this very site that describes Ne  as needing external validation for its ideas.  And that's one of the problems with typing confusion, everyone has a...|||The problem is I think we find these Fe-style appreciations/affirmations meaningless because they will validate nearly everything.  I don't need a pat on the back when I made a mediocre effort.  ...|||Why stop at names when we can stop using words altogether?  We communicate making funny faces offline and emojis online|||Welcome to the magical land where people aren't crazy!  Aka the INTP forum!       Even male INTPs don't fit social expectations all that well.  People just don't know what to do with our type-- ...|||Found the mistyped INTJ :D|||What if one has multiple personality disorder?  Should they identify as iiii?   Or maybe iiIi if one of the personalities considers itself important?|||or  Ne: *She's pretty; I wonder what she was thinking; I wonder what the paint tastes like* Simultaneously :)|||That just shows that Reagan had a self-deprecating sense of humor I might be asleep during the cabinet meeting.  Another example was when he quoted George Washington during a State of the Union...|||Any of them really.   Lots of T-girls dress that way and even enjoy girly things.|||I can think of a number people purported to be intuitives who are quite good.  But I think people's type affects how they approach making music.   So if you are trying to emulate say, an Se's persons...|||I would guess Si-users would be more reluctant to try them at first than Se-users.  Apart from that, I'm not sure.|||> INTP: Sphinx (answer my riddle or DIE)  We get to kill people for not answering our riddles?  Now you tell me!!:laughing:|||The only thing I can say without knowing the details is the fact that the relationship is years and not months counts for something.   I can easily walk from a relationship of a few months, but...|||I've read that Ne requires external validation.   Ne is my #2, and when I have intuitive insights, I usually feel the need to run them past others even though in general I don't seek much validation....|||No.  It creates a sense of pressure and/or a potential source of embarrassment.  I tend to back away from the other person in these cases.  INTP|||I would say xNFP.    Question #2 suggests you are strong with extroverted Intuition-  desiring creativity, not liking monotony, not being good with details.   I see introverted feeling in several...|||deleted|||Not quite sure what you are asking..     He likes you?  Or you aren't sure if he likes you?  You were more than friends, but you tried to push him away but he didn't stay away?      You don't...|||Ne spots patterns.   When I see a pattern about to repeat itself, I may make a prediction off it and be correct when others don't see it.  But normally Ne presents too many possibilities and can be...|||You don't seem like an INTP  So much focus on leading, winning, being the center of attention-  not very INTP qualities.   Have you considered ENTP or an xSTP type?|||As far as the abandoning relationships.  Yeah I've done that.  I have seen one INTP description that talks about an invisible line that when crossed will cause INTPs to abandon a relationship. ...|||won't everybody define light and dark differently?|||Could it be that you are turned off by Fe rather than attracted to Fi?   Fe's more noticeable.|||Ask them what their plan for world domination is.  If they don't have one... INTP   :)|||That sounds more Ti to me|||I think INFJ, but not with 100% confidence.      I think thinks like this help sway me:  > I put more effort into making sure other people are being authentic and are making the best decisions...|||I don't see how it's the same.   It kind of implies I can acquire someone's love when they don't love me much, and after they learn to love me more, I could just transfer their love to someone else...|||Ok, but this is showing an analytical approach to choose a community for logical reasons (you don't want to be part of a dead or  toxic community, for instance).  Fe doesn't seem to work this way. ...|||Do you find yourself more concerned with how things work or the ethics of things?  Do you feel like you have your own personal set of moral standards, or that moral standards are more universal?|||As an INTP,  an easy and fun conversation is pretty much always a good first impression regardless of the content of it.   If he made himself late for work because he was talking to you, that's a...|||What makes humor work is 'timing' and 'tone'.   What you wrote sounds funny, but delivered in the wrong tone of voice, could sound awful.      If not that, sometimes one child gets favored and can...|||[QUOTE=Grunnmarie;35815682]I think Ne is also an in the moment function.  It's not focused on the far future as Ni is said to be.  It sees too many possibilities of how things can pan out to do...|||I would say either ENTP or INTP.   I see a Ti approach in your answers.   Not so much Fi'