'Fatness has very little to do with food intake or exercise levels, according to thousands of studies on the matter. And it cuts life short by less than a month.  For heart attack and cancer patients...|||Though I'm not entirely sure why, I'm not comfortable guessing strangers' MB types. (maybe because all I can guess is the type of their cultivated public persona, so it's meaningless to speculate).  ...|||Exams are fine and getting a 90% because I forgot a few things doesn't bother me.  I did take one undergrad class where the exam writer of a multiple choice exam was the worst writer of an exam I've...|||Whoever made the rule/myth that long-term relationships are better than short-term ones should be taken out back and shot.  Caused me more trouble than I can tell in a short post to hang on to that...|||From time to time, but age will eventually take care of my smarts, so I'll get to know what being slow and not finding the right word is like thirty years down the road, as I'll know what it is to...|||I'm not sure any one city is better for INTJs.  You have to balance noise/crowdedness against cultural events, museums, the likelihood of finding like-minded people for a group of...|||Do you prefer to date in your own social group: If I'm a loner, what's my social group--should masturbation count?  Or, 2, where else would a person date but from one of their social groups?  I'm...|||Romantic love seems to me to be about 1) chemicals/hormones/lust and 2) psychological problems in the person claiming to love.  Regarding the first, narcissists with their seeming self-confidence...|||Competently, and I have from a very early age, being the go-to person in family and peer group when someone was spurting blood/had an LSD freakout/something was on fire.  Sometimes later I fall...|||Most untrue things pass right by me, except when someone says I haven't tried and I know damn well I've committed lots of energy to something that is, for whatever reason, difficult for me.  Valid...|||So you'd prefer it if he said something along the lines of, for fuck's sake, you're a nattering empty-headed useless lump of protoplasm and I want nothing to do with you ?  I guess that's not...|||Well...er... I'm probably not the best person to ask, for sometimes I think I'm flirting and it's not getting across, and sometimes I'm trying not to and some jealous female boils up and screams at...|||Agree--this test is not about empathy.  Whatever it's about, I hoped to score low on it and I did.|||Normal.  I've done lots of stupid/silly/inappropriate things in a lifetime.  I'd add it to the ever-growing list and continue living.|||I wonder if I'm the same species as the authors.  Not that I'll try to mate with any to see if we have fertile offspring, but I have my doubts.|||1) not necessarily 2) depends on if I was treated badly--if so, never again.  I've stayed friends with a majority of ex lovers.  I've never rekindled (though I did have casual sex with one ex, once,...|||The best stories--the real jaw-droppers--you'll hear at AA meetings.  My friends in recovery have some doozies.  Nothing like an event involving a SWAT team or mysteriously bloody clothing to make...|||I doubt seriously that marijuana caused any of the psychiatric symptoms.  But whatever the cause, this is who you really are now.  There's not some magical real you who isn't the quotidian you or...|||Questions for which the asker doesn't want a truthful answer or which are disguised statements.   Are you going to go hole up with your blinds drawn again? (after last night's social event, I got...|||Honestly, I wouldn't want it.  I don't want the moral responsibility or hassles. But, as a thought experiment...I'd:  a) be dumbfounded because I never buy a lottery ticket.  If I survived that...|||I have no idea what you're talking about.  What sort of freak out and in what sense did you get weird?|||Ditto on the get too bored to specialize comment.  Also, as a generalist, I get the opportunity to synthesize from diverse fields and see connections I wouldn't if I had specialized.  I've had four...|||I've spent a lot of hermit time this past seven years.  I went without speaking to anyone but grocery store clerks (thanks) for one four-month stretch.  It was lovely, as wonderful as the fantasies...|||speaking of amazon reviews:  Amazon.com: Omas Limited Edition Phoenix Plated Fountain Pen With Diamonds: Office Products|||I had hypnotherapy to quit biting my nails in my early 20's.  Worked perfectly for that irksome habit.  I was amused that a week later I'd space out and suddenly come to following a post-hypnotic...|||I would treat it rather lightly at first.  The question for me would not be OMG how do I act normally.  Who the fuck cares how I'm acting? (I don't.)  My question would be, how do I get this behavior...|||1.  No.  Except rarely, some particular person will be difficult for me to stay with. 2.  No.  I have mobile expressions.  I reserve Death Glare for when I wish Death upon someone. I have okay...|||Loads.  Real life losses of beloved pets, my father, the story my friend told me about sitting with her brain-dead son and turning off the the machines (she didn't cry, but I'm sure she has cried a...|||Punch Brothers   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfbzkp3dVB4|||Hmm, I'd never considered the question, but it makes sense to me that INTJs would be less likely to be.  I can be, but it really isn't that interest a state for me.  You ever laze in bed after...|||I'd never ever use one.  But I'm older and we old folks don't trust such newfangled concepts.  Intellectual connection does not predict that F2F spark for me.  Furthermore, it's far easier to find...|||I can control how much online contact to have and when.  I can disappear from a place like this for months and no one will notice or care, which I find pleasant. I have the same problems I suppose...|||I:  - Sleep when the sun sleeps (though I stay up past sundown in the winter--can't sleep that many hours) - Never nap--napping screws up my head - Pay attention to my own body and deep mind -...|||that's kind of you.  However, I see a difference between extroverts (people who want people around all the time and seek people in times of stress) and yammerers.  People who can't shut up are, I...|||Me: briefly explain the difference between introverts and extroverts in the MBTI sense (I usually say, in times of stress, some people seek company and noise, some seek a friend to talk with, and...|||I'll never again marry anyone, so no.  Asperger's puts me off not at all; bipolar does. I've heard too many stories of manics cleaning out checking accounts, inviting strangers back to the house for...|||Analytic logic tests are my best.  I seem to get slightly higher scores on IQ tests that are verbally weighted and lower scores on spatial ones--you know those tests that show a two-dimensional...|||This is one of those examples of why I think 85% of psychology is utter bullshit, witchdoctory nonsense that makes me dislike the field.  Has my brain-mouth combination made people insult me, fear...|||no idea what mbti people are and won't speculate.  Photorealists are cool, like Ralph Goings  53742|||- living alone and being free - not working and being able to follow my own mind all day long - my mind itself.  Thanks, dad's family for these genes (blond, athletic, smart, musical, artistic...|||Sounds like a big teacher crush, a fairly common event.  Cause: a) hormones and b) psychological issues (not necessarily bad stuff, normal stuff will do) that I'm not qualified to speculate on. ...|||Huh, are we all morning people?  Thanks for the answers.  Those all sound like pleasant days to me, too.  Me.  Up with the sun.  Put on breakfast and check emails.  Surf the net and follow my...|||I'm interested in your reports on this.  Of your normal days, the ones that are repeated in life, what schedule and balance of activities would make you lie down in bed at the end of the day and say,...|||not even a tiny bit are they useless  Uses for a university education in the US, but you have to go away and live in a new city or state:  - to get you away from your...|||If you lined up my lovers in a row and just looked, you'd not see many commonalities.  White, black, Asian, male, female, tall, short, painfully thin to 350 pounds, one person with CP.  So far, no...|||If I understand it correctly (and there's every chance I don't), it's behind some of my sense of humor.  Is it responsible for knowing that something is wrong with this person, get the hell away...|||No, but I hope you're my secret Santa.  I don't work.  No income = no taxes (poverty).|||I think notions like countries are less important than most folks believe, and I don't know that they are actually thems who can betray and I certainly know I can't control such a force in...|||1.  With a minimum of pain 2.  Fed to wild animals (dump me into the ocean) 3.  As that weird git who wanted to have her body eaten by shrimp|||Loathe xmas music if it's religious in nature.  Grow tired of even the secular stuff very rapidly.  However, I could hear without wanting to climb a clock tower, once a year, Judy Garland singing...'