'Have you ever considered it?  Yes. In that cold practical way that INTPs conteplate everything. Not many non-INTPs can accept that you can look at something horrific dispassionately to evaluate it....|||https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xX0RmxWIGrU/maxresdefault.jpg|||My girlfriend is an ENFJ, and that F part is to an extreme. She literally talks and remembers feelings, emotion. Not facts. Almost never facts.  She can say something to me, that I repeat back to...|||10 currently, often more, but then I usually have 3 or more SSH terminals open, each running screen with 5 more screens each, on 3 different machines other than the one I'm using. I don't have...|||Actually yes, they do have those things in common.|||Regarding 'bossed around':  No, no INTP likes that. However, I think that how an INTP tends to deal with a situation is often perceived as him being bossed around by others, including the one doing...|||Taken concretely, I don't agree with much of the book. But taken conceptually, I agree with it entirely. I see the impact of being able to love your partner in a way that they understand, they...|||Fumetsu  You have exellent points there :)  Not all Ti doms hate change though. I thrive on change. If you want to see me miserable and complaining, stick me in a stagnant environment I can't get...|||We can be really positive. Just ask us for how we would do it.  If you want to see negative, give us someone else's method and ask us to find the problems with it. Or don't ask, because will do...|||I'm a social recluse, said the turtle, I'm looking for other social recluses to be social with face to face.   File under inconsistency.|||I liken the MBTI traits more to having a bunch of buckets, one bucket for each of the traits. Life gives you sand to put in them, maybe a few ounces at a time, every event in life. With a few...|||My INTP sister said that the easiest distinction between J and P that she found was:  The stronger your J, the better able you are to be proactive in your environment. The stronger your P, the...|||See? I mentioned this :)    What is going on in the life of that real person at the moment a post or thread is created always impacts not only whether or not it is created, but the content within...|||Motorsports sees all sorts of crazy unlikely stuff to happen, often caught on video. Other things start becoming entirely believable.  A pair of examples that immediately come to mind:  ...|||I think the article is one aspect of something that could be replicated.  Why Introverts should fall in love with an Extrovert Why Sensors should fall in love with an Intuitor (what are we...|||Some basic real rules of internet forums as they might apply to your threads:  - If you post something, someone will disagree with it, someone else won't understand it - Not everyone who reads a...|||I remember one years ago...  Y2K Bug Planted by Russians.  It still remains the hallmark tabloid headline in my mind.|||Keep in mind, people that don't really have a good idea of who they are get imprinted by other people around them. This is hugely rampant in pre-adult years. I'd bet that a large number of those...|||I'm glad someone pointed it out :)    In a twisted logic way ... misspelled titles are one of the greatest attractions, because it's something we find repulsive that we can fix.  I like being a...|||The first several points are good, but pointing it out to him is a bad idea. I know you want to make sure he notices, but you won't need to point it out and pointing it out would seem like...|||I didn't.  It's not something I can easily pinpoint and say with clear definition, but for an initial flare of interest and connection, INTPs seem to generate that for ENFJs and INFJs rather...|||That's quite a different question all together :)  My opinion for that then is to look for an ENFJ or INFJ.|||While there are some types that work better than others, picking and choosing based on type across all types is just as prone to failure as picking and choosing based on INTP.  Blunt honesty: No...|||I've never found anything that works. Only things that conceal how bad I am at it.|||That's a tragedy. :( I would suspect that what you felt with that wasn't actually accurate to reality. It was responding to a fabricated reality. Unfortunately, that's the big trip-up possible, and I...|||From my perspective ...  There is another person inside my head. My great array of mentally spidering down possibilities no longer starts with a single root of ME, it starts with a root of US. It...|||Honestly, the fog isn't a good sign. I know precisely what you mean by the 'fog'. It's a word I have often used internally.  It sounds like you could make it work with him, but the fact that you...|||If I take over the world ... I'll have to manage it.|||Sure.  I only know some of the details of some of my ENFJ's past relationships. She will answer any questions I put to her about them, but frankly I don't care about them enough to go digging...|||My ENFJ feels the same way. She is constantly expressing how strange but amazing it is that someone can approach a relationship completely different than anything she has ever been exposed to.  ...|||Most non-INTP atheists I have met display an extraordinary degree of emotional foundation for their atheism. I don't think INTPs have this same piece, and INTP atheists might be the only true...|||I do this. Actually just did it on the phone when my ENFJ called while I was typing my response above and took a break from replying. She was in a crabby pissed off mood because of her roommate's...|||dessertlife  There is a lot of your story that resonates with me (INTP) and my ENFJ girlfriend :)  The short answer is: Don't stress out about this, it's going good.  The areas you are...|||Yup. Definitely. I've slowly learned how to avoid the paralysis of drama-fear with my ENFJ, though much of it is just a matter of her really recognizing my small ways of affection ... and those...|||Yup, I totally agree. Belief in and of itself is incredibly strong, how it is used is different from it's existance.   Not quite. You can have faith in science, for example, without ever actually...|||Something to consider, though I expect it will be rejected. :)  There are laws that govern when chemical reactions occur that produce energy in the form of light. Entirely science. Where is the...|||I am not an atheist or agnostic. However, I am not religious either. I have a set of beliefs that I have seen far too much evidence to ignore the existance and validity of. However, I entirely...|||You aren't reading too much into it, you are understanding his attention. What you aren't understanding is how he is dealing with what he is feeling. He is struggling with what he is feeling MORE...|||Totally possible.  But you have indicated consistently that a relationship with him is what you are looking for, or did look for, so that is what we are addressing. You came to a group of people...|||Sinister Magick  I think the basis of your conclusion is faulty.  It assumes that romantic compatibility is something that is intrinsic to you, rather than intrinsic to the connection between...|||chelon I believe that INTPs struggle with handling emotion in large part because of how when we do try to deal with them in the open as kids produces a painful reaction from those around us. It...|||Avoiding emotion, avoiding facing emotion, avoiding expressing it, avoiding being around it being expressed. INTPs make a habit of these things, a habit that is very very hard to overcome (some never...|||I personally have an extreme aversion to committing to anything unless I am 100% solid on the accuracy of my information, my judgement of that information, and the conclusion I came to. However, once...|||I don't mean to get all philosophical on you, but the level of your loneliness is essentially up to you. I don't mean that harshly, but rather as encouragement. That reaching out ... it is what eases...|||No judgement here. It's really rough to deal with. You will find that peace though, and without burying it all.|||Lonewaer and HighSteaks  Rough. I've been there, though for a different reason ... (#2 in the questions) and then coming to terms with the level of pain I had been hiding from. Massive currents of...|||We will all just be nobody together :)|||This is going to seem contradictory, suggesting being direct at them as well as avoiding that focus on them, but it really lies in the quiet but critical distinction for us...  When you want to...|||This isn't going to work. I'd be as straight with them as possible, as gently as possible. If I can't do both of those, I'd prefer being blunt over being gentle. If they turned it into a big deal,...|||Most of my close friends share several deep interests with me, that's 4 people. I haven't really added too many friends in the last 20 years. Finding other people that share enough of them to really...'