'... you spend most of an argument wondering why instead of your opponent employing the counter to your own argument that you've thought up and purposely avoided pre-empting to see if s/he would pick...|||when you're such a good devil's advocate that you convince yourself.|||Cute. On that note:  ... when deadpan sarcasm is your standard mode of communication. ... when success means even close friends are unsure if you're being sarcastic or serious.|||Cute. On that note:  ... when deadpan sarcasm is your standard mode of communication. ... when success means even close friends are unsure if you're being sarcastic or serious.|||Actually, I prefer to think of myself as a mind trapped in a squishy brain trapped in a vat. The brain is that annoying thing that keeps annoying me with crushes, hunger, old memories, and other...|||This. On the one hand, I'm pretty good at empathizing with people. On the other hand, it takes the same amount of mental effort to empathize with myself. (I express this to others via a mind/brain...|||You just made my day. Thank you. <3 The cynical framing of this comment has been removed.|||This happens to me all the time. What's worse is that some friends do this unconsciously; I've had to ask a friend the same question repeatedly for over 15 minutes, with her gradually becoming...|||... your friend* vents to you about problems, and it takes about 10 seconds to understand them, 20 seconds to figure out how to solve them, 4 more minutes to wait for s/he to finish telling about...|||HIM/HER: Is everything okay? ME (in head): Everything was wonderful until you spoke to me. ME (out loud): Fine. *plasters on a fake smile*|||No hugs!|||Care to support that criticism, or did you simply check out the activity of this thread while gazing around in desperation for some way to feel superior to INTJs?|||I'm the same way. I think it's an issue of how we communicate, though, not with how we feel. To explain how I feel to someone — including to myself, i.e. when I'm reflecting — I can only process...|||I could probably give an evil grin if it served my purpose in some way, though I'm not sure when it would. In general, INTJs don't bother with facial expressions unless we're performing.|||Slightly?|||I was a math major. This is the first time I feel like a walking stereotype for that fact.|||My sister still won't talk to me.|||... You go to a comedy club, and afterward are able to explain over your friends' That was f***ing awesome! and he sucked! exactly how each comedian was funny and what he could have done better....|||You avoid telling other people about your disappointing event (in my case, getting rejected from graduate school), because they keep reacting sadly and overly emotionally in their attempts to be...|||For red-haired INTJs: When you feel like a red-haired person with dominant Ni and secondary Te.  For bearded INTJs: When you feel like a bearded person with dominant Ni and secondary Te.|||I hate the stereotypes that INTJs are trolls. INTJs are willing to argue for in what they believe, so those who lose to us in arguments try to undermine us with the ad hominem that we are merely...|||So many times this. A few months ago, a person asked me for my opinion on his performance at his job (irrelevant context withheld). My first response: You don't want to hear what I have to say. He...|||This. Bland anecdote exemplifying how this fits me that adds nothing to the general point or to the thread in general!|||Not me. I got a C instead of an A in one class because what I thought was lively participation the instructor thought was hostile argumentation.|||You know you're an INTJ when every time you say something, you're already prepared to explain it, define each term precisely, and defend it against a rampaging horde of ideologues.|||You make a far better case for my claim than I ever could.|||In the INTJ sub-forum, you always are.  You brag about lack of concern with correctness and then think that's a burn? An equivalent to your statement: I prefer to eat with a fork when it suits me...|||The former sentence is most certainly not a truism (as the proximal placing of the two sentences insinuates). It is an empirical fact, albeit not a particularly profound one.|||I make those kinds of schedules, but I don't follow them too closely. A daily hour-by-hour schedule is too things: a daily to-do list and a rough draft of the order in which to do it. I almost never...|||Also known as non-INTJs.|||My answer of choice is The direction of travel away from gravity's pull, though I may change it at some point in the near future because it's gotten old.|||Um... no.  Believe that you're better than others — perhaps, and usually correctly. Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness — Not in the slightest. I've better things to do....|||I am the proud owner of a Ravenclaw necktie, which I wear not uncommonly.  I've always felt the draw of Slytherin, but ultimately intellect takes priority over pragmatism.|||... you plant fallacies in your arguments when talking to people to see if they notice. They never do.|||Plenty of good being done that religious causes.  Why is atheism the default position? I would argue that because (a) Historically theism has been all but universally accepted (ad populum), (b)...|||You, sir, are undoubtedly the master of wit.|||Then you misspoke when calling it cognitive dissonance. We shall move on: I disagree. The fact that a position is radical is not indicative of its stemming from black and white thinking, and even if...|||No, you mistake arguments consistent with deism for deism arguments themselves. The philosophical arguments for divine existence do not refute theism, they simply do not distinguish between deism and...|||Low tolerance to dissonance is the precise opposite of dissonance. Did you perhaps mean it's a reaction to cognitive dissonance? Because that would not support your claim that it is ipso facto...|||Care to cite any specific arguments, or are the ones in your head simply more interesting?  One doesn't engage in debate merely to convince the other of correctness; the reciprocal challenge of...|||Please elaborate. My understanding of the cosmological argument is precisely that it's an argument from the need to avoid infinite regression.  That's a simplified understanding of the argument....|||It is actually a common tactic of mine, and I believe it to be quite common among INTJs.  To understand it, approach the decision from the perspective of utility: what will communicating (or not...|||Equivocation.  False dichotomy. Religious faith need not be based on either blind faith or scientific probability (though both rationales are quite common). It can be based on rational...|||What I hate more is the converse. Some of my closest friends are too polite to give me criticism (slash one has a crush on me and thinks that being a yes-woman will make me want to date her),...|||Going for an advice motif:  ... the lives of those around you would be greatly improved if they accepted as axiomatic that when you're usually right.  ... you like giving advice, you give good...|||Hehe, classic. I've pulled a variation on this joke many times. I once got a (vegan) friend to ask me seriously at three different points in the conversation if I torture animals, despite my shocked...|||Same trait, different motivation. I like to watch the mortals struggling to figure out if I'm being serious or not.|||You make up far-fetched facts in the middle of an argument that for all you know are true, and they go unquestioned because the way you put it they make perfect sense.|||Pretty sure. Thanks for asking, though.|||This. If I don't like people I usually won't bother correcting them.'