'Glad it was helpful. You are welcome. This was formulated already because I asked and answered it for myself before.   I think that for INTJ, new questions take a while to articulate to others. I...|||I know what I know. I know what I don't know. I'm honest and open about that.   Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and many people seem to judge themselves based on how they compare...|||Yes. Who cares?    Will I ever be who I am not to seek approval from others? Um. No. Why would I want to seek approval from people who have decided that I should (blindly) follow the dictates...|||I can't answer that question. All the INTPs I know and love IRL are female.... Sorry for my delay in response. Been working too much as usual.  Now ENFP- a great truth I learned - when a thing...|||Which is why I honed in on this stage-the personal patterning probably happens here. At this stage, because the person is deciding how they choose/act for the rest of their lives. Pre-operative...|||So you're in the developmental camp of N-mothers, too.      Not oxymoron. Jung essentially said Type/Preferences is/are Hardwired- but he was working with adults. My argument is that it's not...|||Stanford S'mores, not smarties. Dude did it with Marshmallows. and delayed gratification.   These are all parts of questions I have, not answers. I'm thinking through them as you all ask me...|||I've been collecting information from variety of mothers about differences in their children. They all noticed 'something' MBTI related before 6. Some before 2, some very early. The N mothers noticed...|||Start a thread if you like, I'll move there if you want. Yes, we moved when I was young too. Maybe this added into the selection.   No Dice. Not always the case.   Support: ENTP mother, INTJ...|||As a generalization- I was pulling from Piaget's stages. Children engage with environment on a MORE sensory-exploratory level than adults. I don't think that we all follow the exact same mechanisms...|||Dabbling- typed very long reply and lost the response. Silly computers. Will reply later this evening as off to work in a few minutes.  Totally agree with premise.    Question about talent......|||I know, NF, but it really helps some of us (NT) understand YOUR type better. (I'm always spell-checking my INFP's documents.) Some of us need the punctuation so that we can tell what's happening....|||I don't have an answer to that question, fully. I know of no studies presently that suggest that men and women process betrayal or disgust differently, but I will look and see what I find.  The...|||No- your male amygdala and frontal lobes are just more activated during the response- so deeper emotional conditioning is involved in your response via the amygdala, and more executive functions via...|||You would get heat stroke, and we might have to call paramedics if LARPing outside in July. Why am I motivated to play this game? Convince my anterior cingulate cortex... My ACC does not see the...|||Top 10 things I never say to my INTP family members and friends.  1) Oh, that only took 3 sentences to explain. How cool are you? 2) What a great filing system you have. I'll be you never lose...|||Is it D-20 RPG P/P or LARP style?|||Dabbling, Alethea, yip1205  Derail Tag- Explanation  Shame and guilt are cognitively processed by different brain centers in different people. This is why I asked two INTJ women to respond, and...|||Candidate for what?|||Au contraire. Seeking underlying motivation for another person's actions is neither P nor J.  You are not a lemming, and you don't have to run off the cliff with the rest of the herd. YOU don't...|||And you had my response to why there is T-F conflict over there, ultimately it's really not personal.... However, I don't fully agree with your statement above about arguing based on feelings. Any...|||Lol. Not to be obtuse! I just meant that I would choose a different social group when presented with people that don't share my values. If this is not an option, why not pull back and observe the...|||Too many burritos and too much OJ for you. Meanwhile, I'm headed for breakfast. Thinking about milkshakes made me hungry.|||Alignment is different now.... MOST of the PC deities are now unaligned. Remember, CG is gone, and LE is too. N is now U. There are only 2 G, and 2 LG, 7 are U. Of the other side, 6 are E and 2 are...|||If all the people around me are like that, what I am I doing with them? This does not hold with my values, do I benefit from this somehow? I'm not going to engage in this behavior because I don't see...|||Let's return to Lovecraft. It's said that his mythos was inspired by another work, which is common knowledge... but what was that work commonly held to be inspired from?|||Ooo, now I know how old you really are... I may have to step this up since you have had more time to acquire more knowledge than me.    Dangerous Liasons was the movie (starring Glenn Close, John...|||Thank you for your definition above. Exactly what I was hoping for, a personal definition. You brought up the key differences for you (objective versus subjective). Dictionary does not divide them...|||I was agreeing with you. I think he used false logic. Why should we reward and praise false logic? I was also adding that some of the things people attribute to him as positive qualitites were not...|||I just can't get past his voice to listen....  Well, Boccob is gone in 4th ed, so if we stick to 4th, we don't have to worry about him. I lean towards INTP as he promotes no special agenda. If he...|||Dungeons and Dragons was the later version.|||Dude, they're your emotions, not mine. I make a distinction... but I would expect women to have a slightly different answer, so you just indirectly demonstrated that you're male. I don't want to go...|||Um. IDK. I just saw a picture posted and had no idea who it was or why we were guessing that guy was an INTJ. Maybe it's his song lyrics?   I suppose if we post Boccob or Ioun as suspected INTJs,...|||yip1205 of course and always. I'll wait for the other definition, too. Take your time.  I tagged those above because of their earlier conversation, where they said that their definition of guilt...|||yip1205  Never heard of them, or him.  *reads wikipedia* Um.  *listens to 2 seconds of each clip before stopping* No.  There is a reason I never heard of them. Ok.  So how is it that we know...|||Um... agree with emberfly.   Se is present concrete data. I don't get how impressing people and buying expensive things has to do with data. That looks more like personal values to me, which...|||Who is that?|||Swede Dabbling  Curious. Please define guilt? Please also define shame?|||Learn how to read emotional microexpressions. That's about all you get from us...There's material available, just practice. Really. These help XNFP deal with INTX people.|||passmethecookies had that spot on. That was indeed an appropriate time or opening statment to engage in INTJ-man-whomping. As long as your whomping techniques were up to date, you'd have your cave at...|||What is Sympathy for the Devil -Rolling Stones? Jagger and other band members were adherents or followers of Crowley's OTO at one time.|||How do you know he was INTJ?    True and not true. If this kid is an INTJ, then it may be just that he's attacking false logic. If you or anyone presents a premise that is unfounded or apparently...|||I snipped- but let me just take a moment to say how awesome this post is, and how much I agree with you. IDK and IDC about Kingdom hearts, however- your point INFPs aren't all whiny...|||We usually played up to at least 20th level in extended campaigns over months or years, so you really had to be careful in your design. We all learned how to create charcters with futures rather...|||This ability was not his, it was trained/learned. It is claimed that a stage performer was hired to teach him facial expressions and gestures that would be visible and carry meaning from a distance,...|||Not sure what you mean? I never played a dragon char... in 2nd, 3rd, 3.5, 4th eds.... or D20-Mods, or OA, or SW.  There were many dragons in the worlds when we played in one DM's dragon world,...|||I used it as an example of why I use the word spirituality over religion- as the quote in question was a demonstration of Following a path with or without deeper personal meaning. And further,...|||I wish it was that simple for any living thing. Due to the differences between species, and between individuals in a species (physiologically and behaviorally), I chose words used within neurobiology...|||Levels of response may vary, but the same hormones and signal transduction pathways are tapped. This response pathway is systemic and observed across various species of animals. Physiologically, no....|||Moradin: ISTJ- Duty. Loyalty. Lawful = S.  Asmodeus: ENTJ- the legions of demons. LEGIONS. Bane: ESTJ or ENTJ Gruumsh: ESFJ Lolth: ENFP dude. N all the way on the Lady of the Spiders. Constant...'