'Oh I'd love to, but as I don't live there she'd just take it out on my girlfriend, who is even meeker. As good as it would feel, I'd feel much worse seeing her having to deal with the situation I'd...|||I'd never before thought of myself as a vengeful person, but recently I've started to realise that I might be, just in quite a low key way, that may basically be a form of passive aggressiveness. ...|||Thought it would be interesting to post this in the INTP section seeing as we generally like to think of our selves as pretty balanced people.   What I mean by argument hijacking is when an...|||I envy you immensely. Do you never get disappointed at waking up? The dream journal thing might be worth considering. If my attempts based on sock theory prove fruitless I'll give it a try.|||I just realised that in all my dreams, no matter what the setting or situation, I'm always wearing the same pair of socks.   All the rest of my imaginary attire changes depending on where the dream...|||Well thank you for your concern, what I'd have done without it I have no idea... I am chastened and ashamed for having the gall to discuss the topic of gender cultural norms, so do forgive me for...|||To be honest, that's another kind of mentality that bothers me. The whole archaic view that men should be dominant leaders. In the 21st century that's just such an ignorant view to have. If you are a...|||If there's one thing I hate about males in general, its the inescapable macho-culture. I hate it for a variety of reasons, most of which are the obvious feminist ones such how unnecessarily...|||Given that Aphrodite was meant to be a goddess of love and had millions of adoring worshippers, she was probably pretty narcissistic herself...|||Here I am, brain the size of a planet...|||The guy that has the thought of sitting there rubbing two sticks together to see what happens, and then half an hour later waddles back into the camp with his eyebrows burnt off...|||The main thing that I find annoying about the concept of spirituality is how people seem to think it has a monopoly over concepts and states that are not actually spiritual at all, but mental and...|||That's actually a very good idea. Hope you don't mind me stealing it.|||Thought this would make an interesting thread because I've heard of other INTPs with this problem  As you may have guessed from the title, I'm useless at small talk. I find it as difficult and...|||The trouble with maths for me, is that I always end up overlooking a small detail or making a stupid but tiny mistake, which throws all my calculations completely off. I'm competent at maths but...|||When you sit down at your desk to do some work, and half an hour later you've not started, but have instead drawn up a plan to rob a bank using only a string of sausages, a badger and a small teapot.|||Personally, I think he's more left wing than he lets on. I reckon if he was as liberal as he wanted to be, he'd lose support from the more conservative Americans and so he has to act like he's...|||What if, at the last supper, when Jesus told his disciples that he would be betrayed by the one he dipped bread with and then did so with Judas, he'd actually meant for his other disciples to use the...|||I just end up baring my teeth. It's more of a snarl than a smile...|||When you're seeing a therapist about something, but after a couple of questions, instead of waiting for them to ask more, you just start asking your own and analysing yourself out loud. Thirty...|||Did you see the headline that they're linked to 100 race killings in the last five years?|||Other species have to scavenge and fight each other over the most basic essentials like food and shelter. Humans live in huge cities with as much food and water as we can eat/drink (obviously not all...|||To me, one of the things that make INTPs fascinating is our eccentric and unusual behaviour. We do things that to others seem mental but to us make perfect sense.  I thought it would be great to...|||More naive than pretentious... What do you mean by too intelligent for our own good? It's been very good for us.|||Of course, because nothing screams security and self esteem like a 50 year old man who feels the need to brag to strangers on the internet that he's been having sex since at least the age of 30...|||I get pissed off by some people from NT types who, knowing that their minds are relatively logical compared to other types, assume that all their conclusions have been reached logically and thus are...|||Wile E Coyotte  He comes up with these amazing, intricate theories on how to catch roadrunner, but always overlooks a minor detail, causing his plan to fall to bits and thus he ends up getting...|||We live in a time where surviving simply isn't as challenging as it once was. Its not like most humans have to scavenge for food and avoid being eaten by predators in order to get by these days. With...|||Then by your logic, your wife would plagued by regret for settling for you over a more experienced man...  Your argument is wrong in many ways, but mainly its being a massive generalisation based...|||That is not strictly true. I doubt that there is much of a difference between the way that people of either gender respond to sexual history or infidelity. The logic behind why people respond...|||Well that escalated quickly...  I disagree as I do think that man made external factors can be for all intents and purposes bad luck, as long as the person suffering the effect of the factor is not...|||Sure, because a child born with aids in a Somali village is just not smart enough and has failed to grab the right opportunities in life...|||There's no such thing as high standards, its just a thing people tell themselves they have because it sounds better than admitting that they're just fussy. It's like when someone who's really snobby...|||Likewise|||Fate is basically destiny, it means what is pre-ordained to happen. Karma is the belief that for whatever good or bad actions you make, good or bad things will happen to you to balance it out. Or...|||I don't believe in luck as a force that can be changed through totems, charms and black cats etc. However I do believe in it as a mere statistic.  Everyone in the world will have things happen to...|||There really isn't any conclusive evidence that we do have this mysterious sixth sense, which is why its not widely scientifically accepted. Of course there are things we don't yet understand about...|||Actually I think you'll find that the brain cells can't regenerate... that's why people who suffer brain damage suffer permanently. If there is a decline in general intelligence (which I doubt is the...|||Oh well in that case that's fine then :p|||What a charming wife you must be :p|||You are a poor poor liar.|||I suppose nakedness would make people feel more comfortable in their own skin... but I'm English and nakedness (like comfortability) is a crime. It would be unheard of to even think of leaving the...|||I normally avoid posting things about me in threads like this, but that just makes me feel like a hypocrite for reading other people's posts so here goes... Currently in a relationship with an ISFJ....|||Haha I'd hate to see you in a pessimistic mood then :p I agree that nowadays we see a lot more people acting stupidly, but that's mainly because the media knows that it makes for more entertaining...|||The world is not getting dumber at all, quite the opposite in fact. We only think it is due to the news and social media causing us to hear about all the stupid people in the world, whereas...|||where did you find this guy?|||That doesn't answer either question|||I suspect you may be an expert on the subject of third rate intellects :p  I'm always saddened when I'm going through the INTP forum (a forum supposed to be for people who prize being rational...|||Have you never read the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Humans are the third most intelligent species on earth, dolphins are second. They constantly try to communicate with us, but we just...|||I'm not sure I know what you're saying, could you clarify?'