'I was certain that Peter Pan was real, and slept with my window open and a note under my pillow telling him to wake me up and take me to Neverland. I spent my free time learning how to shoot...|||66181  Agreed that it's oversimplified. I would put myself much further down the Y axis.|||I hate abortion--I think it's the most barbaric part of our society. But I also believe that life begins at conception.   I'm fully aware that at conception a fetus is only a cell. I have no idea...|||Not as much as you'd think. Alot of INTJ's on this forum seem to be artists, musicians, and writers. Maybe it has something to do with the out-of-control imaginations that theoretically accompany...|||Lewis and Clark  and Robinhood, of course|||You've pretty much summed it up. I've tried to form friendships with these girls, but either they're just not interested, or after one or two attempts at small talk we both just give up. It's sad...|||Good point. Honestly no. I used to pretend that it didn't matter, since they were all friends, nothing more. But somehow it does. Not to me, but definitely to their wives, most of whom I don't know...|||Oh for cute! Omg, we have to hang out! Like...wow! Omg...(insertthe name of someone you haven't seen in long time, then scream)! Oh, isn't that precious! It's so good just to hang out...|||I hate it.   There are some subjects I don't mind it in...math, music theory, history/english (if the homework is reading). What I hate is busywork. Worksheets. Journals (a fancy way for a...|||Procrastination.|||yes. Or I did. Until they all got married. Now I have no friends.|||This is me. Exactly.   Don't know me=cold/distant Talk to me for a bit=big heart, soft heart, ect Live with me for awhile=totally closed off|||Here's a personal question: Is the amount of sex you feel you need based on your actual sex drive or your need to feel close and intimate with your boyfriend? I'm not the sex expert here, by any...|||I was going to try to add something about how men are much more likely to sympathize with freedom, individualism, entrepreneurship, ect, than women, who tend to be more community oriented, but I'm a...|||People accomplishing the impossible. It's cool.|||Not me. But I read the one by Machiavelli. It's WAY shorter.|||And I was just getting ready to go to bed :(  Here goes:  As a women who has had a LOT of leadership positions, I'm not against women in leadership. But there are parts of the President's job...|||@ her comments on a women President: I think agree with her. (okay axe, fall)|||I was homeschooled, so I didn't catch on until my parents put me in public school in 6th grade. I couldn't believe the things my classmates didn't know. I don't think I knew what a stereotypical nerd...|||Achieving challenges other people only dream or talk about  Watching Michael Phelps win everything  Watching a faulty system come crumbling down with a few well timed words of common sense ...|||Lightning Services Inc|||When people start using irrelevant and obscure arguments, I usually check out. This generally leaves the other person with the impression that they won the argument, which is fine but untrue. I...|||Another INTJ in love with the outdoors. My ideal vacation is miles into a wilderness area with only my backpack of survival gear.   I also love discovering places that it seems no one has ever been...|||I think the foundation is absolute, but the details are relative.|||http://theinkblot.com/image/spacer.gif My favorite was the demon snowflake.   Sickness Quotient: 88%  Your Sickness Quotient of 88% is definitely something to worry about.|||Her  63956  and her  63958|||Top 2 classes: Biotechnology (high school) and Astronomy (college)  I ended up majoring in music.   Aced all my theory classes.|||I don't let people depress me.|||As a kid, I would take crap from my dad for being a know-it-all and from my mom for being stubborn and controlling. My parents weren't being abusive or mean, they were trying to make me into a...|||I have conversations with myself/imaginary people who are there next to me. And the more time I spend alone, the worse it gets.  I went on a solo backpacking trip last May. By day 4, it was like...|||Detachment and compartmentalization.|||Yes!  And thanks for explaining. I had a roommate once who may have been a bit like you when it came to reading people. We actually got in a fight halfway through the semester because she kept trying...|||Don't let technical definitions confuse you. My guess is that you can already reason, but you get in your own way (like by applying sociology...how do you even do that?! Really, I'm not trying to be...|||This is off the original topic, but the whole going deeper game is exactly why I hate most superficial gatherings, but found forming relationships in a wilderness environment SO easy (in case that...|||My closest family member lives 6 hours away, and the furthest lives on the other side of the world, so I'm on facebook almost daily. It keeps us family. I'm okay with not talking to my parents or my...|||No wonder INTJ's don't date other INTJ's. The verbal wars go over better as friends...|||The first thing I ask myself (in my head, while the critic is talking), is Is this a real problem? Did the event actually happen? Did I actually say or do something that could be construed as...|||Guy INTJ's like to be beat by their SO? Thought it was just a girl thing. Interesting...|||I have ridiculously good self control, especially professionally, but if I'm pushed over the edge, I walk away. If I can't walk away, the antagonist is in serious danger of having one or two brief...|||I think my little brother is one, and we get along great. I can usually shake him out of whatever mental framework he's stuck himself in with a well-timed joke. He's pretty funny, too, when he isn't...|||Controlling and manipulative types.|||Ron Paul|||I wouldn't even try. I would get a couple boxes and a bag of giant garbage bags, and just start chucking it all. Anything that looks like it might have some continuing legal importance can go in the...|||ditto|||Zoo...cages...lots of people...nightmare...|||I like help and guidance. I just want it from someone who knows what the @#&! they're talking about.|||Just putting 2 and 2 together...you could be a private music teacher. It's what I do (to answer the op). And I just quit my day job. It's awesome because it means that while you're not making a...|||I could quote just about everyone on this thread, but this would be my starting point. Public education seems to make a big deal out of getting everyone up to average, and while doing this they at...|||Super insightful. I need to know a guys is at least as smart and as strong as I am before I can respect him, preferably stronger and smarter. If I can have to take care of him in a survival...|||I don't think it's as extreme as you think it is, at least for some of us. I find science fascinating, and I'm a logical person, but my life doesn't revolve around facts and data. They're a means to...'