'No I'm just attracted to boys (gay ppl exist btw).|||There is a lot of truth in this, but I think a part of what I find baffling is that I often enough feel like I should be interested in them by my own criteria. That is to say that they might be...|||I think you're right about that, but I have this compulsion to wonder what my life would be like if I weren't reluctant, like maybe I'd have a social life to speak of :p|||yet I'm hypersensitive to rejection. How does one maintain the balance of being nice and not hurting peoples' feelings when they make overtures towards friendship or whatever? I find it kind of...|||I suppose the latter, or that on an epistemological basis I see knowledge into it as being essentially unavailable, but also that that might at some point change.  According to the canon, if you...|||I'm agnostic about it. I think that the supranormal elements of Buddhism are articulated too substantially to be something that can be casually discarded, yet I also don't think that it is at all...|||I'm coming to question whether I might be an INTP after all, and I'm a convert to Theravada Buddhism, and as we all know, converts stereotypically tend to be the most zealous in whatever it is that...|||I'm pretty much the opposite. I just want to spend my life living in a log cabin with internet access reading, writing, contemplating, and drinking entheogenic tea.  I don't not-value...|||Most of my habits and preoccupations might convince me that I'm an INTP were it not that I have virtually no inclination for Ne.|||I'm always down for some Arvo Pärt, spiritual crisis (the feeling that his work often evokes) is the spice of life imo.   https://youtu.be/FK-KC2aQpcI|||It seems to depend on the kind of knowledge. I do a lot better with theory, for example, and I think Ni gives us a kind of authority about how we interpret ideas, or gives us a kind of certainty in...|||William James considered philosophy to be essentially an articulation of one's temperament. What I'm saying is that my world-view basically changes with my mood :p Treasure can become trash if I'm in...|||I take six months to return a phone call (Buddy Cole)   I don't want to have to be available to other people all the time, maybe it's an enneagram 5 thing but I find it emotionally exhausting. I...|||You subjectively experience a pleasant or wholesome connection towards what you take to be another person's subjectivity. Basically, you feel like you both understand, and want to understand, another...|||No, but I can find a bit better language for my habits and tendencies, and can understand the habits and tendencies of others a little better, too.  Otherwise I think I identify more with my major...|||Well, if someone injures one leg, they'll tend to favour the other.  Jung's theory of self-growth related to his theory of personality was actually to transcend (or suspend) our preferences, or...|||No, but I worry that I'll grow old and isolated from forgetting how to make friends.|||Hopefully you meant to say it as poorly as you did, too. Then you can walk away from this with a real sense of accomplishment.|||No, your posts are just lazy and incoherent. Criticism is fine, but this is a shit-sandwich addressed to everyone and no one. Tell me who would sign for that delivery.|||Nope. Jobs maybe account for 3% of what we talk about here.    No need to doubt, have certainty. Maybe try working on your prose.|||This thread (or rather, not curtailing the desire to rant at no one in particular) is injudicious. You don't show enough restraint or forethought to indicate that your opinions should be taken...|||Sometimes. Idk if it's Fe related but I can be relatively charming and lively when I want to be, but lately I've been even quieter than my norm because I'm trying to discipline my speech, or engage...|||If dogs are Fe then I disown the function tbqh.  And cats are Se imo. Ppl with strong Se are often described as having an almost feline countenance.|||Te is more empirical (or factually minded, ad hoc) and Ti is more theoretical (or favours the internal consistency of logical systems).|||I mean sure, my own inadequacies or the discontent I experience with other people never have to enter into an idealized relationship.|||cats transcend all human foibles tbqh, typing them is a dishonour.|||I can tell you that the fives aren't the outgoing ones tho.  I assume fours aren't either.|||INFJs and INFPs have a lot in common. The things we differ on might be confounding and annoying in a more intimate context, but I think a bad match is determined by a lot more than type. I mean...|||xSTPs. I like em grounded and surly, apparently.|||Ambient, (neo)classical, experimental electronic music, house, R & B, art pop, etc.  Most genres actually, but there has to be something interesting about it, and not just 'interesting' but having...|||I don't generally like physical contact either, I'll even turn down a back rub from a close family member most of the time, for example. And I can remember one time someone aqsked me to cuddle while...|||The way Ni glimpses the future tends to be with a sense of inevitability, while with Ne types it's about potentiality.   It's not necessarily that Ni types see the future as determined or anything,...|||It's not even that I have a hard time with details, it's more like I don't even see them. I'd need to have details brought to the threshold of consciousness first, to even rate as having a hard time...|||I think I'm nearly equal parts specialist and dilettante.|||I don't think I need to know everything about myself. On a cursory level wanting that almost seems like vanity to me. Like even though obviously not everything you learn about yourself would be good,...|||Yeah, but it's also fun being the weird senex hoarding secrets, etc.  I think at this point in my life I'm more content to just watch and be inspired by people who naturally live in that element.|||Isn't that kind of how you got into this situation in the first place?  There aren't really social techniques that you can use to make other people respond to you in the way that you want, that...|||I don't know, I think I have a lot, but I don't have everything.  I guess what I mean is approaching anything with that kind of inequality or dependency in mind seems doomed.|||I think that if they didn't really know who I was, then I don't know who they'd really be in love with.  That said I think people can be poor judges of who they themselves are, so maybe you don't...|||Yeah, in fact I think I experience all of the regular human emotions :p  The question is just how often and to what degree, to which I'd say 'not very often, or very strongly (with some...|||Fatalism and whining, probably.|||I'm a gay dude and I like guys with street smarts, mostly because me concerning myself with that feels a like like fretting and worrying (because I'm bad or inefficient in it), ergo I get a feeling...|||Yeah, but I find there can be ways of easing into a project. Like if I want to write a paper, I'll write down some of my provisional or early thoughts on a topic, try to organize them a bit and make...|||As best of a couple that can be characterized by Jungian typology (considering it only has the functions as its metric)? Sure, yeah, I buy it. The dual thing seems like it could be a legit piece of...|||No, and as a Ni dom I don't even really want to tbqh :p  We have a thread like this pretty much every other week btw.|||It has a noetic quality (so D). I'm honestly not sure if I pay enough attention to my internal imagery to know what kind of accompanying sensory form is with it, or even if there is any with it.|||William James characterized spiritual personalities in two 'archetypes': the healthy-minded and the sick-souled. Both are characterized by a kind of 'seriousness towards that which the individual...|||Um I don't know. There's enough variance within the individual types that whenever someone says I'm an INFP or something I pretty much just think sure, okay in response.  As with water said, it...|||I actually don't feel like talking about it.|||I'm a Buddhist but I haven't totally eliminated meat from my diet. Basically when I cook myself meals or go grocery shopping I won't pick meat products, but if I go to someone's place to eat and it's...'