'Some of Anthony Gonzalez' (M83) seems fairly INTP to me. But I don't get a strong INTP vibe. Perhaps more of an INFP.|||I've always gotten the result of INTP. Since I had a lot of childhood trauma that I am recovering from at 30, I wonder if I am actually an INTP or am just a broken something-else that is now...|||edit: nm|||Heraclitus seems like an INTP to me. He resembled a mystic more than a philosopher, and I don't think INTJ's would make use of all the symbolism that he did. Nietzsche does not seems like an INTJ at...|||Same. I never thought I was definitely smarter, but just that I lived further up the mountain, from a higher vantage point. Perhaps even higher than a lot of extremely smart people (high-level...|||Two. Days.  :crying:|||People who are overly patriotic and actually believe the whole America = Compassionate, Muslims/Germans/Russians = Evil Barbarians.|||I feel the same way sometime, when I try to debate/discuss philosophy with people who claim to understand it.  I console myself by telling myself that philosophy is the finger pointing at the moon,...|||I think it's clear that society is changing. I try not to simply entertain doomsday thoughts. Society is incredibly complex. Infinitely more complex than two-party ideals of left and right. I work in...|||God, you are so right. I am only 30 and a lot of things that happened when I was 25 seem like a year or two ago. I lump them more or less into the same general time-span as the present. It's an odd...|||How do you guys all feel about turning 30? I didn't have a great first three decades. 25-30 was pretty good I guess, but everything before that was something I will never reflect back on or include...|||I think the movie Koyaanisqatsi is very INTP.|||I had the same issue, especially in my lower 20's, although I spent a lot of time dissociating from life and imagining other things too. I'd say ultimately, like Alan Watts said, the mind can't know...|||Well, we started off across from each other, and ate on opposite sides of the booth. Sitting next to me is more intimate I think. Closer. It's a way of saying she likes me, perhaps.|||Perhaps it's just because of childhood issues and lack of experience until my late 20's.   I am dealing with this girl I've went on 2 dates with, and I just tried to call her. I quickly hung up...|||I had that thought many times, and didn't like him as a character at all. Perhaps because he was so soft and timid, which is an INTP trait in myself I was disgusted with. He's definitely an INTP...|||When I was four, I thought that Santa was a ridiculous belief. I remember being in my private church kindergarten too, and feeling a distinct feeling of hopelessness and fear that I lived in world...|||Can't tell for sure, but Rust Cohle from True Detective seems pretty INTP.|||I feel like there is a common perception that the INTP's are the nerdy introverts. The computer nerds, socially inept dungeons and dragons type. I would say that's more of the INTJ myself, although...|||Can we overanalyze to the point where we start philosophizing about the reality of elections, the mindlessness of the masses, what difference this so-called leader can make over this other leader,...|||I just wrote an enormous post on life, personal growth, and all that sort of stuff. Decided not to post it because it was just my own inner processing. In any case, what do you all think about this...|||Decided to look at my ex's Facebook. Has a gorgeous new Facebook picture, wearing cuter clothes than she ever did with me. Looks healthy. Our relationship was pretty effed up, but I'm so sad some...|||Swede. Thanks for the wonderful post. Indeed, most people don't realize that at all. Everyone I've talked to who either went to a highly-rated engineering program or got an advanced degree remarked...|||I've always underachieved in school, largely due to trauma I think. But just like knowing who my favorite Ninja Turtle was, I think as a kid I always felt physics was what I was most interested in,...|||I am still getting a read on my own intelligence. It is possible that the people I am encountering are smarter than me. But it seems to me they are just more comfortable taking information at face...|||To me, I think of Daniel Tosh's humor as very INFJ. Very cruel, and seemingly insulting the person's value as a soul and life-essence, but in a shallow and feminine way.   But I'm perhaps seeing...|||Why is everyone SO difficult, and why can't everyone see how great I am?|||Makes total sense. Guy seemed obsessed with status in almost a royal sense of the word. Even in other's facial expressions, he'd lash out like a queen if the peasant had dared express autonomy. If...|||Since I had a traumatic childhood, I feel like I am not quite sure of my type. I'm pretty sure it's an INTP or ENTP. I probably had severe dissociation as a child, which put me into my imagination...|||Even the concept know arises in thought. Rudolf Steiner (who I'd peg as a pretty well split INTP/INTJ) wrote a lot about this. We can only know thoughts, or thinking, as an active property of what...|||I was going to say bro, you are a J, not a P. Then I realized you already knew that.|||I see that on Amazon there are more than a few books on being an INTP, and learning to maximize your strengths. Anyone here have a book they'd recommend?|||I listened to it and liked the lyrics as well as the song. Thanks for posting them - I didn't read them yesterday.!|||I believe free will is an illusion, but probably an important one. It is important that we behave as if it were real, even though its not. So no, I didn't choose to post here. Everything about life...|||How can death be permanent? Death is non-existence, the non-existence of even non-existence.   I think Eckhart Tolle said it well when he said Death is not the opposite of life. Death is the...|||I just ask because a good friend of mine for 20 years was an INFJ, and was incredibly abusive and cruel. I'm trying to make sense of how his personality configured itself in such a way where he could...|||You see, there is no evidence for a God - correct. But there is equally no evidence for human agency, for decisions, for free will, for whatever. These are all ideas just like the idea of God....|||INTJ's seem to have very rigid personalities and belief systems, and are much more prone to self-celebration. They can be violent and forceful when you question so-called established truths. They...|||That makes total sense, and is what I'm going through now. It's been hard at work where people younger than me are in higher positions, and where I'm regarded as the smartest person in my department...|||I clash with INTJ's pretty badly because I don't think they see the big picture or beyond their own ideas, but goddamnit... I wish I had the ability to just read and understand science like they...|||I think INTP's see beyond ideas, or the limited nature of the mind and its concepts, better than any other MBTI type. I think this is why we clash so badly with INTJ's - they worship ideas like...|||Or also, maybe rent a moving truck, drive it into the middle of nowhere where no one will be for weeks, handcuff my arms behind my back, and then lock myself in.  But have plenty of water.|||No. I'm just not that afraid of pain. It's not about the pain, its about celebrating life... and also that all experiences are temporary, including the pain. I don't even know. It's not a well formed...|||I think life is beautiful. I'm not going to show it the disrespect of simply turning it off. At worst my method would be a half hour or so of excruciating pain. It wouldn't be that bad, and it's...|||Those are some really good points, now that I think about it. He has some pronounced INTP-like traits, but I agree the action-oriented aspects with strong executive functioning are very un-INTP. Dr....|||Since it's such a huge decision, I decided I would only do it in a way that was incredibly painful. Most likely I'd drive out into a remote area in middle of the desert in July, then torch my car...|||I went to an INTP group in my city and stated Atheism is a religion when they turned the topic to atheism. Was not well received.|||Thanks! I've done some of thought, and thought about that many times. Sometimes I get started and then stop. Because I have a lot of resentment towards the pleasure-focused mode of operating toward...|||To some degree it's really delightful and wonderful. I've had a lot of suffering in my life because of health issues and moreso because of awful parents, but you can really cleanse your mind and...|||Winners never quit and quitters never win.'