'Just turned 39, and have no plans to acknowledge future birthdays. :wink:  Fortunately for me, I look much younger.  Recently, I went to a Mexican grocery store with my cousin, who is just a few...|||If it's an easy or uninteresting task, listening to music helps to soak up my excess brainpower and keep my mind from wandering off, but it has to be loud so my brain can tune in without having to...|||It reads to me like you're having an indecisive because... possibilities! moment.  My takeaway from the thread is that the Ni users would tend to process things like: Here's the information.........|||I'm terrible at creating original art, especially by hand.  I'm much better at things like desktop publishing and webpage design where you manipulate geometric objects in a fairly precise manner.|||Most of the time I'm in an office chair slouched back, butt forward on the seat and weight on my upper back, with my feet up on a desk, or I'm in a recliner.  If I'm on a proper chair or couch with...|||It would be a deal breaker for me. I'd see it as a betrayal of trust, and without trust there is no relationship.  If she found some fault with me in the relationship, and acted out instead of...|||At home, usually Cherry Coke and Chai tea.  I've been know to sometimes buy mocha espressos when I'm out, but I don't otherwise drink coffee.|||If the world around me is just my imagination, then I have a terrible imagination.  Questioning whether one exists is just terrible anti-intellectual nonsense.  Even if I were, say, an AI living in...|||1. No.  I don't hate anyone, anyway, and even if I did, that alone isn't anywhere near a sufficient reason to take their life.  2. Yes.  It doesn't even matter if I hate them or not.  Self defense...|||As far as participation?  Distance running.  Set aside a bit of brainpower to keep up your pace and avoid running into things / avoid being run into, and let the rest of your brain wander off and do...|||Having a sharp intellect doesn't necessitate whipping it out at every opportunity.  There is wisdom in knowing when to not engage in certain battles.  Being right doesn't necessarily mean you've won...|||Yes.  Totally normal.  To be honest, many of us probably think it's weird when others feel the need to communicate every day, even when dating.  An INTP does not communicate consistently, nor does...|||I only ran across that info myself within the past year.  The thread seemed like an appropriate place to share.  My parents were pretty obnoxious about it when I was younger.  When I was a teen,...|||My brain has a hard time winding down when it's time to go to sleep, and once I do get to sleep I'm extremely difficult to wake up.  I also seem to have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder.  My body wants...|||Nope.  Don't really see the point of any of the actions you listed.|||Drugs never held any allure for me, so I've never tried them.  Hell, you can barely get me to take prescribed drugs.  Probably because I don't want them gumming up my mental workings.  I don't...|||Your plan also neglects another modern necessity - indoor plumbing.  Having to return to the house kind of defeats the purpose, and the alternative would become rather unpleasant smelling rather...|||Ironically, many INTP relationship issues stem from other types' inability to exert zero effort in this area.|||Not too bad, though the INTP response seems unnecessarily wordy.  It'd probably go something like Oh. *Shrug* *Wander Off*.  The INTP would just be thinking about dinner and the interwebz.  No need...|||I'd say that INTP tend to be primarily concerned with whether or not we're right.  Once we are satisfied that we are, it's time to move on to the next problem.  Hmmm?  Those other people are wrong,...|||Could have meant Brittany, though it hasn't been self-governing since the French Revolution. :tongue:|||I'm generally in favor of intellectual property, copyright in particular, though they're not without their problems that need to be fixed.  I think a lot of the angst over IP, particularly among...|||For PerC, the cutoff between GenX and GenY is 1/1/77, which is an odd choice to me.  I was born in Nov 76, so just barely on on the GenX side, but I think the vast majority of my graduating class...|||Drugs are bad, mkay.  But seriously, never done any unless you count alcohol - and I rarely drink outside of social situations - and I'm rarely social.  I never really saw any allure to drugs, even...|||Fixed that for you.[/QUOTE]  I would like to note that I would find either bribe to be perfectly acceptable.|||I usually do both at least once a day, though if I spend the entire day at home without going out or exercising, I may forget to do either.  I always shower before leaving home, and I always brush my...|||My friend's ex used to call me slackass (and not in a mean way.)  I have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so I probably encouraged it.|||It sounds to me like you just didn't really connect with your friends in any meaningful way.  They were more like friends of convenience due to proximity and social inertia.  Much like work...|||It could be worse.  It could be a bunch of SJs that. are.. running... oh wait... :sad:|||Are you absolutely certain that he would know this would hurt you?  Being oblivious to that sort of thing is textbook INTP behavior.  There could be alternate explanations as well.  Is he still...|||It depends, context matters, etc.  Genuine enthusiasm can be infectious and endearing, while the forced enthusiasm of some events and activities is annoying.  Someone who's rah-rah 24-7 would...|||Given the context you described, his behavior seems perfectly normal for an INTP.  The issue is that his behavior isn't normal (i.e. how most other types act) therefore your family sees it a...|||Next you're going to tell me that Lemurs won't defecate on my unwelcome house guests, aren't you!  How disappointing...|||It's from Star Control II, which I'd rank as one of the 10 or 20 best PC games of all time.  A free version of the game is available under the name The Ur Quan Masters.  It's too bad that Toys...|||Conventional wisdom says that guys like being the hunter in relationships and will devalue a woman who approaches them, but I think a vast majority of INTP guys would probably be an exception to this...|||The problem with Colorado is that it's full of Bronco fans.  I kid, I kid... mostly.  Based on the limited time I have spent there, Colorado would probably be a decent choice.  The Seattle area is...|||The Lemur was certainly the most interesting of the three to me, but one pet is definitely my limit without other people around to share/do the work.  (As a kid I definitely got a free rider benefit...|||My cat is skeptical of these choices...  http://personalitycafe.com/members/ryuujin76-albums-my-pictures-picture183066-repo.jpg|||I once told a waitress I need a few minutes to contemplate everything on the menu before deciding to get the same thing that I usually do.|||As an outside observer of the situation, I'd probably be laughing my ass off.  If I somehow found myself entangled in that sort of hardass pileup I'd just be like Eh, whatever.  It's all yours. ...|||There's a distinct difference between rational conflict avoidance, and letting people walk all over you.  If anyone is being uncivil, it's the guy's parents.  The guy is an adult, and the parents...|||It probably reflects the fact that men generally have to expend more effort trying to find women, due to society's expectation that men be the hunter/initiator.  Even if we ourselves reject those...|||It seems to me that your brother's punchline was spot on.  I wonder how deliberate that was on his part?|||Childhood: an answer in search of a problem.|||I usually just rebuild the structure on the fly, so my delivery will probably be slow and methodical, with occasional pauses for thinking things through.  I'm terrible at rote memorization.  I like...|||I had the same issue with math.  I would often look at the question and figure out the answer without consciously going through any discrete steps.  Going back through and showing my work was...|||I have nothing much to complain about regarding my childhood.  My family life was stable and my parents didn't have any major character defects.  My dad did have some anger issues when I was younger,...|||In this case the kid was about average height, and not particularly muscled.  His friend was bigger, but more in a pudgy, rather than muscular, sort of way.  I'm 6' 3, 195lbs, and in decent shape,...|||I avoid contemplating death.  Trying to visualize the concept of non-existence makes me shudder, and the idea of it is terribly unappealing to me.  Continued existence of some sort would be...|||I'm feeling the Ne at work in this thread.  Witnessing that's response would certainly be entertaining.'