'All expression is 'childish' (unpolished? clumsy? unrefined? uncertain of itself?) when the person expressing it hasn't practiced it before. That's just being a beginner. Language, painting, dance,...|||oké, but I really do need to work on getting a portfolio ready, aaaaaaaany moment now. any moment. oh look, it's time for early lunch!   Short stories:  Speaker's agenda and minset is clearer...|||No problem about the tag, just teasing you.  Re: editing, I can relate, but the more stable and consistent my skills have become, the better my work fares. I'm never 'happy', but having such a huge...|||Voice, yes, that's right. I am sensitive to voice, and I like yours. You're consistent. Few people are consistent.   Sorry about your brother. I am in a similar position with my mother, I think...|||I enjoyed this, like the paint/bleeding and the atmosphere of a steam room, the plump/bugs. What's the story about? Coming out on the other side of disillusionment to an altered, more tempered state...|||valiantt you tagged me with your failure to spacebar! heathen. good thing though, I've been under a rock for a while thinking about stuff. Nice thread to come back to.    There are poets who are...|||Sorry, was using 'man' in the sense of 'human', bit archaic. But the logic still stands with this example.  Is a requirement of morality to have decided it for oneself in a vacuum (outside of being...|||Yes, basically let us assume that we are all suffering from emotional prejudices based on fear. I don't want to eat that mushroom because it looks a bit funny. Anxiety and fear can easily hide under...|||Just noticed this part, was distracted by the interesting questions. I think people will respond a lot more open and cooperative (especially Feelers) if you leave your personal judgements out of it...|||I've also noticed fear at the base of a lot of social motivations, which is very interesting. And how anxiety/fear can easily masquerade under solid reasoning (rather we misapply a good reason and...|||Disclaimer: Coming at this from an analytical and exploration perspective, my own opinions and experiences are stated clearly so I'm not hiding an agenda, and I also have no problem with people...|||INTP here so waiting for Fs to take up the other side of this. Will be interested in the results!|||Haha I know what you mean. It's almost as if they aren't saying I'm really anxious about crashing the car so much as Oh shit, I've just realised the possibility exists that I could actually crash...|||Well you've got that avatar face down, I feel a bit like you're about to enthusiastically eviscerate me. Make this your default pose in group photos and see how long before anyone notices. Social...|||Fuck's sake Tony, that was the sole reason I was even going to post in this thread, and you found a better picture of it. You bastard.  So er...   Vegan food is lazier because you don't have to...|||No, what are you talking about. I spent about 4 hours trying to sleep last night and inevitably, in that drifty N-state, started imagining parallel universes (if I was German, or my teacher had...|||Why won't you just be normal?  https://foodergolove.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/gordonramsay.jpg|||INTJ. All my give a shit can disappear at the snap of a J-finger.   https://i.imgflip.com/4kes.jpg  I will also be mega sexy and get work on period dramas for the BBC.     I like your...|||Happy Germ Exchange Day!  I find this video a delightful and accurate representation of Valentine's Day, relationships in general, and also our homogenised culture! I hope you enjoy it and it gives...|||Yeah, absolutely. It's helped me understand the people around me and their differences, why I like some people more than others, how to talk to people more in a language they understand, how to not...|||https://45.media.tumblr.com/c1f9c2136cd612ad98758b3d0009a18d/tumblr_nl253oy84f1qdjbb7o1_400.gif|||Ok.  On another note, one of these days I'll be able to read armordillo without reading it as armordildo.|||Haha, or she noticed the INTP. You will get around to being 100% perfect kinky... later.|||Yeah, absolutely, I can be very animated. I think it's just about when you feel comfortable showing yourself.|||I'm bad at maths, can only comfortably do very basic stuff (probably what you learn up to about 12?) so there's the context, I am also very ignorant on the subject so I present my thoughts to you in...|||I can't come to the door right now, because I'm ... er, I'm not home. And if I was, I don't need one of those things you've got, those Jesus-educating can opener delivery service charity collecting...|||I find your mother quite rude in these examples. Seems like FJ tactics to get you to be normal (see also: an FJ). Dunno why so much hostility when someone likes/thinks different things to you. My...|||Yes, I can identify with that strongly. I've always been intensely emotional, especially anger, hurt, and joy. I have to avoid reading the news because I get hurt and angry about people being unfair...|||Well, now I know that exists, fair enough. I completely understand though, I don't know how many hours I've devoted to trying to understand the reasoning behind other people's actions, only to find...|||I think yes, If I'm in the flow of enjoying a debate, or exploring an idea, but it's not the kind of extrovert as in I am looking at other people so much as I am vomiting words outwards, you can...|||Yeah I've had a lot of trouble with depression and anxiety since quite early on, two things really help me:  1. Read as much as you can about the symptoms of depression/anxiety/whatever you're...|||*whispers* nobody explodes if you say no|||Foreplay, NSFW  http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/0/0c/Worf_batleth_Malibu_Comics.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120407045253|||Well, you can have feelings and intuitive impressions that aren't necessarily used in the debate (T vs F prio on feelings) so I don't think he means the idea of appealing to an INTJ with emotions,...|||Interesting video, thanks. I like how the non-INTP guy is trying to get the INTP to extrapolate on various things, and the most interest he's shown is about C3PO and R2D2. You can lead a horse to...|||You're right. I've been staring at it for a while now and it hasn't said anything.  http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0757/5807/products/712kbl_FMUL._SL1200_large.jpg?v=1423244926|||Like the social version of a natural disaster. Consider if you have enough food. Search for other survivors. Sit at home fearfully.|||I may not have been completely entirely accurately irrevocably precisely undeniably wholly universally serious.|||Yeah fair enough, it all seems a lot of fuss over nothing to me, but whatever makes you happy makes you happy. I'll ask on the S&R forum at some point if I can be bothered, it's a widespread social...|||I don't get the point of porn. Once I was drunk with friends and we saw a smurf porn to laugh at, where everyone was speaking breathy Spanish and the blue paint started wearing off and then Ganondorf...|||Dude why you being so weird, it's normal for friends to send other friends dickpics. Let's not bring your husband into it, I mean, we're not friends, he would find that gay.    Got about 10 years...|||There's furniture designed for the autism community. It's hugs without the people! Not sure if this is what you mean, but there's a pretty nice range out there. There are swings where you can be...|||You know what else is right, what I'm about to do to your face with a phonebook. ...|||Update:   INTP: Look INTJ, funny pictures in relation to Valentine's Day.  INTJ: Haha. Wait. Valentine's Day is coming. Do you... want to... d-  INTP: No....|||Also found the autism comment distasteful, and the slithery non-response, but maust is best maust, argues so I don't have to. I think we should get that for you on a t-shirt, O bestmaust.  In other...|||INTP more likely to be superfluous to achieve complete precision, indecisive (maybe, probably, sometimes, it looks like), and contain tangents of unrelated information to the original goal (answer...|||I completely agree! It's a really beautiful dynamic, and the safer you feel/more you know the other person, you can end up in these situations of feeling like you're talking almost sub-verbally,...|||Yeah fair enough, I see what you're saying, thanks for the explanation.  I do think it's still technically manipulation to try and lead someone up to thinking/responding in a way you want without...|||Excellent! May I recommend adding a course of Inability to Lie to the meal, for maximum Unpopularity Flavour? A small dash of Asperger's, perhaps, for spice?  Or, as I think of it - other people...|||My poor little Fe can't handle this. It's just so morally right. Carry on, good sir. ...'