'And made it into an animatronic animal that spews fire from its mouth?|||If I'm already content: what makes me happier -exercise -friends -jokes & games  If I'm unhappy: what makes me happier -EXFX friends -wine/beer -chocolate -music|||This has been on the internet-news recently. (My national news has mostly been about the Olympics)  A young giraffe was euthanized by a zoo because of a potential inbreeding problem, in an...|||I don't think I know many of them, unless they are hiding their true nature from me :)  From the ones (who I think I've successfully identified as INFPs) I know, I do get along with them. We can...|||Mwhahaha - there *is* no clear answer! (as is the same for almost everyone)  Check out the INTP Articles section for some discussion thereof, and read other information online for some cursory...|||^ Kestrel = this made me laugh. I wonder if Rick's amour at the song-writing-time was not made to understand. And whether she was ever able to get a full commitment from any other guy.|||Wow, this *is* a sad thread.  I think I frowned a lot at them. I found excuses to walk by and frown at them. Ah, kindergarten.  What can I say? I was a romantic. :wink:|||I think that's going to happen to me today.|||Are you picky about sensory details when you're cooking or eating?  Are you on an extreme of the dichotomy between eat to live vs live to eat or are you somewhere in between?|||In my limited experience interacting with ENTPs, I've noticed that when they remark upon a detail, it's a really odd detail that tickles their funny bone. They will then usually have a funny or...|||Welcome!|||I'm not nearly educated enough about modern horror trends to make an assertion here, but this strikes me as very possible. I would suggest that at the very least, successful horror/thriller (or as...|||This is a meta-post. This thread was so good at introducing me to new authors that I went through it, and made a list of the suggestions. Unfortunately, I am too lazy to cite who suggested what, or...|||I think as a teen, I had more outbursts of anger/shortness. Nowadays when I'm very stressed, I occasionally am short with my co-workers, and I have a death stare.   Generally, your experiences are...|||I'm pretty sure my last computer died because it couldn't live with my emotional abuse and neglect.  You worthless pile of junk! If you don't behave and work THIS TIME, I'll re-install Windows...|||I'm pretty sure my last computer died because it couldn't live with my emotional abuse and neglect.  You worthless pile of junk! If you don't behave and work THIS TIME, I'll re-install Windows...|||Who has been following the Olympics? I haven't, but that's because I'm not good with my time :S  I'm asking because I've had a few conversations in the past few days about what sports are allowed...|||I've never changed my name, but I think I've changed my persona depending on who I speak to. (There are some things I'd never same to some people, etc.)  I suppose that's changing who I am to the...|||I need a couple of suggestions for board games for an upcoming board game night!  What do you suggest, PerC?|||At your work (or at school) is there something that other people do which drives you crazy?   If yes, what is it and what do you usually do about it?|||There may be more and less abstract thinking styles. However, I'd suggest that everyone has certain topics on which they are more concrete or more abstract.|||I have no solutions to offer.  But I want to post this, for readers' interests: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The author makes a connection between art and...|||Agreed. There are many people I respect intellectually (and I think I have an intellectual connection with them), however I would never share wacky ideas, stories, or opinions with some of them. I...|||I think that 100 years ago (just like today) *some* INTPs would have been unable to act INTPish because of social and survival concerns. For example, many INTPs don't marry when we are young. If...|||I applaud your efforts to do ASL.  I don't have a solution or an educated response to the allegations that Sign Language 101 has fake teachers, but when I took ASL 1 I used the ASL Pro Online...|||I think we asked the wrong question when we started this thread.  I postulate that a more appropriate thread title would be: Where is a good place to find INTP women, when they go out of their...|||My first reaction when I read this was that I don't paraphrase often - which means I probably do, and that I'm not aware of it. :)  (I notice it when other people do this, though.)  I think that...|||28/36  Tangentially relevant: I read this post (from reddit) last night: Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction : Shots - Health News : NPR   (Want To Read Others'...|||Yay Google: Definition of Fear = An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.  Danger, pain and threats : these are all...|||Hi,  I don't think that I have similar insights or experiences with reactive depression. But: I think that if you notice a pattern, you are lucky enough to recognize some triggers and to take...|||First, welcome to the forum.  Second, I don't think that we can provide an easy answer to that. While INTPs may (in general) speak differently and think differently than INTJs, there are times when...|||I find it very interesting that (almost) everyone in this thread makes note of the ISFJ (instead of ISTJ) as a common mis-typing. But it works for me, because ISFJs have the same MBTI functions as...|||I don't initiate. I respond directly - but not always honestly. It is hard to get to know me, because I often don't like people when I first meet them. I need to make sure they can handle my weirder...|||I don't like strategy games like chess or Risk. Why? I rarely win them. And I find them stressful.  (However, I've recently started trying to learn how to play chess by playing against the...|||Moonwalking with Einstein.  Interesting read about memory. :)|||No. But it may happen when I'm dead.|||I agree. Our novel/original thoughts come from previous thoughts, previous exposure to other people, & previous exposure to other ideas/experiences. No one product (idea, artwork, book, patent,...|||I came across this link on reddit. It says it's important to create and maintain a commonplace book of quotations & thoughts & books.  Sounds like a good idea to me... but then I thought that...|||I don't have much advice, but I know the only thing that makes me stop thinking when I'm stressed is really intense exercise - like running quickly or soccer or swimming sprints.  Granted, this may...|||First off, it's not as long as I feared, and the excerpt is interesting. Thanks for sharing it. :)  So: taking from these extreme examples, emotions do have a purpose. But the other extreme case...|||Dock spiders. I had a conversation about the large, harmless spiders.  These ones can attack small goldfish (rare for an invertebrate to attack and eat a vertebrate)|||Not sure if there was a question.  But here are my reflections on having a lack of structure when I need to get work / schoolwork done:  Even if you make a study schedule, it still can be hard to...|||ENTJs: I want to learn how to lead like they do. INTJs: I want to learn how to plot. ENTPs: I want to learn how to speak and improvise.  ESTJ: learn how to give presentations (& lead, so sort of...|||INTP villain: agree with OP.  Also: maybe he wants to do an experiment and decides he needs a whole world as his experimental system. We're pretty close to being a closed system so perhaps it's...|||I think (for me) empathy comes with life experience (experience at disappointment and failure) and maturity.   People who are completely driven by Ti tend to be over-logical and over-analytical,...|||Academic achievement. Plans for the future. My hobbies. My diet.  And whether or not I've had my twenty cups of coffee today. ;)|||See the attached link: The Antioxidant Craze: Do They Work? | Science-Based Life (I know it's not a scientific article but it brings up some good points)  I don't think that the foods marketed as...|||I don't think you're alone in this. But since language (English) is a tool with which to communicate complex ideas and thoughts, I think it's natural for me to communicate using language in my...|||:D  Life is like a lamb / with someone there to lend a hand! (sorry - I couldn't resist!)   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTZ0mSuIIA|||My only strong preference is Introversion. I figure I could be anything apart from that. My (most similar and therefore least stressful) friends are ISTP, INFP, INTP, ISTJ and INFJ.  Given...'