INTP's can differ I guess.
Some that I've met are indeed really annoying, but I'm quite certain there are great INTP's, funny witty kind and loyal. My experiences with duals were mostly great. But still, I can understand that some INTP's are really boring / arrogant / depressed / nerds etc. I don't like those kind of people either. Nobody does I guess. But there are also INTP's that party every weekend, drink beer, like house music, and are into everything as long as it is fun, yet they do ofcourse read science/philosophy books and play computer games a lot.
Either extreme is probably annoying. I don't really like jock-ish partygoes either if they're too focused on their external environment. They're hot though, so I'd probably just use them for sex and go on. Partying is fun though. It's really not that hard to have a good time as long as you put some effort and get drunk a lil.But there are also INTP's that party every weekend, drink beer, like house music, and are into everything as long as it is fun
Most philosophy books make me feel too guilty/jaded, and way too introverted. I already have a hard enough time opening myself up to people to make things worse. It would be cool if I could find some people to talk with about them, but that's just bound to start a debate. Science books are cool though.yet they do ofcourse read science/philosophy books and play computer games a lot.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
heheh
I'm trying to appear more humane by having children in my avatar, because children are supposedly cute.
No, actually I found a site with those creepy kids from old adds, now I have just methodologically gone through them. I guess I'll change when I find something new to put on avatar. The joke might be getting old.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
I may have an explanation for this behaviour.
I'm lazy most of the time. Just being idle, doing nothing. While I know that I have stuff to do, but I just try not to think about it to much.
When someone asks me to go do something, then I start thinking... well first I still have stuff to do, so I can't go with you do something else right now. And then, I fall back into idle mode again and try not to think about the stuff that needs to be done...
So to summarize, he's not lying that he has got work to do, but he is just delaying it constantly, which makes it look like he has nothing to do.
Eventually it all can pile up around the edges, and start collapsing in on your head... it's happened to me, when I couldn't stop delaying... it's like being pushed out of time, and feeling behind on ones life. Because in the back of my mind I'm always aware of "the pile up" and that it is growing and expanding and reaching "critical points" where it will cave in... and I'm also aware of how I can still deal with it, even though it's harder, as it all piles up. Because there isn't really a point of no return with it ever, just a pushing things back farther into the future, until you realize that these things are hitting up against the end of your life, and they're all being crammed into "the final years", and *that* is when they start going backwards and falling back on top of you (only so much can fit at the end). Then you go insane and land in a mental institution. Which since one (I mean me) doesn't want such a fate, where then these things would be taken out of my hands entirely (because I've become "incapable"), I should start addressing more things now. Being incapable is no fun (but a stagnant hell on earth), and though it may in some ways appear the easier road, it is actually the harder road as it affords an even longer "out of time" delay, wasting more time. And then I feel content having reached this conclusion, and it can wait really. There's no need to attend to it this moment. There are still enough laters, just something to keep in mind. Until I become aware of the diminishing laters again... I think I'm almost ready to have a cleaner slate again, because my awareness of the diminishing moments has been reaching an ear-shattering scream over the last few years.
I can never imagine myself writing poetry for my girlfriend, ever. It would seem way too emo, cliche, and wimpy. It would make me feel retarded reading it. Every single word would feel retarded. I couldn't do it. He isn't INTp
That makes more sense, but I suspect he would only show it to you if it expressed an underlying tendency he has thought he has realized about poetry; or if it was in a class of what, for a moment, he might consider an ideal example of a poem at the time. This is closer to an intellectual game he is playing with poetry, then an emotional expression. At least that's how I imagine myself doing it. One thing you will not see happen, is a heart to heart poem reading
right. he takes it very seriously. he studied it in grad school and has been published. I've attended a poetry reading of his and it was delivered in a dry manner (but befitting of him and the content, letting the words speak for themselves). It's very much an intellectual thing for him, yes.
IEI-Fe 4w3
My english teacher in college was kind of like that. He was INTp-Ni, and was an authority on the critical analysis many of shakespearian plays. But he explained the whole thing in a technical, intricate way. When I try to write music, I do the same thing. I just cannot let myself trust my heart. And the more coherent understanding of art eludes me, the more inspired I become to pursue it. Music is one of the last real mysteries out there which grab my interest. I think quite a few INTps get sucked into this kind of thing
I see this attempt as rather disappointing, because I can see how an SEE would see me as boring or dull (but I've always had an unspoken deep bond with them.) If you guys are exciting, and we're dull, then who wins?
Sorry to dig in your past, but maybe he needed more attention. You maybe need to jump on him and push him into walls, brutalize him with your heels. He may have not been feeling in the right mindset because you did not give him any pain to fight off. It could be a number of things, but you have to try to outsmart him, and make him not see whats coming. Don't fart in his face though, that's a turn off on the first date.
Also, just for the record, if you or any other date wanted to take me out, I could not see myself not going. I've been trying to get other people I've attempted to date to go out, especially when we have already made plans, and it can be a hassle and not happen. This is really the only reason I see myself for taking responsibility, so we can have some fun.
i really do not understand what it is that SEEs see in ILIs, really.
my best friend is SEE too. we go out, someone thinks i'm being weird, and she doesn't think that way at all.
seriously, SEEs are
though initial contact with SEEs are hard, it seems hard for an SEE to be interested in ILIs.
INTp
sx/sp
We have some classes together...On weekends we usually go to some metal concert.. Or sometimes we make food together... she is a coffee addict...so naturally she started liking me only after I showed her my coffee making skills.She is not fast when it comes to liking anybody..
I got her interested in socionics...and now the easiest way to wake her up is to tell her "I found a nice ESFp boy for ya!"![]()
I am back!!! Met an INTp!!! amazing one!!!!
Last edited by sarinana; 01-28-2010 at 05:13 PM.
Yeah, just got to look under some rocks here or there, dust some cobwebs off, and there you go. Back in action. And it's true, the tortoise and the hare run separate races.
In ways you seem ESE. Many things you say sort of annoy me. Why do you choose SEE over ESE?