Quote Originally Posted by siuntal View Post
This discussion wasn't about whether Jim is capable or not capable of attributing mental states to others and recognizing them as separate entities with beliefs and feelings of their own, but rather that he prioritizes external dynamics to making complex internal inferences in reaching his conclusions, as would be expected of someone with Je-ego.
Wrong, that's exactly what it was about the moment he began equivocating about what he "understood" to be going through people's heads. Follow-up questions were treated to the same sort of obvious evasions, which are of a piece with the non-answers and side-stepping he'd exhibited since I entered this thread. As far as what you're stretching to describe, he's just engaging in basic human behavior as mentioned above. The only difference is that he's also tapdancing artlessly the whole while. For whatever this exercise was worth in type-analysis terms, be assured that if I met Jim to play poker we'd definitely start with a fresh pack of cards.

I see very little of dynamic anything in Jim other than horse-pucky and smarm. When he's actually got the stones to enter a debate rather than dissemble, the formulation of his arguments is concise and rigidly categorical, sweeping away exceptions and variables. This has a certain economy to it though this comes at the cost of empathy and charm, especially when he's motivated to speak up in fear for his precious pot of gold (though on cam he is more warm and jocose than his writing often suggests). The manner in which he advances his arguments is programmatic and unilateral in a way I view primarily as positivist and secondarily as causal-determinist. Dissenters to his mean and narrow ideal get doors slammed in their faces and he moves on.

Jim's writing exhibits grammatical quirks and idiosyncratic jargon that remind me of various Ti-doms as they "reprocess data" as Krig once self-strokingly put it. Sometimes labcoat and especially ESC come to mind in this regard. Llikewise the latter for his squirminess when outgunned, though Jim seems a bit more self-possessed and confident than that overcompensating quibbler.

By all appearances Jim is chummy with the predominantly merry emo crew at socksrus/socionics4u, and though he might be on good terms with the handful of gamma habitues there he isn't especially well integrated with the remainder of the forum's active gammas.

I've got difficulty seeing E6 in any non-Ji or -Si ego, and hkkmr's inability to cross his legs or take lunch without Jim militating against his proprietary rights to do so is E6 as hell. The IP vibe just isn't present in Jim and I've been wondering for some time whether his initials aren't a joke hiding in the open. LII made sense for a while because Ti/IJ is blatantly out front, and he doesn't seem like an ILE (and for whatever reason, a substantial portion of self-professed ILI noobs turn out to actually be alpha NTs; oddly that almost never plays out in the opposite direction). However, in the end he doesn't seem quite so airheaded as many in that bunch. I also don't think a gamma NT would experience as much indigestion as Jim has complained about in the course of examining fuzzy correlations between typologies.

Static, merry, declaring, positivist, aristocratic, blah blah blah. LSI 6w5 sx/sp