Crazy people and MBTI[c]

[entropie]

Crazy = derangement, totally unsound, brainsick

It's not necessarily bad if you're crazy, I suppose. But it kind of makes life difficult for the people who aren't.

Yea, dont you know we did not know that ?

And second what is "aren't".

Define me normal and I define you quantum dynamics

 

[entropie]

Sorry, no heart feelings.

I am really over my last beer

 

[Gish]

"aren't" = "are not"

 

[booyalab]

Yea, dont you know we did not know that ?

?

And second what is "aren't".

are not

Define me normal and I define you quantum dynamics

 

[JivinJeffJones]

She's totally hitting on you, entropie. Yer in like Flynn, mate.

 

[entropie]

 

[Metis]

Or though this thread is just developing into the opportunity to maybe, on a communicable way, state what one thinks.

How?

I thought it was a trap to weed out paranoia. Nevermind.

How?

 

[prplchknz]

On vent Protean brought this up and i was not trying to trap or out anyone, I was hoping people would put in their 2 cents on the subject. Like if you think MBTI attracts people of not sound mind, more then something else, why do you think that's so. Or if not why not?

 

[entropie]

Well, give some snippet you are thinking about, season it with some pepper and then observe what happens. If the responses start to tear itselves apart intervene... Else, let the music play. Nothing better than the sound of new views of live.

But I suppose that is not your metier. For you the question is easy. Just wait until those talking heads that make all that hot air are gone and then thrive on your ideas. I will be the first one to go now, I drank one year old champagner because I have no money for beer. And that excuisite champagner is a pain in the stomach right now.

Just now, whatever you need to talk about, whatever moves you. Whatever you think the world needs to be changed in, what ever you think you can contribute to that. Whatever you think about the girl that will never love you, though you know it is just porn.

You are alive. And that means the story has just not been written ...

 

[Metis]

entropie, man. Remember old times? Don't leave.

This might not be the appropriate place to ask, but will you write a detailed ENTP profile?

On vent Protean brought this up and i was not trying to trap or out anyone, I was hoping people would put in their 2 cents on the subject. Like if you think MBTI attracts people of not sound mind, more then something else, why do you think that's so. Or if not why not?

I know. I was kidding.

I think most of us naturally aim for soundness of mind and look through structures like MBTI as a way to structure perceptions in logical ways. By looking through a variety of them, we see more angles, more things, more confusion, and hopefully ourselves and our own confusion. And whatever else we can.

As for the "crazy people", aren't you the wise guys defining soundness of mind for everybody, telling us who's confused and who's not?

 

[Little Linguist]

Crazy = abnormal

Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Definitely!!!!!!!!

 

[Little Linguist]

*whispers* Don't say anything but I think she's a little :crazy:.

Hmm...crazy is cool.

 

[Little Linguist]

Crazy = derangement, totally unsound, brainsick

It's not necessarily bad if you're crazy, I suppose. But it kind of makes life difficult for the people who aren't.

HAHAHAHAA!

Well, I think we need to differentiate between the people who are totally sick and need to go into a sanitarium ASAP and those who are crazy in a cute kind of way that make you say, OMG - these people make life...well...interesting.

I think a bit of craziness is necessary. Here I'm defining crazy as "uninhibited ability to express things in a way the average person would not." That is cool.

Now kid coming into a school and shooting 20 people; guy beating up his wife because he cannot deal with his anger; mother abusing her children; people who are reckless - like driving while drunk or having sex without protection and spreading disease; people who commit violent crimes - not cool.

So we have to define what we are talking about here. If we mean the classic, cute variety - ROCK ON. If we mean the totally deranged mental psychopath - UH, HOPEFULLY NOT.

 

[Ilah]

I think that MBTI may attract people who are different or eccentric. I will not debate about whether these people would be labeled crazy or not. I suppose everyone is different, but some of us are more different than others.

If some one is average or normal, they probably never stop to think: "Why am I am normal?" or "Why am I fortunate enough not to struggle with fitting in?"

I can't speak for everyone, but I spend lots of time thinking things like "Why am I different?" "Why is it my brain doesn't seem to function the way most people's do?" "Why is it so hard for me to fit in?" "Is this a mental problem or just a difference?" I imagine it was this way for other people who are different as well, or at least some of them. Some people act like I made a deliberate effort to be different, like this was a choice I made. It never felt like a choice to me. It just felt like being myself.

I have looked at various material - psychology, pop psychology, self help and New Age - to try to answer some of my questions. Of all the different material I look at the best sources to answer my questions have been personality typing. It gives me answers: I am different because I am a rare type. My brain doesn't function the same as most people's because I am not the same type as most people. It is hard to fit in because I am a different type then most people. It isn't a mental problem, it's just a different type.

I admit, I have some eccentricities that are not accounted for by type, but it does account for many of them. Difficulty expressing feelings, day dream quite a bit, percieved as not social enough, difficulty putting ideas in words - that is just a "normal" INTJ.

Ilah

 

[colmena]

I isolate myself chiefly out of fear of causing emotional harm unto others.

The internet is a controlled environment where I can communicate with others without having to connect. MBTIc is a place for me to chit-chat without having to put up with bad syntax (usually ).

Perhaps 'abnormal' people can find normality within the internet.

 

[proteanmix]

But is it a real connection if you can turn it on and off when you want to? I'm sorry but it seems like a relationship of convenience to me.

 

[INA]

That is the appeal. And nobody will get mad at you for switching on and off.

 

[proteanmix]

So me thinking it's a bunch of people faking being chummy chummy round here isn't to far off the mark?

 

[Tigerlily]

not for me, however that is typical NTP passive aggressive behavior.

 

[INA]

So me thinking it's a bunch of people faking being chummy chummy round here isn't to far off the mark?

Why do you think it is fake?