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Who's craziest: INFJ or INTJ?

Is INFJ or INTJ the craziest?


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RaptorWizard

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Both of these types seem to contain many of the craziest people in existence. They have all of these funny metaphysical visions and spiritual premonitions of amazing magical forces in our world and the events they make imminent. Then these somehow turn out to be revolutionary insights into the nature of everything, very integrative and good for unification. Other times though their ideas turn out as insane conspiracies or grand delusions only existing in the imagination. Lots of biblical and other various religious prophets commonly seem to be INJ as well. I really can't tell which is the crazier of the 2, so who's craziest: INFJ or INTJ?

Active Ni doms on my friends list (who I feel comfortable mentioning): [MENTION=16382]Ene[/MENTION] [MENTION=15773]greenfairy[/MENTION] [MENTION=8936]highlander[/MENTION] [MENTION=17266]Infinite Bubble[/MENTION] [MENTION=5159]Lexicon[/MENTION] [MENTION=6163]ReadingRainbows[/MENTION]

Perhaps you folks may have some valuable input you wish to share.

My best bet is that INTJ is the craziest. They construct acentric labyrinths that are way too much out there and ahead of their times. Then they are also highly aware of mysterious underlying patterns behind things and expose them from every angle. And then they have these complex plans to realize great and impossible feats that only the craziest people in the world could conceive and achieve.

That's just my opinion on the matter though, and as I said, I'm still on the whole very undecided as to which one is the craziest. Maybe we'll get some crazy responces here from the crazier.
 

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The INTJ's I know have all been very stable people. Albeit, a couple of them somewhat aggressive. And they were all shut in's. But, stable none-the-less.

The INFJ's I know have all been in emotional upheaval. But I know a smaller pool of INFJ's and may not have the best picture to go on.
 

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I dont see INTJs as crazy, but it seems to be a common theme that they are really oblivious to many basic facts of life and have this weird world view where many of the basic knowledge(obvious to most people) doesent exist and some facts are prioritized in a weird way(like too high level of priority on something irrelevant or just on something that isnt really that important), like assuming a priority to random facts without any reason for it being high on priority.

Not saying that all INFJs are crazy, but some of them tend to assume some weird shit to be true. Like where an INTJ might assume a priority for a fact in irrational way, INFJs can assume something to be a fact, when in fact it is not a fact and not really even close to reality or only has some resemblance with the actual world.
 
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INTJ because they are probably going to spend more time alone, with Te being less of a social function than Fe is. Solitude + Ni dominance/inferior Se = reality train going off the rails and into the darkness of oblivion. Long periods of solitude is bad for anyone, but couple it with someone who naturally doesn't take much notice of the immediate reality, and you have a crazy person who sits there in a corner thinking about their weird nonexistent mental constructs.

Of course, that rested entirely on the assumption that INTJs don't socialise as much as INFJs, which is probably wrong in average cases. But whatever. I'm probably not an Ni-Dom BTW, though it was fun answering anyway.
 

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I vote INTJ. I think an Ni-Fi loop is more conducive to craziness than Ni-Ti. An INTJ will do the following:
A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a German each undertook a study of the camel.

The Frenchman went to the zoo, spend half an hour there, questioned the staff, threw bread to the camel, poked it with the front of his umbrella, and, returning home, wrote an essay for the papers, full of sharp and witty observations.

The Englishman, taking his tea basked and a good deal of camping equipment, went to set up camp in the Orient, returning after a sojourn of two or three years with a fat volume, full of raw, disorganized, and inconclusive facts which, nevertheless, had real documentary value.

As for the German, filled with disdain for the Frenchman’s frivolity and the Englishmans’ lack of metaphysical ideas, he locked himself in his room, and there he drafted a multi-volume work entiteled: The Idea of the Camel Derived from the Concept of the Ego.

- The German method, of shielding yourself off from the world, in order to see the psychological and metaphysical factors behind our immediate experience of reality, corresponds to Introverted iNtuition, or Ni. The two types which use Ni the most are INTJ and INFJ. This is the approach of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.W.F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, C.G. Jung and others. – That is why Marx said that even though he admired Darwin’s findings, his work was “enveloped in the crude English method.”
Though the above humorous example can apply to both types, ime INFJ's generally know when their ideas don't exactly correspond to reality, or at least suspect that there is a strong possibility and other people will think they are crazy. INTJ's on the other hand believe that the "normal" people are the crazy ones, and they alone know the secrets of the Universe. Plus, their tertiary loop completely ignores the need for rational explanation, and so their Ni can generate any crazy idea it wants, and the INTJ will just go with it.

Plus, I think they are more uptight and kinkier, and more prone to being out of inner harmony.

INFJ's I think are more fluid in their inner world and more openminded, and so I think they have a greater chance of floating back toward the center and sanity.

Of course, I'm biased because I think my type is the most awesome. ;)
 

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I think NFs are usually crazier than NTs in general. That whole "greater subjectivity" thing.
 

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I call it a tie. I don't think crazy has a Fe/Te preference, either one + unstable Ni = nut case.
 

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I vote INTJ. I think an Ni-Fi loop is more conducive to craziness than Ni-Ti. An INTJ will do the following:

Though the above humorous example can apply to both types, ime INFJ's generally know when their ideas don't exactly correspond to reality, or at least suspect that there is a strong possibility and other people will think they are crazy. INTJ's on the other hand believe that the "normal" people are the crazy ones, and they alone know the secrets of the Universe. Plus, their tertiary loop completely ignores the need for rational explanation, and so their Ni can generate any crazy idea it wants, and the INTJ will just go with it.

Plus, I think they are more uptight and kinkier, and more prone to being out of inner harmony.

INFJ's I think are more fluid in their inner world and more openminded, and so I think they have a greater chance of floating back toward the center and sanity.

Of course, I'm biased because I think my type is the most awesome. ;)

Interesting information. That line on 'the english method' made me think on the notion of England being overly populated with Si doms after most of the intuitives sought out new horizons in the Americas as put forth in Gift's Differing.

Not saying I agree or disagree just what it put me in mind of. In any case the broader point of what most constitutes Ni, is the way in which Ni-dominants appear to strip away the literal interpretation of what the object of interest is and instead almost focus entirely upon the immaterial strip of archetypal interpretations...like hollowing something out.

I think that tendency can develop into someone who is very detached indeed. I'm reluctant to phrase that as 'detached from reality' because that would be buying into a widespread delusion that there is a singular and concrete world, which we all live and share in as opposed to some hunch from the senses that is still distorted by the individual.

As for INFJ vs INTJ. I personally have met a few rather insane INFJ's and been on the end of at least one myself. But a few people is not a good group to source my evidence from. INTJ's appear more stable but can perhaps be more insane...but it's a more structure insane......which is often more dangerous. Unless of course the person has completely gone of their mental rails but that can happen to anyone.
 

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Interesting information. That line on 'the english method' made me think on the notion of England being overly populated with Si doms after most of the intuitives sought out new horizons in the Americas as put forth in Gift's Differing.

Not saying I agree or disagree just what it put me in mind of. In any case the broader point of what most constitutes Ni, is the way in which Ni-dominants appear to strip away the literal interpretation of what the object of interest is and instead almost focus entirely upon the immaterial strip of archetypal interpretations...like hollowing something out.
Interesting thought! I wondered how it was that some cultures seem to be more dominated by certain functions than others, and that's a plausible explanation, at least for England at one point.

I agree about Ni.
 

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I vote INTJ. I think an Ni-Fi loop is more conducive to craziness than Ni-Ti. An INTJ will do the following:

Though the above humorous example can apply to both types, ime INFJ's generally know when their ideas don't exactly correspond to reality, or at least suspect that there is a strong possibility and other people will think they are crazy. INTJ's on the other hand believe that the "normal" people are the crazy ones, and they alone know the secrets of the Universe. Plus, their tertiary loop completely ignores the need for rational explanation, and so their Ni can generate any crazy idea it wants, and the INTJ will just go with it.

I voted for INTJ for the same reason. INFJs say things I consider to be crazy too, but, probably because of Ti, they lack the conviction of the INTJs. Because they tend to lack the conviction that that these intuitions are "absolute truths" or "facts", I find the INFJ flavor of Ni to be much less vexing.

I'm speaking in generalities, of course, but I have certainly noticed a pattern of differences in the way in which Ni manifests itself in both types. Ultimately, I think it comes down to another case of the battle between Fi convictions and Ti speculation.
 

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I would say generally INFJ, but place INTJ under stress to produce malfunction and that is some intense shite. INTJs are much more headstrong in their malfunctioning than an INFJ.
 

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My vote would be for INFJ.
Agreed. At least we INTJs tend to have a method in our madness, and Te is pretty good at reality checking.
 

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So between a totally batshit INTJ and a totally batshit INFJ which is batshittier?
I'm going to go with the INFJ. That doesn't mean the INFJ will necessarily do more damage, though. Batshit INTJs can sound very convincing, while batshit INFJs are usually pretty obviously batshit.
 

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I vote INTJ. I think an Ni-Fi loop is more conducive to craziness than Ni-Ti. An INTJ will do the following:

Cool, it's always good to see people backing up what they say with objective information.

Though the above humorous example can apply to both types, ime INFJ's generally know when their ideas don't exactly correspond to reality, or at least suspect that there is a strong possibility and other people will think they are crazy. INTJ's on the other hand believe that the "normal" people are the crazy ones, and they alone know the secrets of the Universe. Plus, their tertiary loop completely ignores the need for rational explanation, and so their Ni can generate any crazy idea it wants, and the INTJ will just go with it.

That's actually pretty accurate I think and quite funny at the same time. The INFJs place more faith in the ideologies of the people, whereas the INTJs will reject all that stuff that doesn't fit with their own individualized world view.

Plus, I think they are more uptight and kinkier, and more prone to being out of inner harmony.

Well ya, thinking certainly is more oriented towards chaos and radicals.

INFJ's I think are more fluid in their inner world and more openminded, and so I think they have a greater chance of floating back toward the center and sanity.

The INFJs do indeed place more value on things outside of themselves, can look at the world in a more holistic way.

Of course, I'm biased because I think my type is the most awesome. ;)

INTJ in my opinion sounds way cooler to me (and I agreed with everything in your post except your final statement here).



This Will-I-Am song is definately the best one that I'm posting below (it goes into the great rise to power and realizing your true promise).

 

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I voted for INTJ for the same reason. INFJs say things I consider to be crazy too, but, probably because of Ti, they lack the conviction of the INTJs. Because they tend to lack the conviction that that these intuitions are "absolute truths" or "facts", I find the INFJ flavor of Ni to be much less vexing.

The INTJs as you say may be more subjective about their beliefs on the nature of things, go more with what they wish for rather than what fits with the world.

I'm speaking in generalities, of course, but I have certainly noticed a pattern of differences in the way in which Ni manifests itself in both types. Ultimately, I think it comes down to another case of the battle between Fi convictions and Ti speculation.

Seeing things from a more tentative perspective versus a more tenacious view could be less crazy, as there's more of a questioning about things, which could lead to a more clear knowledge than just fighting for whatever productions spring forth from the self. Based on that, Fi would be a better supplement to craziness than Ti.
 

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I love that Will.i.am song!
 

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The INTJ's I know have all been very stable people. Albeit, a couple of them somewhat aggressive. And they were all shut in's. But, stable none-the-less.

The INFJ's I know have all been in emotional upheaval. But I know a smaller pool of INFJ's and may not have the best picture to go on.


I think NFs are usually crazier than NTs in general. That whole "greater subjectivity" thing.

I think INFJs would have a higher frequency of craziness but a crazy INTJ would be crazier than a crazy INFJ :). The crazy INTJ would also likely do more damage because they are less likely to care about other people - but of course there is Hitler who was an INFJ.

I vote INTJ. I think an Ni-Fi loop is more conducive to craziness than Ni-Ti. An INTJ will do the following:

Agreed. At least we INTJs tend to have a method in our madness, and Te is pretty good at reality checking.

Te is very good at reality checking. I think one issue can arise where Te is not being utilized and the INTJ is in that Ni-Fi loop. It can cause a real problem if a person remains in that mode for an extended period of time.

If you think about what crazy really means though, it's suffering from a mental disorder which any type can suffer from.
 
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