CrystalViolet
lab rat extraordinaire
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well, I know you no better than you know the girl in question that the OP (and both of us) were talking about..
it seemed you were okay with interpreting this persons' actions to mirror your own based solely on her being an INFP (supposedly, according to someone else).. so why 'point [anything] out' to me..?
my post you quoted was in response mostly to OP (not to you personally - it seems by your reply you may have taken it the wrong way)..
i was only responding to the idea that you suggested - in a roundabout way saying it may be at play in OPs situation. i stand firm that his details provided were too scanty for a confident conclusion to be drawn. that is my opinion. yours is welcome to differ. but that doesn't make anything personal here with regard to argument.
I don't either, and i never said it was..au contraire.. in fact, the reason i quoted and responded to it was because i thought you made a good point.. i think it's insightful and quite possibly correct, but the rational side of me is/was unwilling to say so without expressing reasonable doubt (after all, it really is a very detail-deficient post we're all responding to here).
i know i can be over-analytical and too careful with rationale at times, but i won't apologise for that...
i will apologise for offending you if i have, however. like i said, nothing was meant personally.. i don't think i've read enough of your posts to make any judgments (or attacks!) anyway.
next time i would appreciate being talked down to a bit less, though- if you come at people with fervor and flame right off the bat they are less likely to say "i'm sorry" and mean it.
i'll quit the rhetoric before this thread is derailed.
Sorry my dear, but accusing me of condenscension is like the pot calling the kettle black. It was the condenscion implicit in your post that I objected to, the one where you basically said you had trouble believing I could tell geniune interest, from intellectual curiosity. Or least that's how I interepted it.
And I don't need a lesson in how to handle people, thanks, but I'll call them as I see them. I don't appreciate being talked down to either and I'll respond in kind. I've had my say, I won't bother you any more.