Magic Poriferan
^He pronks, too!
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- Yin
- Enneagram
- One
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
Feeling is not "what feels right" in a body sensation way.
It's not what feels right in any specifically perceptual way, because it's not perception. However, no human being ever operates Fi on its own, it works in conjunction with the information collected by perception, and this colors the nature of it. I attempted to represent two ends of it anyhow, not just the sensational way.
An INFP might skip meals when out of touch with their bodies. But they might just as easily overindulge on certain foods when under stress and using their 3rd childlike function, Si, for self comfort. So I am not personally seeing the tendancy to "glut" on foods as an indicator of the ISFP over the INFP.
And the moral of the tortoise and the hare was not that all people who lose races are hares. You seem to be missing the point. You're putting the emphasis on the wrong details, which as I said in my previous post, is the great risk anyone takes when they try to use examples.
You probaby also totally disregarded may warning in advance about how caraciturized my examples were going to be.
I also don't think your example would be the ISFP's internal judgement process if they were using Fi to temper Se. it wouldn't just be pure, Oh if it feels good eat. The ISFP I know seem very aware of food's power to be a means to health for themselves and those they care about and they seem more intune with self care and eating healthy. Fi as judgement process would say "In order to care for those I love, I must be healthy."
The following is a real statement from an ISFP I know:
"Last time I had a sugar binge, I crashed and I was so crabby the rest of the evening. I know how it feels when my Mom is in one of her dragonlady moods, I don't want to do that to my kids. So I am going to really try to watch my sugar intake."
You are trying to paint a real life ISFP. They are all different. This is pointless. You know, no one should even ask the question "what is [such and such type] like?". It's not a productive question. One should ask "what are [such and such processes] like?" and "what processes does [such and such type] prefer?". That will get you much closer to figuring things out.
But I don't blame the people who ask, because they're usually newbies. What annoys me, is how any attempt to answer, that does not encompass the full nuances of complete individual human being and every possible individual within a type, is struck down. Neither I, nor you, nor anyone else can make sense of a type system that way.
I'm not going to trade ridiculously specific examples with you, because putting so much emphasis on most of those extaneous details misses the point in entirety. The OPs question was apparently unanswerable within the perameters it gave. I'm never going to do this again, I've made this mistake too many times. From now on, I'm going to tell people to accept answers in the form of cognitive constructs, or take no answers at all, because trying to give any tangible examples is hopeless. There's too much information for quibbling over.