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[INTP] You know you're an INTP when...

Willfrey

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Nov 9, 2008
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615
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IsTP
You feel a tingle of guilt every time you use 'lol, brb, wtf' .. etc etc, like you are contributing to the bastardization of the English language.
 

Tallulah

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Feb 19, 2008
Messages
6,009
MBTI Type
INTP
When you consider your brain as something to be rewired at will, emotions, thoughts, patterns, all of it. Objectivity ftw.

Ha, so true. Wish there was just a body shop I could send my brain to when I get stuck in a Ti loop.
 

Rockwallaby

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Jun 17, 2009
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6
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INTP
You feel a tingle of guilt every time you use 'lol, brb, wtf' .. etc etc, like you are contributing to the bastardization of the English language.

YES! people are starting to use them in conversation now!
 

MiasmaResonance

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Jul 18, 2009
Messages
155
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5w?
Instinctual Variant
sp/sx
...your flittering mannerisms fluctuate between giggling uncontrollably and mortified silence.

...you swear you're feeling the onset of a cardiac arrest when the word "group work" is mentioned, especially when it concerns you.

...you can barely control the urge to correct the girl named "Sara", because her name clearly lacks that silent 'H' which is oh-so needed.

...it doesn't matter if someone mocks your style of dress, but a rebuke towards your competence in work/school brings a crashing wave of acute depression.

*thumbs up*
 

MiasmaResonance

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Jul 18, 2009
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INTP
Enneagram
5w?
Instinctual Variant
sp/sx
..you forget to eat because you are too busy thinking.
 

BlueGray

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Oct 7, 2009
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474
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5
When you are able to intrigue a room full of people into coping your mannerisms, at least temporarily.
 

wildcat

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Jun 8, 2007
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3,622
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INTP
What about a reference? Can you write a reference?

In the history class, we had to write these references. We were given someone's ruminations, and then we had to write a reference about it. One reference a week. Originally I did not think it was a problem.
If the INTPs can discuss postmodernism without knowing what postmodernism is, they can get away with anything?

The point in reference is the opposite. That is the key of the difficulty.
Reference is not a discussion. It does not have wings. It does not lift off the base.

After having written the first reference in the history class, I got fail. The following week, another fail. Third week I asked a friend to do it for me. She did the job in ten minutes.
The teacher was surprised. He had not thought I was college material. He gave me a B+.
I could enjoy modest success.
Very modest- but I did not need to leave the class immediately.

Is this reference thing even remotely an INTP thing? Has anyone had similar trouble?
Just curious. Can you write a reference?
It is an admirable quality I am sure.
 

Lex Talionis

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Sep 21, 2009
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382
MBTI Type
INTJ
...your logic seems sound, but still manages to be destroyed by an INTJ's scrutiny.
 

Salomé

meh
Joined
Sep 25, 2008
Messages
10,527
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5w4
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
What about a reference? Can you write a reference?

In the history class, we had to write these references. We were given someone's ruminations, and then we had to write a reference about it. One reference a week. Originally I did not think it was a problem.
If the INTPs can discuss postmodernism without knowing what postmodernism is, they can get away with anything?

The point in reference is the opposite. That is the key of the difficulty.
Reference is not a discussion. It does not have wings. It does not lift off the base.

After having written the first reference in the history class, I got fail. The following week, another fail. Third week I asked a friend to do it for me. She did the job in ten minutes.
The teacher was surprised. He had not thought I was college material. He gave me a B+.
I could enjoy modest success.
Very modest- but I did not need to leave the class immediately.

Is this reference thing even remotely an INTP thing? Has anyone had similar trouble?
Just curious. Can you write a reference?
It is an admirable quality I am sure.

Depends. Does it have to rhyme?
 

groovejet02

New member
Joined
Jan 9, 2009
Messages
199
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5
... when you explain something in vivid detail and still doubt whether you have left something out and if people understand what you say.

... when you explain the framework and leave out the details and think people understand what you say.
 
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