Whoa!!! Three of you. That's amazing!!! I think I need to revise my belief that same sibling and parent types, in Western families, ARE possible but (to me) now are just either a) rare or b) extremely rare.
I'll leave the probability calculations to someone else (
pt?) but I wouldn't think it's all that rare to see two same-type family members. To illustrate, I've got more anecdotal evidence: My SO is an ENFP like his mother and my friend
Blackwater's late father was an ENTP like him.
However, I'll grant you that three INTJs is probably extremely rare.
The identical-twin, near-identical personality thing is interesting. We're so far counting four pairs of identical twins who are off on only one letter, right?
That must've been a trip growing up in that setting.
What, you mean not everyone bonds with their mother over the perfecting of manipulative strategies?
I completely agree about the mirror in which flaws are doubly unattractive in same types. The mirror becomes more of a magnifying glass; hopefully not focused too long and intense like we used to do as kids burning dried leaves or even insects with sunlight.
Methinks the magnification is proportional to how much we suffer from the same flaw.
Reading your previous posts that you referred me too was sort of eerie because my British INTJ friend talks and writes VERY VERY similarly. That could've been him simply talking to me. Weird and cool at the same time!!
I know how you feel. It's experiences like that one that keep me an MBTI believer.
He also likes Ayn Rand. Lately he's taken a serious liking to the Austrian school of economics and libertarianism. Some of his ideas though seem TOO idealistic for me about "the market sorting everything out"; more so when it comes to public trust commodities like water. I can see it working for other things. However, I asked a libertarian Web site if they could name a single country that was a libertarian state and they said Somalia. That was it and that country doesn't seem like it's working too well or effectively. Of course, I do know that Western countries are f***ing with that experiment so it may not ever work. I just like to see that ideal somewhere and somehow working in a practical (Sensor) manner. Anyway...we rambling again. Sorry.
I'm with you on this one. Libertarians who think the market can sort
everything out are either ignorant or being all religious about it.
This essay pretty much sums up my Ayn Rand fanhood.