Mal12345
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- Apr 19, 2011
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- MBTI Type
- IxTP
- Enneagram
- 5w4
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
I have developed quite strong Fe and learned to regulate it with my Si reasonably well.
This whole developing functions coming with age, thats not the case with alot of people and doesent happen automatically.
That INTPs continuing their quest for logical purity is also false stereotype, only those who fail to develope their inferior and are one sidedly developed do that, properly developed turn more Fe kind of people. My Extreme activities and art stuff(that you link with Si) i started when i was 10-15(have lost my interest on extreme sports years ago already) and my cannabis breeding times were like 5 years ago..
And you are in your thirties wtf, i thought you were under 20
Older (and wiser) than thirties. Of course you had to end with a slam, I guess.
I linked traditionalism, not extreme sports, with Si in a post above here. I was telling Saturned that if she has inferior Si then that just means she's a non-traditionalist. The ISFP and ISTP, who are Se auxiliaries, like that kind of excitement, not necessarily extreme sports. And I know an INTJ who was into extreme mountain-climbing.
The word "stereotyping" is stupid and needs to stay in the PC realm. All typology is concerned with pure types. The description of the INTP in LifeTypes is not going to include the mixed bag that we all are. The behavior of functions in psychology is an ideal, not necessarily real.
However, I don't share your contempt for functions tests. Most people who take one already know their type. And the results I have seen more or less reflect what function theory predicts. I would not throw out a result because it does NOT justify function theory, which is all you are doing. That is a circular logical fallacy which seeks only to justify the conclusion that function theory comes from God Himself in the person of Carl Jung.
I went through my "religious" dogmatic period 25 years ago, and eventually you'll get over yours too.
So far in function test results that I've seen, the function that is supposedly the Inferior ends up at the bottom of the results, or second from it. Since I've seen a great number of results posted over time, I find there is great predictive power in that and I wouldn't ignore it. But if there is an anomalous result, as when an INTJ arrives at Ti as the highest result, then this is worth looking into and is not a result to contemptuously throw in the recycle bin.
But as always there are caveats with any test that are worth looking out for. For example,
http://wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Common_biases_in_socionics