Yeah apparently facts and reality mean nothing to you.
Especially as it pertains to happiness, yes. Can you logically be happy?
Sure, different people have different ideas of happiness, but there's clearly a big difference between the kind of real contentment, satisfaction, and health that lasts...and the kind of misery that could result from excessive abuse of street drugs,
You keep on changing your perspective. The word to use would have been "happiness". If you would have used the word "happiness", I would have replied "How can you objectively prove that?" the answer to which is "You can't". But since you compare "happiness" to "misery" you expose your bias.
You may understand theoretical thinking in general, but no, you don't understand personality theory if you think your personality changes with how you feel or want to be that day.
I'll always remember Edgar's example in one thread of the DVD player...it plays different movies, but it's always going to be a DVD player. It's not going to magically turn into a toaster one morning.
My personality
according to the MBTI changes based on how I want to interpret myself at that particular point in time. Personality, probably more than anything, is so subjective that believing with any certainty that you are "in fact" one type is almost insane. Theoretically speaking two people could be the same in every aspect of their being and if they both perceive themselves as being different from one another, they would necessarily classify themselves as different, despite being the same. How, then, can a person believe he is intp when he could quite easily be infp, unbeknownst to him?
Under your analogy, if my personality is a dvd player, mbti is nothing but a movie. I can choose to play different scenes (intp, infp etc etc) in this movie, or I can choose to pop in a different movie altogether (zodiac, enneagram etc etc). The real question isn't so much "what movie am I watching?" as opposed to "which movie shall I watch now?" (or, and this one I have no answer to, "What happens when I choose to not watch anything?")
I was declaring you to absolutely not be an INTP.
As someone who is an FP myself, I'm not sure why you thought I meant it in a bad way. You're definitely Fi, not Ti.
My infp side agrees with you..my intp side thinks both of us are idiots...nothing new...
My dvd player doesn't think we disagree on too much. Essentially we are doing the same thing; playing movies. However I'm like bluray, and you're more HDDVD. (lol)
Just joking, of course...or not?