There are some things you can't see when you are right in the thick of all the hustle and bustle(that goes out to you, ENTPs
).
Just like an INTP to hide the dig in a whole bustle of words to poke an ENTP.
I swear, they get a perverse glee out of taking a dig at an ENTP, just to watch us flounce and blubber.
Only an ENTP would be demented or ballsy enough to flounce on into an INTP appreciation thread and deign to bombard us with this sort of inane claptrap.
*clap clap clap*
Do another trick! I want to see the monkey do another trick!
*clap clap clap*
See. Case in point.
But frequently they're so obvious about it, and they're so disappointed if you don't walk into their traps, that you do it anyway just to see them smile.
D I mean, c'mon guys, there's so little joy in their lives. I've never met a type harder on themselves than an INTP. )
So that's the first thing I like about INTPs.
They're straightforward. Guileless if you wish, while they mosey along their Ti lines? Usually they don't realise the reaction from other people till it hits them like a safe from 50 feet.
And then, they'll look up and go
but *meh* "why?
The safe shouldn't be here, and more importantly, how'd it drop from 50 feet out of nowhere."
While you're practically bouncing on their heads that "that's not the point!". To which they'd go, "why are you reacting like that, think!"
They like to think they can be manipulative and be all political and gamester, but I've found that this is only in their minds. IRL they're easier to read vs all the other types. So that's the thing I like most about INTPs. WYSIWYG. You could always count on one to be brutally honest. I'd trust one as long as I knew what it
was thinking.
When the INTP nation is formed, you guys had better make me ambassador general. It appears to be your only hope.
It won't form. They'd firstly doubt the possibility of it, then they'd doubt they could do it, then they'd doubt their leaders, and they'd doubt themselves as followers. It'd probably last as long as a breatharian?
edit - and I don't flounce!!
But. I do.
They've a wry sense of humour. They won't go weepy-drippy on you. You can e.g. have a dry conversation on the best way to cook and eat a baby and wonder what it tastes like, without having moralists who miss the joke stamping in horror on it.
They've frequently a good vocab that I do not have to stop to explain what my words meant. I may have to explain what I meant though.
They're loyal. Despite all their self-doubts, once they trust you, they're loyal and will prod you when they think you need it.
They've nice flashes of whimsy.
They may not say they love you, but I think they do.
To paraphrase Lilo and Stitch, "(INTPs) are little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good."
