never said I was confrontational (I'm not).
There you go then.
I said I'm more comfortable with it when it comes to me.
I wouldn't expect anything less of someone with an 8 wing.
the reason I seem calm in the face of conflict is because few people are enough of a problem to warrant a large use of energy. if you saw me back in high school, I was combative as hell and had several people wanting to kill me.
Well, I haven't seen you back in high school. This is all from my view. No one knows yourself better than you do, this is why I'm not trying to persuade you to change type. I'm just justifying my viewpoint.
Why were you combative in the first place would be a question worth asking though.
no, it isn't. symptoms provide data. data can be used to draw deductive conclusions
Of course data can be helpful, but if the fears don't match up with what you conclude something must be off.
Se likes to interact with physical reality; Ne likes to interact with ideas.
I don't see what this has to do with practicality. Ne can have practical ideas just as much as Se can have impractical ideas about what it sees.
I remember you typed Light Yagami as INTJ and Misa Amane as ESFP. Light is an N, Misa is an S. But surely Light was way more practical than Misa. But I think it's because their primary judgment functions (T vs F) covered for more of the difference. Light made decisions based on strategy and efficiency while Misa made her decisions based more on her whims, impulses, etc. Misa's actions seemed a lot more governed by what was going on in her head than Light.
Also, I don't think Perception
interacts with anything at all. It just takes in information. What's decided to interact with seems more like a Judgment than a Perception.
I thought you just said looking at the "symptoms" was meaningless
Well you were giving me symptoms, so I provided my own counterexamples.
well, you're also more mentally healthy than me. I've been a bit depressed for quite some time (even though it's not something I like to talk about a lot) and have a more jaded worldview than you do (though that's not saying a lot. most people would lol).
Well, I'll concede that I'm probably more healthy and that comparing a healthy person to an unhealthy person won't yield much results. You got me there. But also I've never really seen
that many opportunist qualities in you when you've talked about your past. I can recall a bunch of really weird and funny things, but not anything where you jumped into something for the sake of experience that'll somehow make you feel more fulfilled.
But maybe I just have to dig into your past more.
I'm Id in a more introverted sort of way (which, to play devil's advocate for a second, is within the range of 9, though not exclusively)
Agreed with both parts of the bold statement.