Zarathustra
Let Go Of Your Team
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I think the problem you're running into is you're trying to break processes down into places they can't go. They're inadequate to cover this. They don't stretch that far. It's not being resistant to categorizing functions, it's about understanding they have reached the end of their rope and outlived their usefulness. It's like a woman trying to put her ass into jeans that will not fit. Give it up, it's not happening! Once things are this granular (trust, love, intimacy, feeling understood, etc.) the distinctions are lost.
I agree with most of what you said, Protean, but I still think one needs to have these discussions to figure out how far the functions really do stretch...
I mean, isn't that largely the point of this forum? Discovery via discussion?
As I said before, I haven't read much before post #140, and until these last few pages, I'd just skimmed the couple pages that occurred since I left this thread yesterday, but, based on what I gleaned (and I may be wrong), it seems like people were trying to draw a connection between being trusting and Fi and not being trusting and Fe.
For the record, we all know how low Fe is on my list of functional preferences, and Fi is pretty much #2-3 for me, but I sure as shit ain't a trusting person.
I read people and give them the trust I believe they deserve, but my default position certainly doesn't start at "trust".
Moreso the opposite, really.