I have had several. I am very happy with my decision to push for clarity.
Um... you're not beyond, what, 25 max, right?
You also, in the 1-2 years I've known you, don't seem to have been the most astute in terms of what relationships need to endure and thrive.
My intuition is that you've been happy with yourself but your partners have not been very happy at all. Most of the site you frequent hasn't been happy with your relational sense either.
Again, that's not something meant to be an attack, I'm clarifying what I've seen since it feels to me like you're laying claim to the notion that your approach has been highly productive relationally... where I have not observed that.
Type merely outlines what tendency of mind is most comfortable for us naturally. If we develop all of our functions well, we would be comfortable with them all. However, naturally, we would always be more comfortable with one than the other because we are naturally in closer affinity with one than the other. You can only transcend your type to a certain degree, if you go too far, you're just being untrue to yourself. After you have developed all of your functions, you merely have a longer leash, but it is far from the case that you completely have transcended your type, or you're EQUALLY comfortable with all functions.
I agree with that.
But I don't feel like it has much to do with my point / context of what we were discussing.
Being flexible is a good quality to have, but let me put it to you quite simply, why on Earth do you want to compromise your dearest principles? You obviously would be unhappy if you did that. As I mentioned earlier, many things you can compromise, but not this. If you compromise your dearest principles, you can compromise everything, which means you simply have no backbone.
I'm not compromising my dearest principles, nor am I suggesting that someone should.
Your idea of compromise seems very extreme in how you describe it. There's a whole element of learning how to relate to human beings that, at this time in your life, you seem to identify with "compromise" and so you refuse to do it.
I can't tell you that one day you might change your mind, but I do know that people don't change as long as they equate change = compromise. Only when change is viewed as a positive are people able to change and widen.
It is often said in INTP profiles, generally flexible and easy going, yet become very rigid when their principles are violated. This is apt as both a description of how INTPs, and how they ought to be. Introverted Thinking has a very narrow focus. In order for it to function soundly, it needs to hold on to only a few maxims, almost all others it can let go off. Bottom line is, you're simply being untrue to yourself if you're allowing for your most important maxim to be violated. Whats the good of that?
I don't think we're discussing that here.
But the bottom line is, nevermind what your type is, if you have principles which are very important to you, you ought to stand by them. In this case it is perhaps the need for logical order.
Which is why I made allowance for Owl's religious beliefs to persist.
Because I personally don't know why Owl has chosen to pursue his particular religious beliefs.
Until I know those reasons, it's not my business to tell him how he might or might not be violating his INTP nature in pursuing them, although I might have particular intuitions about it.
I'm impressed that you have a list of talking points you cling to regardless of the actual context of the discussion at hand.
But yes, Jennifer, for you I highly recommend that you keep on doing what you suggested.
Thank you, dear Bluewing. You are such a kind and considerate friend.
What good is having principles and having some kind of reasonableness and structure to your life anyways, especially that there are plenty of awesome people to get to know!
True. Principles and intelligence is just a sham and will only lead you astray, BlueWing! You need to be a social butterfly and get out there more and abandon everything that makes you you, if you wish to be whole! I cannot believe your persist in your intellectual integrity while there is so much to be gained by losing your sense of self and being absorbed into another! Praytell, I hope that you soon mend your preposterous intellectualism and expand your social circles!
Who knows what you will be missing out on if you sit in your petty little shell contemplating what does and what doesnt make sense to you!
I know! It's about time you finally admitted this and came around!
(Wow, you called me pretty. *swoon* Oh, BlueWing, say it again! Please, honeybun!)
Life is too short to waste in mere dwelling aint it!? Who cares who you are or what you think, or whether you be bothered with such mind-boggling ideas as 'having a backbone' just go out and LIVE! Dont look back! Don't think about it! Mature up! Be flexible, just trust the FEEL!
I don't know what makes me smile more -- your ability to argue a point without actually dealing with the argument that was made, your ability to misrepresent another person's argument, or your ability to drop into ridiculous sarcasm that again fails to make the point you were trying to make.
Or maybe it's just one large game, since apparently the OP was too boring to provide tangible answers for and this game is much more fun, yes?
In any case, let's get back to Owl's topic, shall we? Thanks.