I have to know what you are like 20 years from now.
Actually, I grow concerned with the answer to that question. Tater's unbridled explorations sometimes delve into interesting places and still, even for that, I don't feel he is "in" his true authentic self. Sometimes it's good to forget the "N" for a while - embrace the "S". Go to the park. Paint a fence. Let the mind soak into that activity.
Tater is still trying on different clothes to see which feel "right" I suppose.
What I am seeing here is that you perceive yourself as a collective. You may want to have that checked. Once you stop doing that, we'll be on the same page. :hi:
And Tater, we are not the Borg. Even though resistance may be futile.
:hi: LOL. You've always seemed like a total INFP to me. It's those artistic little doodles and pictures your aways making.
OMG this is clearly an emotive response, and as such it can only be treated as Fi! See how he emphasizes his own activity, trying to find meaning and personal authenticity ? Obviously INFP.
Jag, I personally welcome you to the INFP stronghold. I shall change my type now to MEEE.
Bite me, Hitler.
I shall be a hell-raising enneagram 8 INFP. Has it ever been done? If not, I'm there. Screw convention.
I am a peace-making hell-raiser myself. Again, welcome to the club!
I used to feel the same way; I was aghast and affronted that someone would frequent a typology forum and not post their type! It's going in the other direction, it's anti-learning, it's setting bad examples!
But why do you think most of the people who post something other than their type have typically been here a long time >6 months, or else have experience being judged by their type already when they come here (infps)?
I agree; I wear my INFP badge with pride. Yet, I only list my type off and on. I do find that people use it
inappropriately as a data point, or rank it as qualitatively more important than what I say - and instead of listening to what I say, they look at my type and extrapolate from that rather than the other way around. Still, even when I don't list my type, you do have a data point for reference, just not the one you "want" Highlander.
I just remind myself that most people never even bother to read and reflect before responding anyway.
Exactly. To me, it almost tells you more about someone to see MILF as their type instead of their type. I mean would Jaguar be the same if you saw ENTJ under his avatar? He's totally WILD or BITE.
Just as an avatar can give you a different perspective than someone's pic. A pic is more representative of exactly how a person looks, but is that really important? A false acronym is just another way for someone to express him/herself. Why is that frustrating, I wonder? It just makes me more curious most of the time.
Good point aphrodite.
Highlander:
COOL
Be cool, don't worry if the letters aren't listed. You don't like it because you lose that data point; instead just read what people write instead of needing to categorize it by type all the time.
Personally I don't come here to be an experiment where you all push buttons to see what reaction is elicited.
I think we should live up to the thread title!
That made me laugh.
I do agree with the OP though, there has been much less of interest to me lately, and not much about typology, and I'm not sure why.
Maybe the honeymoon is over.
Then, occasionally, I still see a discussion that piques my interest; I think the waxing and waning of participation is simply this way.
I guess I'm more interested in practical application of the theory - how it applies in daily life in interactions between people.
Me too, but here, here on the forum - being reduced to some derivative stereotype of the type is asinine.
It is annoying to lead a cogent discussion and have someone say "all you INFPs are emo anyway, don't try to tell me otherwise" or alternatively, rep me that I must be an INFJ (presumably because I am insightful or "care" about others).
I am so much more that those 4 letters (of course)! And yet, those 4 letters, when I discovered them - they answered questions I didn't understand without them. It's a great paradox.
David Keirsey's little narrative at the beginning of "Please Understand Me II" is a good place to start.
It is a nice little poem.
