zago: That all sounds pretty INFP to me. I'm not joking. I'll spare us both the pain of a detailed analysis.
You just watch your step, winged pinball, or I'll do a detailed writeup on the both of you!It seems highly likely that if zago said he avoided conflict and did not care for truth or logic, you'd use that as evidence he was an INFP.
You just watch your step, winged pinball, or I'll do a detailed writeup on the both of you!
statistically, you are the most extroverted person on this entire forum.
This kind of justification is like that of the INFP, as is the intense effort taken to "prove" a preference for Thinking.I know I am not an INFP because...
So you're driven by your emotional core moreso than the average INTP, who would eventually realize the futility of such argument with your intimate counterparts.1. I like arguing and conflict to the point where I can't have an intimate relationship without it.
Though I wouldn't say this is an argument against your being INFP, necessarily. Five minutes at INTPc makes me ill. I just don't care for single-type oriented boards anymore.I routinely get into nasty conflicts with people at INTPc, in fact I seem to be one of the more aggressive Ts there. Speaking of which, 5 minutes at INFPgc makes me wanna barf.
Is this type related?Agreeing with people bores me to the point of insecurity. If I agree with someone I feel absolutely no connection to them--I just feel like there is nothing to talk about.
Why so long? INFPs do use logic, you know, but it seems to require a little more effort to apply.2. I spent the vast majority of my life trying to reason myself to a philosophical endpoint. This was all about logic.
I've never had one of those. Understanding hasn't been a problem, though I have had other problems of course.It was not one iota about gut feelings or love or anything. The 22nd year of my life was like one big existential crisis. I simply refused to resolve it with anything other than logic and the pursuit of truth.
How do you know he wasn't playing soft with you as well? To an outside observer you might have looked similar. The last sentence is unusual for an INTP. I have a good INFP friend, and we talk politics and philosophy. I never hesitate to state my opinion, but I don't make a specific effort to be cruel either.3. I had an INFP roommate for 4 years, and the difference between him and I was obvious. In a very similar way, we were both spiritual seekers, but his approach dealt more with what I mentioned above--feelings, love, etc. He has recently strayed over toward Christianity. I was the more vocal and analytical of the 2 of us about it. I would constantly find myself facing paradoxes and fighting tooth and nail to resolve them logically. Whenever we talked about our very similar struggle, though, I felt that it never went anywhere because he always agreed with everything I said, and I felt like I would be insulting him if I disagreed with what he said.
No comment!ALSO, and Jack's going to hate this, it was easy to tell the difference between my inferior Fe and his inferior Te.
I think this could be the attitude of either type. I had an INFP roommate for a few years a long time ago, and a lot of this could apply to either of us, or the ENTP roommate.The telltale signs were blatantly obvious. I got into major conflict with each and every roommate of mine on occasion, but the INFP did not. Rather, he simply could not fulfill his duties as a roommate. No matter how much we hinted, he never cleaned up after himself, never did anything unless he was told--at which point he'd do it. If I had been told, and sometimes I was, I would react violently. It insulted me to realize that people thought they needed to tell me what to do, and I made sure they knew there was conflict.
You know, I never said you were definitively INFP, even in my mind. Only that you seem like it.I'm a textbook INTP. If you doubt that, you need to reassess your personality-typing abilities.