Mort Belfry
Rats off to ya!
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2008
- Messages
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
... One thing that sucks is when someone is hurting but I can't give them the sympathy they want. I can try to fake it but it really sounds fake, like there's no heart in it even if all the words are modeled correctly.
Sympathy is hard, but one thing I tend to do is get angry on behalf of them. I don't know if this T, I've read somewhere the anger can be the easiest emotion for an INTP, or if this shows a slight F in my system, but when somebody puts down a friend or family member I typically react by saying something like:
"What the *expletive* do they know? It's their fault in the first for *analysis of situation* you should have said, *clever reversal of what the person said to them* Don't worry about them, who cares what they think anyway?"
But any sympathy that can't involve anger I'm completely inept at displaying.
1) What goes on in your mind when you're thinking? How would you describe it?
If I'm thinking about people, then I generally thinking mean things about them. If I'm sitting on a bus or something, I tend to play "fun ways of killing everyone" in my head. I tend to think about myself a lot, usually in quite flattering terms. Otherwise my mind is running through whatever fad I'm in at the time. At the moment it's MBTI, and I think about how to apply it to everything. It can get really tedious.
2) How much does logics weight in on your decisions and how much does feelings come into play?
To be honest I can't think about many decisions I make on regular basis. It's usually something as mundane as what day should I go grocery shopping this week. It's usually with logic, but I can't see how you could do it with anything else. Of course that could be the imposing force of a dominant function.
How do you determine whether you've over-thinked?
When I bored with the logic and rants that run continously through my head. It usually means it's time to go out and talk to someone. Of course this could just be a case of determining when I'm over-introverting.
3) How easily can you go through the steps you've taken to arrive at a conclusion? Is it automatic? Or does it involve some translation to get it into a form understandable by others?
Pretty fast. I enjoy doing logic puzzles because you make strong decisions almost straight away.
4) Anything else you feel like sharing.
I have an ice cream.