A recent observation: I really hate phones. Whenever our house phone rings it makes me groan, though we have caller ID so I can ignore most ones that are just wasting my time, but I hate talking on them in general. The one exception to this seems to be when I'm talking with my girlfriend, who I've chatted for hours, which we all took as a sign that ( Read more... )

A quick question for the masterminds: is it right to automatically dismiss anything 'incriminating' (cruel, ignorant, hateful, etc) that people say when they're angry? Are we to just forget it because they said it when their emotions were flying around, or is there some glimmer of truth to those words ( Read more... )

Not sure if anyone has come across Typealyzer, but the website seems to be making its rounds in the blogosphere. The concept is simple: input a URL and the engine will "guess which personality type the text represents."

I did a test on a couple of sites at which I write, and each site got a different, non-NT result. As a further experiment, I ran ( Read more... )

The recent post on taking compliments got me wondering about compliments within the context of a relationship specifically. Does anyone have trouble accepting it if their partner tells them they're amazing, beautiful, smart, sexy et cetera? How about giving those kinds of compliments to a partner--Is this hard to do, even if you do in fact think ( Read more... )

Does anyone experience "So how did you like it" on par with "How are you"?  In that, it's a question nobody ever really wants to hear the answer to?

We just got back from seeing the Dark Knight.  At the end, Partner asked what I thought.  I told him.  Then came the very familiar, "Can't you just enjoy the movie for what it is?"  And why do I have to ( Read more... )

Am I on the right track in thinking that, for the most part, INTJs find instances political correctness silly, if not irritating ( Read more... )

Who here has been described as Deadpan in terms of how they present themselves ( Read more... )

So, what is it about most people that drives you crazy the mostIs it bad English, like the above sentence, or something else ( Read more... )

It seems like people like to say INTJs "always think they're right." I'm not so sure about that, myself. It's not as if I baselessly assume I'm right because I'm absolutely awesome or anything like that; it's just that, before taking any opinion on any subject, I research it as thoroughly as I can and only then decide what I think about it. I pick ( Read more... )

People always want reasons for advice and suggestions. I have found this to be pretty much a request for polite and intelligent beating-around-the-bush, as my reasoning is way too complex for me to put into words, and most often way too long-winded for most people to care for, anyway. Even more so when the other person (usually) is actually waiting ( Read more... )