11-21-04:

Introvert, Intuitive, Thinker, Perceiver

What does this mean? It means that I, along with less than 1% of the rest of the population, have these characteristics:

INTPs detest facades and particulary dislike people who exhibit them.

Equally, those kind of people also dislike INTPs and avoid them at all cost, for they know that the INTP will see right through them.

With an INTP it is either all or nothing. Half-efforts he dislikes just as much as he dislikes the restrictions of teamwork and co-operation.

Humour is another aspect which marks out the INTP. He can readily dream up jokes about almost any situation. Taking things out of context is the chief source of humour and many an INTP is a Monty Pythonite.

If you see someone smirking and laughing at some private thought, without any obvious reason, he's probably an INTP.

The preference for intuitive perception means that INTPs dislike having their lives planned.

Favourite topics of discussion are science and science-fiction, music, computers and any abstract concept with which one is currently fascinated by.

He believes emotions to be of a lesser substance than logic and his natural goal would be to conquer his emotions with pure rationality.

If an INTP is pushed into doing something he will automatically resist.

The opinions of others are rarely given much weight in themselves.

INTPs detest irrational emotion above all things.

Reading through this stuff was scary - like somebody had investigated me and just figured out my whole life. Really it was stupid to take this test and read through the personality profile - just a bunch of stuff I already knew. In summary the main things I think that define me are: I don't care what other people think or believe - it has no bearing on my thoughts or beliefs. Rules are stupid - people should just know better. I hate, HATE, fake people. If something isn't interesting don't expect me to care. God? Facts and truth are God.

On a related note, some guy in Red Square approached me and asked me if I ever wonder why the human race exists and how God plays into the picture. To which I replied, the human race is here by chance and there isn't really any God involved. No God? "Well could you please read this pamphlet, I think it could help you understand." "No, I understand just fine, have a nice day, bye."

Now the really funny/evil part. Some website had listed viable career options for INTP personalities. At number 1 on the list was computer software designer. Jesus H. Christ. Heh, and I was bitching so much about CSE last time. Now maybe I just hate CSE because of the regimented/force-fed approach. I am, afterall, taking that class merely because it's a prereq. By and large, as I see it, prereq's=irrelevant. On the list, however, was investigator. (FBI!!)

Ok, ok, so maybe this personality type thing is just a load of BS? Something comparable to horoscopes - generalizations that most anybody could see themselves fitting into? Of course I'd second guess this, it just so happens that INTP's always second guess.

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