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How to distinguish between Ti analysis and Te analysis? I could be wrong but someone like Emerald seems Ti to me. And keep in mind, Ti is 3rd in the stack for an INFJ. Some will have it more developed than others.

You're a hard one to read. I initially thought you're INTP because you clearly like to soak up fine details and a lot of knowledge, but you also seem to have Ni. So IDK. I see your dilemma.

I think the differentiating mark is Fe - caring about the feelings of the tribe.

This makes me think of how I love infinite canvases, which is all about both zooming in and zooming out. I've gone deep on why I love infinite canvases and it's basically because that's the modality Ni stores things. Detail available on demand but not foregrounded.

It's the most fascinating distinction to me because I highly admire Ti, but I'm also confused by it. I also find the INFJ very interesting and don't have a lot of data on them. They share the same dominant function as me but with Fe modulating. Emerald is an example. I think because INFJ has Ti 3rd in the stack, if they develop Ti, they can be an intellectual powerhouse. I really admire Ti but just can't really operate that way myself, but I wish I could.

He'd get hung up before we could make it to question 3. lol

These are better than the AI renditions. I think we'd get along just from your color choices alone, nevermind the fearlessness. lol. As far as fearlessness goes, it's hard to beat @Yimpa. Fucking HEART!

lol. 100%. We just need it to work so we can move forward. Understanding is instrumental. If the understanding doesn't serve that, it's useless. INTPs can't stand this. And to an INTJ, not to be this way looks absurd af. 😂Like, bro, what are you doing???

The above is funny as hell if you've been tracking the functions.

And here's the INTJ: Pattern recognition Long-range thinking Strategic planning Systems thinking Future-oriented forecasting Independent thinking Internal vision / direction Efficiency and optimization Converging toward underlying principles Decisiveness once a model is formed

It's just a guess, but from what I've seen from you, you strike me as INTP, which has dominant Ti (Introverted Thinking) . The 4-letters are basically useless, and like you said, not far from astrology. Things start making sense once you learn the functions. This is what an INTP looks like most often: Internal logical consistency Analytical thinking Conceptual precision Defining and refining concepts Identifying underlying principles Detecting contradictions Deconstructing ideas Building internal logical frameworks Independent reasoning Continual refinement of understanding

The mark of a true INTP, lol.

You have to take into account selection effects, lol. There's a reason why you're here.

Thanks y'all.

Choose which is most accurate. Everyone can do all the functions. It's about homing in on which functions you call home most of the time.

There's more than one. For example: blind contempt for perceived immaturity

100%. I adapt to everyone like that in everyday life. But if I'm going out with the intention to connect with people, I'm looking for specific types, unconsciously looking for compatibility or seeing who I can pry open. This width vs depth idea seems to be one of the main things I've always unconsciously filtered for when I was seeking connection.

This is a really good distinction that I ran into in my 20s when I was going out by myself and meeting people. I never had a name for it but I could always intuit who was open to depth and who wasn't. I was always trying to get people to go deep. Not necessarily through long, deep conversation, but just relating in general, if that makes sense. Like, a simple sentence could convey depth, and how the person responds to it lets you know if they like it. When meeting new people, I like a mix of shallow surface stuff with hints of depth mixed in. Surface -> surface -> depth reveal -> back to surface -> surface -> surface -> back to the depths, but a little bit deeper -> repeat until I have them in my depths. That seemed to be the unconscious aim. If I couldn't do that with someone, I tended to look for others who I could do it with. It never occurred to me to adapt my conversation style for the shallow because that just wasn't authentic to me.

These were blue-collar guys driving diesels. They probably know more about gas prices than we do. They were told prices were going to come down when Trump got in, and then the prices went up. They are blaming Trump. I personally know people who had Hillary Clinton toilet paper and Trump coffee table coasters who, in the past year, have denounced Trump. And many of their social group has as well. These people complain about Trump TODAY when it's time to fill up the tank. I have two on-the-ground, in MAGA country, real-world instances I've witnessed personally, and I don't even get out that much around the people. If I'm just running into like this, it means the sentiment is common, and growing. The heart of MAGA is dying. And it's because of Epstein, Trump making billions since he's got in, and him posting that picture of him as Jesus. Now, these people are acting like they don't even care about politics anymore. And of course they don't, they never did. They were swept up in culture war shit and now they're ready to move on, and I don't think they're ever going to really trust Trump again.

But hell yeah, I'd be into an actual witch. It would be fun at first. Then it would turn cringe as I'm sitting there with her and she starts doing a spell. lol

If a million people make 100 prophecies, some will come true, just like a broken clock is right twice a day. Of course reality is magical. But that doesn't mean just anything goes. For me, the "magic" doesn't exist in the physical domain because I've yet to observe it and haven't seen any strong evidence that supports that. I have however witnessed magic in my own consciousness and I believe reality is consciousness. And if that's the case, it makes sense that magic would be possible in physical reality. But I've never seen it, and I've seen a lot. Just because the foundation for something exists doesn't mean anything and everything that could be built upon that foundation should be seen as plausible. Show me a witch effecting the elements and I'll change my tune real quick. Hell, this morning I experienced a bit of magic. I just popped AO open and for some reason, a business project I worked on previously popped into my mind and within the same second, the business owner sent me a text message. That's some magical shit. But I can't find any connection to physical reality, just my own mind.

Yeah, it's pretty shitty. Something about it made me stick with it though. Recently finished S1.

I live around these people and I don't think they're going to be so easily swept up into the culture war shit this go round. I think most of them just aren't going to vote anymore, and I don't see them supporting Trump like before. The dominoes have already started falling. Too many previous Trump-apologists/Trump-condoning fence-sitters (who actually comprise a lot of MAGA), are voicing their negative opinions, and that has a massive effect. It's no longer just liberals who are yelling "Trump is a piece of shit." If you were MAGA and if 30% of your in-group started shitting on Trump, that's going to have a massive impact on you. Dominoes!