[Zulban]

I am loving this new trend. I was going to get you guys started but I can't really imagine what you will say. Take this as monumental pride, or creative retardation on my part.

[Trope]

It's creative retardation on your part.

edit:

Fine. I'll crack, but it's more a list of mild nuisances.

A great many INTPs are intellectual blowhards. They piss and moan about how difficult their lot in life is and refuse to do anything about it because it would get in the way of building castles in the sky and armchair theorizing. Plus, they're incapable of asking for help because they're so "independent" that it seldom, if ever, occurs to them as a possibility unless someone else (helpfully) points it out first.

Then we've got the kneejerk grammar/spelling nazism burned into our brains. It can't be helped, but it's still a pain in the ass.

We're damn fickle in our interests too.

[Shai Gar]

INTPs are beautiful people. Impossible to find though. Except online.

[Happy]

Don't take this personally but...



haha. Not saying you guys are like this but I think it represents your "culture" Other than that, I can't find anything wrong. I wish I was INTP.

[starri]

in the world of chuck palahniuk : Give me rampant intelectualism as a means of coping.

[cryptonia]

I like how this thread basically got ignored . I'm a bit disappointed because I wanted to see more of what people had to say, but on the other hand it made me smile because it's so characteristic of our type to get the "meh" reaction and slide into the background.

[Trope]

I think it was more of a timing issue. The forumites had already shifted their attentions reactionarily toward a veritable lovefest.

[snail]

I'd be afraid to be honest here because I know my feelings are inappropriate. I'm trying to overcome the bias, not dwell on my reasons for it.

[Trope]

Go for it anyway.

It's more difficult to seek the best in ourselves if we can't objectively grasp what may be the worst.

[snail]

Uh... okay, if you insist. I don't like how tactless they can be. I don't like how their desire not to be censored can make them cruel and emotionally dangerous. They care more about being free to act like jerks than about being sensitive to the needs of others. INTPs are tied with the ESTJs for the type that has caused me the most pain. We clash. Hard.

They tend to succumb easily to intellectual arrogance and are impossible to argue with because they are frequently dismissive and closed-minded, accepting only certain kinds of information as valid regardless of the nature of the topic. This wouldn't be quite so problematic if they didn't like to argue so much. It seems to be something they do for fun, just to practice getting their minds into every little crevice of an idea.

They are much too detail oriented, focusing on specifics when the general concept is actually more important, and will spend more time picking at and criticizing any imperfect details in an example or analogy than trying to understand the overall meaning of the broader expression. This leads to many arguments on linguistics that never get past the point of trying to define terms in a tedious, meticulous way, even if the original point being argued had nothing to do with how words are used and was supposed to be about something more interesting and important.

They are impossible to satisfy. No matter what a person does right, or how brilliant an idea is, there will always be criticism for not doing better or taking it to the next step. There is no way for an INFP to please an INTP in order to achieve a feeling of security in the social relationship. There will always be a nagging feeling that nothing will ever be good enough and that all efforts are completely wasted. This means that eventually I will give up trying to please an INTP, and instead of breaking myself to pieces struggling for approval, I eventually learn to just avoid the person. With an INTP, I never end up with a sufficient level of security to feel safe being open and intimate about ideas and feelings, so any conversation is pointless. I need to feel safe in order to talk about my more complex ideas, and if I know that something I find interesting enough to share or speculate about will be cut apart with a scalpel, I would rather keep it to myself. I always end up feeling guarded with INTPs, even the ones I like. I don't know if I will ever be able to trust one not to hurt me, even if they don't always do it on purpose.