Is ILX run by NFs?

Boxcubed is your real first name 'Nurse' or something?

you know, i love yer song "novocaine for the soul," E ... ahem, Ned.

I still consider astrology "valid," as did, heh Mr. Jung hisself

'"Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best... ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport... ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential.'

That's a troll's charter, not a personality analysis! Frighteningly accurate, and somewhat chastening.

I: 44
N: 33
F: 11
P: 33

On the corollary my love life is *DOOMED* as I have the apparent tendency to strain my relationships by reading too much into my loved ones' behavior, by over-interpreting the hidden meanings in their words, and by overstating my own romantic views as apocalyptic revelations. Me? Hmm...

i'm the only s so far!

the description is quite good i reckon, even if it does say i'm a brainless 'hipster':

Extraverted Sensing
ISFPs keep a finger on the pulse of here and now. They are more adept at doing than considering, at acting than reflecting, at tasting than wondering. As do most SPs, ISFPs keenly sense color, sound, texture, and movement. It is not unusual for ISFPs to excel in sensory, motor, or kinesthetic abilities.
ISFPs cherish their impulses. Some of the most beautiful, graceful, and artistic performances are the result of this drive for physical, sensate expression.

The S.U.Z.Y'S TRADEMARK: -- "I'm really sorry you have to die."

When challenged, the S.U.Z.Y. may by reflex become argumentative. Alternatively (s)he may unleash an icy gaze that serves notice: the S.U.Z.Y. is not one to be trifled with.'

You wanna play hardball, bucko?

that describes afflicted Aquarians too! sorry, i should write a book or something, but i can't afford coffee right now

Until the fascination stops, and they go on to the Next Novelty. The coldness the ex-Novelty can feel is indescribable, from an afflicted Aquarian who has decided that you are not as interesting as his or her latest find/study. They may just as well forget about you, and many do, based on how abstract and aloof and absent-minded they are!! (Triple A syndrome). The amount of genuine emotional involvement that the afflicted Aquarian experiences outside of family is usually nil - you (especially if you are a fire or water sign) are lying there, crushed on the floor, tears streaming, wondering what is wrong with you, whereas the Aquarian's classic response is "oh dear, you're being so very unreasonable," or "you are so melodramatic." Typically, Aquarians have many friends but prefer not one-on-one close/deep emotional intimacy, but impersonal interaction with as many people that they can meet. That's just the way they're built, but that doesn't excuse them from reprehensible conduct in relationships, and hypocrisy in terms of living up to some grand societal Ideal, whilst ignoring the Person right in front of you (whom you are causing suffering towards). They don't view all of this as a fault, though; emotions are pesty little things which drag us down (even though when they do get emotional they go nuts), intellectual pursuits are far more preferable. You don't Change the World through emotions, that would be quite "impractical." Aquarians with healthy charts, however, can be very loyal and steadfast friends, but still need an amount of space which might seem inordinate to other, more emotional signs.

It was funny, but I used to talk to this Aquarian kid online as we shared an interest in the Tarot. He would IM me eveyday, he was wild. Then all of a sudden, the contact on his end stopped. When I would try to talk to him, he was pretty aloof. Having enough Gemini in me myself, I gathered that he just got bored, and didn't take it personally. Air signs are like children, really, in their need for stimulation...they're guilty and innocent at the same time

and hey, it's not wrong to be posty around here, despite how ilx is slowly creeping towards AIM-land, right?

I'm not able to read long posts unless I'm at home and have time to concentrate. During the day I can just dip in and out. ILE can be stimulating if there is involved discussion just as it can be when people are shooting from the cuff.

I can't believe that Mark posted Paradise Lost: Book 1. Was he illustrating a point that he was having particular trouble explaining in his own words?!

" the Person right in front of you" - was meant to say, the Person right in front of THEM.

You'll have to ask Mark that ?

JBR - give me the degrees, since that is using the Tropical (western) Zodiac!! What DEGREE is your sun in Sag, moon in Aries, and especially, Asc in Cancer ?? Actually you could give me all of the degrees, just cut-paste all of the numbers, and maybe sometime I can email you a less automated, more uh, personal and peronally specific reading. That stuff is vry general too, in Western terms.

I love how the pedantic-ness of my post has increased inconceivably over the last 3 days

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Cancer 03°54'33
2nd House Cancer 23°39'00
3rd House Leo 14°48'19
Imum Coeli Virgo 10°53'52
5th House Libra 15°19'43
6th House Scorpio 26°26'12
Descendant Capricorn 03°54'33
8th House Capricorn 23°39'00
9th House Aquarius 14°48'19
Medium Coeli Pisces 10°53'52
11th House Aries 15°19'43
12th House Taurus 26°26'12

Major aspects
Sun Trine Moon 2°52
Sun Conjunction Mars 1°44
Sun Trine Saturn 7°59
Sun Conjunction Neptune 4°37
Sun Sextile Pluto 4°41
Moon Trine Mars 1°08
Moon Trine Neptune 7°29
Moon Opposition Pluto 7°33
Moon Square Ascendant 2°07
Mercury Quincunx Jupiter 2°37
Mercury Trine Saturn 4°58
Venus Trine Jupiter 4°37
Venus Quincunx Saturn 2°57
Saturn Trine Neptune 3°22
Saturn Sextile Pluto 3°18
Uranus Trine Ascendant 5°28
Neptune Sextile Pluto 0°04

i think a perceptive dick is still a dick

ENTJ
Extroverted 22%, Intuitive 75%, Thinking 12%, Judging 22%

wait wait wait so this means that i'm not judgemental?

IN YOUR FACE NOODLE VAGUE & GRIMLY FIENDISH maddy's parents are bad people.

heh maybe it just means i have no judgement

So if I got ENTJ but only 1% J then maybe I am still ENFP after all? This is v confusing. All these years I thought I was one thing and it turns out I may be another. Why you confuse brain stupid test?

INTJ
Introverted 67% Intuitive 25% Thinking 38% Judging 22%

We need 16 new boards, one for each of the personality types.

Erica, I thought you were "ENBB", not "ENTJ"?

Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Bored?

my result just said BALLA

ENTP as usual. Numbers are weird this time, tho: 1%, 100%, 1%, 11%.

Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Bored?

Not so bored right now. Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Broad, maybe although not so sure about the ballsy part.

Sorry, that was just a wild guess. Though I don't think "broad" is a descriptive word for personality.

So if I got ENTJ but only 1% J then maybe I am still ENFP after all? This is v confusing. All these years I thought I was one thing and it turns out I may be another. Why you confuse brain stupid test?

The test linked to above is hella problematic, and the questions are definitely leading. I retook and came up INFJ for the first time ever. Which is not terribly surprising, as I have a job which pretty much requires me to be way more J than I'm usually comfortable with. But I think the gist of MB is that the more you kind of straddle the bifurcating categories, the better. Like, if you're super I, you should strive towards becoming somewhat more E, if that makes sense? In a 'strive to become a whole and ideal person' sense.

Another way I've heard it described, and which makes a lot of sense to me, is that one end of the continuum (and it probably is better to think of each category as a continuum rather than as a dichotomy) gives you energy and the other takes it away. I get energy from solitude, and being around people too long is somewhat exhausting to me. That helps me reconcile the fact that I'm an 'I' with the fact that I don't think I'm necessarily an introvert per se, since I'm perfectly fine with people in the short term and can do stuff like improv with no problem.

so having nothing higher than 44% just means that i'm bland, essentially.

you're being too judgmental!

so having nothing higher than 44% just means that i'm bland, essentially.

No, it means you're a paragon of psychological health, dude! Or something.

Seriously, I came up 100% introverted on this latest runthrough of the test. I know I'm not that bad, but I still acknowledge it as a problem. I'd rather be closer to 50%.

ENTJ
11-12-25-22

so evenhanded and chill I'm practically in a coma

INTJ 22,12,12,33. I am evidently a judgmental a*hole. Not really a surprise to me and certainly not to my co-workers. At least I can intuit that they know I don't like them, fat b*st*rds. Need a higher T score to think about how to get them to learn from the nutrition-nazi thread, and a lower I in order to care enough to make them.

I finally quit lying to myself and came out ESTP. You know, the auto mechanic personality. Insensitive....well maybe. I'm getting too old to feel bad about that.

it feels good to come clean about that sorta thing, doesn't it. i tested ENFP last time i took it, low e high n. still convinced this is like a multiple-choice test astrology.

I think I'm slowly turning into an E and it's freaking me out a little. I'm used to being okay on my own, so thirsting for company and feeling legit bereft when I haven't been around my people for a couple of days is taking some getting used to.

2 years ago:

ENTP
Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(12%) iNtuitive Thinking(38%) Perceiving(22)%

You have slight preference of Extraversion over Introversion (22%)
You have slight preference of Intuition over Sensing (12%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (22%)

two minutes ago

ENTP
Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(12%) iNtuitive Thinking(38%) Perceiving(22)%

You have slight preference of Extraversion over Introversion (22%)
You have slight preference of Intuition over Sensing (12%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (22%)

hmm i've almost certainly c'd pver my own c&p there haven't i

ENTP
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 38 44

result from 2 years ago

getting less perceptive, huh well i coulda told you that

i've tested as INFP and INTJ. i think INTJ describes me better.

i still can't read that as anything but the journalist's union

Yeah, I'd wager ILX is more NT-centric. I think us hippie NFs are much more prone to butthurtness than your average ILXor.

p sure that ilxors have exhibited sensitive posteriors many many times over the years

Was reading a thing not long ago indicating Myers-Briggs types are about as scientifically sound and reliable as astrology

Eh, that's kind of a lazy comparison. I wouldn't trumpet M-B as some paragon of scientifically-sound personality metrics, but it's based on actual questions that people answer so it has a little more weight than assessing personality based on what position the planets are in. It's a method of classification that, for me, helps me to understand some of the different reasons why some people interface smoothly and others butt heads. It facilitates a perspective that I think has utility, scientific merit be damned.

utility is scientific merit

M-B probably has much more appeal to particular M-B types than it does to others, is another thing to consider, as well.

To me, it's interesting bullshit, but then again I don't know why I waste my time with such idiot fluff! Myers-Briggs helped many workplaces understand workplace dynamics. I mean, it helped me at work because I am just not an "F" or a sensitive "N" and my co-workers need to understand that!

It's still better than those idiot personality tests on Facebook!

Yeah, I mean, if you have some codified method of understanding the way in which another person views and processes and interacts with the world, that's a starting point for bridging communicative gaps and learning to understand people who seem otherwise almost impossibly different than yourself. I understand why you'd write it off if you're not interested in that stuff, but it definitely has utility for those who are.

INFP for life

I think Myers-Briggs does reasonably well measuring the four traits it tests for. The only thing i find a fallacy is the notion some have that those are the only four important measures of personality type. Nobody I know with the same MBTI result as me (ENFJ) is anything like me.

For what it's worth, I last tested as - extroverted: 100% - intuitive: 50% - feeling: 38% - judging - 11%

^ was surprised when i pegged the meter on extraversion.... I definitely think like an extravert, but don't always act like one

i took this test last night for the first time and got Introvert(11%) iNtuitive(81%) iNtuitive Feeling(12%) Perceiving(11)%

i don't know what it means tho, or whether it aligns w/ how i think of myself

I can't remember if it's just alternative tests or if there's an actual variant of M-B, but I've done a workplace seminar where it was a handful of coworkers/friends who filled out surveys rather than me. M-B highly dependent on people having a good perception of how they actually interact, as opposed to how it appears to a third party.

The other thing about MB is people treat it as a thing you are, rather than a tendency you prefer. It's not an absolute like height -- it's a tendency, same as "being a grumpy bastard" doesn't mean you never smile or laugh.

Which is probably why I got INTP when I tested myself late last night, despite generally being a solid ENTP.

those are both what you'd rank yourself as, at least

^_^

accuracy of answers notwithstanding

Your Type
ENFP
Extravert(67%) iNtuitive(88%) Feeling(38%) Perceiving(22%)

Still the same basic type as 3 and 9 years ago, but according to the test I've become more extroverted and intuitive, and somewhat less feeling.

I don't really think I've become more extroverted though, I'm pretty sure I was a bigger extrovert when I was 24 than now at 33.

I was ENFP when I did the test in 2006. I'd like to try again. Where's a link to a decent test?

infp duh

i used to be very very obsessed with mbti

worth mentioning that the tests aren't holy, it's probably better to just look at an indepth rundown of the 16 types and pick for yourself which one sounds most like you

I'm always INTP, strongest on the I and the P. With a good test, it's definitely not astrology, especially if you understand the terms as defined by MB and not the way people use them casually. As Old Lunch says, it's a good starting point. I've found it quite useful in the workplace. In relationships, not so much.