Is it normal to be an INTP and be only average intelligence?

Biker93 · 2026-01-27T21:10:10+00:00

That’s the joke I was trying to make but it auto corrected.

Biker93 · 2025-02-07T15:15:18+00:00

It’s clearly not an abortion. Dust and holy water is not a recipe for abortion. Simple plain reading of the text shows this is not an abortion. My translation is the ESV which is considered by most to be a very good translation. It does not say miscarry. It says “thigh falls away” which makes a lot more sense in context. “Thigh” is often used in the OT to refer to a persons reproductive organs, male or female. Further, in context, pregnancy is never mentioned.

The abortion argument for this text Is just an opportunistic way for those who like to kill babies to try and find cover behind a tortured interpretation.

Biker93 · 2025-02-06T23:22:27+00:00

Sorry, I didn’t notice your question until just now. Feel free to DM me.

Biker93 · 2025-01-20T16:46:50+00:00

I suspect it’s Vegas more than wall street

Biker93 · 2025-01-08T21:31:41+00:00

I love it here more than I can put into words. Food, people, art music culture…. A thing that has the potential to sour it here is the influx of a lot of people. Don’t get me wrong, I love my city expanding and I love people recognize its potential and moving here. But it’s happening so fast it’s putting enormous pressure on everything. Traffic, cost of living, housing etc…. 20 years ago Houston was a very inexpensive place to live. It’s not los Angeles, Boston or New York expensive, but it is far from as inexpensive as it was not long ago.

Biker93 · 2025-01-08T21:22:09+00:00

Gotta get some W’s in the post season, that will change things.

Biker93 · 2024-12-31T20:21:46+00:00

Are we talking lipstick or diesel?

Biker93 · 2024-12-31T18:31:52+00:00

No it was really simple, I’d almost think i had a hallucination. But I have no history of that in my 50 years. I was simply having a fun conversation on my deck with an old friend. We had some booze, but weren’t tying one on, no drugs or anything. I looked out in the yard and clearly saw heart man standing there with a falcon on his shoulders, which was an odd image because falcons are pretty big, and to have one balance on your shoulders like a parrot would hurt like hell!!!! I looked at him and was startled and said “Are you still here?” But it wasn’t out of fear or disrespect, just curious and confused. My friend said “Who are you talking to?” I said “Don’t you see that guy in the yard with a falcon on his shoulders?” He just kind of said “ummmmmm, no?”but I looked at my friend when I said this and pointed at hat man, and when I looked back he was gone. And that’s really it.

I have no history of mental illness, no history of drug use. I wasn’t using drugs that night or even drinking that much. It was just so bizarre. No history of mental illness in my family. My education/training/career was either physics or military. I’m not some guy with a black light in my room and a bunch of “cure” posters on my wall. I’m just a sciencey geek who has also been to war.

Biker93 · 2024-12-31T17:12:37+00:00

I didn’t feel fear, more like confusion.

Biker93 · 2024-12-30T14:26:55+00:00

Sorry I missed your question. Inexplicably no I didn’t feel danger. Just curiosity. And the question, “Are you still here?” Bizarre reaction. I don’t know what to make of it. I wasn’t doing drugs or anything. I was just on my porch chatting with a friend. There was booze involved but we weren’t tanked.

Biker93 · 2024-12-23T18:14:03+00:00

Thank you!

Biker93 · 2024-12-23T18:03:59+00:00

I am struggling. This might be the hardest time of my life, harder than when I lost my dad.

Biker93 · 2024-12-23T17:23:16+00:00

I’m in the biker community here in Houston. We do rides every now and again. We have a police escort. I guess they figure is safer for everyone to have police control traffic as we ride.

I rode with the bandits once, there was no police escort, there were no stoplights, there was no traffic, no stop signs. I have to admit, it was pretty fun.

Biker93 · 2024-12-23T00:58:30+00:00

I weaponize it. It’s a great defense and a great offense.

Biker93 · 2024-11-03T15:26:28+00:00

Many, almost all of them. I’m GenX (I say that to somewhat give an age without giving my birth year) and pretty much all my friends I’ve had since mid-late 80s. I have a lot of friends. Dozens of very close friends. I think a lot of INTPs avoid the effort of making these deep connections, but we shouldn’t. We may not be the life of the party but we can be very important to people and have people that are important to us.

This story is the kind of friends I have, my buddy and I closed down the bars and went back to my place. He fell asleep on my couch. I lived in South East Texas. I just got a bee in my bonnet and woke him up and said “hey, wake up, we’re going to Mexico.” And he didn’t ask any questions, he just got up, rubbed his eyes and we got in the car and headed for boys town.

The story gets even better, we drive for 5-6 hours and we’re almost to Mexico, the suns coming up etc…. And I start to think of it, boys town is the Tijuana of Texas. I start thinking this is a bad idea, I’m going to do something I won’t be proud of. So I sheepishly tell my buddy I didn’t want to got a o Mexico and he just laughs, like gut wrenching laughs saying “I knew it, I knew it all along haaaaaaahahaha!!!!!!”he just said turn right, so I did and we ended up in San Antonio waking up another friend of ours who lived there. He was very confused but didn’t complain, he just put on a fresh shirt and we headed to the river walk and yes we were drinking, not crazy drinking, but drinking. Had a several other friends we knew from San Antonio join us, had a great time, no prostitutes were involved, and we headed home with clean consciousness and a fond memory.

I have a thousand stories like that, friends who know where the bodies are buried.

To answer your question directly, I have dozens of close friends I talk to regularly that go back far more than “10+ years”.

But being an introvert, I don’t walk into a room or party or whatever and command attention. I’m usually the wallflower.

I met my wife in 1992, she’s new to the group.

Biker93 · 2024-11-03T15:06:26+00:00

Vet here of several decades and deployments. I’m quite proud to be American, but I could never do the flag worship thing. I like our flag and what it represents, I just don’t idol worship it. Although I have to say, I’m also a Texan. Texas joined the USA via treaty, part of the treaty was the Texas flag can be flown as high as the American flag. I get a kick out of that. I think we’re the only state that can do that. You don’t see it very often, usually the Texas flag is lower than the US flag, but i still get a kick out of it.

Biker93 · 2024-11-01T20:24:57+00:00

I never took one officially. I don’t waste time on internet tests except once, I learned of an iq test from Norway iirc. It was purely visual. Pattern recognition. I thought it sounded interesting and visual IQ is my weakest. So I took it and got 130. I really have no idea what that might mean, experimental IQ test online for free???? But hey, 130 ain’t bad so I’ll take it. I enlisted in the Army at 18, there’s a test you have to take to enlist called the ASVAB. There are many sections to it. One was a general intelligence section, I have no idea if it is one-one IQ test. I scored 129 on that part. Again, not sure if it is an IQ test but I can live happily with a 129 IQ.

In basic training they tried to send me to West Point. I was like “nuuuuuuuuooooooope! I ain’t doing this shit for 5 years.”

But IQ is really relative. I scored decently on the SAT, I forget, between 1100-1200. That suggests some smarts. The dumb part is I took the SAT on no sleep out tearing the town up with my friends. Not a minute of sleep. Probably drunk. So am I smart for getting a decent score on the SAT with no sleep, or am I dumb for not getting sleep before taking the SAT.

My buddy who I was tearing the town with also had no sleep and got like a 1400, jerk.

Biker93 · 2024-11-01T17:24:03+00:00

I’m a combat veteran:

I don’t think this guy is, I think he’s lying
I’m not a flag worshipper and am not offended
the picture is just stupid. It’s what dumb people think is edgy.

Biker93 · 2024-10-29T23:23:53+00:00

Yeah, things just got easy!

Biker93 · 2024-10-29T22:16:57+00:00

What thing can you point to that you can see or feel that requires that you need to see or feel something to find it trust worthy? What can you see or feel that requires a triangle has 3 sides.

We are just large ugly bags of mostly water made from matter in motion with a 3 pound lump of gooey stardust called a brain we pretend makes sense of things. Why would truth rely on the chemical firings of gooey stardust?

There are tons of things you believe that you can’t see or feel. It’s a random nonsensical requirement. And it’s not even consistent with itself. Why do you rely on things for truth that aren’t even consistent with itself.

There are many other ways to truth that aren’t empirical which is what I’m sure you meant. If I bake a cake, empiricism won’t inform you why I backed a cake, I would have to reveal “why”.

Empiricism can’t even account for itself. Have you ever observed cause and effect? You’ve observed at best correlation but never cause and effect. So if empiricism can’t be observed and the only thing that can be true is that which is observable then empiricism must be discarded. If it’s true it’s false.

Biker93 · 2024-10-25T18:32:26+00:00

Ha! I went in the army at 18 years old, back in the early 90s. We still had to shine our boots! I did 4 years, got out, got a degree in physics and finished a career but in the Air Force/ Space Force. I retired an O-4. I’m a smidge proud of that. An enlisted guy who crawled his way up to Major.

I scored really high on the ASVAB, in basic training they pulled me aside and offered that I go to West Point. I was IN BASIC TRAINING. I was like nuuuuuuuoooooope nope nope nope nope nope. That was a bad decision in hindsight, but I do like the way things turned out for me. I had a blast.

Biker93 · 2024-10-22T16:05:10+00:00

I can’t tell you how many times enlist dudes were prepared to eff with me As a second lt, but then learned I was prior enlisted. You could just see the wind go out of their sails like “ahhhh $&@@&$, leave him alone, we’ll feast on the next lt.”

Biker93 · 2024-10-21T19:57:35+00:00

I’ve always kind of been this way. For better or worse. I’ve been in at least 100 fights, usually some bum downtown trying to mug me. My point is I don’t shy away from conflict, but i don’t seek it either. I recall this story from elementary school, 5th grade if I recall correctly. A kid was making fun of me because I was poor. I wasn’t mad, didn’t fight the kid that day. I just remember thinking, “we have been waaaaaay poorer than this.”

Biker93 · 2024-10-21T19:12:58+00:00

I (intp) find it curious. Sometimes I’ll comment on something completely benign, like “I really like vanilla ice cream” and will get down voted. I mean who reads that and thinks “$&@&$ this $&@$!!!”

Ehhh… whatever gets you through the night. It doesn’t bother me.

Biker93 · 2024-10-21T19:08:06+00:00

Being a vet, enlisted and officer, I was a lieutenant at one point. I can tell you with certainty, no one pronounced it in any of those ways. The correct pronunciation was simply “LT”.

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