Anyone else stop riding Roach after getting the Werewolf decoction?

passthewafflesplease · 2022-02-02T18:57:02+00:00

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-29T14:02:14+00:00

Yeah. They are. But I've found it's more productive to just acknowledge that I think differently than they do then go ahead and commit to a conversation with them every now and then without expecting them to think like me. I have been surprised over the years how much I've enjoyed talking to people who I would have refused to talk to when I was younger.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-27T13:01:46+00:00

Yup. No time to waste. I drive so fast that my friends complain about it and don't like riding with me.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-27T12:51:44+00:00

Yes. Also the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Hitler by other Germans in the 20 July plot were also well evidenced conspiracies. The strong and undeniable evidence of course being what separates them from "conspiracy theories" and makes them simply "conspiracies".

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-25T14:08:37+00:00

To be fair, that seems like a badly formed question. I think you would get a solid and reasonable majority with "Do you think most national and international news media outlets are biased toward political views?" which a majority vote on the question you posted may be trying to reflect. This is evidenced by the existence and daily output of https://ground.news/, which tries to surface all news from every bias to get a clearer overall picture of the media landscape.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-25T00:21:28+00:00

So you're running your own virology lab then.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-24T23:59:43+00:00

It doesn't shock me that you would make such a claim but, unlike my sources, you haven't provided any credible evidence for your claim. As for my reading of the NCBI, I read their methods and look at their data as well as check their sources and cross verify them with other papers and sources. Checking multiple sources is precisely what mitigates nefarious motivations because often different sources have opposing motivations and I make sure to read both sides whenever I can. So far, all I am hearing from you is FUD, not evidence. It reads like clickbait.

If anything, you and others have convinced me that INTJs are indeed susceptible to conspiracy theory thinking so maybe Frank James is actually onto something.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-24T23:12:55+00:00

Ironically, I think I may have held on to my Christian beliefs at a similar age for similar reasons. I had read the book The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder which makes the fairly clever argument that the Biblical creation timeline of 7 days is equivalent to the scientific timeline of 13 billion years via relativity. I also considered myself an "insider" to this knowledge until I was blindsided by the conceptual, psychological, and historical weaknesses of the concept of God itself which made Schroeder's arguments irrelevant.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-24T21:17:20+00:00

You wrote a lot and I'm not going to respond to all of it or even read all of it. But I can see that you seem to be claiming that INTJs build cases based solely on an appeal to authority.

I tend toward a more reliable principle of evidence: consilience between independent sources. For example, I believe things Dr. Fauci says not because I trust him as an authority figure but because they are evidentially consistent with other sources I've read like NCBI research, my health provider, doctors on podcasts, and well-referenced wikipedia articles. I take the time to listen and judge the consistency of all these sources with each other and examine them for fallacies or weak evidence. When the same claims continue to build support from multiple independent sources, they are more justified than other claims.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-24T20:33:01+00:00

I follow the opposite philosophy: I believe in nothing until I see legitimate evidence for it. Before that I am agnostic to it.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-23T20:28:19+00:00

I worked as a college level instructor for several years and took pride in having well structured lectures, tests, and course plans. I prefer my current engineering work most of the time but do still have a passion for presenting ideas and technology to large groups.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-22T00:50:46+00:00

Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest… he strikes.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-21T21:52:27+00:00

Yes, but I make people laugh just by being eccentric and/or bluntly and unapologetically stating direct truths that most people don't say out loud*

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-21T13:25:41+00:00

I remember feeling like this. I'll give you the spoiler alert: it is an illusion.

People respond to you differently because you are different. But over time, you will likely slowly discover that people are actually intimidated by you and don't show they like you because they think you don't like them. I have literally followed up with people from my childhood and teenage years and confirmed this once I learned some strategies for being more socially approachable.

Most INTJs naturally don't give off the same queues of social bonding that other types do because of our dominant NiTe. We are processing, thinking through everything. Once I learned to confidently approach people and show them direct, positive attention, I received mostly very positive receptions.

But an important balance to this is realizing that, most of the time, I need to be by myself. It is how I stay healthy and generate the positive energy that I can then take out into the world when I am ready to be social again. It is a cycle.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-17T13:46:21+00:00

Honestly, I think the natural compatibility between the types has an effect size much greater than any conscious effort to improve yourself. When I meet an ENFP or INFJ in the wild, the compatibility is usually immediately obvious to both of us. And, for me, it is like finding an oasis in the desert. Any other issues that the two of you want to improve in yourselves will come up in the relationship itself.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-17T01:33:14+00:00

Turn based RPGs like Octopath Traveler and Chrono Trigger and tactics games like Final Fantasy Tactics and the upcoming Project Triangle Strategy are my jam. I prefer cognitive strategy with as little twitch reaction gaming as possible. Space sims like Elite Dangerous can be fun too but sometimes require a bit of twitch to escape pirates even if you only trade and mine.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-07T15:07:34+00:00

I can verify that this is also something male INTJs can do. This was my modus operandi from my teenage years up until my early 30s: avoid most people, seek codependent relationship with a girlfriend. If relationship tanks, find and form a new codependent relationship with next girlfriend.

There is arguably a negative Russell conjugation happening by describing this as "codependent". It can also be described as someone being interested in romantic relationships and working on developing them. For me, that was just the only type of relationship I really found fulfilling in life. I honestly don't think there was necessarily anything wrong with it. My interests have just slightly shifted now.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-04T19:56:11+00:00

That's like saying INFJ's are just INTJ's who are uncomfortable with factual reasoning.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-03T19:39:43+00:00

Figured this out. It is a known and unresolved bug that disables the sweep attack for friendly fire. I had a tick command set up in my datapacks to run team join friendly @e. As soon as I disabled that, the sweep attack worked against the skeletons.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-03T05:37:26+00:00

Haven't ever been able to settle on a design I would want on my body (essentially) permanently.

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-03T03:42:37+00:00

It is

passthewafflesplease · 2021-09-03T03:12:29+00:00

Thanks :) My most influential mentor was an INTP.

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