What Would Be That One Thing That Would Make You Emotional? - Page 3

**natmarman** · 01-10-2011, 03:58 PM

I get emotional about things or people that I care about: filosophy, music, friends, playing around with ideas, and other things that I don't remenber.

**Thinker** · 01-10-2011, 04:31 PM

A surgeon with a scalpel eyeing off my testicles would make me emotional...and violent.

**booksorcerer** · 01-10-2011, 04:43 PM

I've been highly emotional over the death of my cat. More so than the death of my grandfather (he was over 90 and had his life) and my cousin (suicide, which made me more angry than sad). I'd probably be heartbroken at the death of my parents.

I can get angry when somebody questions my competence in my area of expertise, particularly by somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about. My blood-enemy is somebody who did that.

I can get depressed when I see illogical things in systems. I've learned to filter most of it out, but some can get through. I also get depressed after I get angry, as I feel I should have had a more productive emotion to use instead.

**blatant** · 01-10-2011, 05:07 PM

a large sum of unexpected money coming my way. :D

**think** · 01-10-2011, 05:34 PM

Only one thing?

**MissBlossom** · 01-11-2011, 03:59 AM

I get emotional often enough, I become tearful during the movies, news, stories I watch/read/hear... I really hate this though.

**mormeguil** · 01-11-2011, 05:47 AM

I do consider myself pretty emotional. I mostly leave a lot of these emotions internally. Altought art as very rarely mde me truly emotional. Events happening to my friends and family will affect me a lot. Stranger, not a whole lot.

Another difference, in case of crisis, I will become cold and logical until the critical moment is over. Afterwrd all the emotions will flow over in one go.

**John01** · 01-11-2011, 05:57 AM

I tear up watching certain movies. I cried when family members died. I also tear up when I see someone doing something for another person that makes them tear up.
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**Medivh** · 01-11-2011, 06:50 AM

Knowing that someone you love is in pain and that there's nothing that you can do about it makes me emotional. Even though I sometimes feel that I share their pain, I can never cry because of this.

I cry like mad when the past teases me with its false "happy" memories.

**benr3600** · 01-12-2011, 02:38 AM

My emotional kryptonite? Women. I just realized the other day, that the only times I have ever cried as a result of emotions, is when I have come to that unbearable realization that I have screwed up yet another beautiful relationship that had the potential to blossom into something truly epic. Dealing with the injustices in the world, misfortunes of loved ones, etc. tend to evoke my inner passions, but I wouldn't quite call it getting "emotional." More like being aggravated that my visions of the world, especially the ones that wouldn't be too difficult to attain, have not come to fruition.

**Napoleon** · 01-12-2011, 06:35 AM

The day I finally attain my Master's, not to think of the PhD...or when Summer Glau decides to propose to me.

**ntwady** · 01-14-2011, 09:35 AM

When a widow remarries.

**wrongjargon** · 01-14-2011, 10:59 AM

movies that perfectly encapsulates the bad things in my life... and then give it a happy ending.

**Artio** · 01-14-2011, 11:00 AM

I've analyzed this more. I think that I can say that goodness and friendship makes me a bit emotional. Just a bit. Not much.

**MrFlaneur** · 01-14-2011, 11:24 AM

anti social driving. cutting me up, driving too fast, no signalling, those chavvy loud exhausts, no roundabout sense, shit lane discipline, driving too slow, being on the roads whilst im nobbing about. etc etc

**psychobabble** · 01-14-2011, 11:45 AM

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	INTJs are said to be cold, aloof, unemotional.

Y'all may appear to be this way, but you can't "fool" everyone.
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You prefer a rational approach to life, yes, but that preference doesn't prevent you from having emotional responses. And not just extreme responses, either.

**oldgoat** · 01-14-2011, 06:06 PM

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	I cry rather easily but am fairly non-emotional. A living paradox. I cry over movies, tv shows, books, deaths, losing pets, thinking about animals that are in shelters, etc. I tear up when hearing the National Anthem. I think you can still be an INTJ and cry, it just means that you approach most situations with logic first.

weird, i'm almost the same exact way. I'll tear up watching Intervention, yet if the same situation happened to someone i knew in real life it wouldn't affect me the same way. I don't understand it

**Melissa** · 01-14-2011, 06:10 PM

The thought of losing my parents. (Especially as an only child.)

**Daes** · 01-14-2011, 06:22 PM

I had a relative attempt suicide. Made me realize that it only takes an instant for death to rear its ugly head.

**clayman** · 01-14-2011, 06:30 PM

seeing idiots get all the attention really makes me ANGRY.
seeing old people cry makes me SAD.
making people laugh makes me HAPPY(well unless its at me [well, sometimes even then] )
sudden random moments i am EUPHORIC!

**MrJaxon** · 01-14-2011, 08:28 PM

I once woke up with tears streaming down my face, but couldn't remember what I had dreamt. The only other time that happened, I'd dreamt about my dad leaving without me saying goodbye (he turns 90 this year).

Envisioning that old man who shielded his wife from attack during the recent Arizona shooting, and seeing a picture of a pelican drenched in oil beyond recognition made me (almost) cry.

Injustice makes me angry, especially false incrimination, often leading me to lose my rationality. When I was a kid I hit my friend in the head with a rod by accident. When he started to cry and accused me of hitting him on purpose, I got so mad that I actually hit him again. From that day forth I've tried not to let wrath get to me (I've failed at that).

And the song Space Age Love Song puts me in a nostalgic mood.

**mCinney** · 01-15-2011, 02:26 PM

I cried yesterday when I was writing the book I've been working on for the past year; I hate when the antagonists of the story are "struck down in their righteous glory." Whenever I watch Les Miserables I cry when Javert commits suicide... every time. I REALLY despise having an empty wallet when walking by an elderly woman holding a sign that reads "help this homeless widow." Watching my grandmother deteriorate from Alzheimers breaks my heart. She forgot my name the other day.

**Beric** · 01-15-2011, 02:33 PM

A few very good animes might make me tear up a bit. It sometimes seems to be a goal in my entertainment to see if I can make myself have an emotional reaction.

Also, when I got a board position on my college's marketing club last week. I calmly accepted the offer via telephone, after having an extremely stressful interview earlier in the day. Then I was ecstatic for the next 2 hours, like I haven't seen myself in ages, not even when I got accepted to my college. I couldn't understand myself. I guess it was a major life achievement, in my mind.

**JEP** · 01-15-2011, 04:47 PM

If you want to send me over the edge, start attacking, verbally or physically, one of my friends. My history teacher in high school was jumping all over one of my friends when he really didn't deserve it and it pissed me off. So I drew the attention to me and got the entire class to start laughing at the teacher. At which point he threw me out of the room, and I definitely deserved it.

01-10-2011, 03:58 PM	#51
natmarman Member [02%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 107	I get emotional about things or people that I care about: filosophy, music, friends, playing around with ideas, and other things that I don't remenber.
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01-10-2011, 04:31 PM	#52
Thinker Core Member [117%] MBTI: INTj Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 4,685	A surgeon with a scalpel eyeing off my testicles would make me emotional...and violent.
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01-10-2011, 04:43 PM	#53
booksorcerer New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 14	I've been highly emotional over the death of my cat. More so than the death of my grandfather (he was over 90 and had his life) and my cousin (suicide, which made me more angry than sad). I'd probably be heartbroken at the death of my parents. I can get angry when somebody questions my competence in my area of expertise, particularly by somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about. My blood-enemy is somebody who did that. I can get depressed when I see illogical things in systems. I've learned to filter most of it out, but some can get through. I also get depressed after I get angry, as I feel I should have had a more productive emotion to use instead.
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01-10-2011, 05:07 PM	#54
blatant Member [10%] MBTI: intj Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 435	a large sum of unexpected money coming my way. :D
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01-10-2011, 05:34 PM	#55
think Member [29%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,167	Only one thing?
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01-11-2011, 03:59 AM	#56
MissBlossom Member [02%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 108	I get emotional often enough, I become tearful during the movies, news, stories I watch/read/hear... I really hate this though.
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01-11-2011, 05:47 AM	#57
mormeguil Member [32%] MBTI: Intj Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,294	I do consider myself pretty emotional. I mostly leave a lot of these emotions internally. Altought art as very rarely mde me truly emotional. Events happening to my friends and family will affect me a lot. Stranger, not a whole lot. Another difference, in case of crisis, I will become cold and logical until the critical moment is over. Afterwrd all the emotions will flow over in one go.
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01-11-2011, 05:57 AM	#58
John01 Core Member [112%] MBTI: INTx Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 4,518	I tear up watching certain movies. I cried when family members died. I also tear up when I see someone doing something for another person that makes them tear up. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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01-11-2011, 06:50 AM	#59
Medivh New Member [01%] MBTI: INXJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 19	Knowing that someone you love is in pain and that there's nothing that you can do about it makes me emotional. Even though I sometimes feel that I share their pain, I can never cry because of this. I cry like mad when the past teases me with its false "happy" memories.
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01-12-2011, 02:38 AM	#60
benr3600 Member [28%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,131	My emotional kryptonite? Women. I just realized the other day, that the only times I have ever cried as a result of emotions, is when I have come to that unbearable realization that I have screwed up yet another beautiful relationship that had the potential to blossom into something truly epic. Dealing with the injustices in the world, misfortunes of loved ones, etc. tend to evoke my inner passions, but I wouldn't quite call it getting "emotional." More like being aggravated that my visions of the world, especially the ones that wouldn't be too difficult to attain, have not come to fruition.
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01-12-2011, 06:35 AM	#61
Napoleon Member [03%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 126	The day I finally attain my Master's, not to think of the PhD...or when Summer Glau decides to propose to me.
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01-14-2011, 09:35 AM	#62
ntwady Core Member [100%] MBTI: INFP Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 4,026	When a widow remarries.
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01-14-2011, 10:59 AM	#63
wrongjargon Member [12%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 502	movies that perfectly encapsulates the bad things in my life... and then give it a happy ending.
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01-14-2011, 11:00 AM	#64
Artio Core Member [510%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 20,418	I've analyzed this more. I think that I can say that goodness and friendship makes me a bit emotional. Just a bit. Not much.
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01-14-2011, 11:24 AM	#65
MrFlaneur Veteran Member [55%] MBTI: INTj Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,202	anti social driving. cutting me up, driving too fast, no signalling, those chavvy loud exhausts, no roundabout sense, shit lane discipline, driving too slow, being on the roads whilst im nobbing about. etc etc
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01-14-2011, 06:10 PM	#68
Melissa New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4	The thought of losing my parents. (Especially as an only child.)
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01-14-2011, 06:22 PM	#69
Daes Member [05%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 216	I had a relative attempt suicide. Made me realize that it only takes an instant for death to rear its ugly head.
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01-14-2011, 06:30 PM	#70
clayman New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 26	seeing idiots get all the attention really makes me ANGRY. seeing old people cry makes me SAD. making people laugh makes me HAPPY(well unless its at me [well, sometimes even then] ) sudden random moments i am EUPHORIC!
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01-14-2011, 08:28 PM	#71
MrJaxon New Member [01%] MBTI: INtj Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 21	I once woke up with tears streaming down my face, but couldn't remember what I had dreamt. The only other time that happened, I'd dreamt about my dad leaving without me saying goodbye (he turns 90 this year). Envisioning that old man who shielded his wife from attack during the recent Arizona shooting, and seeing a picture of a pelican drenched in oil beyond recognition made me (almost) cry. Injustice makes me angry, especially false incrimination, often leading me to lose my rationality. When I was a kid I hit my friend in the head with a rod by accident. When he started to cry and accused me of hitting him on purpose, I got so mad that I actually hit him again. From that day forth I've tried not to let wrath get to me (I've failed at that). And the song Space Age Love Song puts me in a nostalgic mood.
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01-15-2011, 02:26 PM	#72
mCinney New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 33	I cried yesterday when I was writing the book I've been working on for the past year; I hate when the antagonists of the story are "struck down in their righteous glory." Whenever I watch Les Miserables I cry when Javert commits suicide... every time. I REALLY despise having an empty wallet when walking by an elderly woman holding a sign that reads "help this homeless widow." Watching my grandmother deteriorate from Alzheimers breaks my heart. She forgot my name the other day.
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01-15-2011, 02:33 PM	#73
Beric Member [33%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,331	A few very good animes might make me tear up a bit. It sometimes seems to be a goal in my entertainment to see if I can make myself have an emotional reaction. Also, when I got a board position on my college's marketing club last week. I calmly accepted the offer via telephone, after having an extremely stressful interview earlier in the day. Then I was ecstatic for the next 2 hours, like I haven't seen myself in ages, not even when I got accepted to my college. I couldn't understand myself. I guess it was a major life achievement, in my mind.
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01-15-2011, 04:47 PM	#74
JEP Member [03%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 147	If you want to send me over the edge, start attacking, verbally or physically, one of my friends. My history teacher in high school was jumping all over one of my friends when he really didn't deserve it and it pissed me off. So I drew the attention to me and got the entire class to start laughing at the teacher. At which point he threw me out of the room, and I definitely deserved it.
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