[thrilla]

Just recently completed the MBTI, I was pretty sceptical of how short it was, with the possibility of being incomprehensive, and the reason why most of the questions were written were pretty obvious, so if I really wanted I probably could have "became" a different type. Well, the results definitely took me by surprise, I was laughing so hard when everything the report said was darn spot on about who I am, finally something understands me!

Now, if people truly are INTJs, isn't a forum paradoxical?

But hey, according to the report I might find it interesting to meet another INTJ, hence this first and probably last post. Anyone else from Victoria?

(Interested in what people reply if at all, how they phrase things, diction, etc. You probably know why. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have posted.)

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Darn, need 15+ posts to access some of the sections, another paradox. This is #2.

---------- Post added 07-27-2012 at 10:47 PM ----------

Wow, can't even cheat my way to the club?

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In revisiting my initial post, I guess some are better-adjusted than the rest, hence a forum.

[Silverity]

Heh, yeah, no cheating any more!

I'm also from the Island, though I'm currently living in Edmonton while I get my degree. Grew up in Parksville-- ever drive through it? =P

[KonTiki]

Welcome, thrilla.

[thrilla]

Finally, a reply! This is my cheat post #2.
I drove by Parksville when I went to Courtney for the race track, passed it in 1.75 minutes +/- 15 seconds.

Help me help me, let's start an ostensibly important conversation lasting 13 posts.

[Silverity]

Yep. That's home

Tell us more about yourself-- student, worker, parent...?

[thrilla]

I go to UVic.
Interestingly enough, well, a more accurate way to put it would be prototypically enough, I'm auditing summer courses just so I can keep my mind sharp, and it's philosophy and psychology. Neither the records clerk nor the professors have dealt with an auditor before. Perhaps the population of INTJs at UVic is less than 1%, but so many confounding variables that I can't even begin to calculate the confidence interval.

I change my mind about parts of the first post. This is kind of fun.

[Silverity]

Huh. I bunch of my highschool peers went to UVic, my brother and his friends did their degrees there too. I skipped off the island and went to SFU instead.

Interesting about the lack of other auditors though. I wonder if it's the topics/courses your picking? We had a few of them when I took language courses. I would have assumed that with an older population in Victoria there would have been more bored seniors taking courses for kicks.

NTs should be more common in higher education, that and NFs. I don't know how much in increases by though. *wanders over to google*

EDIT: Okay, no idea. Sigh.

[thrilla]

I went to SFU for a term. Had I not been an INTJ I might have "walked off" one of its hundreds of easily accessible rooftops. How can students withstand the winter is beyond me.

The clerk had mentioned that seniors get a discount and they usually take language courses. For them auditing costs 1/4 of regular tuition. For people under 60 it's a steep 50%. Poking holes in other people's conjecture in class was worth every penny.

Curious, do you catch yourself reviewing what's been typed, making edits, think, re-evaluate, etc.?

[Silverity]

Originally Posted by thrilla

I went to SFU for a term. Had I not been an INTJ I might have "walked off" one of its hundreds of easily accessible rooftops. How can students withstand the winter is beyond me. The clerk had mentioned that seniors get a discount and they usually take language courses. For them auditing costs 1/4 of regular tuition. For people under 60 it's a steep 50%. Poking holes in other people's conjecture in class was worth every penny. Curious, do you catch yourself reviewing what's been typed, making edits, think, re-evaluate, etc.?

I love the SFU rooftops :D The campus is covered in hidden gardens, I think it's beautiful but you need to know where to look. Spring semester was definitely the most dreary though, I typically took less courses then and focused more on Fall and Summer.

Sometimes I review, edit and re-evaluate and sometimes not. Depends how much I've planned the post in advance

[Bailalobos]

G'day, thrilla, and welcome to the sole beacon of reason and wit on the internet.

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	Now, if people truly are INTJs, isn't a forum paradoxical?

Not at all. Think about it...it's anonymous, one can participate asynchronously, we can interact w/others who actually understand our wry, sarcastic humour w/o it having to be explained to them...what's not to like? (I'm using my very top vocab to ensure you have a positive impression of "our" wordsmanship ). You live in a beautiful place; I did consulting for UVic a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed being there. Went often to that tea place on the main drag, can't remember the name, think the building was once a bank. Ah, proper tea and scones

[Moxiie]

Welcome typical INTJ from one of those scary feeeeelerrrrssssss on the forum, here to provide some much needed levity to this joint

My mother's entire family hails from the Island (for like the last few thousand years or so, we are First Nations) and I get to enjoy the beauty and bounty of the place a few times a year.

Welcome to the forum, only a few members bite - but I advise to bite back

*looks meaningfully at Cooper and Monte*

[Cooper]

Welcome to the Alley....

Yes, I bite.....*evil grin*

[thrilla]

If Cooper bites as often as you lot make it sound, he probably has gotten some kind of communicable disease(s), in which case biting back... can be fun.

Anonymity is just a side effect of the Internet, not a trait of INTJ. I don't always socialize, but when I do, I drink dos equis, and I want people to see that I drink dos equis (I don't, beer is generally nasty). With anonymity, integrity is out the window, anyone can take on an alternate persona and stir the pot. On the other hand, I hardly care who you are, it's what you say that matters. I don't care who you think I am either, but your opinion of me refines my judgement of you. However, it does make things easier if you are consistent so that I can solve you, which is much, much easier in person.

Asynchronous communication is shite. I want the information and I want it now. If I don't have it, I'll get it from somewhere else until I am satisfied. Hitting F5 is only exciting for so long.

What I do like about a forum is the vast number of opinions readily accessible in one place, usually following a train of thought. Seeing how an idea gets collectively contemplated is good fun. With a cup of tea, that is.

[Bevan]

It's love bites. Nothing to be afraid of. I edit and revise because I'm not sure who I am. Existential crisis.

[nom4d]

Hello and nice to meet you.

[thrilla]

Anyone of you have a living will?

[stroozette]

why?

[Bailalobos]

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	Anyone of you have a living will?

Answer #1:

( Show Spoiler )

Yes, but you aren't in it.

Answer #2:

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Sure do; I feed it one lawyer/day to keep it healthy.

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	Anonymity is just a side effect of the Internet, not a trait of INTJ.

Don't agree. We construct various means of maintaining our fierce independence and don't like our "cover" blown.

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	Asynchronous communication is shite.

Not my point; "asynchronous" here meant we can come and go as we please w/no commitments.

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	With a cup of tea, that is.

Now THAT I'm with you on. And with scones and clotted cream, please. PS: you're a bit edgy for a Canuk, not at all characteristic in my experience; I always tell folks how civilised it is up there...don't prove me wrong.

[Bevan]

I don't have a living will, also called an 'advanced healthcare directive', but I should have one. I think you can do it yourself with forms available online. If it's my time to die I don't want intubation, where a plastic tube is placed down your throat and you are forced to breathe. No feeding tubes either if I'm in a vegetative state. Just pump me with copious amounts of morphine and let me go. No heroic procedures to prolong my discomfort please.

[Grimace]

yeah I'm a grad student/sessional prof at uvic. Great school.

[Jade333]

	Originally Posted by thrilla
	Anyone of you have a living will?

Shouldn't we? Now that will give us the complete control over our final existence now wouldn't it?

[zeroemission]

	Now, if people truly are INTJs, isn't a forum paradoxical?

INTJs need hugs too

cheating isn't the INTJ way either... being in touch with one's true self is, even if one doesn't have the words to describe it. had you cheated too, you might have joined the wrong forum and made a bunch of enemies immediately as i did yesterday at INFJ for daring to make sweeping generalizations which INFJs just can't tolerate apparently.

even if you decide you don't like any of us here, we're not going to push your buttons as much as "the others".

welcome

[rainbow]

I just joined forum 1 minute ago, to say I am in victoria too.


anyway nice to meet you and everyone else - at arms length -

Roseanne

[KeithP]

I visited Victoria once. Drove through, camped by myself at China Beach. I ended up crawling into my car at 2am b/c I was fairly sure I heard something ravenous quite near my tent.

And like a moron, I had food in my tent. *sigh*

Otherwise I spent three years in the West Kootenays in a small village called Nakusp.

Welcome to ze forum.

[Monte314]

Welcome to the Forum!