Our chefs are always standing by

Started drinking and smoking weed in my teens but never did either super regularly.

Did shrooms and a couple other psychs pretty early on in my drug-using life. Molly at a couple parties but i wasn't as…Read more

Exactly! I talked about these exact things in Discord just the other day. Let me see if I can find it. I typed him as NiTe and defended his Ni-ness and Ni-Se holeism heavily.

he has so much depth in characters that tolkien and rowling lack

lightly comparing against two other Si fantasy authors is not justification

and the realism.. the way…

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it’s unlikely that someone who wrote those characters and that plot would be Ne-Si.

@animal why?

They basically learn how to overcome their own flaws or what is needed to survive in the real world, remaining honorable.

I think Sansa, Arya and Bran managed to learn to combine their native inclination towards honor with appropriate survival s…

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the books also never feel like they delineate any kind of ideology on this matter. GRRM…Read more

what he said about Se people saying “this person moved like this, put their arm here, and then did that…” I don’t see how this is related to Se. That sounds more like a Ji function, delineating steps.

sounds like PeTi

putting different ideas together

something entirely new and original

i smell a contradiction here

What you get is a randomly made name that becomes a grandfathered alias.

perty much

most sites these days let you change usernames anyway, so the initial choosing is essentially just there to give you your free spot and then after that you can dress up however you like

i just don't see puffs as an identity that fully represents me anymore, to the extent that it -- and the many other names, nicknames, games and "identity evasions" i create -- is a sort of smoky haze that circles…Read more

it's not meant to mean  or evoke anything, and i'm perturbed by how much ego people seem to have…Read more

The main problem I had was that this article looked dark compared to the others.

And every function has dark sides and light sides. Only that with Se I perceived significantly more darkness than light. With the others, usually you have the darkness only in the dark aspects section. In Se’s case, when I first read it, it felt like it was e…

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I also know NeTi’s and other Alphas who’ve gone through some of the same kinds of issues I’ve described.

-raises hand-

man, i'm not even halfway through my twenties and shit is starting to get weird

To use an analogy to try and illustrate my point: For most of human history if you removed someone’s heart they were irreparably “broken”, dead; there was no way to make them “work” again. Now we have total artificial hearts that can allow you to live for years with a replacement heart when your own organic heart has been removed, the “broken”…

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The main difference seems to stem from two opposing core epistemological assumptions:

A – To know a thing, you must step outside of it and observe it

G – To know a thing, you must embody it

I's just r'spondin' t' this, as 'n alpha, 'n all that.

Nature is not inclined to plan for every eventuality, she fills the world with effective adapters.

Is figuring out how to use something you've broken anyway not a pretty great example of effectively adapting?

I never said anything about putting humpty dumpty together, and i do not understand why the lack of being a "clinically detached…Read more

and then how to make it work while it's broken

1 . it's impossible for two people to have identical environmental experiences (considering the definition for environmental i'm using here) and therefore it'd be ludicrous to assume even siblings will have the same emotional processing.

and

2 . yeah, duh, i'm not saying nature is nonexistent lol but to say that anyone experiences…Read more

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i'm afraid (emotion!) of developing new relationships (environmental interaction in question!) because of the toxicity of the most recent intimate relationships i've given a go (past environmental interactions influencing the emotion felt!)

will all NeTis have the same emotional…Read more

Do you believe type is something you’re born with?

sure, but regardless of type an individual's emotional processing is still largely dependent on their upbringing and life circumstances.

If so, that implies that given the same or similar environment, different people would respond differently.

i put it to you even further in that direction that n…Read more

environment may be a bit of a nebulous term i'm using though. by environment i mean more or less anything out of one's direct control.

to that end, someone's very heart could be considered an environmental element (since we say "my heart stopped" not "i stopped my heart")

i don't see a way for…Read more

(someone help what is code for quotes)

i've always thought so.

but i've always processed most things by their emotional content and i process/view emotional content as a form of physical sensation.

the switch gets flipped for you. all you can do is try and make things happen that have a chance at changing the…Read more

boredom is more on the level of an emotional sensation, than anything else

I don't think that's how it works

i need something to do. i need something for my mind to chew on or else it starts chewing on itself.