#jxy

[jxydentired]

Sighs and makes a ride the cyclone ask blog cause it sounds fun..

[neti-zen]

in the meantime, i took a test. this was what i got

[fuwenduo]

[neti-zen]

i took a break from mbti because i'd been overly obsessed with it for a long time, and then it cracked, and i didn't want to look at it at all anymore. funny how that happens.

while i was away though, i experienced something which i'm convinced was Si-grip, or a stint with Se. see, i'd been super tired and not in a great place mental health-wise and i'd just gone through months of continuous thinking and not much else. it felt like i was stuck in my brain ALL the time. and then i finally got to have time off, and suddenly everything just shut off. my brain was so ridiculously blank all the time yet i didn't really feel numb. i know how that feels like. i guess i would describe it as content, except it couldn't have been, because i hadn't been doing anything at all, and spent my time indulging in stuff that brought me dopamine, like food and scrolling through my phone for hours and hours. it was unhealthy as hell, for sure. that's all i know. i'm still working my way out of it.

[neti-zen]

haha, nice

(thank you everyone for making this possible)

[you've fulfilled this entp's wildest dreams]

[neti-zen]

Ti users can be terrible at arguing

i mean this with the greatest amount of affection, as an entp myself. i’m practically almost arguing and sometimes i even love it. so i wish this weren’t the case, but people with dom/aux Ti can be terrible at arguing. i’m aware that this goes against xxTP stereotypes so i will explain why:

Ti is a function that seeks to understand. Ti users can argue for pride or for fun or because they have to, but ultimately, Ti is an internal, subjective, logical system, and its end goal is to understand. this means that Ti users may not employ the best arguments (backed up by theory) for a particular situation. they may not criticise the most glaring errors of their opponent’s arguments, or they may not respond to a particular type of argument with the type of argument they are supposed to. instead, they will question the parts of their opponents’ arguments that don’t line up with their internal logical system and their previously learned knowledge. they will raise counterarguments that may not make sense, or seem to have missed the point of the original argument, to others.

this is not always the case. sometimes, the stars will align and the Ti user’s criticisms will line up with the objective best criticisms that can be made in a particular scenario, and they will have to sit and watch as their opponent flails around in an attempt to defend themselves. in such scenarios, the Ti user will feel an odd sort of victory at having defeated their verbal sparring opponent. on one hand, they’ve won and proven their internal logic to be superior. on the other, they’ve missed out on an opportunity to fully understand something. maybe a different explanation will help them understand. maybe there is nothing to be understood in the first place. this case is not unlikely as Ti users tend to be experienced in the realm of arguments, and their internal logic is usually quite dependable.

however, the strengths of Ti users can easily be said to also be their weaknesses, and Ti users are sometimes terrible arguers. this won’t dissuade them from arguing, of course. on the contrary, they may be even less willing to stop arguing, on account of the fact that they’ve realised there are things they’ve yet to have understood, and Ti can be quite relentless in its pursuit to understand.

if you ever catch a Ti user employing terrible arguments, just tell them. they’ll appear to resent (and secretly will appreciate) you for it.

[neti-zen]

the irony of entps (i suppose Ne doms in general, but i haven’t interacted with enough enfps to know for sure) is that we can’t survive without structure. it is true that our whole thing is that we are chaos personified, we can establish seemingly impossible connections in a matter of seconds, we push the boundaries and break down structures. but without structures and order, we won’t have a starting point to expand in all directions from. we’ll see everything and nothing at once, and - paralysed by all the possibilities - we won’t be able to decide what to turn our attention to. we need rules to exist so we can wreck them. we need trends to exist so we can spot and subvert them. so, while structure can oftentimes be our worst enemy, we are better off with it.

[neti-zen]

entps are usually associated with innovation and invention. and yes, i guess it is true that NeTi could allow people to see links others can’t see/see them faster than anyone else can. but i think discovery would be a better term to describe entp, given that Ne is a perceiving function and aux Ti helps to organise the data collected. discovering and then cataloging those discoveries/thinking up possible applications for those discoveries sounds much more like an entp thing than thinking up and making working things the world hasn’t ever seen before. the latter is probably more intp’s domain, with their combination of strong internal logic and aux Ne to help them find the optimal way to execute their ideas.