Radiantshadow

You're a man after my own heart. I'll be writing a follow up along the lines of what you just spoke of soon.

Ivy League! Hopefully you'll be getting more out of schooling now.

That's good. I know you were saying you were fed up with the school you were attending. If it's not TMI, where will you be going?

I'm always hoping some forum member will turn out to live close by. Congratulations, in any case.

Thank you as well for presenting the opportunity. I actually came across a ton of new and novel pieces of information, some related and some not, as I was reviewing the topic.

There's plenty more that I glossed over or outright forgot to mention. I am considering expounding on the topic further in another blog post soon. I imagine you enjoy the topic as it relates to Gandalf and the wizard motif in mythology.

Did you know that Tolkien is credited with popularizing the plural form of dwarf as dwarves, yet later remarked that it was a grammatical oversight on his part? Given that the English language is replete with examples such as wolf/wolves, life/lives, wife/wives, knife/knives, loaf/loaves, I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is so...

Something new for me to investigate.

I posted a long blog response for you. I'm sure I missed lots of things, but started to get burnt out trying to edit so much. My Ti is tired.

Ah, the guide of souls! I'm glad you enjoy the topic.

Broadly, the psychopomp represents a liminal figure granting safe passage through transitional periods of grave danger. A common symbol is that of an intersection, such as the cross or crossroads. Due to the inherent danger in such transformative and transitional situations, they oftentimes may invoke both reverence and fear.

That’s awesome...I considered doing some kind of counseling myself but I just don’t like people enough.....lol.

Where do you work? I have seen many too....firstly being a paramedic years ago...then working in an ER for a while. Don’t see as many now that I am in surgery but we still get the occasional failed suicide that w must patch up. Anyhow, thanks for the rep!

You posted on your own profile

Yes, sometimes I need to get away from social networks and explore myself, or the physical world. Life has improved tenfold since I left! Are you still hanging out at INTP forum?

For the most part, yes. Did you enjoy your hiatus from this place?

I take it your summer is going well, then?

You should keep writing in your member blog.

Ah, I only jest. Unlike sadists, I don't combine the serious and snarky.

Thank you.

Thanks for the tip. I've noticed myself that having a greater depth and breadth of knowledge allows one to see more clearly where questions can be asked and worked upon. I always enjoyed learning about neuroscience and even astronomy because they're comparatively young fields of study with a lot of potential to reveal interesting and useful things. I take it you have at least a bit of an amateur interest in head science?

The science behind it is simple. When you play video games or surf the net or watch TV, you're triggering the pleasure center in your brain and your dopamine levels rise. When you suddenly get up from the screen and attend to another task that is perhaps less exciting, your dopamine levels drastically drop and you feel tired as a consequence. Pick up any study on dopamine or addiction and web surfing and it outlines it quite nicely.

Thank you for sharing the Porcelain album for us all to hear. I especially like it.

Sorry, bro. I didn't mean to offend you.

Did we leave off on a dark note? I seem to fluctuate so much, or maybe it was just a long time in subwayrider years. I feel like, and other types mark this is true for INJs, I'm always changing -- I'm reminded of the necromancer from the Hobbit, which in that context was, if I remember right, an at-will shape-shifter. I sometimes feel as if I have no identity or determinacy because I'm so open to things...I understand that most things are far, far more complex than might they seem. And so, I don't feel like I'd be arriving at any very meaningful conclusions if ever I tried.

My ENTP friend just lectured me the other day -- she gets in Ne-Fe loops -- about how much of life is compromise. The prized ideal is incomparably sweet, is it not? Yet, life in all its predatory realities is constantly shutting this vision down...I read a text that said young INJs feel like their Ni is this so delicately burning flame at the tip of a candlestick, and the violent winds of tempest the voices of the world; it's such a struggle to keep it kindled when all others tell you no, when life itself knocks your vision down and stomps on it, when you yourself begin to see things in that light...and give it up.

But, yes, they're hoops even those near the top of the social pyramid must jump through at some point -- necessary for the faraway goal. They key is to not lose sight of that one, I think. That way, no matter how far set back one may become, the dream will be the ghost that, in its refusal to pass into the next life, will continue to haunt your footsteps in such a way as never to be forgotten.

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

Thus, what seems idealistic gibberish is actually the utmost practical advice! Did doctors and actors and astronauts and engineers and therapists and professional athletes not dream to become what they did?

Nice to see you, too! I did miss the warmth here.

How's your life and stuff?