Ok, then please explain what is this whole stuff about intensity, cause I don't get it.
What do you mean by intensity? Intensity of skin, intensity of speech, intensity what....what is the nature of this intensity?
It is a virtue, it is a vice, or its just a decorum for a beautiful impression? What do you mean by intensity?
Before you answer, notice that I kind of know what you are reffering to (but for the sake of clarity, I'll let you explain it).
And I think the kind of intensity you are talking about is only a attribute to the INFJs who are pitifuly silly and never grow up...they live in their own world ALL THEIR LIVES...not in a good sense, rather in a egotistical, self-centered sense. They can't get enough of their intensity, and they remain stuck with it...
It's to do with how Ni processes: slowly but deeply
So whilst Ni is processing the eyes are often looking with the '1000 yard stare' because the persons consciousness is not out in the external world with you it is inside their head
Its like a computer.....a computer has Read Only Memory (ROM) which is kind of the rapid access memory and then it has its deeper memory which takes a bit longer to access
If you listen to extroverted sensors they are operating purely from ROM...this is why they chat at 100 miles an hour, because they are processing things in a surface, superficial way
By saying 'superficial' it might seem i am being insulting but there are advantages to how they process things. Firstly because they process things quickly it helps grease the social wheels so it helps them be more fluid and 'sociable'. Secondly because they process things in a shallow way they are not distracted by a further storehouse of information and thereby their conversation stays on very narrow but safe ground (INFJ's meanwhile can have all sorts of information thrown at them by Ni during even an average conversation)
An INFJ on the other hand is constantly pulled out of the outer reality and into their inner reality because of their mental filing system. For example sometimes my recall is a bit slow on a fact but i know that as soon as i stop thinking about it it will come to me and this might sound strange but it feels to me like a little man in my head has to run off down some corridors and find the right room of the library, go into it and find the right shelves and then find the right file for the information
This is because of the way Ni works. Ni is a MASSIVE web that grows and grows and grows. The larger it grows the more connections are formed between all the different pieces of information and a more complete picture of reality it forms. This means life can be tough for younger INFJ's whose Ni doesn't yet have the material it needs to make full sense of some situations but as they feed their Ni (as ALL INFJ's WILL DO....in fact you can distinguish INFJ's because they are the people who will suprise you with the random things they know...whereas Bill O reilly is a fucking moron) their capacity to understand situations and people grows
Once Ni has filled in a lot of the picture it becomes able to discearn patterns and because it understands underlying patterns behind things it becomes able to make predictions about the future
For example if you watch birds flying around in the sky for long enough then you learn they often follow flight patterns. Once you know their habits you could then predict what they are going to do and when but you have to be weird enough to be watching birds in the first place......well INFJ's are weird enough to do a lot of stuff and the reason is because they are processing information differently
But patterns exist everywhere
I'll give you another example which is the work of Carl Jung who many agree was an INFJ; he noticed patterns in humans which has become MBTI
Why was he studying humans? The other men were working in the factories and watching the football and drinking pints down the pub and playing darts...so why was carl jung doing what he was doing? he was doing it because he was a weirdo....why was he a weirdo? because of Ni....he couldn't help being a weirdo it's what his brain does
You seem to resent INFJ's for being so quirky but their brains demand to be fed a diet of varied information so that they can operate in a world which at first seems a strange and bewildering place so that they can make more sense of it
So cut INFJ's some slack for being so quirky!
You strike me as an introverted sensor who resents Ni and how it is so different and mysterious to you
I love Ni......i don't want to stand in the pub with the other men playing darts and be 'normal' just because Lucy Jnr is bigoted against anyone who behaves differently to him. I want to read a range of information and make connections and leaps of understanding and if that means spending time alone then damn it i'll do it because it is what i am
Stop criticising people for not narrowly conforming. You seem like an enemy of: diversity, creativity and imagination. You worship at the shrine of socionics which was set up in the soviet union as a tool for controlling free thinkers and dissenters against the central gualag management (the system was deeply threatened by free thinking INFJ's and sought to demonise them and throw them in the gualag)
You have said that all INFJ's should join the army to be taught how to be normal....which sounds to me like clssic introverted sensing thinking judging type thinking to me
If you want to join the army with the ISTJ's then YOU GO DO IT but let the INFJ's be the free thinkers they are; let them shine without the jackboot of the system trying to choke out human expression and creativity
So INFJ intensity has nothing to do with trying to cultivate an image...but that's not to say that there aren't people out there who don't want to mimic that intensity especially when hollywood creates a raft of intense super humans as role models for kids. INFJ's just ARE intense without trying to be...in fact they will probably spend a lot of effort trying NOT TO BE INTENSE; you may for example find them smoking pot or taking valiums or drinking alcohol when they are young to try and flow more from ROM and to not process things so damn deeply!
Common accusations against INFJ's include: ''you think too much'' & ''you over analyse things''
But thats like telling the sun to stop shining so bright. INFJ's process things...it's what they do.....if you don't like it then my advice is to stop hanging around on an INFJ forum spreading crap about them and go hang around on an ISTJ forum or a military forum where your conformist views will be appreciated
INFJs are very stupid, plain stupid with regard to practical affairs. Many INFJs are sock pupets, because they don't even know what is happening around them, in real world.
This is plain nonsense
If you actually knew who the famous INFJ's were you'd realise they are the people out there explaining to people exactly what is going on in the world; in fact even regular INFJ's are often drawn to roles where they can provide insight
Honestly i do not know which type you think you are talking aout but it is not INFJ's
Do you know why INFJ's have got a reputation for being 'seers'? It's because they understand things on levels that you do not
Clearly you have a problem with accepting that. You are like a blind person who thinks that everyone else in the world is blind because you are, trying to tell sighted people the way up a mountain
The amazing thing about ignorance is how often it goes hand in hand with arrogance
INFJ's are never that arrogant (full of unfounded confidence) which is why they are always learning to make sure they haven't got it wrong; they are not as you would say arrogant...quite the opposite...they are their own harshest judge but because they are always testing their views they do develop a confidence in them once they have built enough supporting connections in the Ni web
You might listen to an INFJ and wonder 'how can they say that with such confidence' but what you are not seeing is the vast interconnecting NI web which is telling them the trajectory of a certain thing or person with high probability
I have made many predictions on this forum that have all come true. Everytime i do it i get called 'crazy' or 'an idiot' or a 'conspiracy theorist' etc by non INFJ non Ni users
But how can a 'crazy' person keep being right?
You know why Ni seems crazy to non Ni users? Because it is ahead of the curve
Now you can criticise that, you can say it is 'arrogant' for INFJ's to make predictions or you can keep delusionally denying their ability to do so and bla bla bla but they are simply doing what they are wired upto do and why should they try to act different to their natural selves just to suit you and the politburo of the USSR (who gave an award to the person who created socionics)?
let INFJ's be INFJ's and stop being so authoritarian
i can only imagine that a guy like you reads novelty alot and has archetypes of INFJs heroes...otherwise, you would know what life can and does to any human being.
What is 'novelty'?
If you read my posts around the forum you'd know that i read a lot of current affairs as well as artistic stuff....i get a balance. I want to know what is going on in the human mind but also what is going on in the human heart and soul
You sound very chidlish and idealistic..."No INFJ would let themself become like that..." do you really think so??? why, because they have INFJ antivirus?
You don't understand the deeply independent nature of Ni
Ni aligned with the other INFJ functions is not going to allow itself to be a sock puppet; INFJ's are one of the most fiercly independent of types....they don't make good schills (like bill o reilly)
: unlike most of INFJs who have "waterful" eyes, as if their eyes are not "fixed", this guy has a pretty fixed stare, concentrated and composed;
