Which Feeler type is the least feel-y

Which Feeler type is the least feel-y

  • ISFJ

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • ESFJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • ESFP

    Votes: 9 37.5%

  • ISFP

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • ENFP

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • INFP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • ENFJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • INFJ

    Votes: 7 29.2%
  • Total voters
    24
I was thinking ISFJ and INFJ, because both have the potential to have pretty developed Ti-tertiary, and Si-Ti / Ni-Ti can lead to very logical beings I think.

The thing is, I realize now that a type can very well be both logical and feely. INFJs and ISFJs are pretty well-balanced in this respect, and those with repressed Fe among them are exceptions rather than the rule (and not very healthy ones at that).

If we count breath and depth as two different dimensions of feeling, then I would agree that INFP would be the 'most feely'. As for the 'least feely', I'd probably go with a feeling type that is both sensing (more down to earth) and extroverted (more likely to bounce back quickly from emotional stimuli): ESFJ / ESFP.
 
Ren said:
If we count breath and depth as two different dimensions of feeling, then I would agree that INFP would be the 'most feely'. As for the 'least feely', I'd probably go with a feeling type that is both sensing (more down to earth) and extroverted (more likely to bounce back quickly from emotional stimuli): ESFJ / ESFP.
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I agree.
 
John K said:
Well if you judge intelligence by logical gymnastics ability a Ti Dom is bound to have a head start. INTPs can struggle with emotional intelligence though. INxJs use Ni to access a deep well of wisdom but it’s a perception so isn’t recognized as valid by critical thinkers who need everything pinned down logically.
The INTPs I’ve known can be very warm hearted like a friendly but slightly awkward puppy.
I think all types can be intelligent in their own way. Watching ISTPs creating with their hands from next to nothing looks miraculous to me.
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Ti doesn't necessarily need to be head start. It's just most people accept things under the (a) does it work and (b) do I like it criteria

INTPs get a real bad rap on the EQ front--almost to a point where it's exaggerated or a sort of MBTI folklore. I understand and recognize your statement hits these notes, and this is not a personal attack--it's more to hear it from the horse's mouth

Most of the feedback I have gotten on the Emotional Intelligence front is not that I am not emotionally intelligent. It's actually a subtle opposite. INTPs usually are very emotional intelligent in regards to awareness of what is going on and what is right and wrong in social settings. The perception of being emotionally unintelligent is often due to execution of our mannerisms and inability to express emotion in near real time compounded by expectations of society of what those should be. Then further compounded with our stubbornness to conform or accept them as truth at face-value. It's possible we come to resent it to which would further complicate things

Fair warning: controversial statements ahead

Ni, from my experience, is mostly bullshit, especially from Ni Dom/Aux, and it has a higher probability to be compounded when using ordering functions of Te or Fe

Ni will come up with a possible future. Ok, fair enough. Except that possible future is usually incomplete (how can it not be), and relies on wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many assumptions that are 50-50 at best. I take a lot pleasure in proving Ni at worst false, in the middle unreliable, and at best unreproducible

So then take some bullshit proposition from Ni and then have it willed it into existence via some ordering function either Te or Fe, and you end up with a large, if not the vast majority of our world's systems and social structures being half-baked, compounded and looped over time using the same process

It has virtually nothing to do with being pinned down logically nor is it a requirement that everything fits a box when the majority of the box is bullshit. The issue is not that things need to be 100% accurate or logical; the issue is when people believe and follow them as if they are, and even worse promote and push the same to others. And then it’s further compounded when continued to drive forward obstinately

That is the core disconnect

As a critical thinker, I accept and greatly appreciate Ni insights or any insights. Ni is good at that; however, again it is highly susceptible to converging on incomplete or un-backtested assumptions. This does not mean that society should not move forward with imperfect information; what it means is most of what is thought to be truth is subjective. It really pushes an INTPs button, and is what actually drives us to push things that make a difference in the world that are unconventional and authentic

And we do it not for the sake of "order" or "power" or "control" and the abuse that is a high probability outcome of each
 
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ClevelandINTP said:
Ni will come up with a possible future. Ok, fair enough. Except that possible future is usually incomplete (how can it not be), and relies on wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many assumptions that are 50-50 at best. I take a lot pleasure in proving Ni at worst false, in the middle unreliable, and at best unreproducible

So then take some bullshit proposition from Ni and then have it willed it into existence via some ordering function either Te or Fe, and you end up with a large, if not vast majority our world's systems and social structures being half-baked, compounded and looped over time using the same process

It has virtually nothing to do with being down pinned down logically nor is it a requirement that everything fits a box when the majority of the box is bullshit. The issue is not that things need to be 100% accurate or logical; the issue is when people believe and follow them as if they are, and even worse promote and push the same to others, and further compounded when continued to drive forward obstinately
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Marxism in a nutshell :p

I think your account is a little too black and white, but there is definitely a dimension of truth to it. Ni-doms can cling all their lives to a heavily subjective vision that they keep rationalizing over time and in spite of contradiction.
 
Maikl Jexocuha said:
There is a measure of truth to this. Ni uncoupled with effective Fe or Te decision making is mostly bullshit. I think Carl Jung himself once said "Ni is the most useless function"
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Not entirely surprising if Jung was an INTP

So many ways to humor that it’s true, though. Suppose there is a 50-50 possible Ni future. One path is willed into existence or attempted to be willed. Whether or not the outcome of that execution is successful does not mean the other path was incorrect or inferior. It just didn’t happen is the only truth that can hold without any other information

Another analogy to this is the whole the victors write history. Anyone can contort how something that already happened, happened
 
ClevelandINTP said:
Ti doesn't necessarily need to be head start. It's just most people accept things under the (a) does it work and (b) do I like it criteria

INTPs get a real bad rap on the EQ front--almost to a point where it's exaggerated or a sort of MBTI folklore. I understand and recognize your statement hits these notes, and this is not a personal attack--it's more to hear it from the horse's mouth

Most of the feedback I have gotten on the Emotional Intelligence front is not that I am not emotionally intelligent. It's actually a subtle opposite. INTPs usually are very emotional intelligent in regards to awareness of what is going on and what is right and wrong in social settings. The perception of being emotionally unintelligent is often due to execution of our mannerisms and inability to express emotion in near real time compounded by expectations of society of what those should be. Then further compounded with our stubbornness to conform or accept them as truth at face-value. It's possible we come to resent it to which would further complicate things

Fair warning: controversial statements ahead

Ni, from my experience, is mostly bullshit, especially from Ni Dom/Aux, and it has a higher probability to be compounded when using ordering functions of Te or Fe

Ni will come up with a possible future. Ok, fair enough. Except that possible future is usually incomplete (how can it not be), and relies on wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many assumptions that are 50-50 at best. I take a lot pleasure in proving Ni at worst false, in the middle unreliable, and at best unreproducible

So then take some bullshit proposition from Ni and then have it willed it into existence via some ordering function either Te or Fe, and you end up with a large, if not the vast majority of our world's systems and social structures being half-baked, compounded and looped over time using the same process

It has virtually nothing to do with being pinned down logically nor is it a requirement that everything fits a box when the majority of the box is bullshit. The issue is not that things need to be 100% accurate or logical; the issue is when people believe and follow them as if they are, and even worse promote and push the same to others. And then it’s further compounded when continued to drive forward obstinately

That is the core disconnect

As a critical thinker, I accept and greatly appreciate Ni insights or any insights. Ni is good at that; however, again it is highly susceptible to converging on incomplete or un-backtested assumptions. This does not mean that society should not move forward with imperfect information; what it means is most of what is thought to be truth is subjective. It really pushes an INTPs button, and is what actually drives us to push things that make a difference in the world that are unconventional and authentic

And we do it not for the sake of "order" or "power" or "control" and the abuse that is a high probability outcome of each
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On the whole I agree with what you are saying - any function used without balance is subject to an analogous criticism. Just to play with some ideas ....

Mother Nature is intrinsically an intuitive in both orientations. Just look at the way the world works, with its multitude of possibilities actualised and explored in overwhelming variety. But she is balanced because the possibilities are weeded our according to which of them actually work in practice in an unsentimental evaluation and judgement - but one that manifests in exquisite beauty as well as cold selection. This Darwinian process perhaps characterises the essential balance of a healthy relationship between the future and the present, what might be, what is actually possible and what actually is.

No one human type embodies all of this - we each have natural orientations that readily give us part of the truth but inhibit us from grasping other parts easily. We need each other’s perspectives. I don’t make value judgements myself on the relative worth of individual functions - they all give valid but different windows into the world, past, present and future, and the sum is greater than its parts. Each of us may find some types easier company than others though. My own challenge is on the E/I boundary, rather than the F/T.
 
I agree with most of that, at least on the mother nature front. What you said can literally be somewhat mind-blowing

Darwinism applied to social constructs can be heavily manipulated though to ensure survival of those that took perceived initiative and leverage to sustain power, and to some degree, survival

And again, all of that is highly subjective

It would imply that humans are somewhat cannibalistic with their decisioning as to who has a higher chance of survival and who does not

Sort of playing god to a degree, and who gods the gods
 
Still not quite sure who is the least feel-y as we got a three-way tie at the moment, but whittling this down to INFJ, ISFJ and ESFP. All three are status quo types.

--ESFP are driven by highly transactional, real-time interactions (Se) which are backed by highly subjective personal values (Fi)--sounds like a hot mess

--INFJ definitely has a more a cold interior (not a bad thing), but more willing to imagine different futures to raise the status quo. Feelings expressed though can be turbulent and outright cold if pushed to a limit

--ISFJ seems the most stable of the three deferring to successful implementation of things in the past. From my experience, whether or not ISFJ is the most feely or not, they do not make a spectacle of it as much as the other two

Would probably lean towards ISFJ as a personal opinion. To further back it up with Enneagram, ESFPs are like the stereotype of type 4. And I personally know a few INFJs who are type 4s. I have never once encountered an ISFJ who is a type 4
 
Maikl Jexocuha said:
I see ENxJs that do this more often.

Recently had a falling out with an ENFJ friend, long time friend too, for these very same kind of notion. What started as an argument on the importance of phenotypical differences verses genotypical differences among different species[we were watching a Richard Dawkins video], turned into a full blown shouting match over social Darwinism. I left him because it revealed unabashed racism- I basically, unintentionally, exposed him as a Nazi-like racist in front of everybody. And I didn't like that. So it was goodbye after that.
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Sorry to hear that. Yes, I agree with the above statement ENxJs to a degree
 
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