So therefore, I'm now questioning my assumption that emotions are bound to the area of feeling the way I had believed. The more we discuss this, the more I'm beginning to see it something like this.
I've always relegated emotions to feeling, as that is where they become noticeable. Evoking reactions in the feeling center of a person, they are not necessarily a feeling at all. I've noted for many years they are constructs of intellect. So now I'm thinking more along these lines.
Imagine one is climbing a mountain and brings rope and stakes. As they climb the mountain, they hammer their stakes into its side before progressing upwards to the next place they hammer the stakes.
The person hammering is the intellect, the stakes are emotions and the mountain is feeling. With only a cursory glance, one could conclude the stakes were part of the mountain if they didn't know better and the only place they ever encountered the stakes were in the sides of mountains. Yet they weren't part of the mountain at all, despite the person never encountering them elsewhere.
Not a complete analogy for sure, but it describes a mistake I think I've been making in assuming they were a part of the feeling area since that is where they are (where I have) observed (them). So at this point, the only thing of which I'm certain is that emotions are a by product of intellect casting a spell onto those binding the spell onto themselves. The emotions binding areas of feeling into certain reactions when the (intellect)spell in invoked.
I just took the test again, and this time it says I'm an INFJ-A . Reading through the descriptions so far it does look more closely aligned to myself than the one before. I do think that my life experiences forced me many years ago to analyze more carefully whenever emotions are involved, not feeling but emotion.
(notice the intp is "hiding" behind the sunglasses)
Zoiks.
inFj.
This video captures my essence well. While I do have a love for people, I've only had a couple of people I've considered friends in my life. I am an introvert, and have a hard time relating to others need for others as deeply as most seem to need it. I very much don't mind being alone, and often find myself wishing I were when circumstances force me not to be.
This video (and subsequent videos and articles I've been reading in the last hour or so) help explain a few things to me. It definitely explains how I know that feeling is not emotion, and is in its own right what seems to me a more natural way of being than even intellect.
Thank you for sharing.
There have been a couple of points where I have been approached by near strangers or very casual acquaintances who inexplicably felt comfortably compelled to "open up" to me without my conscious initiation.
Perhaps I was exhibiting INFJ characteristics at the time.
I can see why that would happen to you. I would guess it's the Wa thing I mentioned. That coupled with folks need to constantly be sharing for validation would make you a path of least resistance to many I'm guessing. Your energy isn't confrontational (at least here). A classic example is when someone states something, you rarely imply they are wrong, you instead ask what about this.
As for characteristics, I think while they might be good as a general tendency map, they can't be so rigid as to exclude folks from at times exhibiting behavior that could be a stronger calling/map for another type.
Certainly it's not, and shouldn't be thought of as a purely procrustean framework.
Great Work.
I've never found you hard to deal with. I appreciate many things about your approach, how your mind works.
You rarely share a position on a topic. I noticed that very early after encountering you. Yet your topics are usually interesting, and better, you probe responses which if one is open to such a thing, invites examination into the foundations of the responses.
You have a unique method of posting, usually in comment sections of posts that are well past the 7 day expiration. I noticed you did this last night in your one post here. I still have yet to go to that today now that I'm logged in.
It's been interesting watching you interact with others. You have a presentation style where you can be oppositional to the other person, yet most who might be prone to flagging for such action don't seem to flag you for the most part. I applaud your communication skills in achieving such a result.
Adding on to my previous comment, its been interesting watching you interact with Joey. I'm not a fan of his, agreeing with the sentiment on Hive that he is creepy. I told him that myself a couple of years ago. Despite my feeling towards him, he does have critical thinking skills higher than many I encounter, although they seem heavily tainted by far right propaganda. Of interest to me in the dynamics between the two of you is how much he does idolize you. I've witnessed him copying your commenting on his own posts, which is really something unique you've been doing.
You definitely have very unique, interesting tendencies. While it's true I've encountered some very sharp minds at Steemit/Hive/Blurt, your method of dancing with others is one of the most conducive to open dialogue I've witnessed. One of the other great minds over there (who've I speculated might also be you in the past) was always more direct in a challenging way usually. While it was interesting watching others dance in ways that revealed the perceptions they have chained to themselves as they became defensive, often to the point of being offensive, I appreciate a more subtle approach such as yours. It invites reflection from those who would soon grow defensive if openly challenged in a rudely probing way.
I'm overwhelmed once again by your generosity.
Your comments on HIVE really "put some wind in my sails" so-to-speak.
You've always stuck me as super-smart and self-assured. You seemed to have found your audience, at least as far as I could tell, and I'm still surprised you noticed me, and even more surprised you've taken the time to let me know.
I'm trying to be a person.
Thank you for your kind words. In my youth, when I was impetuous and angry, my self assurance was the cause of much misery for myself as I almost felt invulnerable.
It's interesting you feel this. You are one of the most intriguing people I've met in my online travels (and real life too). You have a graceful way of presenting conundrums and I feel lucky to have crossed paths with you.
Be careful with this here. A very small part of me has wondered (I believe I've mentioned it before) if you are an AI program. Your unique ways coupled with your vast knowledge are definitely not the norm. I'm very good at reading people and you do a great job at either controlling your Wa, or you have one that is not like anything I've encountered, or you don't have one. :)
I'll try not to shatter the illusion too quickly.