JSNYC
Yes... that is why I said I needed to qualify that statement because you obviously understand the function types very well. I really liked your first post, I think playing with the types like that is a very good way to understand and apply them. Thus my disagreement was a little more technical that substantial. And I do agree with the statement in your second post. Feeling absolutely tends to be more values or principle based. I created a post explaining (although very superficially) how I view the function types.Aerin said:The person who gave me the example had advanced training so I had no reason to doubt them. Re-reading though I think I meant values based not emotions, although crossing values usually raises very strong emotions so....
I come as INFP very consistently, especially since I was told not to answer based on how I act at work but rather how I want to act. One of the best questions IMO is "If you had to be one way for the rest of your life, what would it be?'
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I will just make one more point quickly, and then I will leave further discussion of this for another thread. A well-developed person who is not very emotional, will appear no more emotional whether they are a Thinking person or a Feeling person. Emotions and feelings are totally separate from the Feeling function. Feeling people simply tend to be more affected by emotions, they are not necessarily more emotional. So a Feeling person won't necessarily, and certainly won't automatically arrive at different conclusions than a thinking person, but they will generally arrive at those conclusions in different ways or for different reasons.
You essentially accused me and my thinking brethren of being heartless, and cold-hearted schmucks! Sending everyone to jail with no regard for the circumstances! I may sometimes appear cold and uncaring to people that don't know me, but I am really anything but.
Just like your statement about wanting to "biff" people who think you can't like math, because not all Feelers don't like, or are not good at math. In the same way, many emotional people are Feeling people, and extremely, visibly emotional people are often Feeling people, but just because a person is a Feeling person does not automatically make them emotional.
I am a dominate Thinker and I have quite strong emotions, but no one would ever call me an emotional person. (A person that doesn't have emotions maybe, but certainly not emotional! )
And since you understand this quite well and you are a Feeler, I am always open and very interested in your feeling thoughts! (They stimulate and tickle my thinking thoughts! )