INTPc's effect on your life

[geniusndisguise]

It occurred to me that, maybe not everyone but a good many, have had their daily lives effected by this site in more ways than it just being a time waster. It seems that if you become a participating member (in some way - I know I'm not a prolific poster) you meet people and learn things that cause you to change your life. I wonder if they are all good things.

Personally, along with learning who I am and more about what I want, this site (I will finally admit) caused me to leave my husband. That's actually a good thing though, because I was prevented from wasting my life or his trying to be what I cannot be. I understand why I think and act the way I do now so I can work within my own parameters rather than just pointlessly going against my own grain.

How have you changed?

[mancroft]

Being on INTPc is making me an even better person than I was before.

[attila_the_hunny]

Heh, do I really have to answer this? :whistle:

I took some jumps I wouldn't have ordinarily have taken and that were quite scary for me. I can say because of those big things, I have never been more of myself than I am now.

[libertarianjim]

It's a good place to know that hey, I'm not the only person like this in the world.

[geniusndisguise]

It's a good place to know that hey, I'm not the only person like this in the world.

Yes but how has that affected your decisions and the overall shape of your life?

[TPol]

How come this thread died? This is an interesting topic.

[Rajah]

I don't know that I ever saw this thread...

The people I met around here motivated me to give up being a lawyer and go back to grad school. Interesting, for an INTP site. ;)

[joft]

I hooked up with a forum member, left home and moved away to live on my own for the first time, and to be with her. That's arguably a chance encounter that could have happened on another site, but as far as sustained membership here goes I would say it hasn't effected me much. I'm pretty much just as confused now as when I first learned of MBTI. In fact, I can't even remember what it was about MBTI that made me think it had ever answered any questions, or at least ones I was asking.

[C.J.Woolf]

I'm pretty much just as confused now as when I first learned of MBTI. In fact, I can't even remember what it was about MBTI that made me think it had ever answered any questions, or at least ones I was asking.
I daresay that for 99+% of those who stick around more than a couple of months, it's not about MBTI anymore. For the noob INTPc is an interest group; for me it's a social group.

[MacGuffin]

I daresay that for 99+% of those who stick around more than a couple of months, it's not about MBTI anymore. For the noob INTPc is an interest group; for me it's a social group.

QFT.

[int]

QFT.

Seriously. We're just here for the hookups. Or something.

[MacGuffin]

Seriously. We're just here for the hookups. Or something.

:ph34r:

[Ivy]

I daresay that for 99+% of those who stick around more than a couple of months, it's not about MBTI anymore. For the noob INTPc is an interest group; for me it's a social group.

yes. MBTI has become more of a specialized descriptive vocabulary to me than anything. I come here because of the peeps. (You guys know how much I love putting them in the microwave and watching them breathe.)

Having said that I don't know that the site has really changed my life like it has some of you. I didn't meet a mate here or change my career because of support I found here. But I feel like I've forged real connections to some folks I probably wouldn't have met otherwise.

[dunee]

I can't say its "changed my life"... but being here for 2 years (whoa), the place has certainly had an effect on my thoughts, decisions, and moods. I've tried (relatively minor) things I wouldn't have before, and learned things about social interactions I otherwise wouldn't know since I don't have the same type of or quality of exposure to society as most of you. I've probably gotten better at seeing puns and going into the gutter too. :grin:

Oh, and since its a relatively stable sort of social environment, I think having the ability to procrastinate visit almost every day and see what was up, even if I didn't post much, had a positive effect in keeping me less depressed than i might've been in the past year (had to deal with loss of both a younger sister and cousin last winter while finishing senior year 900 miles away from home). I could always be assured of getting a laugh or two from some thread/post, seeing some new and some familiar sights like hustler smackdowns, helios drunkenry, headphonez wisdom, noobs trying to beat the Krill high-post mark, and pondering interesting discussions or links, uh, linked.