are we not creative?

[Jonah Davids]

Creative Expressions has a mere 16 thousand posts or so. Creative Theory only six thousand. Compared to the others these are pittances. Is INTPc and the INTP personality uncreative? Or are we in fact too creative to use a "Be Creative Here" sub-forum and creatively apply our creativity elsewhere on the forum?

...on another note, there are hardly any posts in the high-IQ and old farts forums. Are INTPs uncreative idiots who die young?

[starjots]

Perhaps people are inhibited by the word creative.... sure you could start a thread on all the ways to call somebody a jizz bag, but that would just get moved to the adult thread and there goes the post count.

[NoahFence]

Playground is where my creativity is currently getting dumped. Perhaps the problem is that creativity alone is not a motivation. Its application is sort of automatic.

Also, anyone posting here is stating "This is Creative!"

INTP's as a whole are wary of declarative statements like this one.

[Corbin]

If there is anything that you should learn from your stay at INTPc, is that very few are alike and most are very different. There is no "is x type uncreative? is x type better in bed?" etc.

[md5fungi]

There is no "is x type better in bed?" etc.

Disagree.

[Corbin]

Really? Is it so objective?

[Notsweetynice]

The popular usage of creativity refers to being artsy. No, INTPs are not artsy. Unfortunately, creativity and intellectualism are pretty much mutually exclusive in most people. Creativity requires a certain uninhibited randomness and recklessness, nothing like an INTP.

[pangolin]

What is creativity?

Is it the production of novel experiences from a re-assemblage of existing experience?

Can you think of an example of creativity that does not fit in this definition?

Is creativity valuable for its own sake or is it a means to producing ends?

[Dirac]

The popular usage of creativity refers to being artsy. No, INTPs are not artsy. Unfortunately, creativity and intellectualism are pretty much mutually exclusive in most people. Creativity requires a certain uninhibited randomness and recklessness, nothing like an INTP.
INTPs aren't artsy? Bullshit. INTPs aren't uninhibitedly random and reckless? Also bullshit. You shouldn't generalise like this.

[fduniho]

I have channeled much of my creativity into my Chess variants (http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?type=Any&orderby=Type&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&inventorid=FergusDuniho&usethisheading=Items+Invented+by+Fergus++Duniho) and Game Courier (http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/index.html). My creativity tends to be more architectural than artsy.

[last_caress]

The popular usage of creativity refers to being artsy. No, INTPs are not artsy. Unfortunately, creativity and intellectualism are pretty much mutually exclusive in most people. Creativity requires a certain uninhibited randomness and recklessness, nothing like an INTP.

bullshit x 2