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Helios
5 Oct 2005, 07:18 AM
It is funny,around here "Sensor" is a insulting slur. In fact in this strange little world I bet a racial,ethinic,or sexual jokes could all be taken pretty lightly. But damn! You call someone "senorish" and those are fighting words!

Yet for all of us (INTP) our tertiary function is just that, senorish! Si to be exact! While my secondary Ne feels as a familair tool, like my car. My Si, while sometimes powerful,in often unfamlair. Albeit never alien, like Fe. It can be mystical at best, and unwieldy other times. Today of all days it is most unwiedly! But that is another that is another post (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=171707&postcount=60).

Sometimes Si is cool. It is developed enough to be powerful and respected, but primative enough to be magical and a little dangerous! My Si is most glorious when I feel myself in time. The first time I stood at the based of Cheops at Giza in 2000, it was amazing. I had myself, my life, my being, then the whole of eternity as a touch stone before me as a massive monument of blocks. When I have walked or even flown over the country side of Scotland I can't help but feel connected to the past, who was there. Their connection to myself, the passage of time. The "wholeness" of it all. The balance of time, and my place in it. Sometime when walking the street of an ancient city in Europe I can feel the fabric of eternity give a bit. I can sense the meaning of it all, in the stones, in the streets, the buildings around, the peoples and their faces. All this contrasts with who I am, what I am,and what I am doing. This now is as if I cummune with the whole of mankind. Our past, our meaning, what it is to be.



Today however is my birthday, and I am not in Europe I am only pondering the streets of the city in my mind. This "ville" is lost for now, and finds such introsecption violently upseting. If now I was still killing time in Egypt with my childhood friends I am sure this wave of Si would be all warm and funny, with the weight of the Sphinx to validate it all.

Johnny
5 Oct 2005, 02:05 PM
Happy b-day, Helios.

Yeah that's right good point...Si. For me, it's not a mystical thing. It's more akin to listening to a string player whose intonation is not so good. It feels like nails dragging across a chalkboard.

At the same time, a string player with great intonation sounds so beautiful...the rest that surrounds technique is sweet icing on the cake!

With my understanding and illustration here, it's easy to see how we INTP'ers can block out certain sensations because ours is introverted and driven through the maze of our own personal needs and interests (or, as in my illustration, standards).

But I'd love to hear more of your (and anyone else's) mystical take on Si! When I see European architecture, especially Roman architecture, I can't help but think that it must be quite amazing for folks who can "plug in" to the sensations you describe.

INTrPosr
9 Oct 2005, 12:46 PM
I don't think anyone should take Si, feeling or any other type function, or dichotomy, for granted. There is a lot of buzz on this forum about uncertainty of type. I can't discount any of them right now. So, those who may consider F-ness or S-ness in general being lowly, are probably new to type.

Serotonin
9 Oct 2005, 01:36 PM
I find my Si is very useful in pub trivia. I'm usually a good team member with my memory for ridiculously inconsequential facts.
Si can also be a crutch though... remembering sounds and sights associated with embarrassing or painful moments...

Zero Angel
9 Oct 2005, 02:17 PM
Happy B-Day, Helios.

My Si manifests itself as wanting to preserve things, memories, experiences. It wasn't always that way, as a youngster I couldn't understand why my mom (ESFJ) accumulated so much sentimental clutter and repeatedly bothered her to just throw it away; now that i'm getting older, it makes more sense and I find myself having a difficult time throwing certain sentimental items out (graduation, birthday, post cards, pictures, even a stuffed gorilla) and gaining more an interest in photography, even striving for a stoic mindset. A lot of it is mentioned in our profile, but I can't help but be fascinated by this new function.

Even ISFJ's seem intriguing now, given the mysterious properties of this function.

FishOutOfWater
10 Oct 2005, 10:58 AM
I'm a fan of my Si function. Thanks to it, I am a plethora of useless facts and knowledge, and I'm quite good at recalling relevent, connected knowledge as well. I have a kick-ass memory that had made many jealous. Finally, I appreciate the ability to enjoy reminiscing, without being my obsessed father (ISTJ, Si first), or my mother who has no appreciation for that sort of thing (INTJ, no Si at all).

C.J.Woolf
11 Oct 2005, 12:24 AM
I didn't know that trivia was an Si thing. I kick ass in Trivial Pursuit, if I do say so myself. Except for the pinks. :whistle: