Are you INFJ? And does that mean that INFJs get along well with each other?

[Godlovesmetwo]

INFJs because it just doesn't needs so many!

ouch!

 

[com7fy8]

Tend to feel you are perceptive and not enjoy rational, left brain debate?

Hi, there, Better Call Paul I find that we need to be able to have intuition, but also be able to spot what is a practical matter.

With God, in my experience, and with certain people, I have found that God and certain people can take me the unproven way and "past finding out" (Romans 11:33) in intuition. But God and certain people also can be very practical, better than I have been able to do things even if I have experience and training with something.

It can be both practical and intuitive, in how to relate with another person. This can take knowledge and experience, but a lot of prayerful intuition of God's input.

So, in learning how to love, we need practical works, yes, and plenty of prayerful input from God. So, being meditative and deeply quiet and sensitive to God is good, I would say; but do not do what is merely isolating yourself with your own self and how you can get yourself to feel and think

But quietness can be invaded and contaminated with boredom and loneliness and worries and useless ambitions which do not have us loving others as ourselves. And these violators of our quiet can keep us from becoming deeply and sensitively sharing with God in His love. So ones can fear dealing with quiet . . . but because of the violating and molesting things. It is not the fault of the quiet!

Also . . . wherever we go, in us or geographically on the map . . . we will still have our own selves. We need how God makes us His way in gentleness and humility and compassion and caring

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Hi, there, Better Call Paul I find that we need to be able to have intuition, but also be able to spot what is a practical matter.

I have to use my rational side as well. Often my gut instinct is plain wrong. Oversensitive antenna. But I'd say my gut instinct has a 70% success rate at being right. Pretty high really. maybe I'm kidding myself. Who knows.

 

[com7fy8]

But I'd say my gut instinct has a 70% success rate at being right. Pretty high really. maybe I'm kidding myself. Who knows.

God knows our motives. So, in case He is pleased with what we are trying to do, He can give our intuition a good boost Plus, He can be orchestrating things and people to even poetically work with whatever He has us doing. This takes timing, by the way, with how others are also developing and doing things. Only God can give us the reliable input which accords with what He knows others and things will be doing, and when

I had an experience, years ago > this is subject to evaluation and question, of course, but here is what happened >

I was walking interstate. A couple of officers stopped and picked me up, then asked where I was going. In my mind I heard something like > "Tell them you are going to North Carolina to visit a church." I was in Massachusetts, near Rhode Island! I was rather sure they would lock me up if I said that. But I simply sensed it was God. So, I said it, and one guy said, "ok", and they turned me loose, of all things.

Later, troopers did pick me up and put me in an institution. And one day I was told we were going on an outing at some eating place. I found the location on a map, and it was a little bit north of the Carolina Management Area in Rhode Island. So, poetically, that outing was in "North Carolina".

Then, years later, I did walk to North Carolina and visit a church there.

Even so . . . so much better input of God has been correction to help me get a clue how to love.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

I was walking interstate. A couple of officers stopped and picked me up, then asked where I was going. In my mind I heard something like > "Tell them you are going to North Carolina to visit a church." I was in Massachusetts, near Rhode Island! I was rather sure they would lock me up if I said that. But I simply sensed it was God. So, I said it, and one guy said, "ok", and they turned me loose, of all things.

nice anecdote

 

[Meowzltov]

ouch!

Oh, I'm sorry LOL. I didn't mean it that way. I was thinking of a machine. Every part is critically, but you need more of some parts than others.

 

[Meowzltov]

This thread just goes to show that although INFJ's get along for the most part, we can really disagree strongly when our ideals are challenged. I recognize some of my debate foes! LOL

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Oh, I'm sorry LOL. I didn't mean it that way. I was thinking of a machine. Every part is critically, but you need more of some parts than others.

Can the world survive without any INFJs? That is the question!

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Oh, I'm sorry LOL. I didn't mean it that way. I was thinking of a machine. Every part is critically, but you need more of some parts than others.

We're individualistic so possibly INFJs are not as compatible as I first thought.

 

[Meowzltov]

Can the world survive without any INFJs? That is the question!

Probably, but it would be a sorry, sorry place.

 

[Meowzltov]

We're individualistic so possibly INFJs are not as compatible as I first thought.

On the INFJ board that I shmooze on, we just avoid politic, religion, and child rearing, and we all get along just fine.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Probably, but it would be a sorry, sorry place.

and I thought I was indispensable!

 

[Meowzltov]

Here is the book on the different preferences of prayer styles based on MBTI types:

Prayer and Temperament: Different Prayer Forms for Different Personality Types: Monsignor Chester P Michael, Marie C Norrisey: 9780940136021: Amazon.com: Books

 

[seashale76]

I am INFJ. I'll include some data later ( or somebody else can). Are you eccentric like me? Tend to feel you are perceptive and not enjoy rational, left brain debate?
Starting to sound like a pain already?
We are all complex. I feel complex but I know that doesn't make me any better than simple souls who get on with it and just do it. I envy such people who are unpretentious and pragmatic. The hard workers of the world don't suffer procrastination and moral dilemmas. I can create moral dilemmas out of very simple problems , someone once told me.

I am an INFJ- but I am very close to being an INTJ- so I very much enjoy rational, left brain debate. I am eccentric, I suppose, and can be a procrastinator, but I don't have the luxury of actually being one because of the nature of my previous career and my current career. I'm actually very pragmatic.

 

[Meowzltov]

I am an INFJ- but I am very close to being an INTJ- so I very much enjoy rational, left brain debate. I am eccentric, I suppose, and can be a procrastinator, but I don't have the luxury of actually being one because of the nature of my previous career and my current career. I'm actually very pragmatic.

Hi seahale. I revel in being eccentric. Actually I've worked hard at fitting in, so that I'm not so much of a freak. But I'll always be really different and I've learned that that's okay. I'm also a procrastinator. In fact I just turned in some government forms -- today was the last possible day to get them in and yesterday I was going out of my mind trying to get the last forms. I'm terrible LOL.

 

[Cyprezz]

I do this test every month (and record it) for kicks.

I started as INFJ until I was about 17, never got any other result, then over a span of about 2/3 months I moved over to INFP and haven't gotten any other result since lol

 

[Meowzltov]

I do this test every month (and record it) for kicks.

I started as INFJ until I was about 17, never got any other result, then over a span of about 2/3 months I moved over to INFP and haven't gotten any other result since lol

Do you dress eccentrically; having your own unique style of dress very important to you even if others think you are a bit strange? Or do you like having your own style but you are still concerned about looking too weird?

Does everyone know how you are feeling, or do you tend to have a fairly good poker face?

Do you think holidays are too commercial and tend to minimize them in general, or do you relish the trappings of the holidays?

 

[Paidiske]

That's interesting, the thing of feeling eccentric or an outsider.

I've always had that, but I think for me it was very true, because I was a migrant kid and I was quite literally an outsider in my new culture.

But as I have got older, I've seen that that's been a source of strength; once you take being an outsider as a given, you lose a lot of fear, because well, I'm weird anyway, so what do I have to lose by being authentically weird?

Is that sense something many INFJs share? I haven't come across that idea before.

 

[NeoScholasticism]

I'm an INFP, but very neutral on the P bit.

Depending on who you ask, Kirkegaard was an INFP or INFJ.

Also INFP.

 

[Meowzltov]

That's interesting, the thing of feeling eccentric or an outsider.

I've always had that, but I think for me it was very true, because I was a migrant kid and I was quite literally an outsider in my new culture.

But as I have got older, I've seen that that's been a source of strength; once you take being an outsider as a given, you lose a lot of fear, because well, I'm weird anyway, so what do I have to lose by being authentically weird?

Is that sense something many INFJs share? I haven't come across that idea before.

INFP's are notorious for being eccentric dressers (although not all eccentric dressers are INFP's). INFJ's are not exactly conformists, but we are certainly not trying to stand out.

You will always know what an INFP is feeling. On the other hand, while an INFJ may FEEL like their emotions are showing because we feel so strongly, the truth is we do a pretty good job of holding our emotions in.

Most of the INFP's I know think things like Valentine's day and Christmas have far too much hoopla -- keep it simple. INFJ's on the other hand tend to love all the traditions that go with the holidays. That was probably more true of me when I had kids. I especially did it up big for Halloween. But even today I would still feel like I was loosing a little bit of heaven if I didn't get a month of Christmas music, Christmas lights, Advent's wreaths on Sunday, and a Great Big Family Get-together for Christmas with all the trimmings.