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Well developed, Introverted Sensation helps us to recognize information that has consistent meaning for us, apart from prevailing social assumptions.
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INTPs, however, whose Judgement is Introverted, don’t need more reasons to ignore social expectations for the sake of their inner needs. Introverted Sensation makes such types highly critical of others’ expectations. Their Thinking becomes complicated and […]

Most INTPs need more contact with the Extraverted nature of their secondary function (Extraverted iNtuition, a Perceiving function). They’re accustomed to using their Intuition only to assess logical probability in a system. They have to make a deliberate effort to apply it to themselves–to see the effects they have on others in the larger picture, […]

Communities gather and disperse. This is inevitable, an organic law of Brownian movement.
The original dispossessed had forgotten or overlooked the other communities that preceded them, communities bound by dial-up bulletin board systems and older communities connected by ink and paper.
Each generation of dispossessed forgot or overlooked the previous. Each glowered down at the newly-emergent.

Elders, leaders, […]

The forums grew.
Fragments from some merged with fragments of others. Across the wide, black plain of the Internet glinted the lights of the various communities of the dispossessed.
Mosaics rearranged themselves or were rearranged. Restructuring happened forcibly or accidentally or deliberately. Mosaics grew in bursts, slowly or quickly.
Survival was not guaranteed.

Lights blanked out suddenly, perhaps […]

The vast world is filled with people. Some are closely affiliated to friends and kin, others are distanced from their fellows. Some keep close ties and others cultivate no or few ties at all.
Those who had no connections sought electronic connections to ground themselves. In the silence of the Internet, their small voices carried well […]

I realized I was spending too much time around the forum when I announced to someone in my office, “Sandbagging is a bannable offense!”
Sure, the person backed out of the office, but the comment made me aware that RL and VL were blending too much. Rebuild those levees, Crowsie.
The next few posts will be about […]

I’m a bit of an accent collector.
I love to hear people talk. Just talk. It’s especially good if I don’t have to actually listen.
I’ve grown especially fond of Midwestern and Northern Plains accents lately. Ozark accents aren’t bad, either. After decades of hearing mostly various Southern and Southern Appalachian accents, the Midwestern and Northern […]