Thread: Introversion.

Put me down as another introvert, I prefer to be by myself, be independent, do my own thing without all the BS that goes with more than one or two others, definately not off to the pub after work kinda bloke, I find all the crap interferes with what ever it is I am thinking about or trying to achive, I always thought lighthouse keeper would have been a good job. I used to have a job where I worked odd hours so I knocked off when everybody else had gone, it was always something special to just go out the door and not see the line of traffic that I had to try and get into, look up at the stars and appreciate the quiet.
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Having said all that tho I am able to function out there in the real world, just have to take a deep breath do what I have to do then retreat back to the mancave.

My sister is doing some study into Aspergers and of course she reckons I'm an aspy, I'll admit I certainly have some of the typical characteristics but how far along the spectrum Who knows? I reckon not as far as she thinks but that's another story.



Pete

I write this with tongue firmly planted in cheek. How successful would I be in having a get together with a bunch of introverts?

By the way, I'll be at the show this week, probably just Friday. I'll be the one in the background, quietly taking notes and slipping out the back door. Seriously, that's what I'll be doing. I'm in that 'mood' at the moment.

Originally Posted by Scott

By the way, I'll be at the show this week, probably just Friday. I'll be the one in the background, quietly taking notes and slipping out the back door. Seriously, that's what I'll be doing. I'm in that 'mood' at the moment.

I will look out for you, Scott. I reckon I could recognise you from last year.

An Innie or an Outtie?

Didn't you just have an operation to fix that Bob?

Do you have to be one or the other?

You can't be a bit of both at the same time?

What if your a schizophrenic (Multiple Personality Disorder) Type - can't one of you be an introvert and the other an extrovert?

It's like... why must someone be a homosexual or a heterosexual - they can't be bisexual?

I'd say I'm a bit of an extrovert.... online and the complete opposite (introvert) in the real world.

It's like having an alter ego...

You can just do what the different voices in your head tell you to do...

So riddle me this then introverts...

IF a paranoid schizophrenic threatens to kill themselves...are we dealing with a hostage situation?

Likewise..... would all of those - who believe in Psychokinesis (The ability to move physical objects, using only the mind) please raise my right hand!

This whole psycho mumbo jumbo science - is one that has me flummoxed... wheres the peer reviewed papers proving this stuff a valid science - yet we get psychologists admitted as expert witnesses in our courts system.... (Can anyone say psychological profiling - cough cough)...

THEN by way of contrast we get something like this result, with peer reviewed mathematics...from highly esteemed professors from leading university's

Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption^{[citation needed]} method became widespread in 1994 when Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg published a paper, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", in the scientific journal Statistical Science.^[2] The paper, which was presented by the journal as a "challenging puzzle", presented strong statistical evidence that biographical information about famous rabbis was encoded in the text of the Book of Genesis, centuries before those rabbis lived^{[citation needed]}.

Since then the term "Bible codes" has been popularly used to refer specifically to information encrypted via this ELS method.

Since the Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (WRR) paper was published, two conflicting schools of thought regarding the "codes" have emerged among proponents. The traditional (WRR) view of the codes is based strictly on their applicability to the Torah, and asserts that any attempt to study the codes outside of this context is invalid. This is based on a belief that the Torah is unique among biblical texts in that it was given directly to mankind (via Moses) in exact letter-by-letter sequence and in the original Hebrew language.

Or if you prefer - their original peer reviewed paper that was published, then later ridiculed.

Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis

But you can't use a mathematically validated peer reviewed scientific method such as this in a court of law - as 'evidence' even if the esteemed authors showed up as expert witnesses... even of the technique might be applied to solve say serious crimes like murder and homicide for e.g.

The world truly has gone mad... we are thru the proverbial looking glass ad in the territory of the mad hatter now....

All bets are off, & its, "one for all", "all for one" & "every man for himself"...as Larry, Curly, and Mo said, - in their skit about being the 3 musketeers!

Nothing in this world is as it seems - that's about the only thing you can take to the bank these days.

Or I could just be certifiable.

Originally Posted by Chesand

I will look out for you, Scott. I reckon I could recognise you from last year.

Likewise

Originally Posted by Timless Timber

Or I could just be certifiable.

Potentially. Your thread mentioned science and religion in the same breath. Everyone knows you should never, EVER mix science and religion.

Originally Posted by chambezio

Yeh I know I am weird.....but I am mentally ill

Depends if you'd like to label yourself that way. A (well paid) psychiatrist I visited virtually stated the words from the Dire Straits song, Industrial Disease:

"He wrote me a prescription and said you are depressed. But I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest. Come back and se me later - next patient please."

So I filled the prescription, took the tablets and felt the same. After weaning myself from the tablets (see the discussion here), I found a great psychologist and worked out my problems without the pill. The psychologist and I got a bit stale so he recommended me another psychologist who then dug a little further. This psychologist then suggested that I am who I am and that I should embrace how I feel, not fight it. It made sense, really. And now I feel a whole lot better because I can rationalise how I feel at times and deal with it. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, works a treat!

So having shrugged the 'depression' and 'mentally ill' labels, I'm at ease and know my limitations. I'm a loner, love my own company and avoid social situations. I really like what saczel wrote: Don't get depressed, get angry. I'm not going to get angry but I'm sure as hell not going to get depressed about it.

Having waffled too long chambezio, don't label yourself as 'mentally ill'. Your just different, that's all

Scott, Myers-Briggs told me a lot that I recognised in myself. (I've done a lot of inventories for professional purposes.)

Extra/introversion in Jungian psychology is a scale with a specific meaning somewhat different from popular use: My MBTI Personality Type - MBTI Basics - Extraversion or Introversion

ROFL.

On a very basic level, it seems to me that introversion is the ability to be content in a room where you can swing a cat.

An extrovert can be happy in a room where you can't swing it, for fear of someone else in the room laying charges.

Me? I'm an educated introvert. (Which simply means that I've finally learned not to swing the neighbour's cat! Well... not where they can see me, anyway. )

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

ROFL.

On a very basic level, it seems to me that introversion is the ability to be content in a room where you can swing a cat.

An extrovert can be happy in a room where you can't swing it, for fear of someone else in the room laying charges.

Me? I'm an educated introvert. (Which simply means that I've finally learned not to swing the neighbour's cat! Well... not where they can see me, anyway. )

I think there are heaps of jobs that need doing in the world that require introverts. Prolly why both exists. How long would an extrovert last looking after a light house for instance?

I think in my old age I have developed too a point where I can enjoy a day with heaps of people around, but I need a balancing day by myself to survive. Or to at least not murder anyone.

By 'scale' what's meant is that you're not either or, you're at a point on the scale.

When I did the Myers-Briggs inventory (the whole shebang, at a price to match) I showed up at the mid point on extra/introversion. Those who know me better than I do myself would say that's a good call.

Originally Posted by rsser

By 'scale' what's meant is that you're not either or, you're at a point on the scale.

When I did the Myers-Briggs inventory (the whole shebang, at a price to match) I showed up at the mid point on extra/introversion. Those who know me better than I do myself would say that's a good call.

Yes. Maybe I have cribbed my way along the scale too.

Nope,

There's a entirely different scale for ladies, you see Tea Lady - coz these "mysterious wimmin's" are a totally different species to us, - from Venus no less, while we useless males, are all from mars!

For this reason the introvert / extrovert scale for the ladies, is a totally different scale, (I am reliably informed, by SWMTSHWTP).

I have this on good authority - my wife, said it's so!.

Who am I to argue?.

I just want to "phone home" and see if its all true!

Ohhh the mysteries of life, some days it's just all too tough to figure out....

Yeah But reckons I'm kinda like a bloke anyway.