***I tend to use HUMOR as a means of dissent. Apparently this is lost on most folks:
***Rather than entertain the notion that my sentiments are entirely novel, why not borrow from those who have already stated them sufficiently? Why subject ourselves to any more redundancy?:
**"You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything." --Talking Heads
**"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business."
**"Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off."
**"...but if I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Nevertheless, as I do not need the police of meaningless labor to regulate me... I prefer to finish my education at a different school."
**"To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself... Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely."
**"An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office."
**"Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society are still very slight and transient. Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood, and by which it is allowed that I am to some extent serviceable to my contemporaries, are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded that they are a necessity. So far I am successful. But I foresee that if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living." --Henry D. Thoreau
**"The truly educated never graduate." --(some bumper sticker)
**"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." --Albert Camus
**"Our life is frittered away by detail..." --Henry D. Thoreau
**"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness."-- Jack Sparrow
**"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it". --Jane Wagner
**"I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up...
Let me tell you why you're here.
You're here because you know something.
What you know you can't explain, but you feel it; you've felt it your entire life.
That there's something wrong with the world.
You don't know what it is, but it's there....like a splinter in your mind...driving you mad". --Morpheus (The Matrix)
**"You know, my girlfriend had a theory. She said at some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you ever had. It's like connecting the dots." --Dakota (Planet Terror)
**"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest man." --Willy Wonka
**"My advice to you, is to start drinking heavily."-- Blutarsky (Animal House)
**"An unexamined life is not worth living". --Socrates
**"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." --Aristotle
**"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed." --Bruce Lee
**"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist". --Dom Helder Camara
"The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy". -- Louis Kronenberger
**"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." --Socrates
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INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population. Free Myers-Briggs Word Choice Test
personality tests by similarminds.comINTP: The EggheadThe typical INTP is a logical, abstract thinker whose intellect is ideally suited to understanding pure mathematics, linguistics, formal logic theory, and other pursuits unsuited to making a real living. The INTP can often understannd even the most subtle nuances of lattice quantum chromodynamics, but cannot perform more concrete tasks such as dressing himself, operating a motor vehicle, or opening a door. An INTP may be able to tell you how to construct a nuclear reactor from a coconut and two pieces of string, but may be completely incapable of fixing a hole in a boat.The INTP is really only suited to two careers: college professor and game show contestant. Of these career choices, only one offers the financial rewards which allows him to suport himself; for that reason, INTPs often take the other path, and become tenured academics.RECREATION: Surprisingly, INTPs are often the hit of the party--not for their sometimes annoying habit of turning every discussion into a debate about semantics nor for their fascinating stories about Pierre de Fermat's habit of writing things in the margins of his books, but for the fact that they often show up with their pants on backwards and that if you put a Post-It note reading "Kick Me" on an INTP's back, he won't notice it no matter how many people kick him. That kind of entertainment never gets old.COMPATIBILITY: INTPs make ideal companions to INTJs, as neither of them notices they're in a relationship.Famous INTPs include Pierre de Fermat.***I suppose that one could consider me "maladjusted," albeit a bit "cheeky" at times... because once you consider the universe we exist within, any person who could come out "content" is truly disturbing... needless to say, as far as I'm concerned, "average" is the pathology...
