MBTI and weight loss

anonemouse · May 12, 2007

It is funny one of you mentioned the religion thing. I had a friend that was also INTP and were exact opposites on religion. It was funny if you step back and listened to both our arguments. We were both 100% we were right and weren't arguing to explain our point of view but arguing to convert the other. Of course you can't change the mind of an INTP on something they hold close. Sounds like that may be the case for the INTJ as well.
It is interesting in that I think the INTX personalities tend to state their opinions as fact and leave no room for discussion. Usually we have spent so much time on the logic of our position that other personality types find us difficult to persuade.

You're exactly right. Most of the time, with any of my opinions, I have spent so much time analyzing them in my own head, I am 100% confident of them. I know they are right for me. I've analyzed the pros and the cons, the possible arguments for or against the position, everything. If I can't support it with a rational argument, it gets tossed by the wayside, so to speak. So it is very difficult in some situations to try and have a debate or discussion with someone with opposite beliefs, just because they can't give me (what I consider to be) a rational explanation and defense of their position. In many cases, they just argue that "they believe" or that "they have faith". To me, that's not a legitimate answer. They have to have some rational explanation for why you have a certain opinion, or else I have very little respect for the person I am debating. I'm guessing that INTJs are the Vulcans of the MBTI.

anonemouse · May 12, 2007

I should change that last bit of paragraph to say that, "They have to have some rational explanation for why you have a certain opinion, or else I have very little respect for position of the person I am debating." I don't necessarily lose respect for the person themselves, just for the position they take.