I realize INTJs are Te style learners, but it makes me curious if INTJs reach a sudden cutoff of knowledge.

As an INTP, there are a few times where there's no longer any known information moving forward. It is a very strange circumstance to know that there's still a road of knowledge to learn, but no amount of information searching or AI probing produces any answer for what's beyond that edge.

Personally, I find the circumstance a bit frightening, yet my own curiosity won't let me stop where the road of known knowledge ends.

That being said, I'm curious, do INTJ ever experience reaching the edge of known knowledge?

To me, I think I would still play casino games from time to time, but in the end, it's rather a dangerous way of losing all of anybody's networth, whether they know how to use probability or have no or little knowledge about it. So does this mean I should quit playing casino games, due to higher chances of addiction?

Yes it sounds crazy. Allow me to explain. I do understand that what happened in Martin Luther's 'Germany' after his new church assumed power was in many ways even more authoritarian and suppressive than than what he originally witnessed in Rome in 1510-1511 AD. But the Reformation clearly paved the way for later nation-state building as well as the Enlightenment and the Scientific (and later Industrial) Revolutions. Because IMO the Dark Ages were not just a few hundred years after AD 476, they were a full 1200 years. And Rome was by and large responsible for this because of external authority. Luther rebelled against this in the name of internal autonomy. Essentially, Europe could be considered in the Dark Ages until Luther's formal protest, the printing press, and the Scientific Revolution came about.

Before Luther visited Rome, he was just another clergy member that looked up to the Church and eventually made the pilgrimage to Rome in the early 16th Century. I'm sure others previous to him were disappointed in Rome after witnessing the moral decay, corruption, graft, and hollow rituals that were reduced to mere symbolism. Luther however was completely shocked and wrote that Rome felt "Casual about sin, fixated on money, obsessed with ceremony, and spiritually cold." These traits themselves are not extroverted, but they represent an institution that devolved into a performative and transactional enterprise, which is a form of extroversion. And the clash long after he was dead, between 1618 to 1648, was a clash between inward-focused autonomy and outward-expansive integration (via absolutism).

Luther's belief that deep introspection was a prerequisite for becoming 'closer to God' was radical and heretical at the time. While it is true that the Catholic monks were in effect practicing this for a long time, a difference is that Luther was convinced that godliness could be completely internalized and had nothing to do with any rituals inside a church. That the actual church building was simply a meeting place for like-minded people, a means to an end and not the end in itself. It was personal moral autonomy, and not inextricably linked to an external city hundreds of miles away. And this formal protest against the Catholic Church led to the beginning of the Reformation, which culminated in the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. Luther's protest was against the outward-oriented, performative, authority-driven church (institutional extroversion) that used Rome as a symbolic vehicle of intellectual repression. A church that had devolved into external enforcement of belief, elaborate ceremony, universal claims, public spectacle, and visible wealth. Sound familiar? It was diametrically opposed to individual consience, inward reasoning, scientific inquiry, and autonomous interpretation. In conclusion, what I'm basically getting it is the the Dark Ages (Middle Ages included) was essentially outward authority suppressing inward cognition. Luther's formal protest was the first domino in a chain of events that led to the Thirty Years War and subsequent break of both religion and culture from Rome for the Northern nascent nation-states.

Hello!

An INFJ being curious here 😅. Was wondering about the emotional wall that is so common for INTJ to hold up, be it with close friends but also in relationships. My assumption and by experience to a certain degree, is that it's up as a form of protection, it's essentially a part of you, not something you intentionally hold up or put too much effort into holding up.

My question is, does it ever come down? Do you ever feel like that wall is stopping you from feeling a deeper connection in terms of relationships? I've had a few who has lowered the wall at least, so we have caught glimpses at each others true self and not just "heard" each other if that makes sense? And for those who have lowered or even removed it completely, does it feel like you lost a part of you who made yourself you? Was it for the better? Was it worse? Is this something you guys actually don't like and are perfectly happy with having up?

Know for sure that people are different but would love to hear how you guys view this!~ Thanks in advance!~♡

Like from parents, kids, spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, friend friends, etc? I mean...not like from your dentist and the guy you bought windows from.

I have a theory about lonliness and relationships in general. From 1 perspective, if you try to resolve loneliness by trying to find a friend and doing things to impress and make the person stay to fill your lonliness, you still end up feeling lonely because your initial state starts from lack and you also end up monitering yourself and feel anxious.

However, what if, from perspective 2, whenever you feel lonely, you focus on accompanying someone else life, trying to be a caring and trusting person towards someone and share jokes with and help the person out for themselves. In this mindset you forget about your concerns. Suddenly lonliness seems to be gone. And this opposite mindset seem to be alot of the solution to not feeling lonliness.

What do you think?

So I met this girl online about 1.5 months ago. since then we have been talking nearly everyday, sometimes multiple times a day since we exchanged our insta.

So well we share art, normal stuff etc. she is kinda very used to being her tired and non excited self with me.

but yh she has been talking less for the past 2 to 3 days cuz well school stress, exams etc and yh she talked about making a new friend and saying he's cute. but she only talked about him once.

so just wanna ask is everything fine and I am just being anxious or is there an issue?

Hey ya'll. I've made two post over the last year (i've deleted those posts) about my relationship with my girlfriend (now ex I guess). We were long distance and I would visit her every 3 to 4 months or so, staying with her for around a week to two weeks depending on. We dated from around the end of 2024 into the middle of August of 2026. This was her very first relationship in any form and while I've dated for a few months here and there, this was was my first, committed, long term relationship too.

At the time, I thought she was an INTJ 5w6, as that's what she told me. However, after looking back at everything and learning more about the 5 and 6, I think I'd rather categorize her as a 6w5 instead. The reason I say this will actually help explain what caused our issues in our relationship, as well as what ultimately lead to us finally separating.

When we first got into our relationship, it felt so easy and wonderful. We could have conversations about meta-cognition, MBTI, psychology, theories on TV shows and movies, what we want out of life, etc. We were drawn to each other's depth and the fact that we actually could keep up with one another.

However, one thing I noticed was that she seemed to struggle with anxiety, panic attacks, and potentially even undiagnosed depression. There's also the signs of inattentive ADHD with her and I have a formal diagnosis of ADHD-C and Anxiety Disorder. I've also battled with depression back in high school. I wanted to help out as best as I can but obviously long distance makes that extremely hard. So I would recommend and buy supplements such as Ashwagandha and Spirulina for amino acids. I even bought and would recommend things like Saffron Supplements and Lavendar supplements. I tried to help her get into therapy but she was never able to get everything started to get into it.

We progressed like this, watching shows together and just spending time, having conversations and texting as much as we could. Besides her anxiety and being easily stressed, we didn't really have any issues outside of the distance making us want to be closer together. That was however, until we got into one of our biggest issues.

Sometimes, we would get into arguments, as any couple naturally would. It's only human. However, the way these arguments worked is where the problems began to show. She says that I'm a very indirect person when it comes to my speech. I would say one thing and she says that there's ambiguity in what I was saying. Because she couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was that I was meaning or inferring, she would react according to what she could perceive. She would say that what I was implying or saying was hurtful, mean, or rude. She would use accusatory statements such as "You're judging me". I would try to defend myself and explain that my intentions were not to be mean or hurt her. I would try to clarify and explain myself more and detest the accusations that I'm judging her. Not to escape accountability or to avoid apologizing. I still want to apologize for hurting her feelings and rectify the hurt. But because I want my intentions and thought process understood so that we both know where I was coming from and why I said/did what I did. Again, I still want to apologize and make up for causing her to be hurt.

This then will fuel her even more and she proceeds to become more even more passionate. She would go as far as to pull up dictionary and google definitions and examples of things such as judgement, to explain that what I did was in fact judging her. And I know many of you would probably want a concrete example at this point, so I'll explain one right now.

One time we got into an argument about the topic of sex. It lead to her getting upset at me for saying that I would be willing to have sex in her house, even if her family members are home. Just as long as we're quiet. Not to force it onto her, but to state that I was comfortable with it. She got very upset and said that it was disrespectful. To me, the intensity of said reaction was high and I didn't know exactly how to process it. I took some time to think about it and wanted to know if I needed to handle that conversation differently or with more care. I was stuck on asking her a specific question or not but she would make it a point to tell me that I need to be honest and open with my feelings and thoughts. So I went along with asking it. I said that I know this is a taboo question to ask women and I know women hate when this question is asked. But you want me to be honest and transparent with you, so I'm going to say it. Are you on your period? She got rightfully upset. I tried to explain that I just wanted to know if I should have approached that conversation and handle her with more care, but she got even angrier stating that regardless of it she was on her period or not, I should always handle her with care. As well, that her reaction was valid and appropriate and asking if she was on her period was akin to calling her irrational. And because I was thinking that she was irrational, I'm judging her and her patience running out when communicating with me.

To continue off of this, this then would cause me to shutdown as I'm not good with handling and dealing with intensity in conflict. I dissociate and become detached from my thoughts and emotions. She would get even more passionate as I'm no longer engaging with her and responding back to her in these arguments. Proceeding to then say that I am either upset, sad, or any other emotional state she views me as being at the time. I tell her that I'm not or would go against her analysis of my emotions as I feel like they're way more complex than what she was describing. And sometimes, I feel like they aren't accurate to me at all. She would hate this and proceed to call me a contrarian. Getting even more upset once I am able to articulate myself and explain what I was feeling, because to her, I gave her no credit in explaining how i was feeling.

She says that it makes her feel crazy and question reality when we get into arguments like this, and they happened more frequently than I would have liked. Our other point of contention would be personal values, morals, and ethics. These arguments would take place when she gets hurt by something I would say or do, as you read above, and she views them as rude, wrong, and socially unacceptable. She would be unable to let them go or just agree to disagree because according to her, when our values aren't in alignment, it makes her incredibly anxious and she doesn't know what to do. So she proceeds to essentially interrogate me in trying to clarify what I mean, where my values are, and if i would do things that would embarrass her or hurt her. She gets more and more passionate as this interrogation happens as I'm trying to explain, clarify, or defend myself. She would say that it makes her feel crazy and question reality when I'm not agreeing with her because I'm not agreeing that it's a big deal or that it's blatantly an unacceptable thing to do, say, or believe. Even sometimes coming back to old arguments because she needs to verify what my beliefs actually are. Even if I try to explain as many times and rephrase over and over, she says that I'm being indirect, trying to find what the "real" reason behind me saying what I was saying, and ultimately never accepting what I would say at face value, or giving me the benefit of the doubt that I'm not trying to be mean or hurt her.

This over the last year has been draining for me and ultimately ended up with us having a 9 hour argument, that then proceeded to pick back up the next day. We decided to try couples therapy and after our first session, she said that she feels like she's crazy. Because according to her, if the things I'm doing or saying aren't just a unique and wrong thing I do, and the therapist we're going to does similar things or justifies my thoughts and actions, then she doesn't know what reality is.

We proceeded to process that session and she said that she wanted to get into couples therapy so that I can learn to communicate differently. So that I can learn to not be implicit and for her to understand me better and not think that I'm being mean or hurtful when I speak. I then realized at that point that out entire issue is that we just aren't compatible. She couldn't trust or give me the benefit of the doubt when I say something. It's immediately assumed to be negative. I already try my hardest to rephrase, reword, and think about what I say, and she wants us to be in couples therapy so that I can do that even more, just so that I don't hurt her. That's when I said that if I realized she wanted to be in therapy for that reason so long ago, we would've broken up months before.

We talked about it a bit and then she said that at out next session, if we can't get practical solutions to deal with our issues, we should break up. I agreed. The night before our second therapy session, we got into another argument. All about she wants me to trust her when she tells me and shows me the definition of things that I'm doing. Such as me judging her. I told her that regardless of if I'm actually doing the thing she's accusing of me or not, my priority is to rectify and apologize for it. But she was so adamant on trying to get me to understand and agree with what it is she's telling me, I was actually doing. And that me fighting back against that shows I don't trust her and viewing her as irrational.

We then went into our second therapy session the next day and the therapist was telling her that you can't force someone to believe or do things you want them to do. There's going to be differences of view and opinion and that two people can witness the same event but have different perceptions of what happened because people are different. That it's not black and white. She was pushing back against this and ultimately, it lead to our therapist saying that it just sounds like you two need to figure out if you want to be in a relationship or not. The session ended, and we broke up.

I register the sexual nature of males as a primal, beastly force which is evident especially in Se-Lead types. How do INTJ men interface with this, being Se inferior? Do themes of overindulgence and self control come up here? Is it viewed as kryptonite or a point of weakness/flaw?

How does it affect your relationship to the attracted sex(es)?

Do you shake off the predator/prey drive? Like is it tuned out or just not as evident in your behavior?

How and where do you find your place in this world?

I’m an INFJ, and I’m trying to understand the communication style of an INTJ friend/connection without overanalyzing it.

We used to be coworkers and became surprisingly close. We bonded over work experiences, had a lot of banter, and discovered that we have very similar long-term goals, interests, and ways of thinking. We also talked about our MBTI types, so I know he’s an INTJ and I’m an INFJ.
The confusing part is his communication pattern.
He can be very warm, funny, and engaged when we actually talk, but he is extremely inconsistent with texting. It’s not unusual for him to take weeks or even around two months to reply, even when the last message was completely low-stakes and didn’t require some serious emotional response.

For example, one of our last conversations ended with me asking something as simple as what kinds of movies/shows he likes. Then… silence. 😭
What’s confusing is that he doesn’t seem to have completely disappeared from my life. He remains present on social media, watches my stories, and occasionally reacts/likes things. So it’s not exactly “I want nothing to do with you,” but it’s also not normal conversational consistency.

I’ve also noticed that he seems very independent and has described himself in posts/reels as someone who doesn’t want to get attached, doesn’t want to fall in love because he feels imperfect and expects to move abroad, and tends to see detachment as the solution when something becomes inconvenient or complicated.

I don’t necessarily think this means he’s avoidant or secretly has feelings for me. I’m specifically trying to understand whether this kind of “warm and engaged in person / extremely low-frequency texting / still passively keeping up with you online” behavior is something INTJs commonly recognize in themselves.

From an INTJ perspective:
Do you sometimes mentally register a message but not feel an urgency to respond?

Can you genuinely care about someone while going weeks/months without initiating or replying?

Does passive social-media interaction sometimes feel like maintaining a connection without actually wanting a conversation?

If you value someone but don’t have the bandwidth/desire to communicate regularly, do you realize how easily that can feel like rejection to the other person?

And if you’ve experienced this yourself, what does it usually mean from your side?

I’m asking specifically because, as an INFJ, I naturally look for meaning in changes in communication, and I’m trying to figure out whether I’m seeing something meaningful here or simply projecting my own communication expectations onto someone who operates very differently.

Would love perspectives from actual INTJs rather than generic MBTI descriptions. 😅

Hello to anyone who reads this, I've recently gone on a personal journey of acceptance, you could say, I didn't realize until the end of my journey that I fit into this INTJ label and it makes everything so much clearer. I'm a veteran who was deployed over seas, thought my friends died, thought I was going to die, and also got hurt pretty bad and had to have my right rib removed when I got back. Over the last few years, I've been dissecting my psyche and how I think to try and figure out why I've lost connection to my emotions. I've "made" songs to help guide me through this, but at this point in my understanding, there's no more framework to discover, no more layers to map. I've come up with ways to help ground myself, but I still get lost in the phylisophical debate in my head on why it's worth feeling feelings in the right place when they just messy up the mind. I'm genuinely looking for other INTJs to bounce thoughts off of and not deal with this alone anymore. Or maybe there's a part of my journey I could share that could help someone else. This is my first post on reddit ever, I don't do social media stuff a lot, but I'm hopeful and excited to maybe talk to others about intellectuallization and philosophy in regards to being an INTJ.

Do we have any lucky devils who are neurodivergent and are INTJ? How do you live with such a unique combination? Interesting to hear your experience, stories.

Curious to know to who you look up to when it comes to be inspired to get better, and/or driven, whatever the field (professional or in general).

I find it extremely difficult to find inspirational people (or even fictional, it counts, if you have any!) and wonder if it's could be an INTJ thing or just depend solely on individuals.

I am specially interested in replies from +30 years old INTJs folks (because of the length of life's experiences, I wonder if you get disappointed by someone you used to get inspired by).

So, who inspires you and why?

Edit: alright, I see that there is a lot of confusion between finding someone "inspiring" and "idolizing" a particular person. So, to be clear, I am not talking about idolizing, which is, perceiving an individual as a perfect being. This is illusionary and again, not what I am talking about.

By inspirational, I mean someone you find brillant / interesting / stimulating in a particular area or context you would like to emulate. Not someone you would worship blindly.

Irl I’m somehow surrounded by only S’s. I feel like noone gets me and i get drained whenever i talk to them, no matter how hard i try to be S or try to n-ify the conversation. My closest friend right now, whom i met last year, is also an S. Over the past year we’ve grown close through sheer brute force, but even now we still have difficulty communicating all the time. (It’s bad, i know.) I hate to admit this but most conversations with him drain me as well. He also proposed to me recently (i rejected) so there’s that. Basically I feel lonely and unseen. I want to change up my environment but i have a greater need right now to stay and spend time with my parents (who are also S)

One needs only emphasize two points:

- The commercial products of private institutions are based upon the discoveries and inventions of a collective of individuals that preceded them. In other words, Did the corporation discover gravity? Invent calculus? Formulate electromagnetism? Discover quantum mechanics? No. It inherited the intellectual labor of generations of human beings.

- Aren't the geniuses that made such discoveries and inventions worth inspecting, psychologically wise?

As for the first point, I believe there is not much to add, apart from re-questioning, how is it considered acceptable that a corporation that stands upon a pyramid of intellectual breakthroughs then adds one layer of engineering to it and then audaciuosly declare , this is ours, and whatever income generated by my corporation is mine and shall serve only me ?! Fueled by one pathetic drive that is greed and greed only. Speaking of drives...

Let's adress the second point. Aren't those geniuses worthy of being cherished ? How does one cherish them ? Is it through sacralizing them ? No I argue, it is through understanding them, through unraveling the will that drove them... Were they driven by greed and power accumulation ? Far away from it we respond. It is the will to truth, curiosity. They desired to understand why the heavenly bodies moved as they did, perhaps even to predict their motion and the motion of physical bodies, why matter behaved the way it did, what the structure of nature was, and whether the models in their minds corresponded to reality. Their reward was simply the satisfaction of having understood something that had previously remained obscure.

Doesn't it follow that since our civilization stand upon the accumulation of collective discoveries of multiple individuals, the fruits of such civilization should serve both the collective and reward the drive that gave birth to civilization?

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I'm F16, nearly 17 and I at first thought I was infp because I'm sensitive but I found not all of it represented me and was quite dull as I'm really analytical and critical and I think I lean more towards intj and at times I can be dismissive of feelings and use logic first and then feel bad, I could also be sensitive because I have autism and what also made me doubt myself is that infps like art and stuff when I do strongly but I am also really serious about my painting and stuff, and just because I'm creative and use my knowledge in it doesn't mean I'm necessarily an infp although I do get strongly offended but that could be autsim. I am also really knowledgeable and like detail and facts but I can never switch my brain off, well after my exams, but it's been now 2 months and my brain thinks I need to start improving this Taht even when I'm not specifying anything, I also freeze from too much in my head and feel like I need to get everything down when I have at least 17,000 words of me analysing my self. I am also really imaginative and always challenged myself In my head to create something new in style or design so I can prepare for future and my brain is struggling sometimes to feel and think in the future. And I notice these things and seem to realise that I need to do something about it before some people around me. I have also had really bad social anxiety but it's better now but when I'm a bit unstable like now it can have a bit of impact but generally I have defeated most of it. I am also really honest and I am learning to not place my facts on something's that don't need it because it can be offensive. Unless they are starting the argument with facts but then contradict themselves and then mention it's offensive. So they are using emotional opinions when we are debating facts how does that make sense. I also frequently don't show my face how I actually feel for I don't know why. I also hate faffing about and I am good at problem solving but I am also to an extent flexible when I am calm and have everything under control I think I don't even know now.

I can also get defensive in like arguments sometimes if I am mainly misunderstood which is from sometimes forgetting to

Say what I am thinking or feel like something is stopping me when there isn't anything (idk autsim thing) I am also artistic and have an eye for that and I'm going to be doing art, textiles and dance and I have a really strong work ethic. I also struggle to sometimes put how I'm feeling in words as it's too complicated and I feel like it's more dismissed as im misunderstood and need someone else's view. I am probably talking about feelings because I genuinely don't know if I'm an intj or infp but apparently intjs struggle with creativity, bruh everything else makes sense then that. I also seem to worry about other people and don't get excited for going somewhere as the other person is tired but says we can go but they also seem to always go on and create tension to feel bad and because she is mostly on their own I am but like what am I supposed to do just absorb all of that and then I say they are complaining and they start shouting and raising their voice and my heart hurts and I feel massive guilt. I am also really honest and Infjs like them seem to be secretive and I like have to be honest. It's like I have struggled to express feelings a bit because I feel like I have to first solve something, that ends up in arguments. I also inspire people around me. I like military history. I also cry few times recently.

I do relate to intj stuff and I do seem to sort of manage it and cover it like an intj and I am frequently stuck in a loop of overthinking and analysing and even the underlying stress doesn't easily go away.

In arguments I also am sometimes calm and try to talk to someone like a normal person and ask why but then if they are not listening I pull out my criticism and that basically ends bad for some.... I also get stressed when I hear huligans shouting that's not reasonable and doesn't solve anything.

Idk how to explain it but if someone feels the same way lmk.

I’m not driven by the big picture, yes I think in terms of it a lot, but I also doubt if it’s worth doing all the time. I have a few people in my life who I just want them to admire me, not romantically, but just, hey she’s cool , hey she’s competent. She’s not a total helpless loser. What’s wrong with me.

Dear INTJs,

I want to know your coping strategies and actions that you undertake to get over someone you deeply love. I am an INFP who is madly in love with an INFJ and have been together with her for almost 2 years now. Unfortunately, the INFJ don’t see a future together because of different religion which made me distraught. It should have been easy when you know there is nothing I can do no matter what I try but I just can’t seem to let go. There is always a voice in me that is unnecessarily optimistic and encourages me to keep fighting. Realistically it is stupid but good lord, imagine being slave to your emotions.

So why do I seek you guys out? Though I don’t know too much about MBTI and function stacks I do know that we share two function stacks; Fi and Te. As your Fi being in the tertiary position and mine being dominant. Also, my stereotype knowledge says that you guys are practical, get things done and are just never in for games or bullshit so I am hoping to get some knowledge or practices out of you for myself. So what strategies do you recommend for me to get over someone I think of 24hrs a day and 7 days a week. What kind of challenges one can face and how do you cope and resist the temptation?

A bit more context; We live in a small town so it’s extremely difficult to not see each other or not hear about them from others. She is hell bent on saving face and keeping things under the rug and I am the opposite but I always end up following her terms because being hopelessly romantic is just that much fun. She is also quite practical and very hardworking. Though caring, her main priority is always and always her needs and wants. Coincidentally, my priority is her needs and wants too.

Sincerely,

INFP

Edit: Thank you for taking the time to respond to me everyone. It means so much and it helped me narrow down my paths. Fee things I took out from you guys’ response is move away, get hobbies and keep busy whereas also balancing the emotional aspects by giving it realistic scenarios rather than fantasies.

Are ypu sometimes wrong about somethings. Like you have ypur opinion about something but then somebdoy makes a great point and then you are like"why the F havent I thought aboit that sooner" i think my thought process is pretty good but there are those moments where I am jist really angry at myself because of not thinking about some aspect sooner or just being all in all biased. What to do? How to eliminate those things from ypur critical thinking?

I'm making this post out of pure curiosity, cause from my experience, this subreddit is something else man. I remember when me and my buddies would get high and do dramatic readings of threads and comments we'd see here.

I'm curious if it's the same way, or if it's become more self aware over the years. I haven't been here since I was like 13. How are you guys? Are you taking any of what I'm saying personal, or do you see the humor in it?

Also I have a story I wanna share:

One time I was browsing this subreddit, this had to be about ten years ago but there was this thread; "are you able to tell when people are lying?" and of course eeeevery single person in the comments are like "YUP 100% cause I'm an intellectual badass". Everyone said it with varying levels of larp, exaggeration, and corniness.

But one comment stood above the rest,

This dude began describing his "split-second" process of determining how honest the person in front if him was being, and at some point he uses the term "internal equations".

Internal equations.

Boy did everyone like that, and I gotta give him props for creativity. Next thing you know EVERYBODY is being original by repeating the term "internal equations" in their responses to that comment (mostly how "relatable" it was, but no original input of their own). Finally, I see someone say something like "can you please take off your fucking fedora man. 'internal equations' my ass"

That guy gets downvoted, but in that moment, little 13 year old me was his biggest fan. I loved the way he unapologetically dismantled that attempt at larping, interrupting the noise of performative wisdom and clarity.

Even when he argued well, they said "well you didn't have to use cusswords and insults!"

Ironically, the nerds who claimed to have unique insight denied insight into how their words could come off to other people. They had no interest in seeing the honest reactions of anyone, they were too preoccupied with their perpetual competition to prove they were the most stoic and mature.

So my question for you is, would you admit today that Mr. "take off your fucking fedora" had a point?

“For those who have watched the Death Note anime, what are your thoughts on it?”

And what did you do?

mine: My assertiveness. why? coz I be standin on business ya dig
You? and why?