I was wondering… most philosophers seem to be the deep thinking, reflective type of people. On other sites I have noticed that most of those individuals with the letters NT in their MBTI have an interest in philosophy.
Give your MBTI if you know it and I’ll see if I’m right. Mine is ENTJ.
What is an MBTI? I’ve never heard of it before.
the monk introduced his friend…
My Brother The Idiot…
-Imp
MBTI®
Otherwise known as
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, to make C.G. Jung’s theory of psychological type practical and useful in people’s lives.
C.G.Jung (1875-1963), the Swiss psychoanalyst and thinker, developed his theory of psychological type from reflecting on why there were so many different approaches to psychology, in particular the differences between Freud and Adler. Building his ideas on the work of others, as well as from his own clinical research, he described two psychological types _ extraverts and introverts, in 1913.
Jung developed the framework further in his book Psychological Types (1921/3), introducing categories of perception and judgement in mental functioning: sensing, intuition, thinking and feeling. Jung added to and spoke on his theory of types over some decade, but never revised his writing on the types, unlike most of his other work. He always considered it a cornerstone of his thought, notably in the expression of his theory of opposites.
from:
members.ozemail.com.au/~alchymia … story.html
Some info about the types:
personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html
MBTI Humor:
ENFJ: “Busybody”
Life’s backseat drivers. They seem to know just what’s wrong with everybody else’s life and have a plan to fix it.
INFJ: “Messiah”
Characterized by the burning desire to change the world, which desperately needs everyone to be NF.
ENFP: “Muckraker”
Creator of hype, distortion, and the perversion of media of information to be wallows of mindless emotionalism.
INFP: “Fanatic”
Always searching for an Answer with a capital A. Unlike the INFJ, they are usually openminded enough to realize the current one isn’t good enough after a few years.
ENTJ: “Tyrant”
Knows better than everyone how things should be done and works tirelessly to obtain the power to make it happen that way.
INTJ: “Crackpot”
All facts which don’t fit their theories are just wrong. The more all-encompassing and less applicable to reality the theories, the better.
ENTP: “Frankenstein”
The salvation of the world is to be found in this new nanotronic frannistan, of which he just happens to have an almost-working model…
INTP: “Nerd”
What? you mean people actually talk to each other using mouths and ears instead of keyboards???
ESTJ: “Stuffed Shirt”
No imagination, no flexibility, no common sense, no capacity for tolerance of others with different priorities.
ISTJ: “Bean Counter”
Like the ESTJ but with less vision.
ESFJ: “Gossip”
Like the Busybody, but characterized by the urge to backstab instead of trying to help.
ISFJ: “Sidekick”
Doesn’t need much meaning in life, just a person (or baby or pet or car) to spend all their time ministering to.
ESTP: “Beer Drinker”
Loud, crude, plays team sports, kisses and tells. These are the people beer commercials are made for.
ESFP: “Clown”
Always the class troublemaker, they have no respect for anybody or anything. Good at snide wisecracks.
ISTP: “Assasin”
Hates people, and is good at killing them. Young ISTP’s are good at killing pictures of people in video games.
ISFP: “Snob”
Revels in the elaborate sensations of wine and paintings and music that are completely indistinguishable to ordinary people. Likes flowers.
ENTP
I’ve always liked Frankie.
ENTP:
“Clever” is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.
ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue–both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil’s advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don’t understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.
ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at “sharp practice”–ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it’s expedient – or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of “toys”–physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.
ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.
In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who’ve only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience – good, bad, or potential.
I’m not a bloody tyrant
INTJ. So I guess I am a crackpot. 
crackpot/nerd
Well I’m an ENTJ - apparently. And…
…That is scarily true… 
In highschool I was an INFJ. I took the test about a year or so ago and it wasn’t INFJ, but can’t remember what it was – but it didn’t feel like me – the INFJ still sort of feels like me. I don’t have time to take the MBTI again right now.
I have an iNTj-type personallity apparently. I don’t really agree with the “crackpot” classification though…
Hrmmph. I’ll have you know I BARELY EVER kill people!
INTP
I think you will find the one thing in common with almost everyone is the NT.
P or J can be argued philosophically.
I or E determins if you are a tower type or a lecture circut type.
But clear intuitive thinking is sort of the name of the game.