Ti Ne Si Fe

1.  People care more about justifying, excusing, and ‘understanding’ their negative or maladjustive behaviours through identification than working to understand the legitimate workings of any sort of system.

introvert, extrovert, 7w8, whatever, if you cannot fully comprehend the system you’re using to explain your deficits, then you’re not justified. Deficits really aren’t justified anyway. And why try to justify those behaviours anyway? The universe isn’t going to give you an award for being ‘broken, but in a quirky way’.

Which leads me to my next point-

2. Introversion is not an excuse for social aversion. Also, why do you need an excuse for social aversion?

I think the majority of ‘introverts’ who complain about ‘needing their alone time’ are really just extroverts. We are humans. Everybody gets tired eventually, from literally anything. Also

3. Social interaction does not always mean extroversion.

Extroverts have introverted functions too. If you need a break from social interaction, why do you need to make excuses to somebody? Learning proper social conduct isn’t an introvert or an extrovert thing, it’s a human thing. Learn it.

4. FUNCTIONS ARE MENTAL PROCESSES, NOT BEHAVIOURS.

For the last time, if you enjoy going for long walks in the park, it’s not Si (necessarily). If you’re organized, it’s not Te (necessarily). Functions explain behaviours, not vice versa.

5. I feel really angsty about the JCF community

Mostly because nobody knows what JCF stands for in the MBTI community, and mostly because the MBTI community IS the JCF community, but it calls itself the MBTI community and also because most of the people in the community probably don’t know what MBTI stands for.

6. Shadow functions are irrelevant, fite me

Ok, so I realized that quite simply, the vast majority of people who used to be on tumblr who are following me are no longer on tumblr.

I also posted a survey, I’ll leave it up for people who are interested.

In that revelation, I linked on my blog to a discord channel. I will be updating info about my stream there. I decided I’m going to be streaming, and if any of you show up and want to ask questions, I’ll answer.

If there begin to be enough people, I think it would be fun to have people submit their own videos and do type me segments. That would be fun.

Hey all, I’m considering doing an MBTI/Jungian Cognitive Functions stream on Twitch. I want to who would be interested in this, so I made a survey!

Just click here to fill it out, it won’t take more than 3 minutes.

I might do other things too, including music/graphic design, depending on what there is demand for.

Do I need to say anything else?

I will though. I think the golden age of internet Cognitive Functions is gone. I came for thoughtful discussion, good posts, ideas, content. I don’t think its really present though. I don’t think that matters for me though, because I learned what I needed to learn.

But its still hard, because I think there’s more to learn, and honestly understanding functions the way I do is a lonely path- to whom can I talk to? Where do I go when I want to make a lame joke about Ni? or whatever function, for that matter- there’s really nobody in my actual life. Anonymity has its price.

Its that discussion, that connection, that I haven’t found, in the way I used to, anywhere else. Everything is just poopposts and memes. I personally hate it. Others seem to like it, look Im not against it, but it takes its toll on the community- you lose the authenticity and move towards astrology and buzzfeed test land. You lose the people who wanted answers, but now can’t find them in a community overrun by mediocrity. It’s just the truth. The individual hurdle of doing sincere research can’t be overcome without somebody to help, so if people are forced to make it alone and the guidance becomes more obscured- the result is self explanitory.

Look I don’t know this for certain but things aren’t like they were. But whether I’m wrong or right with this, I don’t really care, my point isn’t to soapbox, Its more just an explanation for anybody who might care enough to read this far in my post. For the over 1000 people who are following me, somehow, because there actually only seem to be a handful of people who actually see this.

And its not the attention or publicity, I think its just saddening for me- because I initially intended this blog as an authentic attempt to help spread good information. In hindsight, that was stupid, because nobody is going on tumblr for legitimate information, silly me, I should have known- but how things have turned out now is proof of that, I believe.

I guess its more of an expression of disappointment for my expectations of what I had anticipated. And the acceptance that for me, its time to move on. Sort of a declaration of defeat, that this whole, thing, blog thing, is dead. And also that in theory it was also maybe a bad idea from the start.

That doesn’t mean I won’t post again, or I’m personally done with functions. On the contrary, I think there’s more to learn, specifically in practice. And I also am considering transitioning to youtube. Its about time somebody made good videos on youtube. Michael Pierce is good, but he’s pretty lonely next to the other NT theorists, I don’t follow it enough to know the community. But... seems like a kind of mediocre thing you know.

I might not be permanently ‘gone’ per se, but this is kind of an unofficial official declaration that you may as well consider this blog inactive.

Not that it really matters though.

However, I will be posting about future updates, so you probably will hear from me again, in the event I make another project. Which, btw, I have a couple in mind. But for now, and with this one, yeah its done.

Anyway, this felt better rather than just leaving without notice.

If you still want to hear from me somehow, DM me. Otherwise,

Adios. Goodbye.

I apologize for the kind of emo post. I will be updating the blog for future endeavors I take, but don’t plan on keeping it updated/responding or giving that much attention. So it’s not a dead account, it’s just dormant, essentially- But I have a few things I’ll be posting rather soon, so to say it’s dormant isn’t quite accurate either.

At any rate,

(Reply from pigeon HQ)

Thanks dude. Honestly its been over a year since I've really written any material. I think Fe just wants to people. It happens sometimes.

I ought to set up a physical inbox by carrier pigeon - I think that will get me more questions in my inbox.

(3 days later...)

(Replying by telegram from heaven) I'm doing well, thank you for asking- how are you?

Hey so my blog says I have over 1000 followers but like nobody says anything, I just wanted to see if any of ya'll actually see this? Maybe just comment, like, send me a message, or a messager pigeon like however you wanna do it. Plz Thx

JCF Thoughtt of the day:

Hey all, Im back for a short time. I'm back for about a 2- month period of time, until I leave, when Ill be inactive until mid 2020. PLEASE take this opportunity to asks questions, anything related to JCF (or MBTI), I'll answer. Now's your chance :) I have over 5 years of casually typing people, and JCF analysis. My function stack is Ti Ne, I have a fairly well developed Fe, I believe. I don't have Ni, but I understand Ni, so you could say I'm pretty cool.

So I’ve been working on some “project” for quite some time now, and sort of overhyped it. I intended for it to be a lot farther along than it is now. It’s become apparent to me that it’s honestly just a work in progress that would be better if I just made public, because that would help motivate me to finish it faster, and provide a great resource to everybody now instead of ‘eventually’.

For that reason, I’m revealing the project now.

The project I’m working on is one to create a comprehensive introduction to, and library of cognitive function resources. The idea is a project that the community can take articles or topics I’ve written on, make additions or changes, and those can be added in; as well as creating an index of the great resources online that can be hard to find. Sort of like a wiki, but with me as the project director, essentially. It would at its core be just a set of articles hosted on a website with other resources and tools. I also wanted to create an accurate test. I planned to have it include a forum, and maybe even videos, but those are, like, years of planning away from execution.

“But wait”, you ask. “Aren’t there already resources out there that do that same thing?”

Well, yes and no. There are comprehensive explanations out there. But even so, all the explanations I’ve seen are just not up to the standard that I would feel comfortable recommending them to somebody who was new to Jungian Cognitive Functions. Some of them work, but I just don’t feel like they take the proper angle, or do things step by step or comprehemsively. Either the content is hard to find, confusing, maybe there’s a part I think is inaccurate or misleading, maybe it goes from 0-60 in a split second. Whatever the reason, I haven’t felt comfortable with the current set of resources available.

Whatever the case, I thought the community needed a comprehensive library that had an easy to understand, progressive explanation of functions that is easy to access, as well as has a library or references to other sources that have good, accurate information. Thid is the project goal.

Much of my work has been getting a webpage ready to make the content work, but I realized that my programming skills aren’t up to par quite yet to turn the content into a website, and also, the content isn’t even fully written yet. Its maybe 5% done, even though I have all the information in my head; its the transcription that’s hard.

Anyway, so the specific details: Currently some of the articles are finished (enough for now) and viewable. You can see them right now at github.com/puresonality/project-puresonality/

There are some things I must admit, however. In a couple of months, I won’t be able to work on the project for about two years, so the project will essentially be in stasis. But until then, I want to work on it as much as I can, and at least complete the first couple sections, which you’ll see if you click that link.

Anyway, I appreciate yall for staying tuned. Please click the link, view the articles, and give me some feedback! Feel free to shoot me a message, or comment here.

You can download the articles and view them with a plain text editor, like notepad, or a web browser. I ask that you don’t distribute them because of the current state of the project, but you can always refer others to them if you wish for them to see the articles.

Anyway, I know its a pretty uneventful reveal. This has been a side project for some time, and I’ve made amazing progress (some of it you wont see for a long time) but its not as far as I’d hoped it would be right now. Anyway, it still is a good resource.

The project’s official tumblr blog is @Puresonality. I won’t be posting anything there now, but in the future I will be, so if there’s any significant project updates, it will be there.

Again, you can view the articles here

Ok, thanks for reading, and all the best to you.