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One of the things mentioned in the video doesn't ring true with my experience. I know many people with very outgoing extrovert-seeming personalities who claim to be introverts.

I think there is some social cachet in claiming the "misunderstood, enigmatic loner" title.

Actually, in my experience there is a bit of stigma in claiming to be an extrovert - mainly because they're played as chatterbox busy bodies or "relationship managers" in popular media.

I am an introvert who pretends wholeheartedly to be an extrovert, or otherwise I would never leave the house or talk to anyone. After a while it kinda becomes real...

Mostly introverted here, but none of the "poor introverts living in an extrovert's world! D:" stuff rings true for me. Kind of offensive.

As an introvert also, one way that I've tried to explain it to some of my friends and acquaintances who are extroverts is to say that I'd draw a distinction between anti-social and asocial. Certainly some introverts can be anti-social -- they generally dislike social situations, usually because they feel uncomfortable in them.

In contrast, I'd say that my definition of asocial is someone who is essentially neutral on social situations; they feel no compulsion to go seek out social interaction, but they aren't necessarily opposed to it when it does happen.

I have been asocial as long as I can remember. I was always perfectly happy doing my own thing by myself when I was a kid. Only child, living in the country, no neighbors in walking distance. In grade school, I had lots of friends and was fairly "popular", but I didn't feel any specific need to hang out with other kids all the time; I'd still run off and do my own thing. Around grade 7-8, I was still the same me, but I started to notice that the things I was and had been interested in weren't popular or acceptable anymore.

That didn't initially bother me, until the cliques and pressure cooker that is High School kicked in. The standard High School struggles pushed me way further into the realms of being anti-social. I basically decided that 95% of people were scum, and that figuring out who the 5% of people who weren't scum wasn't worth the effort.

I think that a chunk of that gets better in the senior year of High School, and then the difference between HS and going to college is night and day. I could have been comfortable returning to socializing right away in college, but I was still pretty shell-shocked. I still had a pretty grim outlook on humanity, which is a shame because I now realize that I should/could have been quicker to adjust my attitude.

By now, I'm still fully asocial in that I feel essentially no need to seek out social interaction, but I do enjoy meeting and getting to know new people and find that there are very few people that I dislike -- almost the exact opposite of my old 95%/5% evaluation. I'll never be the type that wants to go out and hob-nob with friends or random people every day, but I certainly wouldn't describe myself as anti-social anymore.

so I take it you're an introvert?....>> ^budzos:

>> ^longde:
I don't know. This is the point of view of an extrovert, one of a gregarious nature. This thought conveys a value of sharing.>> ^budzos:
"If you have a great moment in life and you can't share it with anyone, it may as well have never happened."
This point of view is sad to me.


I know what it's trying to express. But it's doing so by categorizing private experiences, or private expression , as worthless. It's like saying there is no point in dancing to music if nobody is watching. Sometimes dancing is for the dancer.
For those with a "rich internal life", some of the greatest moments are those kept to oneself, or experienced alone.

>> ^longde:

I don't know. This is the point of view of an extrovert, one of a gregarious nature. This thought conveys a value of sharing.>> ^budzos:
"If you have a great moment in life and you can't share it with anyone, it may as well have never happened."
This point of view is sad to me.



I know what it's trying to express. But it's doing so by categorizing private experiences, or private *expression*, as worthless. It's like saying there is no point in dancing to music if nobody is watching. Sometimes dancing is for the dancer.

For those with a "rich internal life", some of the greatest moments are those kept to oneself, or experienced alone.

I don't know. This is the point of view of an extrovert, one of a gregarious nature. This thought conveys a value of sharing.>> ^budzos:

"If you have a great moment in life and you can't share it with anyone, it may as well have never happened."
This point of view is sad to me.

I remember the prof in my Psych 101 class at college asking the class to raise hands if they would be severely, moderately, mildly affected, or unaffected by spending an entire 24-hour day without seeing, talking to, or otherwise interacting with any other human being. I'm an introvert, I grew up on a farm about a mile away from the nearest neighbors, and am an only child -- so I actually experienced that scenario not entirely infrequently. It never really bothered me at all, so I raised my hand for "unaffected" -- but I was almost the only person to do so.

Anyway, I would be interested in seeing how someone that is highly introverted does on these same tests -- particularly the one where they mentioned that the guy's low score may have been due to his extroverted nature. I feel like I could handle the lack of human interaction just fine, but the utter lack of sensory input in general might be a completely different story.

Or Unitarians. My hypothesis for why they beat the atheists/agnostics is that they tend to be more extroverted since they're basically atheists/agnostics who want that extra sense of community from having a "church".

The irony of Ron Paul is: I like the underlying idea VERY VERY much.
However I'd absolutely love to actually see him get down to details. HOW would he actually reduce the American military withdrawal as a World Police Force with doing as little additional damage as possible (You can't just stop the machines of the Military Compelx dead in their tracks- that would have absolutely horrible results- both economically and on a world-scape (Israel, Colombia, South Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq...).
How does his ideology of ptotecting other's lives extend into the right of abortion (Something I remember him being kinda ...meh).



AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: How can he implement this without breaking a system which has by now become VERY MUCH accustomed to all the shady deals he so much despises and WITHOUT breaking the world economy and creating an ugly power vaccuum.
This guy unfortunately is not young enough anymore to become a pioneer. He seems more like someone we'd very much be disillusioned with once he runs into the actual political roadblocks that exist.

The irony of bush and the neoconservatives is that they aspired to achieve a situation like it is now happening in the middle east (albeit a very warped version of) something which IS ACTUALLY happening NOW (though probably without any causes lying in the US).
This will NEED the American military complex and extroverted American foreign policies to work.

Ron Paul would need at least 3 terms to push what he works for. It's just that difficult. And I can't see a second Ron Paul behind him who'd continue once he is worn down (if you know more than me please PM me)

Wikipedia:

The Sphynx (aka Canadian Hairless) appears to be a hairless cat, but it is not truly hairless. The skin texture resembles that of Chamois leather. It may be covered with vellus hair. Because the sphynx cats have no pelt to keep them warm they huddle up against other animals and people. They even tend to cuddle up and sleep with their owners under the covers.

Lack of coat makes the cat quite warm to the touch. Whiskers and eyebrows may be present, either whole or broken, or may be totally absent. The skin is the colour their fur would be, and all the usual cat marking patterns (solid, point, van, tabby, tortie, etc.) may be found on Sphynx skin.

Sphynxes are known for their extroverted behavior. They display a high level of energy, intelligence, curiosity, and affection for their owners.

Sorry about that. That was an asshole comment on my part. I apologize.>> ^honkeytonk73:

>> ^geo321:
So you've got no love for the Big Bang that is propelling us, our planet, and our solar system into an unknown trajectory. Extroverting towards the future open minded to enriching you're ideology with new ideas, or keeping a frame on your belief system and viewing the world within an old passed down cultural ideology from reinterpreted myths of our past. >> ^honkey
tonk73:
Jesus created all 14.5 billion lights years of it in ONE day. It took the rest of the 7 day week to make the Earth. Absa-freakin-lutely amazing isn't it?



I should have added sarcasm to my statement LOL.
I still don't get how there are individuals who believe a 14.5 billion light year expanse was created a few thousand years ago over the time span of a single 'day' (whatever a DAY is defined as).. including all the photons 'in-transit' over that expanse such that it appears it is that old. Simply for human visual amusement? To keep us on our toes? Ah I know. The 'mysterious ways' argument!

>> ^geo321:

So you've got no love for the Big Bang that is propelling us, our planet, and our solar system into an unknown trajectory. Extroverting towards the future open minded to enriching you're ideology with new ideas, or keeping a frame on your belief system and viewing the world within an old passed down cultural ideology from reinterpreted myths of our past. >> ^honkey
tonk73:
Jesus created all 14.5 billion lights years of it in ONE day. It took the rest of the 7 day week to make the Earth. Absa-freakin-lutely amazing isn't it?




I should have added *sarcasm* to my statement LOL.

I still don't get how there are individuals who believe a 14.5 billion light year expanse was created a few thousand years ago over the time span of a single 'day' (whatever a DAY is defined as).. including all the photons 'in-transit' over that expanse such that it appears it is that old. Simply for human visual amusement? To keep us on our toes? Ah I know. The 'mysterious ways' argument!

So you've got no love for the Big Bang that is propelling us, our planet, and our solar system into an unknown trajectory. Extroverting towards the future open minded to enriching you're ideology with new ideas, or keeping a frame on your belief system and viewing the world within an old passed down cultural ideology from reinterpreted myths of our past. >> ^honkeytonk73:

Jesus created all 14.5 billion lights years of it in ONE day. It took the rest of the 7 day week to make the Earth. Absa-freakin-lutely amazing isn't it?

This is really no different to anywhere else in the world. Given that the majority of the world's population are comprised with extroverts whom are more likely to make judgement with just a skim of the surface.