Lately I've been using my mental functions for some "entertaining purposes"....lol Like "reading" people, and generally joking with them, but this is through intuition/Ti/Extroverted Feeling.
using intuition and our feelings to empathize with a person, we can feel out the situation in/between people or persons and can supply them with either an answer or a joke is something I take advantage of EVERYDAY....not a few times but on a regular basis in conversations...I communicate in a sarcastic way to shock people into keeping them on their toes, and to join my wavelength in conversation or to get them to "open up" and stop passing air over their teeth...I don't expect people to be as forth right/perceptive as they say, so it's a great way to "feel/see" the values/thoughts a person really holds onto. I don't do this with the intention to do harm, but to open them up, and get them communicating in ways they're unfamiliar with, usually people say more interesting things on a more profound level when they're brought out of their comfort zones, and introduced to new ways of both seeing themselves and assessing/interacting with information given to them. Is it wrong to joke with people this way? Is it wrong to use our creative perceptions to gain clearer insights into people even if most people don't seem to understand these functions?
using intuition and our feelings to empathize with a person, we can feel out the situation in/between people or persons and can supply them with either an answer or a joke is something I take advantage of EVERYDAY....not a few times but on a regular basis in conversations...I communicate in a sarcastic way to shock people into keeping them on their toes, and to join my wavelength in conversation or to get them to "open up" and stop passing air over their teeth...I don't expect people to be as forth right/perceptive as they say, so it's a great way to "feel/see" the values/thoughts a person really holds onto. I don't do this with the intention to do harm, but to open them up, and get them communicating in ways they're unfamiliar with, usually people say more interesting things on a more profound level when they're brought out of their comfort zones, and introduced to new ways of both seeing themselves and assessing/interacting with information given to them. Is it wrong to joke with people this way? Is it wrong to use our creative perceptions to gain clearer insights into people even if most people don't seem to understand these functions?
I think jokes and humor are fine from time to time, but unless you're a comedian, overuse can take away from your core substance. An "opener" is only one part of a conversation/relationship. Why use it if the purpose is merely a shallow interaction? If the point of gaining the insight is merely because you can, it seems somewhat self-serving and, for lack of a better word, a waste of a gift, in my opinion. I think an opener should be reserved for meaningful conversations and in conjunction with 1) creating value for the other person, 2) building rapport, 3) finding common interests, and 4) following up at a later time. Not sure if this is what you were looking for.
