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I agree with you, in the sense that logic does not lead to a particular faith, or even any faith at all. I didn't choose my faith on a basis of what was most logical in an objective sense. I can't prove to you that my faith or philosophy is logically superior to yours. I can attempt to prove...

What are you suggesting instead? I'm not claiming that my faith would appear logical to someone who doesn't share it. My first three statements (and the 7th as well) are assumptions that I knowingly accept, based on a particular interpretation of the Bible, and my personal faith. I am not asking...

A Christian worldview’s position on healing and miracles might go something like this: 1. God has supernatural power. 2. Demons and angels have supernatural power. 3. Humans have no supernatural power of their own. 4. Therefore, if supernatural power is manifested in some way, it either...

Isn't that the typical INFJ mindset?

I agree 100% with this.

Here is what I was trying to say last night when I was tired and apparently couldn't express myself very well. (I'm not going to exempt women from this, but I'm a man, so I'm thinking in reference to men right now.) Do men have a tendency to be susceptible to this? Yes. Do they all succumb? No...

I may not have communicated my point effectively then. What I was trying to say was that men have a natural instinct to be attracted to attractive sexual partners. They can then choose whether they act on it and violate their integrity, or uphold their integrity and resist the temptation to...

I will agree with you in the sense that this is the natural instinct of a man. But some men give in to it, and other men choose to fight it. There may be few men with integrity, but they do exist.

INFJs usually have good intuition. So when we have an intuitive feeling about something, we're often right. It's useful and there's nothing wrong with recognizing it and practicing it, but I think it's a dangerous path to start thinking that we "know" everything about everyone around us. All...

Being perceptive is not the same as being psychic. INFJs may have more sensitive radar to pick up signals and put together clues that many other people miss. I may be good at guessing things, but at the end of the day, they're just guesses. (They may be very good guesses, but they're not facts.)...

In theory, I second this wholeheartedly. There have been various situations in my life (I'm in one right now, in fact) where I've wished that I could have a similarly open discussion with the person about where we stood. In practice, I've never actually done it this way, because my fear is that...

The fact that your friend has dropped a comment about him questioning his relationship seems significant. When I was in a relationship, I would never have mentioned questioning it if I was talking to any of my other friends who were girls. It sounds like a subtle hint that he's not fully...

I'm INFJ and in my last year of a CS degree at college. I have a job at a small software company writing code for an educational software platform. I can definitely relate to the feeling of being different than the typical CS crowd. I go to school with a lot of people who are stereotypical...

This is one of the best non-religious arguments I've heard against capital punishment. Just to stimulate further discussion, though, how would you respond to the argument that intentionally ending another human's life and murder are not necessarily the same thing?

I honestly don't think anyone deserves to be treated like that. If someone has an issue with something I did, it is only fair that they at least tell me what they think I did wrong. Sure, this can be done tactfully or bluntly (tactfully is much better), but it bothers me to no end when someone...