Or, one might say, different for the sake of being different; voicing minority opinions. Which of course is neither inherently good nor bad. It certainly has its places. But I wonder if it is something INFJs are drawn to.
Are INFJs inclined to be contrarian?
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Yes, it is our Ni. Ni is individualistic and unique in itself. It sees through things and into what they really are. Generally, what is more in front of us and most visible are the more common and widely believed/followed etc things and most subject to our attention. It only makes sense that some INFJ would be a contrarian. For example, I do not know wide spread it is but the "salt life" stickers on the back of people's cars. I'm not particularly fond of them, seems nearly everyone has them around here. "Omg look at me look at me I love the beach and and and the ocean and yeah the sand and all that stuff. I belong to an informal group of people and a social group omg I fit in!!!!" It is a hollow and illusionary display of belonging-ness for the sake of belonging. There is a difference between such people and the people who authentically "Love" that scene but the word "love" is thrown around so much it has lost its strength and meaning. I am rambling.
With that said, there is a line between rebelling against what is common just for the sake of rebelling because it is common and being completely void of reason and common sense. "look at all these people, walking on their legs, screw that, that is so lame I'm gonna walk on my hands look at me I'm so rebellious." (queue hipsters beginning to walk on their hands)
With that said, there is a line between rebelling against what is common just for the sake of rebelling because it is common and being completely void of reason and common sense. "look at all these people, walking on their legs, screw that, that is so lame I'm gonna walk on my hands look at me I'm so rebellious." (queue hipsters beginning to walk on their hands)
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Ewww, hipsters.
Actually, I can see why hipsters would choose to walk on their hands in any case...I imagine those skinny jeans tend to cut off the circulation in their legs too much.
Actually, I can see why hipsters would choose to walk on their hands in any case...I imagine those skinny jeans tend to cut off the circulation in their legs too much.
I think that this thread proves that many INFJ's look at things and people from many facets. Are we maybe looking for unexpected depths? Doesn't that seem more like a respect for fairness?
That being said, I think that polarizing things is anti-spiritual. You can't make things more separate by polarizing them more. You can't divide a magnet and make it not a magnet. You can't split a coin enough to make it have only one side. I'm just saying that to me, everything polar seems unified in some way.
Kind of obvious, huh? I feel like I might be preaching to the choir with this one..
That being said, I think that polarizing things is anti-spiritual. You can't make things more separate by polarizing them more. You can't divide a magnet and make it not a magnet. You can't split a coin enough to make it have only one side. I'm just saying that to me, everything polar seems unified in some way.
Kind of obvious, huh? I feel like I might be preaching to the choir with this one..
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I live and breath on contrarian philosophy. It all happened back in 2005 when I got into playing in the stock market and was watching CNBC.
Whenever people are happy on CNBC, and they're saying it's a great time to get into the market, and that the economic worries are overblown... it's almost guaranteed that in the next 2 days the stock market will drop at least 200 points. The opposite is also true. I called the stock market bottom in March 2009, one or two days after it happened, I knew the stock market wouldn't go below that level. I knew because all of a sudden unrealistic predictions of Dow Jones 2000 were flooding the news.
Yet the facts didn't support Dow Jones 2,000 because if every bank's stock had gone to $0 per share, it would have been Dow Jones 5,000. So how do you get to 2,000?
Then also the other indicator occurred, my father, after holding all through the crash, now wanted to sell all his investments. He would be the last person on Earth to sell any investment, so I *knew* it was the bottom.
Earlier this year I called the top as well, told my dad to sell for a week straight and he didn't listen. Then the government got a little too close to shutting down and Europe got worse, and he was left wishing he had sold.
Anyway, when I learn something from one field, I consider it universal knowledge and apply it to all things. This is why I knew Obama would be a terrible President. Disregard all of his policies, people's expectations were too high when they elected him! How could any man live up to what that foolish mass of people demanded? And I knew he couldn't.
It was just another case of lemmings jumping off the cliff.
No, I just like bringing something to the table that hasn't been brought yet
Wow, is this ever true. And when the division, intolerance , hatred and misunderstanding is in the hands of those who previously spoke against such behaviours they reinvent the truth to suit their new paradigm and denigrate or persecute those who speak a different truth to their version! Just like they accused their former opponents of doing.
I actually think that those "minority" positions that people take would be "majority" positions if we were honest with ourselves.
But as the social creatures we are, we constantly seek reassurance from others.. a cultural groupthink, if you will. As I've said many of times before, human beings have a knack for deceiving themselves, in attempts to hide from their true feelings and more honest assessments about the world.
But as the social creatures we are, we constantly seek reassurance from others.. a cultural groupthink, if you will. As I've said many of times before, human beings have a knack for deceiving themselves, in attempts to hide from their true feelings and more honest assessments about the world.
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