The title pretty much says it all.
How does an INTP handle the Zombie Apocalypse?
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When I was in Hike School *Insert Billy Madison Reference* my English teacher dubbed me "The Philosopher" after reading my elegant prose during the vocab section of the class - and yet here I stand .. or type.
I got stuck with, "The Dumb One" despite being the smartest person in my class. It was religion class though, so the fact that I was always poking holes in the subject matter probably did not help.
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But... but... I wanted to become a waterbender... room for one more?
Yeah, that would stink. I had to go to a Sunday School thing a couple times while staying with a family friend, and that place was boring. I don't remember much else from it, other than being very quiet.
In 6th grade I was called a Human Calculator. Then in my senior year, one of my friends, who sat at the same table I did, was marked as a go-to guy in math class. My friend told the teacher that wasn't true, they came to me. My teacher said it was, because he'd get help from me, and then people who came to the table while I was busy would get help from him. I chuckled at that.
I live in a small town. Live within 2 miles of a fresh flowing lake. Have a few friends with masses of country land to stay safe on.
But the main currency for trade would be antibiotics. so when all hell break loose and everyone is stealing food and water from stores, stealing from the pharmacies seems more logical, antibiotics will be tradeable for almost everything. obviously getting other supplies while there. painkillers, disinfectants and other things.
Basically for survival you have 2 options, either trust a close few friends and live without any other single thread of human contact to ensure suvival. Or treat every single person you meet as an enemy. there will be manipulation and trickery around every corner. so no one can really be trusted.
But it all depends on how it happens and what exactly happens to better guess what i would do, i have serveral options that i cannot say until the event has happened
But the main currency for trade would be antibiotics. so when all hell break loose and everyone is stealing food and water from stores, stealing from the pharmacies seems more logical, antibiotics will be tradeable for almost everything. obviously getting other supplies while there. painkillers, disinfectants and other things.
Basically for survival you have 2 options, either trust a close few friends and live without any other single thread of human contact to ensure suvival. Or treat every single person you meet as an enemy. there will be manipulation and trickery around every corner. so no one can really be trusted.
But it all depends on how it happens and what exactly happens to better guess what i would do, i have serveral options that i cannot say until the event has happened
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Well, if almost everyone's a zombie it would seem disadvantageous not to be a zombie. The zombies usually don't seem to mind being zombies. And as zombies aren't very sympathetic I probably would have no qualms killing them. So I'd grab a suitable weapon run into the horde start attacking random zombies until they get me and turn me, at which I shall be among friends and proceed to find some brain to lick.
It's likely they would develop some sort of hierarchy or the emulation of such...
fresh zombies being more likely to be cannibalized, weaker or otherwise 'damaged' zombies being eliminated to reduce competition, stronger zombies having the monopoly although being at risk when isolated from weaker packs...
it would also be practical to consider there's a variety of zombies and potential social manifestations, physical mutations to evolve over time or provided by a catalyst based on set conditions...
And lending to the metaphysical aspects of zombie jeebuz, what's to say you won't be trapped in your head while body does heinous things to the people around you? That the seat of your soul/ego is maintained through unknown methods or cellular memory...
and really, this is an environment for science and gamers gone wild... and of course it could supplement the surviving children's education plans... just because the world has gone to shit.. doesn't mean you still don't have homework. How many ways can you turn a barbie doll into a weapon of mass destruction?
(... and to the bit about antibiotics.. illicit drugs are the better market -- the good nature types are more likely to think in the short term -- when things get tough they're less likely to have qualms about killing someone in order to get medicines or because the doc didn't save their dear friend... and justifying it on the up and up. They're more prone to a quicker social burnout... shoving their heads up their bums because this new trend of unlife being unfair and all that. And unable to negotiate between being a respectable human being or a thug as the situations call for it.
'course that lends that most people wouldn't be able to hand living in a co-op, and that most co-ops will be raided or suffering the more likely fate of the worlds' governments.. split between paranoia to prevent contamination and attempts to gain ultimate authority, and the associated comforts or perks contained within... leaving the rest of us to rollerblade through the newly formed wasteland in search of water and other basic necessities..
while the organized criminals with their thunder domes or having been through hell on earth before the apocalypse are more likely to be invested in skills than products outright.. or at least recognizing the need for maintaining a continued supply
which I'd wager recreational drugs that are more likely to allow them to maintain control of their empires... and amass volunteer slaves... addicts in need of a fix and having an incentive to work harder and longer, in this landscape, for significantly less.
certainly one would have to watch out for an uprising from the addicts but the side effects and withdraw should keep them in check.
I would just move out into the mountains and live like a buccaneer. I would live off the land, far from society, zombies, malitias, and mayhem, in my cozy little solar and geothermal powered house. I would form a little colony of INTPs and we would live peacefully and logically.
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I whould move to an old farm that have been in our family that is on an island, I whould also pick a few close friends that I am pretty sure are not infected (because humans are more sheep than sheeps we need social contact) so I whould take that bet. Then if we manage to set up a proper position on the island. Yea if you manage to set up a position on the island with the farms and also create a functioning society I think it will work out, also any new people coming will have to live on an island just beside our island for a few weeks so you can see that they are not infected as they whould have turned into zombies by then. Altho I will be generally amused by what chaos will arrive when everyone tried to move out of the city by car, My safest bet whould probably be stealing a boat. Making the trip to the island much longer than if you are going to go to the island by land, but it whould also probably be easy to steal some food and I can survive on fishing along the fjords and on rainwater if my watersupllies run dry.
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Shoot, owing to our many of years locked in our rooms or basements, we have received as much sunlight as the dead. We'll blend in just right. 
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I'd hide. : /
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oddlydevelopedtypes .com/intp_survival
It's an interesting read xD
INTP Wizard
"It all depends on how you define 'alive.'"
Charm: A weird sense of humor
Adaptability: Superior
Planning: Strategic
Survival Preparations: Needs development
Weapons Skill: Needs development
Intelligence: Unmeasurable using current tests
Warm Fuzzies: Iceman
Leadership: Needs development
It's an interesting read xD
INTP Wizard
"It all depends on how you define 'alive.'"
Charm: A weird sense of humor
Adaptability: Superior
Planning: Strategic
Survival Preparations: Needs development
Weapons Skill: Needs development
Intelligence: Unmeasurable using current tests
Warm Fuzzies: Iceman
Leadership: Needs development
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