Here's a whole post I wrote about being a happy INTP, because INTPs always seem sad:

Ok, so I've been doing some research and talking with the 2 INTPs I know to work out how to make INTPs happier. I know some of you don't think that you want to be happy, that's ok, but really now ! So

The first way to make INTPs happier is siliness. INTPs always seem to get caught up in these huge mazes in their minds, and sometimes they hit a rough spot and think that the entire everything results upon them solving the problemm in their mind. Well I've had that a few times in my life as well (but probably not as much as most of you) and the best way to solve it is to not take it so seriously! I know there are loads of books around implying that hapiness is impossible, btu that's because happy people don't write the kind of books that unhappy ones read! They all take it so seriously! Look, we're all just floating around in the sky without much idea of what's going on with anything, so we migth as well ligthen up and realise that we can have fun while we do it! I think that most wars and things depend from people taking everything too seriously and not having had enough fun and kindness and play. So whenever you get caught up in a maze or big problem in your mind, just let your attention drift off into play or fun. Use your beatiful Ne (I use mine all the time and I'm usually happy... it works ).

OK the second way which is kind of the same is to work on being friendly and knowing about small talk and social nicities. It's like a dance, see. Most INTPs want to skip all the middle steps and just dance the last move. That's kind of silly for people who are so good at logic . You need to do the little steps and be friendly and put on a face first before you get to the big ones and have really good and understanding friends to support you! I know loads of INTPs have hardened themselves against this... and I understand why.... but any of you can really have a lot more fun if you just learn to dance the first steps before the last ones .

Ok the third way is a kind of yoga I learned about when I was in China. I got to know this girl whose father was a martial artist, and she taught me how to do it. It can take a lot of effort, but it actually instantly makes you feel good. I know you migth think that you would know about it already if it worked but it actually does work... of course it won't keep you happy the whole day all the time... but it makesyou more happy most of the time and always loving and happy and sexy while you're doing it. Ok I'll try and describe it the best I can:

Her'e some general info...
It's about remembring intense moments of emotion, than feelign what the physical feeling is of those emotions, then moving that feeling all around your body. She said it was tantra but there's no sex... although if you and somebody of the other sex or the sex you're attracted to do it at the same time things will probably happen . You remember the intense emotion and then let go of the memory but keep the emotion and then move the feeling aroudn your whole body as you breathe. Once you've been doing it for a week or so it feels so blissful ritght from the beginning to the end .

Here's detailed info...
There are 7 emotions. Do 3 or more breaths in and out for each emotion. It's best to do it while sitting in half-lotus or whatever sitting position is comfortable for you. The emotions (some of them aren't really emotions, they're a little different) are:
1. Relaxation
2. Pride in an achievment
3. Side-splitting laughter
4. Love
5. Deep gratitude
6. ''sexual ecstasy''... like the most amazing sexual experience you've had. It doesn't have to be sex... it can be a beatiful kiss or orgasm or any memory that brings up the good feeling.
7. Complete awe at the universe.

For the first one... Clench your toes really really tight. Then relax. Then clench them really really tight. Then relax. Finally clench them so tight they hurt. Then relax. Now you feel that feeling of relaxation and freedom from tension in your toes? Good. Take a deep breath and move that feeling up through your leg (I know this might sound funny, but it really works). Feel it relax every muscle as it moves up through your calvs and thighs and then waist and then stomach and then chest and then shoulders... and then let it flow down into your arms and then back up into your head. As it goes up to your head, feel it flow over the back of your head and then over the top to your face. And then feel it relaxing the muscles of your forehead deeply and then your cheeks and chin. Then mix the feeling with your saliva (don't try to understand it, just do it ) and swallow it down into your stomach and move it around inside your body.

That's the breath in. I know it seems like a lot to do in one breath but you get used to doing it quickly with time.

Then you breath out and feel the feeling slowly moving back down to your feet. The top of your body will be more relaxed than it was before, but slightly less relaxed than the bits where you're moving the feeling to. The feeling can either be in only one bit of your body or in your whole body at once... don't think about it too much, just get used to it and play with it. The feeling will end up at the soles of your feet.

That's one breath. Do 3 for each of the 7 emotions.


Relaxation is a bit different than the others. With the others you do this:

Vividly remember some time you felt that emotion (or the closest thing you've had to it) really strongly. Make the pictures and sounds big and bright, and feel where the emotion is physically in your body. This may seem a little hard at first, but you'll get sensitive to it if you practice. Ok, now make it as big and bright and strong as you possibly can. Fill your body and mind wiht it.... when I do this I sometimes cry from the overwhelming joy of it.... then let go of the memory and just keep the feeling. Keep the feeling without the memory....

then move the feeling down to your toes. Now take your first breath in and move it up and around your body like you did with relaxation... when it reaches your face, feel the smile on your face grow big and wide. Remember that you smile real smiles with the cheek muscles just below you eyes, not with your mouth and teeth. Smiling will actually make the feeling stronger. Once you've moved it all around and swallowed it down, breath out and let it go back down to your toes. Do this 3 times with all of the feelings.

A few more things... when you breath in, try to take as big a breath as possible and push your belly out. This helps the feeling to move according to my Chinese friend . When you breath out, let our stomach come really far in so it's like you're squeezing all the air out and squeezing the feeling down to your feet. It might not seem like you have enough breath to move the feeling around your whole body during one breath at first, but just do the best you can and it will come with time.


Now INTPs . If you learn how to do that, you can use it whenever you get serious and depressed. It won't make everything perfect, but it will stop you feeling bad and let you be a more happy and loving person. Don't try to argue with it because it just works and you'll see that if you try it for a while. The first two or three times are always the hardest, and it just gets better and better every time you do it after that.


Anyway no matter if you take my advice or not, you're all awesome people anwyay. I feel so priveliged to have a forum with so many geniuses just a click away . Please don't be too harsh with me if you disagree... I'm just trying to help and make people happy and I really can't argue as well as you.

All I can say is that I and some people who I know and wanted to help do this every day (I do it twice actually) and it makes us way more happier and friendly and loving. You just kind of glow when you're doing this all the time, and people just seem to like you way more! I have no idea how it works

Sexy pictures as well, kay?

I think cyrptonia and co. Christians would find this scary. It's my favorite book though, even if Jesus didn't write it:

William Blake, the greatest Christian since Christ, actually felt sorry for lucifer. He was a brilliant, beautiful person. I love his paintings and poems. Here's one I have a copy of on my wall in my apartment:

Such a beautiful window:

Here's another Blake

This is my hero, the great thinker Alfred Korzybski:



Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski

Born July 3, 1879(1879-07-03)
Warsaw, Congress Poland
Died March 1, 1950 (aged 70)
Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
Occupation Engineer, philosopher, mathematician

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]) (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is most remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.
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* 1 Early life and career
* 2 General semantics
* 3 Korzybski and to be
* 4 Anecdote about Korzybski
* 5 Criticisms
* 6 Impact
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 Further reading
* 10 External links

[edit] Early life and career
Alfred Korzybski's family coat-of-arms (Habdank).[citation needed]

He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He came from an aristocratic polish family whose members had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations. He learned Polish at home and Russian in the schools; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

Korzybski was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology in engineering. During the First World War Korzybski served as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army. After being wounded in his leg and suffering other injuries, he came to North America in 1916 (first to Canada, then the United States) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to the war front. He also lectured to Polish-American audiences about the conflict, promoting the sale of war bonds. Following the War, he decided to remain in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1940. His first book, Manhood of Humanity, was published in 1921. In the book, he proposed and explained in detail a new theory of humankind: mankind as a time-binding class of life.

[edit] General semantics

Korzybski's work culminated in the founding of a discipline that he called general semantics (GS). As Korzybski explicitly said, GS should not be confused with semantics, a different subject. The basic principles of general semantics, which include time-binding, are outlined in Science and Sanity, published in 1933. In 1938 Korzybski founded the Institute of General Semantics and directed it until his death in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA.

Korzybski's work held a view that human beings are limited in what they know by (1) the structure of their nervous systems, and (2) the structure of their languages. Human beings cannot experience the world directly, but only through their "abstractions" (nonverbal impressions or "gleanings" derived from the nervous system, and verbal indicators expressed and derived from language). Sometimes our perceptions and our languages actually mislead us as to the "facts" with which we must deal. Our understanding of what is going on sometimes lacks similarity of structure with what is actually going on. He stressed training in awareness of abstracting, using techniques that he had derived from his study of mathematics and science. He called this awareness, this goal of his system, "consciousness of abstracting". His system included modifying the way we approach the world, e.g., with an attitude of "I don't know; let's see," to better discover or reflect its realities as shown by modern science. One of these techniques involved becoming inwardly and outwardly quiet, an experience that he called, "silence on the objective levels".

[edit] Korzybski and to be

Many supporters and critics of Korzybski reduced his rather complex system to a simple matter of what he said about the verb 'to be.' His system, however, is based primarily on such terminology as the different 'orders of abstraction,' and formulations such as 'consciousness of abstracting.' It is often said that Korzybski opposed the use of the verb "to be," an unfortunate exaggeration (see 'Criticisms' below). He thought that certain uses of the verb "to be", called the "is of identity" and the "is of predication", were faulty in structure, e.g., a statement such as, "Joe is a fool" (said of a person named 'Joe' who has done something that we regard as foolish). In Korzybski's system, one's assessment of Joe belongs to a higher order of abstraction than Joe himself. Korzybski's remedy was to deny identity; in this example, to be continually aware that 'Joe' is not what we call him. We find Joe not in the verbal domain, the world of words, but the nonverbal domain (the two, he said, amount to different orders of abstraction). This was expressed in Korzybski's most famous premise, "the map is not the territory". Note that this premise uses the phrase "is not", a form of "to be"; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon "to be" as such. In fact, he expressly said that there were no structural problems with the verb "to be" when used as an auxiliary verb or when used to state existence or location. It was even 'OK' sometimes to use the faulty forms of the verb 'to be,' as long as one was aware of their structural limitations. This was developed into E-prime by one of his students 15 years after his death.

[edit] Anecdote about Korzybski

One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he suddenly interrupted the lesson in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row, if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit. "Nice biscuit, don't you think," said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. Then he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words "Dog Cookies." The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to throw up, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet. "You see, ladies and gentlemen," Korzybski remarked, "I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter." Apparently his prank aimed to illustrate how some human suffering originates from the confusion or conflation of linguistic representations of reality and reality itself.[1]

[edit] Criticisms

See the criticism section of the main General Semantics article.

[edit] Impact

Korzybski's work influenced Gestalt Therapy[citation needed], Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy[2], and Neuro-linguistic programming[3] (especially the Meta model and ideas behind human modeling for performance). As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U.S. Army in World War II used his system to treat battle fatigue in Europe under the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who also became the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg. Other individuals influenced by Korzybski include Kenneth Burke, William S. Burroughs, Frank Herbert, Albert Ellis, Gregory Bateson, John Grinder, Buckminster Fuller, Douglas Engelbart, Stuart Chase, Alvin Toffler, Robert A. Heinlein (Korzybski is mentioned in the 1949 novella Gulf), L.Ron Hubbard, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Anton Wilson, entertainer Steve Allen, and Tommy Hall (lyricist for the 13th Floor Elevators); and scientists such as William Alanson White (psychiatry), physicist P. W. Bridgman, and researcher W. Horsley Gantt (a former student and colleague of Pavlov). He also influenced the Belgian surrealist writer of comics Jan Bucquoy in the seventh part of the comics series Jaunes: Labyrinthe, with explicit reference in the plot to Korzybski's "the map is not the territory."

In part the General Semantics tradition was upheld by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who did have a falling out with Korzybski. When asked over what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: "Words."

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This is how cryptonia makes me feel:

Here's a post I wrote about my essential philosophy:

Transcending Current Identity Via Full Exploration of The Medium in Which it is Expressed

The process of exploring and manipulating a level of behavior and perception extensively facilitates its transcendence. The individual ceases to identify himself with his previous representation in that medium, consequently forcing the expression of his self into a higher, more inclusive medium.

Reichian Facial Expression exercises involve making as many expressions as possible at regular intervals. The student practitioner becomes familiarised with the structural components and effect of each expression, and has access to them all. The entire system of facial expression is available to him, so he ceases to strongly identify with any pattern of expression. It becomes apparent that his self is beyond the system, so his need for self-expression is forced to manifest in more inclusive, higher mediums.

NLP allows the student access to explore and manipulate, among other things, meaning and emotion. He can change what an event means in his life-narrative, have access to multiple plot-lines simultaneously, and alter his experience at will. He becomes familiarised with the structural components of meaning and emotion. If he explores extensively enough, he will cease to identify with any expression of who he is within the mediums with which NLP deals, such as emotion and meaning. Emotion and meaning are, as a result, understood to be limited and impersonal systems. The student cannot find his self in the system because he has access to multiple meanings and can structure new ones at will. His self-concept and its expression is consequently forced into higher, more inclusive mediums/realms.

My personality change experiment facilitates extensive exploration of the medium for expression of the self represented by the word ''personality''. I become more familiar with the structural components of personality and the entire, overarching life-narrative with each new personality I emulate. I am no longer able to identify with the patterns which previously represented ''me'' through the medium of personality and standard experience. Thus, what was previously the highest, most inclusive medium for expression of the self is revealed to be a limited system within which no stable 'self' can be found. Many selves are available at will, so the self-concept, and its expression, is forced into higher, more inclusive realms.



The outer black ring represents personality. The inner rings represent more limited mediums of expression. A typical person experiences life as the relationships between finite points on the outer ring (the medium of personality) and other finite points on the inner rings (more limited mediums of expression. Exploring all 3 rings forces the self-concept to move beyond them. Too many points (behavioral patterns, personalities, meanings) are available for any to be identified with. What happens then?

Provided that the student has been able to retain functional sanity, his perception and experience expands. What he is can no longer be found in the realms of normal perception (3 is an arbitrary number- don't take it literally), so his self-concept and self-expression- his experience- is forced into the seemingly boundless, cosmic realms beyond personality (the space around the outer ring). The old self is transcended, and an aeonic, transpersonal, and cosmic self is accessed. It seems as though some kind of God has been directly experienced, as though life itself has been merged with, as though the individual has become an avatar for the expression of Angels and Demons.

Many mystics call this realm boundless, infinite, or eternal. Their perspective is limited. They have not realised that the same process that can be applied to the lower mediums of expression can be applied to the much more inclusive, but still limited, mediums of expression beyond them. While its experience tends to reveal that there is no fixed self, I anticipate that it can be explored and manipulated completely enough to be transcended. What lies beyond the highest realms of self-expression and self-concept humans have experienced thus far? What lies beyond those unknown realms? And beyond them?

Men will become Gods, and Gods will transcend themselves.

Some of my favorite Blake artwork:

The saddest thing I've ever written:

I love this picture:

Bewwwwtiful Tarot card.