MBTI/The Trio/Thinking&eeling

[moongirlk]

A question on the whole personality thing.  I've taken the test a few 
times over the years (most recently when this discussion first came 
up at SugarQuill last year), and I always come up INFP.  I'm *way* I 
N and P when they show the scale of it, the only one that's even 
close is the T/F one, and I've always had a hard time really 
understanding what the big difference is there.  I guess in my mind 
you can't have one without the other - all my thoughts are influenced 
by my emotions, and all my emotions are influenced by my thoughts, 
and in the HP example you guys were talking about I'm even more 
confused because it seems like both of them were coming from an F 
place to me.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "bbennett320178" <bbennett at j...> wrote:
> Yes! Great example here on T/F. Ron's personal logic told him 
> Hermione was ignoring his concerns by refusing to contain 
> Crookshanks, which hurt his feelings; Hermione's impersonal logic 
> told her that Ron didn't think she had sense enough to control her 
> cat, which offended her intellectually. Hermione and Harry seem to 
> be more inline in terms of logic -both being Ts.

I see both of them as acting from emotion more than pure thought in 
this incident.  Everyone has agreed that Ron was being emotional, so 
I'll just deal with Hermione.  It doesn't seem like impersonal logic 
that she would be offended because of what Ron thought about the way 
she dealt with her cat, especially if he's essentially right.  She 
hadn't controlled her cat, and she had no way of knowing at the time 
that the cat hadn't killed Scabbers, so the fact that she didn't do 
anything about the cat made me see pride as a motivation, not logic 
or intellect.  It seems like if either one of them had been less 
emotional, the fight wouldn't have lasted past the initial upset.  
Maybe I'm not understanding *how* one was being more F and the other 
more T, or maybe I just don't understand where the distinction lies 
between the two on a practical level.

It was a little easier for me to understand your other example, but 
even that didn't help me much, because (tell me if I've got this 
wrong) Spock's not supposed to even have emotions, is he?  So how 
does that work with regular people?  How do they function from a 
thought level without emotions getting at least a half-say?

Maybe I should just pick up one of the books you recommended and see 
how they explain it, but if anyone's got any ideas to help me 
understand, I'd appreciate it!

kimberly
perplexed, as is often the case