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(giving you the benifit of the doubt) Your brother may (MAY) be emotionally abusive. Whatever that is, I don't think it says anything about ENFPs. And if you want to talk about Fi emotional tyranny, tyranny/abuse would even be Ok words (I'd accept them).
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Okay, well I wasn't really talking about his behaviour as being an F or Fi thing, but something Ne types are all prone to because of the intense connection that we have to the external environment - especially ENxP's. I wasn't knocking ENFP's... just providing my observation of one particular Ne dominant person by way of examples of how it can give impressions of superficiality, albeit that those impressions might be erroneous. I display many of those same behaviours myself, to a greater or lesser degree, but believe me when I say that the external discipline I've had over the last few years has been like an iron fist!! I simply have not been able to get away with being that way any more and it's forced me to change (and as I mentioned, still get it wrong quite a lot). My brother had no such external influence and so is pretty much the same in that regard as I ever was. I wasn't saying that his lack of desire to change bad behaviour was a direct consequence of being an ENFP as opposed to ENTP, but more speculating over
whether it was something that other people fall into as well, which I've only managed to partially amend due to the external influence.
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What's NOT right is the idea getting evolved on this thread about that feeling-associated behavior being superficial
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Well, if that's what was happening then I agree that's wrong. If I've been unable to see it then I own that it's probably my own fault. But TBH, the word "superficial" is so vague and full of different possible meanings that I don't even know whether or not to protest against being called it!!! LOL!!
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Because I was so angry at blackwater, and about where I was afraid this thread would go, I snapped at you. I'm sorry.
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Poor Blackwater! Hoist by his own petard, eh?
Haha... no, it's okay, I'm not mad or anything, I was just confused!
BlueWing did quite a good bit about Ne dominance and how it creates that intense external attunement thingy that makes us both quite vulnerable to attacks from outside.
It's here, in case you're interested.