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Carolina got beat by Denver - again.

Day 3 has been extended to 2pm Central US Time on Wednesday, or ~159 hours, 30 minutes.

There is 1 extension remaining for Day 3.

I'll have a proper vote count up later, perhaps tomorrow, but it's a no lynch as things stand.

...I'm already invested in the lives of people I've never met, hector.  Somehow, I think I can manage it.  I mean, I don't want to switch careers, but...I do want to know how to help people.

Counseling isn't something you can do as an amateur, but then again counseling isn't the only way you can help someone. Listening and treating them like a human bean is generally good enough.

Bearing in mind that for a counseling role there is a significant emotional investment as well as an intellectual one.

There were a lot of qualifiers to that generalization, but it happened to me. Anecdotal is best evidence.

Re: personality types: perhaps it may be more accurate to say personality type at the time the test to determine it was taken

Yeah, it's a perfectly valid way to live, not being the life of the party, and there's nothing wrong with that. Going into extremes is where it becomes a thing that you should address. For instance, in the case of becoming a shut-in you have the issue that you're not going to get less isolated from your current position without instituting radical changes. And what I'm trying to do here is share why I think I tend to have trouble relating to people to a lesser or greater degree - a lack of trust in others (unrealistically low expectations of their integrity and better nature), and a lack of trust in myself (unrealistically low perception of my own potential value as an individual), rather than some inherent property of my innermost soul that sorts me into one category or another.

It seems to me that you identify as an introvert but... neither of those things have anything to do with introversion. You seem to be projecting your issues with introversion onto other people, and assuming that they feel the same. Yes I know, I'm assuming these things, hypocrite and all that, but this forms the basis of my issue with what you're saying, so you can understand my position.

I mean if you see introversion as a problem, then... that's literally your problem. You need to work to fix it. Telling the introverts that you have a problem with the way they live and that the reason they live like that is essentially because they hate people is pretty stupid, if you'll excuse the bluntness.

Why is it a problem if someone chooses to have minimal social contact? If they're content with that and causing themselves no harm, why does it need to be fixed?

I mean, society pretty much demands extroversion, which can cause an introvert who doesn't know any better to think they're somehow wrong or broken, but that doesn't mean they are.

I targeted myself, as I was reading over the last game on a whim and figured I might have a similar thing to TBF's auto last game which gave random results.

Turns out that the answer is either yes I do, or someone can mess with results.