Ji: Compass Profile

Ji: Compass Function

I've often remarked to myself and others that I don't have any beliefs or ideals. Are ideals in this case examples of rules or principles, that govern a person's action? If so, I'm not sure how much I relate to the concept of ideals per se. What I do see examples of in my own behavior, is the tendency to avoid behaving in a way that produces needless discomfort for myself or others. This is not the manifestation of any specific rule I have about how I conduct myself, it's more of a simple matter of distaste. Is this an example of an implicit ideal? Perhaps, the behaviors that I'm aware of are just examples of implicit ideals in action. However, I don't know if I'd go so far to call them ideals, since an ideal to me is more of a vision or standard that someone explicitly sets for themselves. I never said to myself, "I should be careful not to cause unnecessary discomfort for myself or others" and set that as a rule to live by, It just simply makes me uncomfortable to cause other people discomfort. Also, when it comes to my own experiences with indecision and hesitation, it's never been explicitly because I've explicitly thought that "I cannot act because none of these options are acceptable" or anything like that, once again, it's been the result of some internal sense, this time of uncertainty. I guess my main point for this first bit is that, if I do have ideals I definitely have no explicitly experience of them. Is this inconsistent with having Ti as a conscious function?

Ji: Identity & Individualism


I definitely don't feel as thought my "identity" in the conventional sense is bound by my upbringing or culture, but I also am not aware of any core standards or aspirations. Standards are close to ideals, but to reiterate, I don't have the experience of "should or shouldn't" like thoughts. As far as aspirations go, these are especially hard for me to access. A huge problem I'm facing right now is a lack of aspirational motivation. I don't know what my ideal is so I'm stagnating. Is the composition of the self always compared to some maximal beauty? If so, is the ideal self defined as the maximal beauty or is the current self defined relative to the maximal beauty, or both?


Ji: Idealism

Even as I'm writing this post, I'm doing it based on a sense of resonance or what feels right. Should I discuss my confusions or the stuff I have a good idea about. As I do this, there is no sense of standard or ideal set of rules that I'm referencing in order to decide what to do. Once again, it's just an internal sense of congruence or misalignment. Maybe I'm measuring my actions against a less conscious Ji function. I understand that by "fight", you mean argue as opposed to actually enact, when discussing utopian visions. It's like saying this is how things should be as opposed to making things as they should be. All that being said, once again, I'm not aware of any ideal visions I have for myself or others. I'm not aware of how the I or the world should be. I can have moments when I evaluate a part of a theory based on how I think I coherent theory should be, but this seems to fall short of the type of idealism that is described in the profile.


Ji: Nobility & Conscience

I think I understand the emergence of feelings of low self esteem that arise from comparing oneself or society to a higher ideal, but once again I don't see myself doing this. I don't have a sense of how things should be, even as I'm writing this post, I'm not really remarking on how the post should be improved, as much as I am commenting on how it compares with my own experiences.


Ji: Pickiness & Perfectionism

I can be extremely perfectionistic in the production of my own creative content. This might be the result of a misalignment with some unconscious ideal. When I try to write lyrics, I get caught up on trying to make the words sound good enough and that can prevent me from actually producing the end product. My resonance with this part of the profile may be the result of my Pe-Ji oscillation being more active than my Je-Ji oscillation.

Humorism: Melancholy

I don't think I have an internal ideal of how things should be in general, for me, idealism comes up situationally. I really don't think I have a conception of of a perfect reality that I measure all my experiences against.

Archetype: Prince/Princess

"In a practical sense this manifests as Ji types being picky about love and romance, often vetoing prospective partners based on some perceived incompatibility either in ideology or temperament." - Pretty much how I constantly evaluate in those situations. However, I once again don't see in myself any type of "Utopian Ideology".

Auburn

How can the compass be a compass, i.e. distinguish what is north versus not-north, if it has no content? Even pure mathematical logic relies on its axioms and deduction rules to put things into different boxes, that which follows from them and that which doesn't. Unless you think axioms (unconscious perhaps) don't count as content. Maybe you can say it's my Fe or my Ni, but I very much think I am proceeding from certain rules and principles (not at all articulated clearly perhaps) when I say, this is not quite right. 

It seems to me you really can't do anything, not even perceive, without some content or assumptions. You can't get anything off the ground that way.

hmm, interesting take on it.

Auburn, I'd say the that the core encapsulation of my overarching thought process is essentially the question "Is it right?" This question can apply to either actions or thoughts.

Another observation I just made was as I was looking for the correct word to complete my description, I had internal sense of alignment or misalignment with what I was trying to express. Perhaps this is an example of Ti. For me the experience was a sense of a word's congruence or incongruence with something that's difficult to describe. It's really a sense of a fit or maybe the "==" logical operator. With a good fit being "right" and a bad fit being "wrong". Its like, "Is x true with respect to y?"

This internal sense of alignment or misalignment may be what Ji is at its core. When I doubt myself, it's due to a feeling of misalignment between a thought and what is true. When I hesitate before action its because there's a sense that I'm not acting based on what I think is true. "X either does or does not follow from Y." In my case I can perceive near constant misalignment between what I think or do and an unvoiced ideal. I don't know what the right thought is or the right action is, all I know is that what I'm doing isn't it.

Finally, I wouldn't say that my Ji is approaching any type of belief through any sort of "process". I've already eliminated any core beliefs I used to have, and nothing's left. I would say Ji is more of a purifier, as mentioned earlier, and less of an active constructor. Maybe that's the light and dark sides of Ji, one purifies and the other builds? In any case, I'm stuck purifying. I'm not sure that Ji needs a content in order to operate. From my experience it needs something to evaluate and a true reality to evaluate it against.

That doesn't make sense to me. The fact that there is a structure means there is a content, even if implicit. Otherwise it wouldn't be this structure as opposed to this other one. Something empty cannot do anything, as far as I see it. The structure carries with it a bunch of assumptions.