Jan 21 2013: You know when someone puts two examples to make an expression more precise in its meaning... :-) .. I also believe general can mean the most common/ordinary of something..
BUT I shall agree that "the main cultural influences" would have been a better choice of words, and thank you for making me aware of the potential of missunderstanding my argument as being self conflicting!
Words are important so one should strive for pressition at all times :)
Jan 21 2013: This talk is for me ridiculous as long as there is no evidence that children movies makes morale and ethics in any significant way regarding the upcoming adult. No source I have read claims anything off that sort, and he presents no referances in his talk.
If you should know off such research allready been done, I would love to be corrected on this account :)
If he could make some research, instead off talking about a -potensial- problem with no scientific backing, I would be thrilled if he would be able to document his claims.
Until then, I regard general culture (like teology and traditions), RNA/DNA and genetics as the main influences to why we do and feel what we do and become what we are.
Jan 10 2013: Well..if science did not excist we might not have the fuel engine, lightbulbs, cars etc... maybe string theory can if proven correct aid us further in such directions?
Do you tell your friend, who his wife just died, that his wife had been having an affair...Being asked if you know who the guy in the background of the funural was, even though you really know everything..
What would be best for your friend, if lets say, he takes his wifes death extremely poorly. What is best for their children etc?
Should guys tell there wifes they look fat in that dress, when they do?
Should girls stop acting like all our faults are ok/not there most of the time?
I'm not sure i would answer the same on all, but those questions are indicators that the wrong truth might ex. make someone depressed, a killer, or take their own life
I was actually a huge fan of extreme truth telling at one time, but I found out most can't handle it and will react very irrationally (from my point of view) when presented with truths they even asked for in the first place. People dont want the truth alle the time. So now I lie all the time like everybody else.
My mother is a Jehovas Witness, and even they lie, all the time! To protect and serve each other (avoid conflicts f.ex.). But they don't percieve it like that though (when asked about it, they respond they never lie, which ironically also is a lie :)
Nov 25 2012: Interesting! I think the taught social skill and the real appreciation off a gift because you truly deeply like it, are two different things. For me the social setting is more like acting for others best being, not gratitude of any kind.
For me at least, it is extremely uncomfortable to receive gifts, however, I love giving them!
I think it is connected with me being very shy. I don't even feel comfortable being told I've done a good job, or have an amazing talent for the guitar, it just bugs me out. I also blush, and believe all this proborbly are connected somewhat :)
Furthermore, I could agree to a sentence like "we can learn to controll the outcome off our feelings" at least, but I don't think we can learn to feel from our parents (except perhaps by watching them). I think we can only learn to feel by experiencing the feeling, hence i think we are equipped by default with these feelings of gratitude or hate or amazement.
The understanding perspective we choose/are convinced of in life, then (religion or atheism or something else), will affect our gratitude and how we percieve it (I think :)
But this is highly amature chains off thoughts regarding a huge difficult question, so don't take it for anything else :)
Nov 24 2012: Irrationality differs from perspective, thus should not be dealt with, since we never would all agree on how to do this. That's my perspective at least.
Nov 24 2012: In my opinion creativity can come from almost all emotions, and all emotions can trigger creativity as well.
I usually have to do something for something creative to appear in my brain.
Having a guitar in my hands, will often let me play subconciously, which often ends up as songs/riff f.ex.
Arguing a case on the spot without giving the subject a single thought on forehand also forces me into creativity (cause i hate to loose an argument, if i feel my argument is at least equally valid to the "opponent"..)
The most efficient way of boosting my creativity is definitively being around other creative people as much as possible. Proborbly because I am a bit shy..
Nov 24 2012: I am a 'atheist'. And I feel gratitude for life too. I feel gratitude to mother nature (evil-ution :). Because when you are an atheist, you might want to believe every thing led to another.. I also feel gratitude to myself when I have f.ex. gotton the job, because I did so well on the interview and so on.
like, if i pick up a mushroom in the forrest, and eats it, i thank the weather for making them grow up and the sun for making me go and find it etc.. I don't think about every detail like that off course, but more towards a generic understanding of how it came to be. really the same thing religious people do, just without the God figure. (I stop my gratitude before at a potential Big Bang, and whatever was before that, I could not care less.. just like christians could not care less who created God)
To end up; I don't think we can choose to feel gratitude; some do, some don't.
And I am convinced that it does not affect the ability to give, just because you don't feel gratitude to a God or mother nature or Buddha or yourself.
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I seem to fail to follow the argument here..
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BUT I shall agree that "the main cultural influences" would have been a better choice of words, and thank you for making me aware of the potential of missunderstanding my argument as being self conflicting!
Words are important so one should strive for pressition at all times :)
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If you should know off such research allready been done, I would love to be corrected on this account :)
If he could make some research, instead off talking about a -potensial- problem with no scientific backing, I would be thrilled if he would be able to document his claims.
Until then, I regard general culture (like teology and traditions), RNA/DNA and genetics as the main influences to why we do and feel what we do and become what we are.
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A reply on Conversation: Telling the truth: are there limits?
Do you tell your friend, who his wife just died, that his wife had been having an affair...Being asked if you know who the guy in the background of the funural was, even though you really know everything..
What would be best for your friend, if lets say, he takes his wifes death extremely poorly. What is best for their children etc?
Should guys tell there wifes they look fat in that dress, when they do?
Should girls stop acting like all our faults are ok/not there most of the time?
I'm not sure i would answer the same on all, but those questions are indicators that the wrong truth might ex. make someone depressed, a killer, or take their own life
I was actually a huge fan of extreme truth telling at one time, but I found out most can't handle it and will react very irrationally (from my point of view) when presented with truths they even asked for in the first place. People dont want the truth alle the time. So now I lie all the time like everybody else.
My mother is a Jehovas Witness, and even they lie, all the time! To protect and serve each other (avoid conflicts f.ex.). But they don't percieve it like that though (when asked about it, they respond they never lie, which ironically also is a lie :)
A reply on Conversation: Should we feel gratitude for our life? To whom?
For me at least, it is extremely uncomfortable to receive gifts, however, I love giving them!
I think it is connected with me being very shy. I don't even feel comfortable being told I've done a good job, or have an amazing talent for the guitar, it just bugs me out. I also blush, and believe all this proborbly are connected somewhat :)
Furthermore, I could agree to a sentence like "we can learn to controll the outcome off our feelings" at least, but I don't think we can learn to feel from our parents (except perhaps by watching them). I think we can only learn to feel by experiencing the feeling, hence i think we are equipped by default with these feelings of gratitude or hate or amazement.
The understanding perspective we choose/are convinced of in life, then (religion or atheism or something else), will affect our gratitude and how we percieve it (I think :)
But this is highly amature chains off thoughts regarding a huge difficult question, so don't take it for anything else :)
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A comment on Conversation: How do you embrace your creativity?
I usually have to do something for something creative to appear in my brain.
Having a guitar in my hands, will often let me play subconciously, which often ends up as songs/riff f.ex.
Arguing a case on the spot without giving the subject a single thought on forehand also forces me into creativity (cause i hate to loose an argument, if i feel my argument is at least equally valid to the "opponent"..)
The most efficient way of boosting my creativity is definitively being around other creative people as much as possible. Proborbly because I am a bit shy..
A comment on Conversation: Should we feel gratitude for our life? To whom?
like, if i pick up a mushroom in the forrest, and eats it, i thank the weather for making them grow up and the sun for making me go and find it etc.. I don't think about every detail like that off course, but more towards a generic understanding of how it came to be. really the same thing religious people do, just without the God figure. (I stop my gratitude before at a potential Big Bang, and whatever was before that, I could not care less.. just like christians could not care less who created God)
To end up; I don't think we can choose to feel gratitude; some do, some don't.
And I am convinced that it does not affect the ability to give, just because you don't feel gratitude to a God or mother nature or Buddha or yourself.
A reply on Talk: Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds