Regardless of what you believe in, somthing happened a long time ago for all of us to be where we are now. The person you are, the decisions you make in life, the things you like, and hate, are all decisions you made by discovering things on your own, through influences of your surroundings, your friends, your family, your culture, your lack of culture, etc etc etc ... you are who you are today because of thousands and millions of factors surrounding you that have happened in the passed. if any one of these factors wouldn't have played themselves out the way they did in your life, you could have slightly been a different person than you are now. You are who you are because how how everything around you influenced you on helping you make your decisions... And this can go back to your parents... And how they are a result of all these little things around them as well. . . . Their way of bringing you up, the decisions they made, are all pieces that help piece together the person you are. And this can go far back.. Way far back,... To your grand parents, why they came to where they are, which led to your parents living a certain lifestyle. What led your grandparents make the choices in their lives?? Again, their surroundings, politics, religion, family, friends, culture, etc etc etc .. . . And we can keep on going, generation after generation, after generation, looking at how the things that happened in the world are all factors into the way your brain is wired today. And there's no limit to how far back you can trace this.... From the beginning, it seems. . . Kinda scary and comforting when I think about it. . . That while everything I do is a result of me wanting to do it, in the end, had I not gone through every experience that I did go through, and every underlying factor since the beginning of it all, maybe things would have been different. Call it destiny, call it a world that's planned out for everyone,.... Whatever it is, it's pretty messed up.
I believe mental disorders and such aren't all genetic. I think certain things such as shyness or violent behavior in adults are due to circumstances as a child that molded them to be that way. For example, a child gets beat terribly during puberty by a parent. The child's brother sees this happen. The child who got beat grows up a shy person, often keeping to himself so as to not anger someone and repeat such a situation. The brother of the child may grow differently, learning how he needs to protect himself from people like that parent. That's just one example, maybe things you do help to mold who you are, but things that others do to you can also effect your growing up.
now that's the question I ask myself every day... this theory doesn't leave much room (I don't think) for the soul.
That's assuming a soul exists. I'm not saying it does or it doesn't, just that there is the possibility it may not. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. " - Aristotle
