Whether you adapt or you revolt , in either case it is not you but your nature which makes the choice.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:06 PM, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > Adaption may be phoney/false in order to survive/prosper/get along. > Afterall, a child is controlled in beliefs and behaviors by his > parents. The child cannot even change its name unless it goes to > court- even marriage only changes the last name. (I was named to match > family monograms on linens, silver and as a bone tossed to my father's > ego and my mother's determination to establish a stake in a failing > marriage.) The brain is not mature until the mid-twenties. > > We should discuss motive and its role in making choices. Often motive > is not apparent until you are beyond the choice or older and in the > ruminating stage. > > Women developed manipulation to an art form. Power is another > important element in choice. > > It is human to try various adaptions on for size. I thought of a line > the other day: I tried on sin but found it unbecoming. > > Some conditions are beyond human choice and adaption- violent acts of > Nature, war zones, political and social clamps, etc. > > If the more capable individual has adapted to baser systems, where's > the courage or intelligence? > > On Feb 26, 11:48 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is in the nature of an organism to adapt to his environment , >> whether it is conscious or unconscious. The more capable an organism >> the better its coping behaviour and adaptability , that which you >> cannot change you adapt to. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So is morality/religion a means/tool of adaptation? >> >> > On Feb 26, 9:17 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It depends upon man's nature and the opportunities in his environment >> >> that result in successive environments. >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:36 AM, kenny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > "and how shall man hope to see himself as nature made him, across all >> >> > the changes which the succession of place and time must have produced >> >> > in his original composition". rousseau >> >> >> > On Feb 25, 9:32 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> We have choice but it is limited by our motivational forces. We go to >> >> >> a restaurant and order food by choice but according to our taste buds >> >> >> or health habits. Our freedom is bound by many factors , some of which >> >> >> we are not even aware of. The choice is ours and the responsibility is >> >> >> ours but the motivating force behind the curtain is determined by our >> >> >> nature. On being confronted by a bully the meek among us act with >> >> >> timidity but the bold among us act with aggression. Our nature is >> >> >> determined to a large extent by factors beyond our control , we are >> >> >> not responsible for our genes or the environment in which we were born >> >> >> and yet they are responsible for our nature. The desire to change >> >> >> ourselves , to improve ourselves comes from within us and is innate in >> >> >> us , what we see as our freedom has causative factors of which we are >> >> >> not aware. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, pol.science kid >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > I was thinking...it is our ability to make a choice that makes us >> >> >> > moral beings....but is it necessary that animals dont make a >> >> >> > choice...and do we really make an active choice....and i would like >> >> >> > someone to talk about responsibility in the same sense...- Hide >> >> >> > quoted text - >> >> >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text -
