Thread: Where do personalities come from?

I myself haven't quite come to any conclusion as to whether or not I believe in the horoscope/signs as to explain why people are the way they are or think the way they think.

I have often wondered though how much of a persons character is pre-determined at the very beginnings of their life, when the sperm meets the egg, and how much is determined by the parenting they receive and their environment. In other words how different would I be if I had been raised across the waters with some of you? How different would I be if my mom and dad hadn't been so protective?

As for me, I'm also a Gemini and I've been married to an Aquarius. Now I'm attached to a Scorpio.

I think horoscopes are a load of rubbish, but then I think that basically any unsubstantiable belief structures are just wishful thinking. I certainly wouldn't deny the posibility that experiencing your first months in different seasons of the year could play some small effect on the way your personality developed.

Horoscopes are just the art of bull-poo. Talking in a vague roundabout way that covers all situations.. Because people want to believe in them, they'll find a way to distort their personality to make it true. Just like people do with religion - they want to believe it so they won't analyse the bits that don't make sense, etc.

Sex has a lot to do with how peoples characters turn out too, as any Freudian will tell you... And I mean from the age of like 3 not necessarily when peope actually start having sex... If a person is smarter or more ****** (which can be down to both rubbish genes and rubbish parenting) will also greatly affect someone - whether they will be snobby and look down on people (like me), or if they constantly fight to try and prove themselves.

You take a lot of traits straight from your parents, whether you want to or not - for example my girlfriend hates her mum, and will be complaining about a character trait she has and how she'd never be like that, even though she is incapable of seeing it in herself.

Social interaction or lack thereof also play a massive part, if your friends are bad influences, if you are rejected by the social norm, whether you are short or tall, have a big penis/**** yadda yadda yadda.

There's so many contributing factors, that it's basically like trying to find the unifying equation of the universe. People are as they are...

Originally Posted by anonymouswhitefemale

I think horoscopes are a load of rubbish, but then I think that basically any unsubstantiable belief structures are just wishful thinking. I certainly wouldn't deny the posibility that experiencing your first months in different seasons of the year could play some small effect on the way your personality developed.

Horoscopes are just the art of bull-poo. Talking in a vague roundabout way that covers all situations.. Because people want to believe in them, they'll find a way to distort their personality to make it true. Just like people do with religion - they want to believe it so they won't analyse the bits that don't make sense, etc.

Sex has a lot to do with how peoples characters turn out too, as any Freudian will tell you... And I mean from the age of like 3 not necessarily when peope actually start having sex... If a person is smarter or more ****** (which can be down to both rubbish genes and rubbish parenting) will also greatly affect someone - whether they will be snobby and look down on people (like me), or if they constantly fight to try and prove themselves.

You take a lot of traits straight from your parents, whether you want to or not - for example my girlfriend hates her mum, and will be complaining about a character trait she has and how she'd never be like that, even though she is incapable of seeing it in herself.

Social interaction or lack thereof also play a massive part, if your friends are bad influences, if you are rejected by the social norm, whether you are short or tall, have a big penis/**** yadda yadda yadda.

There's so many contributing factors, that it's basically like trying to find the unifying equation of the universe. People are as they are...

Good lord, Anon...Pray tell we are now blood brothers....I agree with what you have said.

I was a middle child...Being a middle child I had to fight harder. Things did not come easy and I developed into the type of person I wanted to be....Unfortunately for me it has not stopped....I have a matching set with my husband and we are two of the happiest people in the world...Both lost in la la land....TC, C

Originally Posted by CarolineWH

Good lord, Anon...Pray tell we are now blood brothers....I agree with what you have said.

Look out the sky is falling!

Originally Posted by CarolineWH

I was a middle child...Being a middle child I had to fight harder. Things did not come easy and I developed into the type of person I wanted to be....Unfortunately for me it has not stopped....I have a matching set with my husband and we are two of the happiest people in the world...Both lost in la la land....TC, C

I was also the middle, older sister, younger brother. Both of them have more aggressive personalities, won't take poop off of anyone. Me, somehow I got the passive personality, would rather have peace even at the cost of my own feelings. Maybe some of that stems from watching those two fight with each other growing up.