Just wanted to vent a bit about my older brother after I was at his son birthday party. We do not talk much so I decided to catch up with his life.
- He got offended when I told him that he is the whitest guy I know. Apparently calling him white was somehow bad. I only said that because without lotion he burns in the sun, full red in a minute.
- We talked about what books he reads now since it is his favorite hobby. Apparently he only reads books with harems in them and lesbians which is fine by me of-course but then he took time to educate me about "the spectrum" which by the way is retarded.
- He only watches movies with a lesbian or at least a bisexual chick as main role
- He told me how good it is to change D&D dark elves and orcs - he does not play it and knows I am a fan - think he only mentioned to piss me off
- He like socialism for some unknown reason, people under socialism worked hard as fuck without having a choice in the matter (parents are from Romania) and he is at a level of lazy that I can not describe.
- Very pro putting social political messages in games/movies and books.
- Totally ignores his son education, the boy was hurting my grandmas dog and he did not care - I mean take him to a doctor behavior not just pull her by the tail. Luckily his wife is a huge capitalist fan, conservative, daughter of an ortodox priest so the kid will be fine.
- Hates J.K. Rowling now :)) I wonder why as he used to be a fan. I chuckled at this one.
- And the worst part he apparently hates me for not being miserable - not kidding. Just because I like what I do (although the company is "progressive"), I love my beautiful wife and I watch my health apparently is somehow privilege although we are brothers and had the same start.
Conclusion: He apparently developed some kind of kinks I do not want to know. He is doing poorly at his job because he is lazy and would rather read then do his work. Hates society and anyone who is happy. Hates being a white male. And wants everyone to be miserable and remove the opportunity to be successful from others. How high does this rank on a SJW scale?
Bonus: What my grandma has to say about socialism: If you are in a point in life where someone else tells you what to do and what to think then you are the same as dead. (is a rough translation from Romanian)
Strange. When and how do you think you guys started to deviate so much from one another?
Odd you ask since my wife and I just had that conversation. Around 22yo - he kept having people "break" into his car and take stuff b/c he was too lazy to lock it. He said he didn't care b/c they weren't taking anything he cared about. I asked, what about the fact that they are breaking into your personal property without your permission? He just shrugged, didn't care.
First time I've ever not understood his thinking.
That sounds like that's probably a while after you two began to diverge. People don't change on a dime usually, for him to be incomprehensible to you at that point probably means there were already a few steps before that.
I agree. I think as soon as we stopped living together we started to diverge.
Did he go to college?
We both did, he didn't graduate though, dropped out. We're both programmers now as well - I'm much more accomplished though because he has little drive while I was heavily driven to provide a comfortable living for my family.
He's also gay and childless, I imagine both those things have heavily influenced his direction. For the record I'm very pro-gay marriage and my wife and I used to be very close to him and his husband, but that was a long time ago.
When they're born.
Identical twins are the reason concepts like your blood or genetics determining your life is wrong.
Two objects identical in makeup can never, ever experience the same events in the same way and will always turn out different as a result.
Additionally for identical twins sometimes that's enough of a reason for wanting a unique identity not based on their twin or solely through comparison.
It's a little ambiguous what you mean there, but twin studies have shown time and again that things such as IQ and temperament are significantly hereditary.
Not to discount the supplemental effects of life and environment also influencing those things, which if that's all you're claiming that's fine. But if you're claiming genetics don't influence life outcomes at all based on twins, that's patently wrong.
Which is irrelevant to historic concepts of who/what someone is determining what happens to them and to what experiences they will undergo the moment they are born.
Astrology: the stars determine what happen to you.
Divine Fate/Destiny: God[s] determine what happens to you.
Someone's blood/genetics is just another example in history of these superstitions trying to work out why things happen. Examples based on primitive thinking and understanding of how the world and beyond works.
For the example here identical twins disprove your blood/genetics determining what happens to you because they share the same blood and genetics. Additionally newborns have zero capability to utilise whatever intelligence they may possess.
Even accounting for spontaneous mutations where blood types can change, or attempting to control every single variable under lab conditions it isn't possible for distinct entities to experience the same existence.
You seem confused about what constitutes proof, and apparently biology if you keep using blood types and genetics interchangeably.
The existence of one factor doesn't disprove the existence other factors. That environmental effects exist doesn't disprove genetic effects. Nor, as you seemingly think, is pointing out evidence of genetic effects an attack on the existence of enviromental effects.
There is ample evidence that both exist, and trying to deny the evidence of genetic contribution because it makes you feel uncomfortable is the exact kind of ignorant superstition that you just decried.
lmao
I don't think anyone but an actual fool would say that your life is 100% genetically determined.
Even if it was 70%, a single random event can massively change you enough to make it look like you are nothing similar. Getting beaten up one day at school causes one to pick up working out, leading to sports, leading to a very active lifestyle different than his identical nerdier brother.
Many historic concepts and ideas are foolish because they're ill-formed.
I would put "were" there instead but there are still flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, practising witches, and a lot of other historic/primitive practices still going on today around the world not just limited to less developed populations of humanity.
Destiny/Fate is a fairly big one of these that still has some debate kicking around relating to free will and predestination but that deals with things on the quantum level.
For a more topical example see astrology and horoscopes where star patterns are believed to influence said Destiny.
Same idea, different medium.