Even though I had what I considered very different and religious beliefs during my childhood and teen years, there was an underlying nature I felt in myself which expressed itself in multiple forms. To me being a jehovah’s witness is allot like being the bad kind of racist, because they taught all world governments and religions are satanic and wrong. So I had the “everyone is wrong I’m right” attitude, but I also got a type of criticism, sophistry for the conjecture. I looked for flaws in things and I was a perfectionist. Today I think differently but I’ve been wondering what my genes are doing on me. I’m still vastly moralist and I have to suppress a stupidity in myself which during my childhood I was not able to identify. Now I can identify and suppress it quite well. I’ve got ukranian dad, dutch mom. I suspect one of those two people had some shit genes, but then good genes which faught with the shit genes. It resulted in a hierarchy forming. It’s uncomfortable. I think I missed the ukranian workaholic genes, but it manifested as a desire for endless mental work. I find physical work exasperating after a short time, but I could do mental work for a long time. I want to make art. However, I came from two religious workaholics. Maybe my nature is not genetic, but if it is not genetic, it must be chance. Nature is a dice.
Genetics don’t determine anything any more than the tag on my shirt determines what my shirt is made of. The dna is there, and the attached earlobes are there, but they don’t make each other that way. They just both are that way.
DNA is the blueprints and protocals of all my cells.
In a way life is a container, but I think there is allot of predisposition.
And then there is my crazy assed soul to also consider.
Maybe you’re a mutant, maybe some of the genes you inherited mutated, producing something altogether different than either of your parents. Also, watch the chemicals in the air, water and food. Be weary of pharmaceuticals and radiation from cell phones, computers and headphones. You’re body/mind is effected by everything you consume/don’t consume. These could be influencing you in powerful, usually negative ways. I saw this youtube clip on this Asian man who was born with glossy, blue green eyes. His eyes were very sensitive to sunlight. Scientists did some tests. Turns out he has night-vision, he has nocturnal, catlike eyes. He didn’t inherit this from either of his parents, and it may be genetic, perhaps he’ll pass on all or a portion of his mutations to his offspring. You may be a neurological/psychological mutant, which could be positive or negative, depending on your perspective and your particular and peculiar mutations. It’s also generational. Our generation grew up with electronics, with the internet, so we spend a lot more in our thoughts and in other peoples thoughts rather than in the physical world, some more than others. Perhaps if your parents grew up with all the strange chemicals and electronic outlets you did, they would’ve turned out the same, or very similar. Perhaps those that can master the new environment of the digital world will one day overtake the ones that labor 8-12 hours a day in the physical. We live in strange times, this is like a crazy experiment humanity is collectively conducting, no one knows for sure, what the end result will be.
Mutation is one thing, then there is also dormant genes which only come up sometimes.
Electronics has effected me, but I feel the inner most thing was genes too. Maybe some soul shit happened to add to that.
I think I’m extremely lucky in a few ways, then in all the other ways I’m quite unlucky.
I consider allot of it luck and determination.
I was just asking things about myself especially after that “black nature, white denial” thread.
I don’t think the thread OP was all correct, but I do think it was partially true.
So I wondered about my dutch side. It might be my good side, then it has to fight with the ukranian crap.
Genes are a lot to do with the way you are but they are not all. Your life and environment will have a large impact on the way you develop. You can’t blame your life on genes any more than you can blame your life on your environment, they are a complex mix of both. DNA changes throughout your life, it can even bring different genes than you were born with to your children, after all a template cast in stone is less evolutionarily likely to work than one that is malleable.Take behavioural traits they must be as intrinsic to DNA in your life time as they are extrinsic to yours, otherwise how does instinct evolve? Does it magically take account of some behaviours without input from the environment?
Genes over culture well, that’s another thread. There’s so much mixed propaganda over science that ignores reality in that other thread, it’s a non sequitur fest, it’s nothing to do with genetics or science none of it. 
Maybe something deeper than life events and DNA also shapes us. Energy from the causal plane or some shit.
Hmmm even you probably think that was a shot in the dark Dan. Don’t know, must be x. 
Yes it was a shot in the dark, considering how I don’t have any sense facilities for these realms of pure causal energy.
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Sorry I couldn’t help myself.
I’m not sure how much thinking about oneself in terms of genes is useful. As an abstract scientific or philosophical mulling, maybe, but otherwise I think it is a bit like figuring out how to get a book off the shelf using anatomy diagrams and books on kinesiology. Or after falling in love and wondering what to do next taking a course in Endocrinology. Actually feeling one parent in yourself, that is more where any leverage is. Sometimes my wife will mimic my facial expression and I see my father’s face, and I realize not only did I look like my father in that moment, but something I disliked about him, but did not realize was in me, is living on quite well. Genes or nurture or chance or reincarnated soul is beside the point, what is the living character or habit doing? What does it feel like? What fears or yearnings bolster and maintain it? Do I want to unravel it?
If I was unravelled my blood would be the pure liquified fear of death, change and self-loss.
Well I don’t have the sense faculties is the same as saying I can’t perceive them so I don’t know, which is of course as weighty as holding Ukraine which is a weak country in Risk. I could just as easily say the cause is magic, but I don’t have the ability to sense magic so I’ll hide out in Kamchatka, also quite weak on its own.
Your genes give you an opportunity to become many things and to be sensitive to many things. What you actually become in the end, is mostly determined by what those genes encountered along the way. Genes do not make a person into a “perfectionist” nor a “racist”. They hint at signs of threat and hope. How you deal with those signs and hints is entirely a far more complex issue. “You” are only a small component of the controller of what you do and can do.
If that is what they taught, they would have been right about that.
That part, I suspect wasn’t their doing, nor entirely yours. There are far more influences upon you than those of which you are aware.
If we knew that reality is co-dependent we could still make estimations about what invisible causes the visible and what visible causes the invisible.
That is what the rounders of religion tried to do, the rationalists. Those rationalists…
You really think so?
Imagine how much energy and intelligence it would take to run and control the universe.
The universe operates on minimalism. It would be much more likely to run on as little energy and complexity as possible.
Wait, it’s got allot of complexity and energy.
Well, I’m f-ed.
Some things may just be, for example, gravity may just be, it doesn’t need a cause. Now, if we discover heat, light and magnetism were caused by blue elephants, then it may be reasonable to believe gravity, another force, is caused by blue elephants, or perhaps green elephants, or red, but other than that, there’s no need for gravity to have a cause. Gravity may just exist, any speculation as to what, if anything, is the cause of gravity, without any empirical evidence behind it is nonsense. Ultimately, the cause of everything is Chaos. Every conceivable and even inconceivable thing has an equal potential of existing. Our universe happens to be governed by certain laws. There’s no reason why other universes, if there are any, would not be governed by completely different physics than ours. The dark matter thing, for example, bothers me. Why dark matter at all? Perhaps gravity behaves differently at that scale for no reason at all, or for another reason. Ultimately, Chaos is God or, the origin of all things. The Greeks got it right.
Nope.
Yep.
yeah, that’s why it’s often good to differentiate between realms. Not a lot one can do to one’s genes, even when focusing intently. But habits, patterns, unconscious heuristics, personality traits can be delved into experientially and unravelling can take Place without making a crime scene.