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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Nature vs Nurture
You're definately right on track with that post 
As a kid my view looking out the window was this ( actual real life pic, minus the trees back then, via Google Maps Street View ). A large part of my child hood was spent growing up across the street from this cemetery, Park Hill Cemetery, on a little man made elevated hill. Since then they tore down the house and hill, and made another lane for traffic.
If I wasn't such a nosy kid I wouldn't have seen the shit I saw in the caretakers building after hours, or the shit the squirrels would steal away in their dens. They had these big dens at the base of a group of walnut trees. Countless funerals, countless people crying, countless graves being dug, and countless fresh graves with mounds of dirt, and those fucking squirrels. No idea why but they had a thing for hair clips, fingernails, necklaces and rings. Rings with the finger.
To this day I have a fetish for Somnophilia and I know it's directly related to my experiences living across the street from that cemetery. |
Not "Nature vs Nurture"... it should be said as Nature AND Nurture.
The nature vs nurture view is again a reflection of our brains hardwired and innate need to identify a single factor when looking at causation. Who we are is a complex mix of genetic traits, experience and environment.
Einstein did a lot of amazing work in physics (eventually). Had Einstein been repeatedly beaten, raped and tortured by his father daily when he was little, or simply watched his father have a heart attack and die as he tried to resuscitate him, he could have just as easily been one of the most successful serial killers of his time or a simple family doctor trying to fix/save others as a way of coping what might have been a perceived failure at saving his father. Had he not had a father who was an engineer (electrical?) and businessman producing electrical somethings and been pushed in that direction by his father.... he might have never thought about physics or mathematics, a day in his life.