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Strange theory to think about
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everybody i born into a family teaching certain things and you absorb it, well if you could trace back what people were tought, and what actually influenced them, then you would know how they would act.
everyone makes decisions that they think is the best for them, you cant make a decision that is against what you truely think is best, whether it be blow off studing id rather not, or im gona study.
so if you know what they were taught and absorbed, than you can predict everything they do, in turn if you do this, you can predict the future with some great acuracy, the only thng that needs to be figured out is weather
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stop all this thinking its hurting my mind
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I doubt its that simple but its a good point.
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word i read the first sentence and started to get thinking cramps
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nahh thats not really right, because when some poeple decide not to study there thinking about whats suiting them best for the time being i.e. not doing work but theyre not thinking about the future at all
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think about this. we know about the past, but to think that we werent in existence when this was created is crazy. we simply werent there. To like that to what happens when you die will give you an idea of what happens. Your not there. You have no memories or anything becasue you are not in existence.
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you're theory kinda works, but think of it like this, if you roll a ball down a hill that is completely smooth you can predict where it will stop, but because this is the real world there are bumps and shit on the hill that will change its direction
so the same theory applies to that, there are always exterior forces influencing what people do other than what our parents taught us (media, friends, etc...)
i think that makes sense
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i think whats more important is this...
when a mouse goes outside, does it become a rat?
and when a rat goes in a house, is it a mouse?
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drew has a good point
as many of you know there are numerous examples of ppl who really dont care about whats best for them they do what they want based on whim
i can think of many ppl like this off the top of my head...not everyone has motivation/morals so your theory is flawed
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god i hate your message thingy at the bottom it gives me headaches.
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I guess what you're saying is that history repeats itself? Yeah that's pretty much it. But if you are talking about specific human behavior such as what the person will respond to a certain question as or what door they will pick, that's not fully correct. Everybody is different and no matter what they are taught, their enviorment still influences them to act differently. Look at it this way; my brothers and I were all taught the same stuff- don't do drugs, they are bad. I hardly do them, my older brother does them on a scary repetivness, and my oldest just drinks a beer here and there. So to say from the past you can learn the future in terms of individual's personal responses, would be false.
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people are creatures of habit, but they dont just absorb the info, they take it in then modeify it to suit them
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it just aint that simple son
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i think that after a long period of time the directions that people go can vary, for example if someone does one thing that is against what you would expect (which is probably) and if that is the first event in a sequence of events then it would throw off all previous predictions so the chances of what you would predict them to do would decrease incredibly fast. (50% to 10% to 0.0001%)
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for example: when you go to middleschool with someone, its hard to know where theyre going to go to college
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Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
For example. You have a ball on top of a hill and you let it roll down. Now put the ball back on the hill but maybe like an inch away from the first place you had it. You could expect it to roll to the same place but most likely it will roll to an entirely different side of the hill.
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1) You never stop learning, so your opinions on whats best for you will always be changing.
2) Who's to say everybody does what they know is best for them. I mean, people do heroin, knowing its gonna fuck their life up and knowing that their parents taught them their whole lives that heroin is bad and that they shouldn't do heroin.
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its hard to imagine, but think about this. the mind is ALWAYS working whether you realize it or not. I want to go on for hours but I'm tired...Just take some time to think about what your mind is and how fucking complex it really is. The mind can be such a powerfull tool when you start to learn whats going on in it. this is such an intense topics though, you should try discussing this with friends sometime
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in a way u are agreeing, people will always do what "suits" them best, that decision will always be made, and cant be changed, if i tell you this one person might cut their hand and say hell that wasnt the best for me, but you thought it was cuz you were thinking that it would be best to try to prove me wrong
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but they are thinking that heroin would be good/ easy way out, its not a consious decision, and you learn from people around you, so if you can predict people around you can predict how they will interact, which will tell you what people will learn from each other
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dude u stole me theory lol
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i disagree. 75% of the choices i make are totally bad and definitely not what i want or know what's best. there are so many variables it's impossible to really prove a theory like that. and not everyone always has a clear view of logic.
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well if somebody were to be raised in a completely isolated environment (ie no social contact, no friends, no music, no tv, no movies, etc...) and JUST be taught by their parents, you could accuratly predict what type of person they would be... and now if you were to raise 10 people in the exact same environment (isolated from eachother of course, but same parents, same teachings)... would they all turn out the same?
this has the makings for some sort of cruel experiment lol
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that's a good point, in a situation like you described i think there would be a good result as far as your hypothesis. but i don't think it would be 100% the human mind is far too complex, even without outside influences a lot of neurological makeup can make someone strike an opposition to their own nature, or rebel against what they've been conditioned to be, think, act of et cetera
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think about it, why did you make those decisions, most likely they were easier or what other people wanted you to do, by doing them it is what you think you should do. like backflip off the wall, def not a good or best decision, but i try it cuz i want to and unconciously think that its my best choice presented to me
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we talked about this in AP European History last year. about how the choices you make and the way you live your life is based upon the environment in which your raised in.
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that's not necessarily true. not everything is done consciously for a reason. it's not as simple as i think that you might think it is. thought process varies from one person to another and some people don't take the simple things that you think determine the results of the given choice into consideration whatsover. and the subconscious doesn't cover all the grey area. there are definitely choices that people make with no logical reasoning at all. if it was as simple as your theory makes it all out to be than everyone would be happy or at least be what they were conditioned to be, right? well i'm neither of those things, and i know that's a category a lot of people fall into. there really is no possible way to explain these kind of things factually beyond a neurological standpoint.
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you guys would like sociology
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