Who has most influenced you?

[Achilleus]

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[LEWIS540]

A Chinese man who died 2500 years ago is your biggest influence? Fucking Hipster.

Think for 90% of people it will be their parents.

 

[Spoken]

A Chinese man who died 1500 years ago is your biggest influence? Fucking Hipster.

Think for 90% of people it will be their parents.

I mean, Christians could trump that with Jesus, I suppose. Kind of a lie, if we're honest.

 

[Achilleus]

A Chinese man who died 2500 years ago is your biggest influence? Fucking Hipster.

Think for 90% of people it will be their parents.

 

[LEWIS540]

I mean, Christians could trump that with Jesus, I suppose. Kind of a lie, if we're honest.

Typo.......2500 years ago.

In most cases, Christians are only Christians because their parents are.

 

[Achilleus]

Typo.......2500 years ago.

In most cases, Christians are only Christians because their parents are.

No need to get political, Lewis. Just anwer the question.

 

[loisestrad]

 

[Spoken]

Typo.......2500 years ago.

In most cases, Christians are only Christians because their parents are.

Society gives us most of our assumed paradigms. Doesn't determine if a given paradigm is true or not.
Generally, I think folks are more influenced by people in the here and now than they'd care to admit. One is always more "american" than "christian" or whatever.

Anywho, tough to say "who" has most influenced. Intellectually it's probably St. Augustine, Aquinas, or Heidegger. Socially, the answer for most of us is mom and/or dad

 

[Achilleus]

Society gives us most of our assumed paradigms. Doesn't determine if a given paradigm is true or not.
Generally, I think folks are more influenced by people in the here and now than they'd care to admit. One is always more "american" than "christian" or whatever.

Anyone, tough to say "who" has most influenced. Intellectually it's probably St. Augustine, Aquinas, or Heidegger. Socially, the answer for most of us is mom and/or dad

 

[LEWIS540]

No need to get political, Lewis. Just anwer the question.

How was it political?


True answer: parents.

Pseudo-intellectual answer: Heraclitus

 

[Achilleus]

How was it political?


True answer: parents.

Pseudo-intellectual answer: Heraclitus

Religious talk always gets political.

 

[loisestrad]

True answer: parents.

What if my parents where heavily influenced by Goethe? Does that mean I'm influenced more by my parents than Goethe? Or both equally?

 

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... so, Roddenberry, and Schultz

 

[Achilleus]

What if my parents where heavily influenced by Goethe? Does that mean I'm influenced more by my parents than Goethe? Or both equally?

Good question

 

[LEWIS540]

What if my parents where heavily influenced by Goethe? Does that mean I'm influenced more by my parents than Goethe? Or both equally?

Your parents, obviously.

 

[LEWIS540]

Religious talk always gets political.

I think saying, by and large, you inherit your parent's religious beliefs is fact.

 

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Oj simpson

 

[Achilleus]

I think saying, by and large, you inherit your parent's religious beliefs is fact.

My dad was a Mormon. I refuse to go to that church when I was a kid but you have a point.

 

[Achilleus]

Oj simpson

The athlete or the “Killer” ?

 

[loisestrad]

Your parents, obviously.

How so? If all they ever taught me was Goethe's words, wouldn't I be more influenced by Goethe than by my parents? Obviously my parents were channeling Goethe.