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Topic: Gypsy and Freud sittin in a tree
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Tue 05/13/08 11:22 AM

Genetically speaking we are born with certain traits, predisposition to certain disease and personality. Can we adjust them? To a certain extent to nurture but more than likely genetics plays a more major role!!!

Ok what do I win alex???laugh drinker
Pocket lint and duct tape!

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Tue 05/13/08 11:23 AM
Both play an equal part.

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Tue 05/13/08 11:23 AM
If only I could get some magical mayonnaise from the unicorns I would be ok!!indifferent

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Tue 05/13/08 11:24 AM






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What I think Etrain, hey you losing weight?

nope...i've been raising my granddaughter since she was 7 mos old...she saw her "mother" last wk for the first time in 16 mos...but she's always acted just like her mother...


if you raised them both than you're the common nurture element

sorry...clarification...she's my son's daughter


well either way, if you knew her mother well enough as a child that you can comment that your granddaughter is "just like her" then you obviously played a part in her childhood and therefore can not say without a doubt that you did not play some part in her forming similar behaviors. If you didn't play that big of a role in the mother's life at that age than you actually have no way of knowing if your granddaughter is actually just like her mother.

basically what I am saying is that you can not prove a theory one way or another based on your personal experience for a number of reasons. One, since you're in the situation you can not be an objective observer, and two, one example can not prove a theory. The most widely accepted answer is somewhere around a combination 60/40 but the side that has the 60 is still debated back and forth.

(sorry I've written more papers on this topic than I can even count haha)

nope never met the "mother" til he brought her home to meet me just before they were getting married

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Tue 05/13/08 11:24 AM

If only I could get some magical mayonnaise from the unicorns I would be ok!!indifferent



I dont think thats..."magical Mayonaise" your gettin from those unicorns...............

huh huh huh noway devil

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Tue 05/13/08 11:25 AM


If only I could get some magical mayonnaise from the unicorns I would be ok!!indifferent



I dont think thats..."magical Mayonaise" your gettin from those unicorns...............

huh huh huh noway devil
YES IT ISSSSSSSSSSS!!!!explode explode explode explode

Peccy's photo
Tue 05/13/08 11:25 AM
Spermayonaisse gypsy?

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Tue 05/13/08 11:26 AM







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What I think Etrain, hey you losing weight?

nope...i've been raising my granddaughter since she was 7 mos old...she saw her "mother" last wk for the first time in 16 mos...but she's always acted just like her mother...


if you raised them both than you're the common nurture element

sorry...clarification...she's my son's daughter


well either way, if you knew her mother well enough as a child that you can comment that your granddaughter is "just like her" then you obviously played a part in her childhood and therefore can not say without a doubt that you did not play some part in her forming similar behaviors. If you didn't play that big of a role in the mother's life at that age than you actually have no way of knowing if your granddaughter is actually just like her mother.

basically what I am saying is that you can not prove a theory one way or another based on your personal experience for a number of reasons. One, since you're in the situation you can not be an objective observer, and two, one example can not prove a theory. The most widely accepted answer is somewhere around a combination 60/40 but the side that has the 60 is still debated back and forth.

(sorry I've written more papers on this topic than I can even count haha)

nope never met the "mother" til he brought her home to meet me just before they were getting married


then really, you have no idea if your granddaughter is actually "just like her" or not. You've just noticed similarities in how you perceive her mother.

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Tue 05/13/08 11:31 AM

this was settled in a famous 3 stooges short
"Hoi Polloi" Aug. 29, 1935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmt-UtCSHzg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_Polloi_%281935_film%29


God love the Stooges, they have answers for EVERYTHING laugh laugh laugh laugh PERFECT laugh laugh

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Tue 05/13/08 11:35 AM
Edited by s1owhand on Tue 05/13/08 11:39 AM
why soitenly! nyuk nyuk nyuk laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGs36qEKlv8&feature=related

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Tue 05/13/08 11:42 AM
I'd say both play a part... but it is choice that truely defines who they will become. Genetics and environment will influence you... but you still choose how you will deal with each and every situation. Granted... this may not be easy to do, and some situations are tougher to control than others.

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