Role of Ancestry

[samijiben]

Curious:

Whar role does your ancestry (grandparents, great greatparents) play in shaping your personality traits, charecterustics, deeply rooted idiodyncrasies e5c.

[jimwell]

I thank God for my grandmother. She was the only person who allowed me to experience love so deeply. I only met her a few times a year, but each time I spent time with her, I experienced a glimpse of love. I probably wouldn't have learned to love myself without those glimpses (or at least not as quick). I don't even know whether I could have accomplished anything good without my grandmother.

How about you Ben; how did your ancestors impact you?

[samijiben]

@jimwell yoooo, Well of Jimmy! What's happennin?!

My grandmothers were also sweet ladies, albeit grumpy and conceited at times. I still have one grandfather remaining. He is 96 and sharp as a spade.

I did not really mean to ask, however, what role your indivudal ancestors played in your development but rather what role ancestry itself plays.

 

For instance, say your ancestry is Cuban, Syrian, & Hungarian. Does that significantly contribute, if at all, to the structute of your EgoMind?

 

This was supposed to be the original question of this post

[Clarence]

I think our ancestors shape us in many unconscious ways, like a pathway of genetic inheritance. Elements of who we are are transmitted from them. It can be in the form of personality traits, similar fears or interests, but also important is the weight of the collective memory.

But how do we determine what the source of something is? It's complex, and everything is blended together. I simply couldn't tell you how my ancestors shape me. This question is too vast and difficult to answer, and I have no easy or direct experience of them.

[samijiben]

@Clarence this is what I was thinking. My logic followed that it would be highly useful to study the predilections of your ancestors in order to gain a deep understanding of certain deeply-rooted fears and biases of your EgoMind

[jimwell]

18 hours ago, samijiben said:

For instance, say your ancestry is Cuban, Syrian, & Hungarian. Does that significantly contribute, if at all, to the structute of your EgoMind?

Of course it does.

I was born and raised Roman Catholic, hence I held a the Roman Catholic worldview. My environment dumped too much perspectival garbage into my mind; the struggle to clear it was intense and laborious. I began questioning Christianity when I became a teenager, and everybody simply ignored my questions, thinking I was weird and had gone astray. I endured criticisms and gaslighting on my journey to freeing myself from religious garbage. I even remember my father calling me the devil.  It was paradoxical that the real devil accused me of being a devil.

The internal struggle was horrifying. I grew up believing in Jesus, heaven, and hell; this was my reality. Those concepts were as tangible as money, business, or romance. To shatter that reality meant shattering my "sanity". I felt extreme fear and confusion along the way.

The ancestry or environment where a human sprouts from is very important and impactful. What I described is just one example.

How about you Ben? How has your ancestry impacted your worldview?

[Carl-Richard]

22 hours ago, samijiben said:

charecterustics, deeply rooted idiodyncrasies e5c.

Fix yo spelling 

Edited Wednesday at 05:58 PM by Carl-Richard

[Carl-Richard]

I like to think I got the OCD from my mom's side and the hypomania from my dad's side.

[samijiben]

@Carl-Richard lmao

[samijiben]

@jimwell thanks you for that. I think my ancestry affected me, beyond physical appearence, in terms of my general demeanor. Just the way I carry myself. But all of that programming can be easily overridden. If I stay in a foreign country like India for just a few months, I start absorbing their cultural tendencies and my personality and language is transformed just like that. I am very much a product of my enviornmemt.

 

Otherwise, I see my reactive tendencies as stemming from cultural mannerisms of my ancestors. The middle-eastern in me is a direct, dry, politically incorrect side of me that has no respect for politness. The Eastern European in me is... IDFK. 

 

Whatever the case, I suspect that, as you said, these things do play some kind of role in our development. 

 

Otherwise it's all just imaginary lol 😛

[jimwell]

2 minutes ago, samijiben said:

The middle-eastern in me is a direct, dry, politically incorrect side of me that has no respect for politness. The Eastern European in me is... IDFK. 

Samiji sounds Japanese. Is Samiji Arabic or Eastern European?

 

3 minutes ago, samijiben said:

Whatever the case, I suspect that, as you said, these things do play some kind of role in our development. 

It does, especially initially.

But you are free to grow and develop yourself. As you age, you become better. 

[samijiben]

@jimwell lol I mEANt for my name to be "swamijiben" but fucked up and missed the W

Like a yogi, dig it? Thx for your kind words HABIBI NAMASCAR

[jimwell]

35 minutes ago, samijiben said:

HABIBI NAMASCAR

That's creative and multicultural. I like it!

 

36 minutes ago, samijiben said:

I mEANt for my name to be "swamijiben" but fucked up and missed the W

I think working on being careful or cautious will be good for you.  It will serve you well in real life.