Jilted!??!!! How dare they!!

[Zephyr of Darkness]

Juvie is short for juvineile hall, the place where they send the really bad kids to go to school.

Thanks.

Well Zeph, let's just say that we both think the other is a really great person, in a purely platonic way? Us complimenting each other back and forth is only going to start people talking!

*huge anime sweatdrop* Why are people such bad thinkers? I don't even think of our relationship as platonic; I just say what I think of you. Not every day I find sb I can honestly compliment, so I just say what I think when I do. And I'd be damned in hell before trying to pick up a guy that already has a girlfriend (no ethic matter, it's just I'm insanely jealous, and I try not to do things I would hate anybody doing them to me). In fact, the way you talk about your girlfriend is one of the things I like about you (while I hate the emotionless way Wise talks about that girl he supposedly likes).
So, if all this wasn't enough to convince all, I'll do this. *puts on a magical chastity belt that only works for senjuro* There.

Oh, I liked your comment about your mom taking stuff as seriously as boss battles...it's not every day you can make a video game analogy apply to real life as coherently as that.

LOL! Thank you ^_^

As a rule, most supposedly scientific psychology should be taken with a shaker's worth of salt. It's all different ways of looking at the same thing without actually capturing the whole.

You'll never get science to prove such an obvious thing as free will, because science starts from the assumption that all things are mechanistic (running on rules like machines) or probabalistic (running on randomness like rolled dice). When you assume there is no free will, you eventually "discover" there is no free will.

Just live your life. So we're influenced by our parents! OF FUCKING COURSE! That doesn't mean, however, that we have no control over ourselves. We make choices, and we live with them.

Can you think of a better way to think?

That's a totally unhealthy way of thinking, mainly cuz it's radically wrong. You're the kind of person that thinks that every act is an act of will, but you don't think what's behind your will. There IS a subconscious mind that manipulates each and every one of us from the shadows without us not even knowing it.
Whether you think you make choices, there's a voice in your head that guides those choices unconsciously.
To make myself clearer, I'll give a simple example, related to the above: think of a family that is very strict and controlling. Their children are either going to be strict and controlling, or the total opposite, that is, carefree and denying any kind of order or control. It's a 99% chance that their personality will become either of the two, but never a healthy balance where they can have enough both order and freedom. Do you think these children are 'free'? That their choices are conscious, an act of free will? I don't say we can't have free will, I just say most people don't have actual free will. According to Jung's psychology, they take the ego (the same) or the shadow (the opposite). They could have free will someday, but not before they take a long, hard look at their attitudes and realize what they're doing.
In my case, this thing is way more blatant: I had a controlling, authoritary, mean, selfish, heartless father that opressed both my mother and me. On the other hand, I had a nice, kind and giving grandfather who was my father during my first 3 years. So my mind is awfully writhing in pain btw these two opposites. I once have been told that if it wasn't for my grandpa, I'd be killing men in the streets right now.

Child of Our Time Quizes.

The ones toward the bottom are more helpful. The rest are about parenting

Thanks a lot. I'm gonna look at them now.