can we choose our character?

@existential potential,

I would like to be a 10 level elf wizard!! With 18 levels on charisma and intelligence!
http://dnd3rd.sourceforge.net/

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@existential potential,

Per se we can choose whatever we want, just that how much we want to put into it, and how much talent we got to perfect it.

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@HexHammer,

so does what you say, mean that there is something innate in each person, that dictates their ability to become whatever it s that they become?

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@existential potential,

existential potential wrote:

so does what you say, mean that there is something innate in each person, that dictates their ability to become whatever it s that they become?

No. just because you want to play a psycotic murdere at a theater, doesn't nessesarily mean you have the skills to do it, nor over time is it possible to build up what you doesn't have, as you see B movies actors never improve much.

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@existential potential,

I agree with your assessment about 98%; we don't have control over many things in our lives including who our parents are, where we are born, and what influences we will experience during our growth years - and that's if we don't have mental or physical handicaps we have little or no control over.

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

I agree with your assessment about 98%; we don't have control over many things in our lives including who our parents are, where we are born, and what influences we will experience during our growth years - and that's if we don't have mental or physical handicaps we have little or no control over.

And that is true. But how does it follow from that, that we cannot mold our own character? It is a commonplace that people sometimes do change their tendencies to be unfaithful to their wives, and to be dishonest. As we live we are constantly making choices that will influence our future choices.

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@kennethamy,

"Molding our character" is a lifetime effort; it never ends. Some will better themselves, and others will make themselves worse - character-wise.

Did you ever hear about the experiments held at Stanford and Yale about cruelty?

If not, give it a shot; you'll learn more about "human nature" than reading volumes about personalities and character.

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@cicerone imposter,

to me, it just seems that the biggest leap is taking hold of oneself, and being responsible for who one is, regardless of what other people think about you. and no matter how much you "understand" about how and why one's behaves the way one does, no amount of undrstanding makes the leap any easier.

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@existential potential,

ep, Taking hold of oneself happens every day we live; we make choices that may be good or bad. All humans have frailties; how one lives their life whether it's for 10 years or 100 years are influenced in many ways by who are parents are, and our environment. It's our biology and our environment that most influences our lives.

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@cicerone imposter,

taking hold of oneself, or what you think is oneself? we do one or the other everyday of our lives.

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

ep, Taking hold of oneself happens every day we live; we make choices that may be good or bad. All humans have frailties; how one lives their life whether it's for 10 years or 100 years are influenced in many ways by who are parents are, and our environment. It's our biology and our environment that most influences our lives.

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