Chris' Christian Blog

June 30, 2020

Prompt: Good morning starship

I just got back from an away mission to a star I have known for sometime. Today's star is Lilli 🧿 ☕ (873)

The prompt is from her blog "Yes, we are family, but..."

The prompt is "Who really understands why two people from the same home turn out so differently?"

What do you think makes people from the same family turn out so differently? "

I think a lot of it has to do with psychology. Yes. Two people can be raised in the same household. Yes. Those two people do often experience the same things. However, each of us reacts to stimuli in different ways. One of us may see a snake for example and think "Oh, how cute!"

Another person may see the same snake and be frightened. It all depends on the person. You also must consider that even though two people do grow up in the same household the two people do not have 100% identical experiences. For example, they both go to school and attend different classes. Those experiences make us different.

Another thing that makes us different is our DNA. No two human beings share the same DNA except identical twins. Even among identical twins you will find differences of personality. Some researchers believe that personality types are encoded like DNA. In twin studies these encodings are not always identical. More research needs to be done.

Finally, the physical DNA itself is different in non-identical twinned individuals. Some of us may get a recessive gene from our parents that completely misses the rest of the family. For example, I have bi-polar I disorder which has been linked to heredity. Yet I am the only one of nine children in my family with this disorder.

"Prompt: People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let this quote inspire your blog entry."

I would agree with Kubler-Ross both concretely and abstractly. In the real world sense stained glass is the most beautiful when lit from within after darkness sets in. I remember seeing a lot of these older churches and how beautiful they look after dark with light shining through their stained glass windows.

In the abstract sense, Kubler-Ross is again correct because the darkness around us makes the goodness within us shine like stained glass. I am a Christian and I count on that being the case.

"Prompt: What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Miguel de Unamuno
What are your thoughts on self-deception? What do you think it is, and do you or others do it often?"

I was the master of self-deception for the longest time. I spent years feeling sorry for myself, whining in my beer, and throwing pity parties. Finally, I woke up. I began working a 12 step program and still try to maintain integrity and self-honesty to this day.