thinking

was thinking about why people are the way they are...

I remember thinking about my three part scheme of the ID, the EGO and the SOCIAL... which to me represented the indivivual physically, mentally/emotionally, and then in accepting and relfecting upon and reacting to a group feedback context.

but tonight I woke up thinking slightly differently about the individual...

again, three parts...

1. the bio chemical physical genetic part...
2. the learned emotional part...
3. the partly genetic and partly learned processing part...

I was thinking of this in wondering about why people have different philosophical systems and in particular different belief systems...

and concluded that partly we are genetically bio-chemically wired... and partly we learn emotional patterns... but thirdly, and this is the crucial difference, we must learn to process thoughts a certain way AND I think that processing can be altered by education and training...

and so I was thinking about which of the three is in charge... and found it interesting to consider the example of a Christian versus a Mormon...

what I thought was most interesting was that a Christian using 3. above can see the flaw in Mormonism, but yet can't see the same flaw in their own Christian beliefs...

in this example it clearly shows that 3. gets overruled by 2. or 1.

just thought that was an interesting way of looking at things...