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 Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:57 am
I thought it might be fun to have a random poll thread to see what people think about random things, make free gold, and just have something else to check in the guild. Its all about the interactivitivy baby! Gotta have those reasons to keep coming back and checking things out!
I'm not setting any specific time period for when the polls will change. It'll mostly be based on if there hasn't been a vote or a comment on it in a while. Notice I did meantion comments as well. Feel free to comment discussing a poll. It will help keep the thread up top (I don't wanna sticky it since its not official in any way) and it will also help people be more involved. Everyone loves threads where people comment. So yeah...discuss the polls too people!
I'll probably post the results of a poll when I put up a new one as a way to keep track of what has been polled as well as to bump the thread when the poll is changed.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:07 am
I'll start off the discussion on this one. I think what you name a baby does effect the personality it will have to some degree. Its not a "if I give them this name then they will turn out this way for sure" kind of thing, but I think certain names probaby get picked on more than others and being picked on can effect the type of personality a person has. Now each person will react differently to being picked on so its not a set result from it, but I think it does influence things some. Of course, everybody gets picked on and so maybe the name doesn't really matter since if its not the name then they will just find something else to pick on until you establish yourself in whatever group you get established in. So I guess I'm undecided on this some.
I also have a lil quirk. When I think about what I would like to call my baby if I ever have one (seems more and more unlikely all the time doesn't it? lol) I'll often think of who I know with a certain name and what kind of people they are. It often feels like people I know with the same name have a certain feel about them. Its probably all in my head, but there seems to be something about a name that binds a group together. So when thinking of names I'll think "Do I want my kid to be like these people?" and so will end up choosing a name after somebody I respect/love/etc.
So...I'm not really sure in either case how much a name really effects personality, but my gut seems to say that it does to some degree and so thus I said Yes to the poll.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:52 pm
I think a person's name does affect a person, to a degree. They have to live their whole life hearing that name every day. So if you name your daughter Princess, she'll be more likely to have a superiority complex... But if you name her Scratchy... she'll probably be pretty unhappy... at least till she's old enough to change her name ^.^;
Examples from reality.
Every girl I've met named Alex, has been a bit of a tomboy.
Every girl I've met named Bethany has been artsy (I dunno why that is).
I think if the name is more popular, it has less of an affect. I've met a million people named John or David or Jessica... and other than their name and gender, they really have nothing in common. It's when you get those unique or less common names that you notice more of an affect.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:24 am
Well, while I agree that depending on the name and the person, a name can have some effect on someone, I think overall your name isn't too big of a factor in how your personality is shaped.
So, I went with no....but, it's really more of a "mostly no" for me xp
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:42 am
I had a thought today about this stuff. I'm wondering if maybe its not the name causing a type of personality, but other factors causing both the name and the personality. What I mean is that maybe parents of certain types are more likely to name their children certain names. So, for instance, maybe parents who name their children Bethany are more likely to be the sort that raise a child to be artsy. So the child isn't artsy because of the name, but because of the type of parents and situation they were raised which is also why they ended up with the name. So with this thinking, the name and personality would be related, but not in a cause/effect type relationship. What does everybody think about this?
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:11 pm
Does what you name babies affect the personality they will have?
Yes
50% [ 2 ]
No
50% [ 2 ]
Total Votes : 4
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:46 am
I went with no on this one. Often it is easier to lie, especially about small things. I'm doubtful that its ever actually better though. Easier != better. : )
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:11 am
I went with yes and if easier = better...then I'd have to say it's often much easier to lie than to tell the truth.
White lies in particular are very useful from what I've seen.
I don't know how many times I had to make up some lie about something to keep from hurting someone's feelings. Sure, maybe it's immoral or wrong to not be direct and tell the truth but, I'll sacrifice that to avoid conflict and pain and well...any real effort xp
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:42 pm
Alarias I went with yes and if easier = better...then I'd have to say it's often much easier to lie than to tell the truth. I actually said that easier is not equal to better. : ) Alarias White lies in particular are very useful from what I've seen. I don't know how many times I had to make up some lie about something to keep from hurting someone's feelings. Sure, maybe it's immoral or wrong to not be direct and tell the truth but, I'll sacrifice that to avoid conflict and pain and well...any real effort xp I'd agree that they are useful to make life easier for yourself and to avoid things. Like your last sentence implies though, I'm just not sure its actually a good thing. I'm sure we all do it. I voted no anyway though, because I don't think the fact that we do it or that it makes life easier for us means that it is ever really a good thing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:30 pm
swirlian Alarias I went with yes and if easier = better...then I'd have to say it's often much easier to lie than to tell the truth. I actually said that easier is not equal to better. : ) Oh oops I misread sweatdrop Sorry. swirlian Alarias White lies in particular are very useful from what I've seen. I don't know how many times I had to make up some lie about something to keep from hurting someone's feelings. Sure, maybe it's immoral or wrong to not be direct and tell the truth but, I'll sacrifice that to avoid conflict and pain and well...any real effort xp I'd agree that they are useful to make life easier for yourself and to avoid things. Like your last sentence implies though, I'm just not sure its actually a good thing. I'm sure we all do it. I voted no anyway though, because I don't think the fact that we do it or that it makes life easier for us means that it is ever really a good thing. Well, I guess it would sort of depend on what you see as good. I see making someone feel good, even if it does mean being dishonest with them, as an overall good thing and the end justifies the means. However, if you see just being truthful as good, then I guess you'd feel it would be better to just give them some pain to preserve that honesty. But, say you know someone who is a very lonely and unpopular person and you don't like them much but, they think you do...is it better to tell them that you don't actually like them or tell them you do? I'd say it's not really hurting anything to lie to them in this case and that it really is only going to make them feel better to believe that you are their friend. You may have to sacrifice time you could have spent elsewhere to keep them company every now and then but, isn't it worth it to help someone else? Thinking they have a friend around could make them feel comforted and maybe give them more confidence. So, I think a lie for a purpose like that is a good thing.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:14 pm
Is it ever good to lie?
Yes
50% [ 1 ]
No
50% [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 2
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:25 pm
Well, I chose other because I think it can be both.
I think you could be born with talent and not hone your skills and someone who wasn't born with that talent could surpass you in skill level if they practiced enough.
I guess I think that if you are born with talent, it will be easier to get great quickly and with less effort. If you aren't born with it, you can still train and become talented..it just might be more difficult for you and you might not become as good as someone who was born with a natural ability.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:22 pm
I went with born with. To me its not really a question of lazy talented person vs dedicated untalented person. Instead its more of a question of equals except for talent. Its dedicated talented person vs dedicated untalented person. I'm unsure how to explain it, but I'll try.
Its like if you have two people who both know everything there is to know about drawing; one with natural talent and one who learned it all through dedication. Will their works be equal? To me the answer is no. Even though the untalented person has spent his life learning everything possible about drawing, the talented person who has done the same will be better because he has the talent that he was born with that the other person just can't gain. So that says to me that talent is something you have to be born with otherwise there will always be a person who knows everything you know, but also has natural talent as well. Thats not to say the work done by the untalented person is bad. It may very well still be better than everyone else that doesn't know all that they know.
A kind of more interesting (to me) aspect has occured to me though. Its a question of does natural born talent actually exist. Is talent actually something you are born with or is it something that is developed by whatever stimuli you encounter while growing up. So maybe the talented artist wasn't really born with the talent, but they kind of soak up so much stuff while their brain was still forming that they gained the talent. Its almost like taking the example I gave earlier to an extreme. In the example you have two people; one with a talent and one without. In this new case you have two freshly born babies. Does one of those babies have a talent and the other doesn't or are they completely equal at that point? That seems to me what the question boils down to. If at that point they are completely equal then all talents are learned. If at that point one of the babies already has their brain wired in such a way as to have a natural talent for something then talent is something you are born with.
So whats the answer? For now I think I'm going to stick with that babies are born different. Each brain is wired slightly differently which gives everyone some unique way of looking at things. That way of looking at things or of understanding things is what gives people talent. So thus its something you have to be born with.
I'm not completely convinced of all of this. I start wondering things like can a person nto born with the talent study a talented person and pick up their talent from them? Is it something learnable? I don't really know, but right now I'm going with that being born with it is an edge at least.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:49 am
Phew...that's some deep stuff right thurr ...like almost philosophical n'shiznit xp
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:08 am
Is talent something you are born with or is it a question of dedication/motivation?
Born with it
66% [ 2 ]
Dedication/motivation
0% [ 0 ]
Other (explained in thread)
33% [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 3
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