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Leeny

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:32 PM
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Poor Potty Training

Halfway serious question, but do you think that some of twisted thinking that comes out of the religious right (and sometimes the "not-so-far right" right) is a result of poor potty training or some other childhood trauma or unhappiness? I guess I go with the blank slate theory and therefore wonder sometimes how people like Rove or O'Reilly or Coulter end up the way they are.

:crazy: :bounce:

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wookie294

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:34 PM
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1. Sigmund Freud talked about poor potty training

I was a psych major in college many years ago, but I believe Freud talked about poor potty training and how it creates uptight people, the kind of people who vote Republican.

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Leeny

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:38 PM
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Thank you

Thank you. I really do think that it's more nurture than nature. And what you learn as a child growing up really molds who you are and how you think about the world.

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Jed Dilligan

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:37 PM
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I've heard this theory

about Nazism in Germany. They were some weird, patriarchal, feces-obsessed mo-fos, apparently.

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Jed Dilligan

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:37 PM
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2. I've heard this theory

about Nazism in Germany. They were some weird, patriarchal, feces-obsessed mo-fos, apparently.

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waiting for hope

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:38 PM
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3. I just think

it's a total lack of empathy...empathy for other human beings that maybe (oh my Gosh!) different from them...

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Leeny

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Thu Oct-27-05 10:40 PM
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4. I agree

But where does it come from? How do we learn to NOT have empathy? It seems like empathy would be a normal/natural feeling to have. But I know that I teach it to my kids whenever I have the opportunity. I show them how to put themselves into someone else's shoes. Think about what it would be like not to have a home, a place to take a warm bath, toys, food to eat. They get it. But I teach it to them.

If I didn't give a damn, they probably wouldn't either.

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