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No, as I said before, it's all preordained by brain structure and whether or not your "spirituality" node is developed or not.

Other nodes include being left-handed, being homosexual, or even a tilt towards "liberal" or "conservative."

Environment can obviate some of these leanings, to a certain extant, but the ultimate outcome is the same:

“I am what I am.”

It doesn’t matter how much “understanding” one embarks upon during life to change the preordained brain structure, it can only achieve incremental change.




Hmmm, sorry, you are just selling the same faith in an unprovable notion as the local priest. Sure it sounds different than the "Amens" and "Hoseas" of the church or temple, but it is fundamentally the same argument.

If your faith in the Holy Node makes you feel better, good luck to you Sir. I am cursed by being a loyal disciple of the Holy Trinity of Curiosity, Intellectual honesty, and Empiricism.

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--Some of us look for The Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.