Gaminglegend's Quote Discussion Thread - Doors open/close

[thousand yard stare]

Promise me you'll never change Skarj.

[Skarjo]

Promise me you'll never change Skarj.

THREAD-DESTROYING-PARADOX.

[Curls]

Of course people can change. I mean look at me. When i first joined, i was a spamming idiotic moron who got on everyones nerves. And look at me now

[Pontius Pilate]

Of course people can change, if they care enough.

[SEP]

Of course people can change. I mean look at me. When i first joined, i was a spamming idiotic moron who got on everyones nerves. And look at me now

What point are you trying to make here?

[Octoroc]

[Extralife]

The thing you need to understand is that the brain is no different to the rest of the body. You can change it within limits, just as you can change your body within limits by excerising and changing your diet. However (not counting surgery) you can't fundementally change your brain nor the mind therein. For example, just as some physical scars can never be erased your mind can be scarred in a way that cannot be healed and this extends right down to your personality.

I have social anxiety disorder and will never be able interact with people normally. It's just not within my doing since my anxiety is so deeply ingrained in my personality. However, through various thought excerises, I can sort of live through it much like a person with a crippled leg relies on crutch.

Some people have mental scars that make them a perpetual danger to themselves and those around them. It might not necessarily be their fualt that they have them, in fact it rarely ever is, so it would be wrong to condemn them for it. When someone becomes an alcoholic they never become cured; they might stop drinking but they cannot start drinking responsibly again for fear that their problem remerges and they will probably relapse from time to time. I guess we just have to try to be as sympathetic and supportive to such people as possible.

[soraid]

A person would change their small behaviors easily, but only to obtain their intial desires (which if you wanted could bring into the altruism debate). For someone to actually change their very desire would require a significant event in their life that either directly affects that desire or enlightens the person to the extent they percieve the world differently.

[gaminglegend]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

[Dangerblade]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

That one made me sad

[FatDaz]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

sounds about right.

[Dangerblade]

I just Googled it and it turns out Helen Keller said it. I'm not sad anymore because of an image I had of her in front of one open and one closed door.