Family help: Can traditions or beliefs be passed through the blood? - Help.com

yep i do, theres certain things like picking your nose all the time and farting farts with a certain smell and doing things that you haven’t been taught but which you find out were things your ancesters used to do like i found out my granddad used to read on the toilet but i didn’t know that till recently but i have been doing it for ages.. too many examples to cite but yeah i reckon some things are carried down in your blood like not respecting women is in our family and the generations have a gap but its still the same

Traditions and beliefs cannot be passed through blood. Those are things that you learn. You may think they never shared those views with you but they probably did. Even if it was when you were very young, or so discreetly that you don’t recall it. But I do think strange traits can be passed through blood. Kinda funny but all the woman in my family have problems with walking into walls and bumping into things. We say we are not clumsy, we just walk into walls. It’s kind of like bad eye sight or bad hearing, all those things are passed through genes.

No, you are correct. Based on what you are saying they can not. Beliefs and traditions are things that we ourselves choose to believe or not. If someone begins to tell you that people in your familily have the tendency to do a peculiar thing and you believe it, you will eventually begin to act accordingly. Once you find yourself behaving in that way you will think that it was inherited when it was the fact that you believed it that caused you to act on it. When we believe something we always act on it.

That is a great post and beautifully said Chili!

no one told me to do anything, just ended up falling into the same pattern, my granddad was dead before i was born and no one talks about him or what he was like

Plenty of people pick their nose and read on the toilet. You cannot attribute those things to blood or genes. And not respecting women? That can not be carried through genes. If you do not respect women that is something you have been taught to do.

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no one told me to do anything, just ended up falling into the same pattern, my granddad was dead before i was born and no one talks about him or what he was like

No, traditions and beliefs are indoctrinated, not passed genetically. If you are constantly told how to believe or how to think when you are young, those beliefs will stay with you until you learn to think for yourself.

i think its possible. there are some things i always believe or do that no one else in my family does. it was only recently i found out that my graet great grandmother believed in exaclty the same tinkgs. ui never met her and was never told any thing about her.

You can have the same beliefs as some one in your family that you have never met but it is not possible for those things to be passed through blood. Those are just the facts.

what facts? has it been proven or are you just saying thats the facts because thats what you believe? have there been studies on this? i dont think so

Memories and ideas don’t pass through genetic streams. While a child will exhibit specific physical traits and chemical traits from the parents, ultimately a child born to a rocket technician will not know about rocketry out of the womb. Ideas and desires are developed independently through experiences with nature and nurture.

If ideas and beliefs passed down through the genes, why would we ever need school? Point proven.

are you psychic? could be how. I don’t care what everyone else thinks. I believe in magic and superstision and all of that lot. I think things can be passed via the blood just as easily as a disease can. i think because psychics have better ESP it is more likely to affet them.
So william.m.miller, believe whatever you want.

There is no such thing as magic and to date no one has been able to prove their psychic abilities. The James Randi Educational Foundation has offered one million dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a true psychic or paranomal phenomenom under well controlled conditions and the prize is yet to be claimed. Everyone has special gifts that they can learn to be develop but they are not to be misrepresented or exploited for money.

Magic and superstition is the product of ignorance and misunderstanding of the perfect laws of all creation. All creation comes into being through invisible principles that appear to be magic to those who do not know. To believe in magic is to assume that there is an extraneous being acting at ramdon without intelligence or order. If that was the case there would be no order anywhere. Today you see a building and tomorrow you would not. Trees would dissapear to come back the next day. This principle does not work. Only in movies.

yeah yeah. u believe what u want and ill believe what i want. i believe in magic, ghosts, superstition, and the likes. thats just me and how i am. ur different. not my problem.

And you are perfectly entitled to that and it will all be real to you. However, it is not based on Universal Truth. The truth cannot be hidden from people. The truth never changes. When people are ready they will recognize it.

ESP is real. it all links. even if science dusnt aknowledge it

crap! i didnt click anonymous!

Oh, Jenna. No worries. As I mentioned before, we all have gifts that we can develop, but they are not to be exploited. They are for our personal use. You don’t need science to prove it to you. The other person can and that is enough.

i think that fact is important and science holds the truth to most things…but if science doesnt believe something and you have the fact yourself,science is wrong. I know that a bit wierd. first hand experiance with psychic abilitys and the likes gives people the evidence and the facts….. i’ve confused my self here. lol

Science is a universal principle that just IS. We can’t say that because we refuse to believe that 2+2 = 4 and we believe that it should be 5 that math is wrong. Science exists to help us think and make the right choices.

Psychic phenomena is never going to be proven because we are not here to be psychics and predict the future. Nothing is pre-ordained. We are to be fully focused on our lives and not live in the clouds or think that we can interfere with other peoeple’s lives. We need to learn to stand on our own feet and solve our problem on our own. We can’t escape the process of living. We are here to grow and create great things and we can only do that by learning how to think and use our minds.

True psychic abilities are very rare. What you think or hear is psychic ability really isn’t at all. Psychics sound like they are predicting through a technique called cold reading with the purpose of making money. Why aren’t the psychics winning the lottery. Where were they on 911? Where were they during the tsunami? Where were they during hurricane Katrina? They did not know. And if that isn’t proof enough where millions of lives have been lost I don’t know what is.