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Enneagram Type 4 Board Archive FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLYPosted by INCENSED on June 09, 2001 at 17:04:08: In Reply to: Did all sixes and fours have rotten childhoods?? posted by Straw on June 08, 2001 at 10:08:34: damnit...your frigging childhood does not make you what you are...you are born as what you are and you perceive everything that happens to you through that lense...many sixes and fours, have had similar childhoods to confident types such as eights, sevens, and threes, they just view them differently. FOR EXAMPLE...in a conversation i had with a very non-thinking seven, whose grandfather is an eight who grew up during the depression...he said, "i think that he decided to take a tough stance and start his own enterprise because of the effect the depression had on him"...oh...really? did everyone who lived during the depression do that? my grandmother, a two, grew up during the same time, as did my grandfather, a six, and neither of them started their own enterprises...COME ON...when are people going to understand that you don't develop PATTERNS -- patterns that have this much consistency from human to human -- simply from of experience...humans are obviously designed intelligently, and they fall into genetic "slots"...they can integrate and disintegrate like hell, but they personality fit a genetic pattern that will hold NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THEIR LIVES. why is this so difficult to understand? chances are a six or a four with great parents and a great upbringing will be EXTREMELY HEALTHY...and the adverse is true as well. and yes, i know several fours who had great childhoods, and are still miserable...
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