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I have been interested in war, for as long as I can remember. When I was a little kid, I was a terror. I just wanted to shoot things, and blow stuff up. I didn't kill anything, I just liked to shoot, and hear big booms. As I've gotten older, my views have changed on war. I am not violent at all, I hate war, but I'm still fascinated by it, obsessed, some might say.
I have noticed that many great battles were fought on or near my birthday, June 2nd. Gettysburg, D-Day, to name a couple. There are others but they escape me at the moment. What other big conflicts occured in June? Do you think there's a connection betwen my interest in all things military, and the fact so many major battles were fought in June?
I know it's a silly question, but I think about it all the time.

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I have been interested in war, for as long as I can remember. When I was a little kid, I was a terror. I just wanted to shoot things, and blow stuff up. I didn't kill anything, I just liked to shoot, and hear big booms. As I've gotten older, my views have changed on war. I am not violent at all, I hate war, but I'm still fascinated by it, obsessed, some might say.
I have noticed that many great battles were fought on or near my birthday, June 2nd. Gettysburg, D-Day, to name a couple. There are others but they escape me at the moment. What other big conflicts occured in June? Do you think there's a connection betwen my interest in all things military, and the fact so many major battles were fought in June?
I know it's a silly question, but I think about it all the time.

there's a phrase that says..... history has a way of repeating itself...... so yes.. there is a connection...... for as we dont know why.... but maybe it is a connection to something in your previous life (if you believe in that)

answering directly to your question, yes.
i use history to form my beliefs and attitude to wards things.
Like the way African-Americans, Aborginals ect were treated (as inferior) has shaped me to not be racist and to be considerate of everyone.

Are you trying to say that what happened years ago (before you were born even) around your birthday somehow affected your views on war? If so, then that's crazy. Think of how many other non-war related things could have happened then as well. War is a pretty big deal, and alot of people probably feel the way you do, but I'm pretty sure it's not b/c your birthday fell around the month that things happened. My birthday is on 9/10, but I'm not going crazy about 9/11, even though it still impacts me. Know what I'm sayin?

Buffalo, it seems as if you're asking if people perceive that things are right and wrong, that they are happy, sad, terrifying, joyful, in context with events that happened in their lifetimes and how their parents, etc felt about them? How they were taught about them?
If that's what it is, then yes, there are many things that we come to fell that have been influenceed by the people, attitudes and beliefs that surround us. Why do we so hate and fear dictators? Why are we terrified of things we have never experienced? Because we have, from infancy, been exposed to others thoughts, ideas and attitudes and these have framed the basis for our perception of things. This is a really bad example, but its one that works. I was always terrified of flying. Growing up I had many chances to fly, and refused, outright, always terrified that the plane was going to crash. Well, I have now flown many times, and though I fly, I have never gotten over the tingle of fear, and the concern that something was going to go wrong. Why? My mother is, to this day, absolutely terrified of flying. she has passed up chance after chance to go to Europe because of it. Did this, and reports I saw on TV as a teen influenc me? Absolutely.

A lot of people share your interest in war without being born
in June. I really don't think it has anything to do with the month you were born.

You're engaging in magical thinking and connecting random dots. There have been enough battles in human history to cover about every possible birth date, so don't fixate on that idea. I would also separate fascination with military stuff from the fascination with loud noises and such. After all, "military" is about more than explosions -- for instance strategy, logistics, etc. As far as loud "bangs," who knows WHY you're fascinated by violence? The brain is complex and mysterious, and the fact that you were always fascinated by it, suggests that it's deep-seated. I think it would be more fruitful to think about how to channel that interest in constructive ways.

Of course it does. Want proof? Just look at what happened with 9/11. Immediately after wards a large group of people automatically assumed anyone with a turban or with a middle eastern accent was a terrorist with the Taliban. People got arrested. People got treated badly and unfairly. People got beat up and killed, all because of 9/11. People went out of their minds with fear and hate towards anyone they deemed (justified or not) of questionable heritage. Sociological things like this have happened all throughout history, post WW2 all Germans were Nazi's, cold war all Russians wanted to kill all Americans. Misconceptions like these will continue till the end of time.

" Can prior events effect how you come out of the womb?"

No. This is the theory of "a priori." Socrates believed we were all born with all knowledge in our minds, but we simply had to find the right questions to bring that knowledge out of us. That knowledge could only have come from the past, because what Socrates did NOT know was the truth of the future.

But it did not come from the past. It came from 1) sensory experience that caused 2) perceptions, which caused 3) his epistemology to analyze those perceptions and compare them to things he had learned earlier, which 4) creates "concepts," which help create 5) language.

The mind is not born with "a priori" information; it is born "tabual rasa."

"Man is born with an emotional mechanism, just as he is born with a cognitive mechanism; but, at birth, both are "tabula rasa." It is man's cognitive faculty, his mind, that determines the content of both."
"The Objectivist Ethics," The Virtue of Selfishness, 28

"[Man] has the potential of awareness—the mechanism of a human consciousness—but no content. Speaking metaphorically, he has a camera with an extremely sensitive, unexposed film (his conscious mind), and an extremely complex computer waiting to be programmed (his subconscious). Both are blank. He knows nothing of the external world. He faces an immense chaos which he must learn to perceive by means of the complex mechanism which he must learn to operate.

"If, in any two years of adult life, men could learn as much as an infant learns in his first two years, they would have the capacity of genius. To focus his eyes (which is not an innate, but an acquired skill), to perceive the things around him by integrating his sensations into percepts (which is not an innate, but an acquired skill), to coordinate his muscles for the task of crawling, then standing upright, then walking—and, ultimately, to grasp the process of concept-formation and learn to speak—these are some of an infant's tasks and achievements whose magnitude is not equaled by most men in the rest of their lives."
"The Comprachicos,"
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 54.

The events before your birth may not affect you in the womb, but they do affect those who set up the world in which you will be raised.

I've watched children react to surprises. Some cry. Some laugh. Some kids like big noises instinctively. For some, that will manifest in a fascination with war, shooting, bombs, and so on. For others, it will be fireworks. For others, it will be loud mufflers and big engines.

My best guess, since I don't know you, is that you had the predisposition to like surprises, big noises, and flashing lights. You were in an environment where that flourished as an interest in war. When I was a child, I loved the sound of the wind, and I loved lightning and thunder. In my current home, you would probably have worked on the car with your dad, and listened to the engine rumble.

The question isn't weird. Unless one is without imagination, it is interesting to trace who we are and see if we can find connections to where we started. Good for you for being interested.

I know just how you feel. I have always studied wars in the past well ones that america has been in. I wouldnt want to be in one. I was in the Navy and learned that in my free time I could study up on things.

Historical events that happened on certain dates do not affect your emotional or intellectual makeup while you are in the womb. That is just superstitious. Sure, you were born with certain tendencies that are part of your personality. It is possible that when you were very young, you were doing something that felt good & at the same time heard a loud bang. Instead of scaring you, you associated it with the good feeling. Who knows what makes us the way we are? One thing is for sure, it is not a mystical force from centuries before our birth.