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re: Being told constantly "it's time to have kids.."
Posted on 12/26/17 at 9:33 pm to lsunurse
Posted on 12/26/17 at 9:33 pm to lsunurse
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So those that can't have children are just doomed to a miserable existence?
Not necessarily. I’m not saying that not having kids is necessarily something that will doom someone to a lonely life in their old age, Just as much as having offspring guarantees it.
But to deny that childbearing isn’t essential to something in our core is just false.
I mean, you want children, don’t you?
I feel for those who aren’t able to have kids and want to. And can’t stand those that seem to have endless broods and do nothing to raise or take care of them.
It seems what Gods May Be are inordinately cruel in their humor.
I also think that modern society has somehow convinced a lot of younger people that personal pleasure, selfishness in a sense, is what life is all about.
Or maybe i’m Completely wrong and stuck in an old world way of thinking, where furthering your people is important, where the tribe supercedes the individual.
I am truly sorry that you want, and are unable to have children. And adopting can be a wonderful and generous thing that can help both you and a child in need.
I know what joy and purpose my children have brought to me. And only after having them have I realized what part of me would be missing if I hadn’t.
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Posted on 12/26/17 at 10:02 pm to lsunurse
Thanks nurse. You are truly the OTs classiest lady.
Posted on 12/26/17 at 10:31 pm to Robin Masters
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Your entire family is laughing at you for being dupped into paying your wife alimony
*duped
Posted on 12/26/17 at 11:11 pm to fr33manator
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This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 12/26/17 at 11:13 pm to fr33manator
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Or maybe i’m Completely wrong and stuck in an old world way of thinking, where furthering your people is important, where the tribe supercedes the individual.
Those days are looooooooooooong gone.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 1:12 am to Chuker
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just wait until to cave to the pressure and your kid is born severely disabled and you and your wife spend the rest of you life changing diapers for your wheel-chair bound son. Say goodbye to any sort of life.
The frick
Posted on 12/27/17 at 1:38 am to rocket31
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i do not constantly seek purpose in my life. I am here because my parents had sex; that's it.
That is so short sighted, so ignorant...I mean, it makes you almost stupid. Which I know you aren’t.
You are here because your parents had sex, yes.
And why are they here?
Because their parents had sex.
And their parents before them.
Sex sex sex, stretching back to the dawn of man.
Proceeding through generations of men dying on battlefields, women dying during childbirth,
People surviving plague and famine and all manner of horrors.
But you...you’re the end. By your own choice.
You’re the culmination of millennia of breeding.
Nothing could possibly lie ahead, because hey, you want to play video games and go on vacations.
All the sacrifices made by generations on generations should meet a moot point because you don’t feel like dealing with the natural repercussions of the natural way of things.
You’re the end all, be all. The end of the rocket line is nigh because rocket doesn’t feel like it.
I mean...that’s why idiocracy is nigh.
Because people that can fulfill their biological imperative, and could provide for the next generation are selfish, and people that can fulfill it and can’t provide, well the rest of us have to pick up the slack and subsidize it.
And those who want to and can’t are unfortunately fricked by the damned roll of the dice.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 2:59 am to fr33manator
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I mean...that’s why idiocracy is nigh.
What evidence is there that bears this out? We're smarter and more connected with the world than any time in history. We're getting more technologically advanced by the day practically and the roadmap for the next 50 years looks extremely bright from a quality of life standpoint for basically every human in the free world. And that's just based on what's in the works and what's been dreamed up in 2017.
Since the dawn of time older people seem to believe that the world is in the edge of collapse. Yet here we are... Better in virtually every measurable way...
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:51 am to JohnnyKilroy
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we’re smarter and more connected with the world than any time in history.
More connected, of course.
But i don’t know what leads you to believe the majority of the population is smarter. And the stupidest among us breed at prolific rates.
The ones that care may be getting smarter, but those are also many of the ones choosing not to have children.
I mean, have you ever seen Idiocracy? It’s prophetic.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:21 am to fr33manator
Maybe smarter wasn't the correct term.
More educated is what I should have said.
Baw dumb people have always had a lot of kids. You think they had less kids before the advent of birth control? Seriously?
More educated is what I should have said.
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I mean, have you ever seen Idiocracy? It’s prophetic.
Baw dumb people have always had a lot of kids. You think they had less kids before the advent of birth control? Seriously?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 3:54 pm to tigerbacon
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. I love traveling, buying whatever I want. She drives a 2 door Jeep Wrangler and I drive a sports car. Love the fact we only need two door cars. And not having kids enable us to save enough to pay for people to take care of us in the twilight years.
That's awesome...but you do realize all that can be had with kids right?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 4:06 pm to fr33manator
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you want children, don’t you?
I suspect you meant "you want healthy children" right?
Because it doesn't always work out that way. The couple whose retirement is destroyed because their kid requires expensive medical help but will still never be a functioning adult, for example.
There are plenty of ways to have a purpose in your life that doesn't involve kids.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 4:36 pm to CoeJ
When I first moved in my current house the neighbors (married couple w/ kids) came over to introduce themselves. It was kind of like an interview, to a point. When it came time to ask me if I had any kids they were shocked that I didn't have any kids. They actually asked me twice.. with a pinched face. I responded with "I think I would know if I had any kids..I think". What a first meeting that was..
Everyone thinks women are the only ones to carry on about having kids...Ha, I have met a few guys who are worse, you would think they punched them out..
Everyone thinks women are the only ones to carry on about having kids...Ha, I have met a few guys who are worse, you would think they punched them out..
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