Does having children make you happy?, page 4
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reply posted on 3-7-2008 @ 08:49 AM by coline
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ohhhh yeees ! It's like me, my daughter is my life's treasure ! I have wait to have a child (33 years old) and NO REGRETS. Because it's Christmas for me every morning when I see her ! we must have many patience to educate a child but it's wonderful ! However, i have my life and i think about me (sorry for my english ). My daughter is the most important thing for me . If I don't have my daughter my life will be empty !


reply posted on 3-7-2008 @ 08:46 PM by prevenge
You're not having a "kid". you're not having a "baby".
you're having a 40 year old man or woman that on the average spends about I'd say 15% of it's living time on earth being a so called "bundle of joy".
This infatuation.. hormonally conjured obsession people have with the idea in their mind of having children is blinder-vision image of a "baby".. is for but a small % of the time this "being" you are going to bring into our reality.

People always talk about" oh do you want kids" oh yeah we'll have a baby shower.. and get the nursery prepared.. as if these ideas and images of infant-oriented objects and events are the end all be all of the euphoric infatuation's incarnation.


you're bringing someone into the world who will be a 20 yr old, who will be a 40 yr old who will be a decrepit senile 90 yr old rotting in a nursing home lonely and wasting.

I think the "idea of having a kid" is an instinctually selfish phenomenon, in order to further solidify your existence in this reality, and bring YOU joy by staring temporarily (for 1-2 years) into the larvaeic version of you and your mate's genes merged into one squirming reactionary mass of cells.

At it's essence, it's merely ENTERTAINMENT.

ENTERTAINMENT at the expense of someone who didn't ASK to be born.

I see this in extreme cases, as millions of lonely, overweight, lazy, uneducated, and thusly poverty stricken single women, actually going out of their way to get pregnant by transient men, JUST to have a real-life version of one of the dolls they had as a child. JUST to bring some companionship, joy, to their OWN lives.. ie: ENTERTAINMENT.
These people are maaaaany.. and the more of them they are, the less reason in the general consensus in their local environment there is to NOT do so.


I say ...SCREW your personal hormonally driven urge to "rut" SCREW your subconscious instinctual mating habits, unconscious of the impact to the greater populous, and SCREW your loneliness and thirst for companionship you slake on "thunking out" another squealing being into the world temporarily veiled in the innocence of infancy. (thunk... thunk thunkthunk)
Which en masse... adds to the biggest problem of the world... overpopulation...

Which the elite intellectuals now have to mop up after your "rutting" and perform secretive shadowy insidious genocide through vaccines, food pollution, and murderous medical practice.

You think that if you all halted your mindless rutting ages ago, they'd have to do all this?
I think the reasoning that goes into their execution of their plans would be vastly lessened if the problem wasn't created in teh first place by people obsessed with this "temporary entertainment" and euphoric mesmerization of the unknowingly temporary glee from multiplying.


but no... "hey there's thimerisol in the vaccines!! hey there's GMO in my food! hey there's fluoride in my water!!!" "you're trying to kill us and dumb down our neurological processes!!!
" but let me have my mini-me baby-shaped toy for a year!!!"
(or as long as it stays in that "charming form" before it grows out of that into something that begins to selfishly annoy you and causes you to mildly abuse it through your own neurosises.



My parents had me once they were in a position to economically provide, without risk of poverty.
Then they ADOPTED.
Something I greatly respect them for.
They took 2 beautiful girls out of the ghettos of a third world country, and gave them beautiful lives.
They are now thriving as developed, and educated young women.

It's not the end of the world if I don't convulse a few times and "mitosisize" some offspring.
I understand that it's not "having kids" that this phenomenon is.
I understand it's bringing into society, an ENTIRE LIFETIME of another.
And in these rapidly increasing HARSH economic times, world-wide, I think it's incredibly ignorant to do so.
I do know, deep inside that if I am not completely secure financially, there is no way in hell i am bringing another person under my sole care.


You CAN use your brain, you CAN decide whether your evolutionary instincts will SERVE you or work AGAINST you at a certain time.

If you just "gotta rut" and "gotta spawn" .. then could you please go do it in Antarctica? Greenland maybe?

Try cabbage patch kids.. they're very life like.
when you get the urge.. just play with the cabbage patch kid.. until the urge passes, then move on and think of different ways to appease your desire to bring joy to your own life and hopefully the world.



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reply posted on 4-7-2008 @ 12:27 AM by CaptGizmo
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Wow,I have never heard someone that is so completely unhappy.Perhaps you may not feel having a child is a wonderful thing and your post sure shows how you feel about it which is your opinion for what it is...it seems rather sad to me.Myself;I waited until I was 39 years old to have a single child to which I am economically capable of providing for her.I do agree there are way too many people in this world that are having 3,4,5, and even 6 children simply to bleed off the government programs, which ends up taking money out of our pockets.There are people in third world nations that live in poverty that are having just as many children if not more and they know full well about birth control and is offered yet they choose not to use it.This is putting an undo strain on the world. I look forward to watching my daughter grow up and I will enjoy every minute of it.


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reply posted on 4-7-2008 @ 02:18 AM by prevenge
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
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post by prevenge


Wow,I have never heard someone that is so completely unhappy.Perhaps you may not feel having a child is a wonderful thing and your post sure shows how you feel about it which is your opinion for what it is...it seems rather sad to me.Myself;I waited until I was 39 years old to have a single child to which I am economically capable of providing for her.I do agree there are way too many people in this world that are having 3,4,5, and even 6 children simply to bleed off the government programs, which ends up taking money out of our pockets.There are people in third world nations that live in poverty that are having just as many children if not more and they know full well about birth control and is offered yet they choose not to use it.This is putting an undo strain on the world. I look forward to watching my daughter grow up and I will enjoy every minute of it.


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I guess "happy" or "unhappy" is all from your specific frame of reference.
I think your testimony in your post completely supports the entirety of what I'm communicating in my previous post.

You disagree with people wildly irresponsibly multiplying like rabbits, consumers that negatively impact the economic, environmental, and emotional fabric of our societies,
and you support being responsible with your evolutionary drive to reproduce, by preparing yourself financially and emotionally beforehand, and rationally look forward into the future and plan for this individual's lifetime, not merely spawning for spawning's sake, or for purely for personal enjoyment of a few years of the person's "baby-phase"...

i think bringing people into this world should be considered more from a social perspective (because society is what he/she eventually impacts and becomes the base structure of), and not from only a personal selfish enjoyment perspective.

So as far as I can see, you and I agree.
I may have been a bit forceful in my opinion, but that's how I am.

As far as my own personal happiness is concerned, I think that we would all be less unhappy if there were less unhappy people around us.
If that makes sense at all

p.s. I respect you for taking the time and thought into bringing another into this world.
thank you.

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reply posted on 4-7-2008 @ 11:49 AM by CaptGizmo
reply to post by prevenge


I have to say, yep we agree completely on what you are saying.If more people took the time to realize the impact of having far to many children are having then we as a society would be much better off.I see day in and day out children having children;unable to care for them properly and ending up as single parents or neglecting their children all together.So many unable to provide for them financially yet they continue to procreate.I use to think it was due to lack of education about sex, but not so much anymore...it seems that sex is crammed down our throats non stop everywhere you look.Be it magazines,TV,billboards, and the internet. the list could go on and on.If you are surrounded by this on a daily basis it begins to brainwash you into thinking about sex as just another activity with no responsibility.I am hoping
to stem this off with educating my daughter about this starting at a young age.I appreciate your honesty in your post and gave you a star for it.

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