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Pastry of the Year posted:I'm not having children because I have absolutely no faith in the future, and watching a human life I nurtured from infancy and loved more than myself struggle and suffer in the hellworld that's coming seems like the worst possible third act for this one ridiculous life I've been given. See, my parents have told me fairly candidly that they felt pretty much the same about the world in 1991 but they decided to have me anyway. I don't get it. 
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good god did jastiger rise from his grave? here's an unpopular opinion: i think it's good that obama told em' to make a presidential alert that hits every phone. i don't think that's a political opinion, i just feel its good to be notified if something big is about to happen. would be a funny way to announce that everyone's being drafted
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Oct 4, 2018 15:09
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CrRoMa posted:I'm not for or against having children but i have one close friend who is adamant he never will and I feel it takes a certain level of selfishness and a certain lack of self awareness to make that kinda statement I'm your 20s. Part of me wants kids because it feels a natural part of being an animal and ai wouldn't want to get to 60 and feel i missed that. Good luck to my friend though I'm sure he'll eventually find happiness with his 5 holidays a year and golfing at 7am every weekend. The people who are most adamant about that kind of stuff are the ones who, once they get married and have one, they won't ever stop and will become the most obnoxious facebook friend you have with constant baby posting. Just give it a few years. Almost all of my friends who were super-"childfree" back in highschool/college are now the same "mombie" caricatures they used to rage against.
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Of course it's largely immaterial for me, because my own mother has told me that she thinks I should never have children because she thinks I would be a bad parent ("You care about no one but yourself and that cat," was her assessment, which in fairness is entirely accurate). 
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Agent355 posted:There is a genetic thing that makes bitter food taste way more intensely bitter than other people experience it. Do chocolate bars/ice cream taste bitter to you? It does to me and I also can't enjoy any alcohol stuff just because it tastes super awful. Not really, they are still very sweet. Actually, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, all that is pretty extreme for me and about the only "flavors" I get. I had some severe sinus issues a few years ago and lost about 90% of my sense of smell, and it fucks up the way things taste for me. Ommin has a new favorite as of 23:28 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Oct 4, 2018 19:47
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Wheat Loaf posted:I sincerely, honestly and genuinely don't understand why people have children or want to have children. Fair play if you do but I cannot see the reward of it at all and I just don't get it; I'm far too self-centred; I can't imagine anyone but myself being at the centre of my own world. I don't even understand why my parents wanted to have me; I wouldn't want to have me if I was my parents.  We can have this screaming pooping potato for years that sucks up an immense amount of time and money -or- we can keep doing nice things at our leisure and going places and generally enjoying life. The other part to it and co-unpopular opinion: Sometimes kids really just turn into horrible people no matter how sweet and measured their parents were, I don't trust the universe to not pull some poo poo, I'll stick with the person I know I love that's good.
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Oct 5, 2018 00:05
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I'm terrified my first kid is going to be just a big dummy. A total blockhead. I don't mean in a developmental way. Just fuckin stupid and unable to change.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:34
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Just buy a fourwheeler or waverunner instead of having a kid. Cheaper, more fun, and if you get a defective one you don't have to pretend it's a blessing and can just go get it fixed.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:42
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not to mention that none of your children will be alive in 2100 when the global temperature has gradually raised by 7 degrees. from this point you have 82 years. that's it, and the world will probably be unlivable waaay before then.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:48
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Turtlicious posted:not to mention that none of your children will be alive in 2100 when the global temperature has gradually raised by 7 degrees. Yet another reason to start a legacy of waverunners. Just saying.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:50
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there will be no humans, why does no-one understand this, we're all going to be dead.
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Turtlicious posted:that's it, and the world will probably be unlivable waaay before then. Isn't...isn't right now "waaay before then"?
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Oct 5, 2018 01:53
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big chunks of the ice shelf are rapidly sinking into the ocean since last year so uh... yeah, watch what happens next.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:54
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We're all so hosed. "The window may now be as narrow as around 15 years of current emissions, but since we don’t know for sure, according to the researchers, that really depends on how much of a margin of error we’re willing to give ourselves." we're all dead.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:55
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Turtlicious posted:there will be no humans, why does no-one understand this, we're all going to be dead. Yes there will. Don't get me wrong, climate change is a catastrophe and is going to cause unimaginable suffering but it won't kill literally all humans.
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Oct 5, 2018 02:05
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Turtlicious posted:We're all so hosed. I'm looking at a yellow sky and this building is shaking, but it's supposed to be night here in the southwest. so agreed
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Oct 5, 2018 02:07
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we're fine lol
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Oct 5, 2018 02:25
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Just buy more powerful air conditioners
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Turtlicious posted:there will be no humans, why does no-one understand this, we're all going to be dead. Wave👏Run👏Ners👏
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Oct 5, 2018 03:28
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we need to build a race of robots that will live on after us and live in the wreckage of our civilization but never be able to understand us.
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Oct 5, 2018 03:35
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wave👏Run👏Ners👏 Ok, I'm starting to catch on to this idea. Are we thinking like a Waterworld situation? I live kind of far from a coast. Should I go for the four wheeler instead?
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Oct 5, 2018 05:33
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Yesterday I saw a take I've not seen in some time, namely the "Allied bombing of Nazi cities was morally the same as the Holocaust". I do not agree with this. It is a revisionist view and one that I hope we continue to move away from. In any case, the fact is that the overwhelming majority of the people in Dresden and Cologne wanted the Nazis to win the war and many if not most of them were Nazis themselves.
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Oct 5, 2018 09:14
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yet another reason to start a legacy of waverunners. Just saying. Is this... Is this a Waterworld joke?
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Oct 5, 2018 09:36
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But you know what the most irritating thing is, though? Even though I never want to have children and even though my mind is boggled that other people do... I still feel like I must be missing something or missing out on something. It sometimes annoys me that I don't feel the way they feel. It makes me feel like I'm deficient in some way.
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Oct 5, 2018 12:46
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Wheat Loaf posted:Yesterday I saw a take I've not seen in some time, namely the "Allied bombing of Nazi cities was morally the same as the Holocaust". I do not agree with this. It is a revisionist view and one that I hope we continue to move away from. In any case, the fact is that the overwhelming majority of the people in Dresden and Cologne wanted the Nazis to win the war and many if not most of them were Nazis themselves. That's a pretty stupid take they have. You can't conflate a justified war with genocide. Yeah innocent people did die in the bombings and there were war crimes on both sides, but in this case one side was very much farther toward the "right" side of things morally than the other. Targeting civilians is admittedly harsh, but when you're in total war with a fanatical enemy I can understand wanting to quickly break their spirit as a people and end it. Saying "there were good people on both sides" is a stupid thing to say for a reason - not because it's not true, but because it doesn't mean anything.
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Oct 5, 2018 12:47
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I hope everyone dies before me.Wheat Loaf posted:But you know what the most irritating thing is, though? Even though I never want to have children and even though my mind is boggled that other people do... I still feel like I must be missing something or missing out on something. It sometimes annoys me that I don't feel the way they feel. It makes me feel like I'm deficient in some way. "You ever want kids, or thinking about having kids? Go to Chuck-E-Cheese on a Saturday afternoon. You'll leave and buy yourself a dog."
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Oct 5, 2018 13:15
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Turtlicious posted:we're all dead. The human race is unlikely to out right end but WW3 and mass death is a real possibility. There will be conflict and troubles, due to places like Texas, India and large parts of Africa becoming uninhabitable. Simultaneous technological advancement can help, but the corrupt capitalist system prevents those remedies from being widely applied. The creation of sanctuary zones, guarded by autonomous killbots, is likely.
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Wheat Loaf posted:But you know what the most irritating thing is, though? Even though I never want to have children and even though my mind is boggled that other people do... I still feel like I must be missing something or missing out on something. It sometimes annoys me that I don't feel the way they feel. It makes me feel like I'm deficient in some way. A life without at least some meaningful responsibility is not fit for the human. It doesn't have to be having a biological child; that's just one kind of continuity. But, yeah, I'd say it pays to be invested in some things beyond your own freedom and leisure.
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Caufman posted:A life without at least some meaningful responsibility is not fit for the human. It doesn't have to be having a biological child; that's just one kind of continuity. But, yeah, I'd say it pays to be invested in some things beyond your own freedom and leisure. There's just my little cat. He is a good kitty.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I sincerely, honestly and genuinely don't understand why people have children or want to have children. Fair play if you do but I cannot see the reward of it at all and I just don't get it; I'm far too self-centred; I can't imagine anyone but myself being at the centre of my own world. I don't even understand why my parents wanted to have me; I wouldn't want to have me if I was my parents. This is some serious goons.txt
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“I wouldn’t want me if I was my parents” is the most honest statement ever written on these forums
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's just my little cat. He is a good kitty. I believe that he is  May we be worthy of our pets' affection.
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zapplez posted:This is some serious goons.txt I mean not so much, a whole lot more people are completely not about having kids anymore, happens when you've watched so much go rocketing straight down the shitter for most/all of your life.
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Oct 7, 2018 00:55
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Yardbomb posted:I mean not so much, a whole lot more people are completely not about having kids anymore, happens when you've watched so much go rocketing straight down the shitter for most/all of your life. most of these people are in their 20s though and will change their mind later. It's easy to say that kind of stuff when you're single, but give one of them a girlfriend who is really in to starting a family and most of them will throw their "i don't want to raise a child in this world" moral stance out the window.
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Yardbomb posted:I mean not so much, a whole lot more people are completely not about having kids anymore, happens when you've watched so much go rocketing straight down the shitter for most/all of your life. Its not goony to not want to have kids. Its super goony to not even be able to fathom why others choose to have a family. Also "I sincerely, honestly and genuinely don't understand why people have children or want to have children.... I can't imagine anyone but myself being at the centre of my own world" is distilled goonery
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zapplez posted:This is some serious goons.txt I'm the first to admit that I have a lot of personality flaws. Edgar Allen Ho posted:“I wouldn’t want me if I was my parents” is the most honest statement ever written on these forums And I mean it, too.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Most of these people are in their 20s though and will change their mind later. This really sounds like something you'd hear 15 years ago or something but not really anymore, kids genuinely aren't worth it anymore to a whole lot of people. I mean I know a good handful who basically ran into that scenario and still said "You can forget that", because screw having kids when it's hard enough living at all right now unless you're a crook or have daddy's money, it ain't worth all that mess just to have some nebulous feeling of "completeness" or whatever. Not to mention women who also take the "I'd rather have free time and money than inflict the US on anyone else thanks" route, myself included.
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Oct 7, 2018 11:55
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It's okay to not have kids, but lol if you lie to yourself about not having them because you think the world is bad.
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Oct 7, 2018 12:05
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The biggest reason some people responded negatively to Final Fantasy 13 is that it was the first Final Fantasy with a female protagonist
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There wasn't a good final fantasy after final fantasy 3. Another phuo: I think it's dumb to call it final fantasy 6 as an american who bought it as final fantasy 3 and the box/cartridge says final fantasy 3 on it.
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