People, are they monsters?

[marieelissa]

I never understood why someone would have children, have you ever seen the world we live in? Do you just have babies and hope for the best? Kids get killed and more.

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

Then on top of that there is no God, so no being reunited.

I will never have kids...a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

That is why I will never have kids and wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

[muush88]

Life is what you make it   i dont have kids but im an uncle several times over and all my nieces and nephews seem happy to me. personally i dont hang around with monsters,  and you confuse the *bleep* out of me    your saying now there is no god?   lol and you dont care about kids starving?   dosnt that make you the monster?

[queenofnines]

I never understood why someone would have children

Because it's just "the thing to do".  People aren't that creative when it comes to filling their lives with "purpose"...kids are an easy fix for that.  Wait, scratch the word "easy".    Also it's like, expected in society.  I saw screw that cookie-cutter obligation and do what makes YOU happy!

Do you just have babies and hope for the best?

Yep, I think that's exactly what most people do.  Kinda foolish if you ask me...

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

We've all got to die sometime...and we NEED the military.  It's an honorable job to take on!

I will never have kids...

Probably me neither...the cons far outweigh the pros...plus it's environmentally irresponsible.  Limit yourself to 2 and then adopt if you want more, people!!

a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

Well I'm sure you'd care if you were the starving one.  But you're right that it's a cold world...so much of the land is infertile and less than 1% of all water is suitable for drinking (despite the planet being 70+% water!).  It's a big reason why people are starving.

wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Yeah but, as Richard Dawkins says: "We are going to die...but that makes us the lucky ones.  Most people are never going to die because THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO BE BORN.  The potential people that could have been here in my place, but who will, in fact, never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.  Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.  We know this because the set of possible people who are allowed by our DNA so massively outnumber the set of actual people.  Amidst these *stupifying* odds, it is you and I in our ordinary-ness that are here.  We, privileged few, who won the LOTTERY of birth against all odds...how DARE we whine about our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred."  <---   it!!!

[502mania]

you always seem to bring things to light, queenofnines, we need people like you in this world. 

[SurveyMack10]

I never understood why someone would have children, have you ever seen the world we live in? Do you just have babies and hope for the best? Kids get killed and more.

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

Then on top of that there is no God, so no being reunited.

I will never have kids...a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

That is why I will never have kids and wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Your brother is in the military, or so you claimed on other threads. With a family member in the military I would think you, of all people, would support them fighting for the freedom of other Americans. Also, didn't you just post something about caring for others and giving our scraps of food to the needy --then  you spout of with this about not caring about anyone else. There is no God now? I have seen you throw a huge fit about people claiming this on other threads, and you have even claimed to be a disciple above all the rest of us "regular ol'" Christians. You have severe problems.

[SurveyMack10]

I never understood why someone would have children, have you ever seen the world we live in? Do you just have babies and hope for the best? Kids get killed and more.

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

Then on top of that there is no God, so no being reunited.

I will never have kids...a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

That is why I will never have kids and wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Your brother is in the military, or so you claimed on other threads. With a family member in the military I would think you, of all people, would support them fighting for the freedom of other Americans. Also, didn't you just post something about caring for others and giving our scraps of food to the needy --then  you spout of with this about not caring about anyone else. There is no God now? I have seen you throw a huge fit about people claiming this on other threads, and you have even claimed to be a disciple above all the rest of us "regular ol'" Christians. You have severe problems.

You are reading it wrong...

how so

[SurveyMack10]

I never understood why someone would have children, have you ever seen the world we live in? Do you just have babies and hope for the best? Kids get killed and more.

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

Then on top of that there is no God, so no being reunited.

I will never have kids...a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

That is why I will never have kids and wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Your brother is in the military, or so you claimed on other threads. With a family member in the military I would think you, of all people, would support them fighting for the freedom of other Americans. Also, didn't you just post something about caring for others and giving our scraps of food to the needy --then  you spout of with this about not caring about anyone else. There is no God now? I have seen you throw a huge fit about people claiming this on other threads, and you have even claimed to be a disciple above all the rest of us "regular ol'" Christians. You have severe problems.

You are reading it wrong...

how so

This post was aimed at atheists.

mmm. if you say so.

[SurveyMack10]

I never understood why someone would have children, have you ever seen the world we live in? Do you just have babies and hope for the best? Kids get killed and more.

What about the boy you just had, they go to the military and get blown to pieces so someone elses kids can live their obese life.

Then on top of that there is no God, so no being reunited.

I will never have kids...a kid can't even enjoy their meal without parents saying there are starving children out there...who cares!! This is a cold world and it is survival of the fittest.

That is why I will never have kids and wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Your brother is in the military, or so you claimed on other threads. With a family member in the military I would think you, of all people, would support them fighting for the freedom of other Americans. Also, didn't you just post something about caring for others and giving our scraps of food to the needy --then  you spout of with this about not caring about anyone else. There is no God now? I have seen you throw a huge fit about people claiming this on other threads, and you have even claimed to be a disciple above all the rest of us "regular ol'" Christians. You have severe problems.

You are reading it wrong...

how so

This post was aimed at atheists.

mmm. if you say so.

Yeah cause they don't believe in God..

KAY.

[queenofnines]

you always seem to bring things to light, queenofnines, we need people like you in this world. 

Thank ya!   

[FuzzyCottonsocks]

Lets nuke ourselves and get it over with.

[amyrouse]

I never understood why someone would have children

I used to be right there with you.  I never wanted to have kids, and thought it selfish.  Then, I met my husband...and I just needed to have his child.  Call it selfish if you wish, but that's what it was.  Having my daughter is the best thing I have ever done or ever will do.  There is no other way to explain it rationally. 

While it may be selfish, though, it doesn't mean that people are monsters for reproducing.   

wish sometimes I was never born...I mean what twisted person looks forward to the pain of dying anyways?

Yeah but, as Richard Dawkins says: "We are going to die...but that makes us the lucky ones.  Most people are never going to die because THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO BE BORN.  The potential people that could have been here in my place, but who will, in fact, never see the light of day, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.  Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.  We know this because the set of possible people who are allowed by our DNA so massively outnumber the set of actual people.  Amidst these *stupifying* odds, it is you and I in our ordinary-ness that are here.  We, privileged few, who won the LOTTERY of birth against all odds...how DARE we whine about our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred."  <---   it!!!

    

I love this.  Thank you for sharing it.