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It’s indeed such an (seemingly) easy fix ; marriage not good; get kids, bored with life; kids, seeking meaning: kids. I had friends and family do it for some or

It’s indeed such an (seemingly) easy fix ; marriage not good; get kids, bored with life; kids, seeking meaning: kids. I had friends and family do it for some or all of these reasons and indeed, at the start it helped somewhat; there was pink cloud. In the end it didn’t help and there was no meaning; divorce, depression (including suicide as there indeed was no meaning it turned out) and boredom moved back in after the kids left the house. There is no meaning, the universe doesn’t care; kids is the same as whatever else you can occupy yourself with that makes yourself feel worthy, making babies is just easier for most and it’s a ‘together activity’ that takes 25-30% of your life.

switchbak 3y ago
I think this might be the most cynical thing I’ve read on the Internet. Congrats.
MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Speaking as someone who's from a tight clique of former children of loveless homes, there's a truth I'd like to tattoo on the forehead of every baby-crazed[1] young couple: No One Asks To Be Born. It's on you. It's all on you. You're making the bet: half your life in exchange for throwing your genetics into the future. There's no waiting room of cherubs waiting at the vag-shaped gate for a turn on the old jumping dirt, no Sky Dad giving you gold stars for every set of fresh genitals vomited forth onto the world. But if you just end up making 60+ more years of misery for another lifeform, what in the living hell are you thinking? Ok, alright, this is now the official "Bleak Subthread". Happy Subthreads, please continue on aisles 3 through 62. [1] Or think they're baby crazed. Social expectations + hormones are powerful medicine. The problem is that - in America, anyway - the "social" part of that equation is fucked, nine ways to Sunday, and if you buy in without doing brain stuff, you'll be fucked, too.
RestlessMind 3y ago
> There is no meaning, the universe doesn’t care; I just commented this elsewhere on this page - the only purpose of life is survival of one's genes. Those who care about that will have a higher likelihood of their genes surviving. Those who do not care (like you?) will have a lower likelihood. Rules of nature are pretty simple and amazing.
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switchbak 3y ago

I think this might be the most cynical thing I’ve read on the Internet. Congrats.

MilStdJunkie 3y ago

Speaking as someone who's from a tight clique of former children of loveless homes, there's a truth I'd like to tattoo on the forehead of every baby-crazed[1] young couple: No One Asks To Be Born. It's on you. It's all on you. You're making the bet: half your life in exchange for throwing your genetics into the future. There's no waiting room of cherubs waiting at the vag-shaped gate for a turn on the old jumping dirt, no Sky Dad giving you gold stars for every set of fresh genitals vomited forth onto the world. But if you just end up making 60+ more years of misery for another lifeform, what in the living hell are you thinking? Ok, alright, this is now the official "Bleak Subthread". Happy Subthreads, please continue on aisles 3 through 62. [1] Or think they're baby crazed. Social expectations + hormones are powerful medicine. The problem is that - in America, anyway - the "social" part of that equation is fucked, nine ways to Sunday, and if you buy in without doing brain stuff, you'll be fucked, too.

RestlessMind 3y ago

> There is no meaning, the universe doesn’t care; I just commented this elsewhere on this page - the only purpose of life is survival of one's genes. Those who care about that will have a higher likelihood of their genes surviving. Those who do not care (like you?) will have a lower likelihood. Rules of nature are pretty simple and amazing.

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