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RE: Hi All!
April 26, 2012 at 3:22 pm
I drift back and forth between wanting to procreate, and not for various reasons. I've settled on possible adoption when I get quite a bit older, though. Anyhow, welcome! I am glad you've successfully outran the debilitating insanity that surrounds the dominant collection of organized religion.
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.” - Max Stirner.
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RE: Hi All!
April 26, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Not to sound conceited or anything, but I feel there are so many stupid people in the world that I am obligated to bring a child into this world to help balance it out.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Hi All!
April 27, 2012 at 12:01 am
Nice to meet you all. I work at night and thankfully our IT hasn't blocked this forum yet so it makes for great reading on a dull shift.
I get that my views on procreation aren't always popular. (Though it is nice to see some here are like minded!) I just figured it is a simple enough equation. The population is growing exponentially. The planet can support a finite amount of people. I feel like we are rapidly approaching that number and there is nothing so outstanding about my genes that I feel the need to pass on.
We are are part of nature, built from the same stuff as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. Our protons and neutrons have been around since the earliest times, glued together into heavy elements of long dead ancient suns, blasted out into the universe and resculpted from diffuse interstellar dust clouds by the gentle hand of gravity. When the pattern of atoms known to be you ceases to be, the building blocks will return to the voids of space, and in a billion years or more, they may take their place in another structure so beautiful that a future mind may perceive it to be the work of a god. ~ Brian Cox
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RE: Hi All!
April 27, 2012 at 2:12 am
Welcome. Washington state? We're neighbors, then.
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RE: Hi All!
April 27, 2012 at 5:08 am
Cthulhu Dreaming~ Tacoma area to be precise. Where are you?
We are are part of nature, built from the same stuff as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. Our protons and neutrons have been around since the earliest times, glued together into heavy elements of long dead ancient suns, blasted out into the universe and resculpted from diffuse interstellar dust clouds by the gentle hand of gravity. When the pattern of atoms known to be you ceases to be, the building blocks will return to the voids of space, and in a billion years or more, they may take their place in another structure so beautiful that a future mind may perceive it to be the work of a god. ~ Brian Cox
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RE: Hi All!
April 27, 2012 at 5:15 am
There are only too many people in certain areas... peeps should spread out a bit.
London has more people in it than the whole of Scotland. Pretty mad.