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29-03-2013 life is rude to beauty ... it should be made to do better than that or be sent back from whence it came. |
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29-03-2013
to beauty, to sensitivity, to intelligence...to sentience. thnaks for stopping by:) |
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29-03-2013
thanks. i know i write better than i talk but videos cover a wider audience so... gotta make them once in a while)) |
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29-03-2013 I think you talk pretty well. I'm bilingual as well but the thing about writing is that I can hide my poor pronunciation/accent behind it |
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29-03-2013 Very well spoken, I don't have much to add, basically you were talking about the greatness of Athens to an Athenian. |
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29-03-2013
Great)) Why don't I see you in antinatalist groups on Facebook then? Some don't join because they hate FB, but since you use it anyway, why not join the group? |
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29-03-2013 Well, can you direct me to one that is worth it's salt? |
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29-03-2013 Thanks Irina. Great video and comments as always! I am glad not all antinatalists are men! |
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30-03-2013 Thanks 2 Natalist: It's ok to have kids, because MAYBE there's something great awaiting them, and us all, here and beyond. Me: Here, globally speaking, it CAN'T be great (and you know it). Beyond, if there is one, it could be a greater hell or a great heaven, yes. If the latter were the case, you did your kids no favour by interrupting their happy existence in paradise and bringing them to a much worse place for a while. (Until the unborn can communicate with the born and actually ask them to do such a strange and cruel thing, explaing the real motives, I will abstain from playing the 'maybe' game). |
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30-03-2013 Religious Natalist: Oh, but you're totally wrong. My kids didn't pre-exist. Me and my partner created them. We gave them the opportunity to go in for the merit system and MAYBE enter paradise eventually.Me: Wow, you're God and Godess. You created bodies and souls. Let me remind you of your own dogmas: it was God who made the clay, then blew, and made it inhabited by spirit and replicable at will (the clay, I mean, He invariably provides the souls). Supposedly, the same day, God created the system of buying tickets for Heaven at astronomic prices. 'Buy Eternal Ecstasy! It only costs Temporary Torture!' said the slogan. If you find that nonsense acceptable, and see no reason why you shouldn't worship a Sadic Blackmailer, then fine, go ahead. But, are you really sure you want to book tickets for others? Remember: it's not YOU who will pay the price... (aah, how I wish it was you!). |
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31-03-2013 My pleasure 'Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.' (Plato) (and women?... well, I assume he was just trying to avoid lynching... by suggesting women had a brain and/or used it, I can undestand) |
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31-03-2013
'Wise men talk because they have something to say, haha! that's witty)) |
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31-03-2013 ... not that I consider myself wise, not at all!But, I do have a brain of sorts! (as any other female individual) And it strikes me as odd when someone denies A FACT! (so there... I downright suspect anybody who denies a fact!) |
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01-04-2013 I recommended Nancy Shepper-Hugh's work on an earlier post. I'm reading Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics, I'm about 2/3 through it and antinatalism doesn't look as good in practice as it sounds in theory. She describes a rural Ireland where the area has been depopulated by emigration, older-childless marriage and celibacy. Is this what we will have to endure when antinatalist principles reach their logical conclusion?There is little cooperation amongst the childless. There are a lot of psychological problems. I guess mass suicide would be the solution to many of these ills, but the prospect of a geographical area dying of old age ain't pretty. Ireland has changed a lot since the 1970's but that doesn't change the significance of the snapshot taken then. Then again, this might be a beautiful picture if viewed by the starving masses of the 1840s potato famine. I must say, though I am childless and will remain so, reading this book has made me reluctant to spread the philosophy. |
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01-04-2013
I don't imagine our end on this planet to be pleasant in any case. I think realistically there's going to be some suffering involved in both cases, only in the case of antinatalism - it will finally stop and in the case of the status-quo - it will continue possibly for countless more generations up until our Universe dies or an asteroid hits us or we start a 3rd world war with the newest and dealiest technology. If society agrees voluntary extinction is preferable, it could work out a least painful strategy for how it should be done. Perhaps, not all in one day will stop having children, but gradually - there will be less children, then there will be less old people, too. Rural Ireland. Come to rural Ukraine, we have such villages all around. Young people migrate to big cities leaving their old parents in those god-forsaken lands. That's without antinatalism. |
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03-04-2013 I must concede that, when it comes to suffering, Eastern Europe has few rivals.The cheerful design of this site is at odds with the morbid theme. Is that done intentionally to lure us in? LOL. |
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