You are insulting animals. If animals get angry, hell will be unleashed on Earth. Remember there Bears, Lions, Tigers, Crocodiles, Sharks, Elephants, Rhinos, Hippos, dangerous ants, Snakes, Dogs, Bees, Bulls and Buffalos and hundreds of other animals.Quote from Spiker:
Yes....if you were a ''bitch ass human being '' in this life , you get to be born as a Lady Mongrel in the next life.
Quote from Mayhem:
You can't put a price on moving your genes forward in the time. It's is a kind of immortality.
I know this couple in their 50s, and they never had kids. They make it a point to go to a tropical resort every Xmas. They seem kinda sad to me... there ain't nothing like being surrounded by multiple generations of family at holidays. Sure, we all have the crazy aunt or retarded stockbroker cousin, but all-in-all it's better to have a large family fighting over the drumstick on Thanksgiving than to be looking across a table at your spouse of 25 years and ordering another round of mai tais.
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People start businesses, bust their asses for 40 years to make it successful and build a name for themselves that they hope will last for a long long time. Generally the company goes under or gets sold off and broken up 10 years or so after the owner retires and his legacy is gone...just like that. How is that for a worthless investment?
I don't see a philosophical contradiction here. Many would postulate exactly what you said: the point of life is to sustain life. Single cell organisms have no purpose in life, except to create more single cell organisms. Must humans be different?Quote from Ghost of Cutten:
But that's a circular argument. For example, if your life has no point to it without kids, then your kids' life has no point to it either. You would be raising someone to have a meaningless life.
Life has to have a point of its own, for reproduction to have any point. After all, if life is otherwise pointless, what is the point in creating more of it or sustaining it?
So, the meaning of life cannot be to have kids.
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Well you are just as dead whether you died childless, or had 100+ kids like Genghis Khan. When you are dead, you are not in a position to care whether your passed on your DNA or not. You may think that matters now, but it will not matter to you one iota once you are worm food 6 feet under.
Quote from heech:
The research is interesting, but the conclusion doesn't follow in my mind.
I for one have a hard time imagining the point of life, if it wasn't for my kids. I have a great wife, I have a great career.... But so what? What's the purpose behind work...? Buy more crap? Are we on this earth just to watch American Idol and the Super Bowl? What's the point of being alive?
My greatest satisfaction in life comes from raising my kids, teaching them how to be happy and successful in life.