Do people need to reproduce to feel complete?

[Poki]

No, thats why God made dogs, cats, and bunnies. To offer other forms of feeling complete.

 

[Kanra Jest]

Apparently that isn't working because people are breeding like wildfire, regardless.

 

[Hawthorne]

I think the desire for permanence/legacy underlies the conscious decision to reproduce. Gene propagation often becomes the vehicle for immortalizing value, meaning, or purpose but it's not the only way to make a presence linger.

 

[Yuurei]

Not I.

-First of all, I hate children. If you lived where I do you would too.
-I have zero maternal insticts; things that are helpless/useless disgust me.
-Getting pregnant would be the worst thing to happen to me. And I died once.
-The very idea of being pregnant disgusts me. It seems humiliating, dehumanizing and objectifying ( that may come from this disturbingly common idea that Mothers cannot do even the slightest thing that may in some circumstances have a.000001 % to harm the baby because once a woman gets pregnant she is no longer a person and only exists to make a healthy baby)
- The idea terrifies me as it signals the end of ones own life. I know this is because of my Grandmother often saying " Once you have children your own life no longer matters."
-There is a very,VERY slight chance the kid would have Cystanosis and I just couldn't deal with that. I already cannot deal with other people who have Cystanosis; the "Support groups" where all they discuss is how sad and pathetic they are, or their obsession with being weak and "Sick" all the time. I really couldn't handle having to be a parent involved in that shit. *shudder*

Sometimes I do wonder if these feelings are naturally ingrained because of my inferior mutated genes; evolution and all.

 

[Dyslexxie]

I know right?! Hey I'll split a 40 piece with you any day! a-ha.

Really? It's like ok for me.

LOVE it back here!! I never felt more home here than being the other state. People are way more chill, but given the price that today there was this woman saying Yeah I'm fucking watching you, oh yeah don't you prank me like saying that until I walked away. I was creeped out. Few creepy people with much chiller people is like a far better life to live than like overly "I'm the best child there is" image everywhere.

Romania?! With your ENFP fran?!

Pfffffft no splitting! We gotta get two cause I'm a beast!

My twin:

Awww yuuus I'm so happy for you! Are you there for good or just for a bit? I'm so happy it finally happened and you're there

Hell naw, I'm in the UK! Well to be fair I'm in Canada for a month now visiting my parents but I'm gonna be back in the UK in December.

 

[Firebird 8118]

I have PCOS. It's a lifelong condition. I already don't feel like I'm "woman" enough as it is, and I'm at risk of getting quite a few things like diabetes, ovarian cancer and infertility. The third one scares me most...

Right now I'm just focusing on getting settled into my career path. But I want to be a mother someday in the future, to feel that sort of connection inside of me - and not being able to have that experience down the road would just be devastating. I could try to find other things to feel complete in my life, but this would still hit hard...

 

[Forever]

Pfffffft no splitting! We gotta get two cause I'm a beast!

My twin:

Awww yuuus I'm so happy for you! Are you there for good or just for a bit? I'm so happy it finally happened and you're there

Hell naw, I'm in the UK! Well to be fair I'm in Canada for a month now visiting my parents but I'm gonna be back in the UK in December.

Oh lord. That's serious. Like wow. 80 pieces in one night. I'll be breathing chicken nuggets all day and night.

I think she gets you. Seriously such a depraved look for being denied access to the godly like food. Such a sick and inhumane thing for mcdonalds to not have chicken nuggets. I don't want to even know if the sweet and sour sauce was gone...

There for good unless I have to go out of state for grad school which I hope not!! Yes!! It's like whatever I wear I don't have to worry, generally all that I learned when I was younger applied to today and I don't feel like culture shock everyday for being me.

Oh fun! How is it like to speak the English English? Do you feel proper? That's good you're with the fab fam! Fam.. fab... whatever! are you getting an accent?

 

[Dyslexxie]

Oh lord. That's serious. Like wow. 80 pieces in one night. I'll be breathing chicken nuggets all day and night.

I think she gets you. Seriously such a depraved look for being denied access to the godly like food. Such a sick and inhumane thing for mcdonalds to not have chicken nuggets. I don't want to even know if the sweet and sour sauce was gone...

There for good unless I have to go out of state for grad school which I hope not!! Yes!! It's like whatever I wear I don't have to worry, generally all that I learned when I was younger applied to today and I don't feel like culture shock everyday for being me.

Oh fun! How is it like to speak the English English? Do you feel proper? That's good you're with the fab fam! Fam.. fab... whatever! are you getting an accent?

It miiiiiiight be excessive, but I'm willing to risk it!

Hahah she just looks dead inside! Like screw this entire planet, I NEED my chicken nuggets you animals!

What if you only apply to Cali schools? That way you never have to leave!

It's not that different other than some funny expressions but to be fair they're the normal ones and I'm the one with the accent now! I think I'm too old to lose this accent!

 

[Virtual ghost]

Some people do, some people don't.

 

[Obfuscate]

does a toaster need to make toast to be a toaster?

we (as a species) have a drive to accomplish the task of making others (to accomplish the very same task)...

"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."

take from this what you will...

 

[Yama]

I don't.

I've known that I don't ever want children since I was 12. And I want to punch everyone who's laughed at me when I've told them so and said "You will one day." No bitch. No I won't.

 

[Puffypolma]

That's the last thing I'd do to make me feel complete.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

When people say reproduction is the main goal in life it makes me want to ask why is reproduction so important?

 

[Firebird 8118]

When people say reproduction is the main goal in life it makes me want to ask why is reproduction so important?

Yeah, that I don't get either I mean, it is something that's important to me (at least for the distant future), but I have other goals that I would call my main ones - like becoming a healing master, for instance.

 

[Litsnob]

How are we defining need? The human race needs some of us to reproduce or it dies out. Whether or not individuals need to reproduce in order for some sort of emotional fulfillment is entirely up to the individual. I do not buy the idea that all women feel a need to.

 

[Mole]

How are we defining need? The human race needs some of us to reproduce or it dies out. Whether or not individuals need to reproduce in order for some sort of emotional fulfillment is entirely up to the individual. I do not buy the idea that all women feel a need to.

The worst thing for parents is the death of their child. On the other hand, if we never had children, we don't miss what we never had.

 

[Mole]

Yeah, that I don't get either I mean, it is something that's important to me (at least for the distant future), but I have other goals that I would call my main ones - like becoming a healing master, for instance.

To become a master of anything takes ten thousand hours of practice. And if you want to become a healing master, the best path is to train to be a medical doctor.

Of course it is much easier to become a healing master in the New Age. There is no need for 10,000 hours of practice, all you need to do is to be plausible to your patients.

 

[kotoshinohaisha]

Reproduce? Sex? XD

 

[Yuurei]

God no. If I were to reproduce I would feel like part of the problem.

Alsi, I don't like most children.

To become a master of anything takes ten thousand hours of practice. And if you want to become a healing master, the best path is to train to be a medical doctor.

Of course it is much easier to become a healing master in the New Age. There is no need for 10,000 hours of practice, all you need to do is to be plausible to your patients.

Lay off. It's her life to do with as she wants. It has absolutley nothing to do with you.

Aspiring to something which has even a chance of benifiting others is a life better spent than one wasted telling everyone why they are useless.

 

[julesiscools]

For me, if I (and whoever my spouse is) decide to have children, I would find it more fulfilling to adopt.