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19 Feb 2023, 7:45 pm

Honesty before BS. 8)



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19 Feb 2023, 7:47 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I don’t believe in neutering, really, as a matter of course, though if somebody really wanted it….

I believe a person could be a good parent, and offset what is cruel about the world.


WE, your overlords, will not neuter YOU.
WE, your overlords, have decided we need more "Huggy Bears" in the world. :heart: :mrgreen:



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19 Feb 2023, 7:52 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
I am against neutring pets, if you don't have a garden, then simply don't get a dog or cat as pet.

The promoted health benefits of neutring are stupid.


WE, your overlords, see no need for blobfish in the world.
WE, your overlords, maintain the neutering mandate in your case stands.
Have you looked in the mirror, lately? 8O



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19 Feb 2023, 8:02 pm

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kraftiekortie wrote:
We weren’t talking about neutering pets.

Somebody mentioned something about preventing pregnancy in people because of this “cruel world.” I said, sometimes, that parents could offset the effects of the “cruel world” by nurturing kids.



This ideology is called antinatalism.

I an not anti natalist, but I don’t want kids because I think it’s too late anyway.


I am...
And proud of it. 8)

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David Benatar may be the world’s most pessimistic philosopher. An “anti-natalist,” he believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion. “While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place,” he writes, in a 2006 book called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.” In Benatar’s view, reproducing is intrinsically cruel and irresponsible—not just because a horrible fate can befall anyone, but because life itself is “permeated by badness.” In part for this reason, he thinks that the world would be a better place if sentient life disappeared altogether.


https://www.newyorker.com/culture/perso ... being-born

Leave life to single-cell organisms, I say. 8)
But make sure they are neutered also, so they don't develop into more complex life forms. :mrgreen:



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19 Feb 2023, 8:19 pm

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Like a boxer who has practiced his counters, Benatar has anticipated a range of objections. Many people suggest that the best experiences in life—love, beauty, discovery, and so on—make up for the bad ones. To this, Benatar replies that pain is worse than pleasure is good. Pain lasts longer: “There’s such a thing as chronic pain, but there’s no such thing as chronic pleasure,” he said. It’s also more powerful: would you trade five minutes of the worst pain imaginable for five minutes of the greatest pleasure? Moreover, there’s an abstract sense in which missing out on good experiences isn’t as bad as having bad ones. “For an existing person, the presence of bad things is bad and the presence of good things is good,” Benatar explained. “But compare that with a scenario in which that person never existed—then, the absence of the bad would be good, but the absence of the good wouldn’t be bad, because there’d be nobody to be deprived of those good things.” This asymmetry “completely stacks the deck against existence,” he continued, because it suggests that “all the unpleasantness and all the misery and all the suffering could be over, without any real cost.”


https://www.newyorker.com/culture/perso ... being-born



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19 Feb 2023, 8:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:
the people who are cut out for parenthood should have the same gov't parental assistant benefits that most other western nations give their citizens.


Breeders are privileged in society. 8)



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23 Feb 2023, 2:51 am

If you tell me I can do something in a few minutes after you do something or you say that you'll get up in a few minutes so I can use the TV but half an hour later I'm still waiting on you due to your procrastinating, do not get upset with me for deicing to do something else instead of continuing to waste my time waiting around for you to stop getting side-tracked doing whatever. Just let me know whenever you are finally done. Do NOT take it personally if I decided to get on computer or leave the room to do a chore. I am NOT mad at you. I just don't like spending a lot of time waiting around when I could be doing something else. I hate feeling rushed when I know someone is waiting around for me to do something & I do not want you to feel rushed & pressured.


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23 Feb 2023, 3:14 am

Don't send anyone flowers unless you know they aren't allergic, they don't have smell-sensitivity, and they actually like flowers. Lillies must never be sent. People owning cats must be asked directly.

Cohabitating or married people should check with their partner before buying anything over _________ (insert your price but I'd say $100).

Sometimes go to bed angry. Make up morning sex is much better than staying up all night delirious and saying things you'll regret just because you were too tired or you just wanted to go to bed.

Each person plans their own birthday day. I know people who have "birthday week" and that's fun too. No surprises.

All children must have a pet.

Separate bedrooms for most couples, if not separate homes.


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23 Feb 2023, 4:00 am

People without a sense of humour will be deported to Antarctica. 8)



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23 Feb 2023, 7:54 am

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People without a sense of humour will be deported to Antarctica.


I would love to go there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y



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23 Feb 2023, 7:00 pm

Hugs and kisses every day. :heart:



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23 Feb 2023, 7:14 pm

The world needs more swivel chairs.


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23 Feb 2023, 7:21 pm

I'd bring back Group B. 8)


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23 Feb 2023, 8:05 pm

Then maybe, if you have not seen this you might like it....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZOgcHXwXw



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23 Feb 2023, 8:36 pm

Highlander852456 wrote:
Then maybe, if you have not seen this you might like it....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZOgcHXwXw


No, thanks for linking that. The music kinda reminds me of Skinny Puppy but more melodic.


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23 Feb 2023, 11:58 pm

Highlander852456 wrote:
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People without a sense of humour will be deported to Antarctica.


I would love to go there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y


OK, scratch that.

Ppl without a sense of humour will be deported to the moon...
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...without a space suit... 8)