The many benefits of a child-free life - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge > Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
The many benefits of a child-free life The many benefits of a child-free life
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: How do you plead?
I'm a parent 11 17.74%
I'm a child-free woman/man 24 38.71%
I want to have kids someday (please explain) 18 29.03%
I'm undecided 9 14.52%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
Page 13 of 50 « First 31112 13 141523 Last »
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-24-2013, 01:38 PM   #121 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 2,235
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Junkyard Donner View Post
So what about the people who aren't born into the right circumstances? Is suffering the price they pay for being born into ****ty circumstances?

Useless comment is useless.
Not what I was saying. If you can provide the right circumstances then the positives of life are well worth the suffering.
John Wilkes Booth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 02:00 PM   #122 (permalink)
Shoo Thoughts
 
Mr. Charlie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: These Mountains
Posts: 2,308
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Junkyard Donner View Post

Tl;dr - It really all boils down to simply this: Life is suffering. To impose life on a being is to impose suffering. Therefore, imposing life in an immoral action.
Are you a Buddhist? Buddha thought life was suffering and, though I love him to bits, I don't believe life is suffering. Life is frequently painful for all of us, and, for various reasons, almost always painful for some. But suffering is optional.
Mr. Charlie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 02:51 PM   #123 (permalink)
Maelian
 
ladyislingering's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 695
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by djchameleon View Post
What about getting your tubes tied or Ki getting the ole snip snip?
It's easier for him to get the operation because women are usually patronized or discriminated against. But for some ridiculous reason he isn't taking advantage of this.

He has the best insurance this country has to offer, for another 3 years of his life, essentially for free, and he is of the most privileged demographic (read: white adult male). Why not withstand a couple days of minor discomfort for a lifetime of freedom from condoms and pregnancy scares? Seriously.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can afford proper insurance, but I'm pretty sure that despite the fact that we're a really progressive society on the west coast, it's going to take me a long time to find a doctor who isn't going to look at me and say "HURRR YURR GUNNA CHANGE YUR MIIIIND" and then stare at me like I'm a dumb little girl and laugh about me to their 27 children and Grand Canyon-vagina'd wife.
__________________
You and I,
We were born to die.
Last edited by ladyislingering; 11-24-2013 at 03:00 PM.
ladyislingering is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 03:04 PM   #124 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: freely swimmin thru the waters of glory much like a majestic bald eagle soars thru the skies
Posts: 1,463
Default
havin a vasectomy that young sounds really dumb to me
butthead aka 216 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 03:20 PM   #125 (permalink)
Maelian
 
ladyislingering's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 695
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 View Post
havin a vasectomy that young sounds really dumb to me
I don't think so. Unless he's lying about a number of things, it seems like a reasonable thing to do if you're in a child-free lifelong relationship.
__________________
You and I,
We were born to die.
ladyislingering is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 03:59 PM   #126 (permalink)
The Music Guru.
 
Burning Down's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Beyond the Wall
Posts: 4,858
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by ladyislingering View Post
I'm looking forward to the day when I can afford proper insurance, but I'm pretty sure that despite the fact that we're a really progressive society on the west coast, it's going to take me a long time to find a doctor who isn't going to look at me and say "HURRR YURR GUNNA CHANGE YUR MIIIIND" and then stare at me like I'm a dumb little girl and laugh about me to their 27 children and Grand Canyon-vagina'd wife.
I honestly think doctors everywhere are like this. They even hesitate to perform hysterectomies or even partial ones even if it's medically necessary. My mom should have one done because (ok the rest is in spoilers)

Spoiler for some TMI crap:
For years she has had problems with fibroids and it's gotten worse after two kids. They're benign but there is always a chance that they can turn cancerous, especially now that she is almost 53. But they keep coming back and now it's getting to a point where they're bothering her. She's entering menopause now so it's so much worse and she's in so much pain when she gets a period. And fibroids will keep posing a problem and chronic pain even after menopause. The solution: a hysterectomy. Her family doctor is refusing to even consider it, and same with her gynecologist. I think they are being idiots.
Burning Down is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 05:41 PM   #127 (permalink)
Nae wains, Great Danes.
 
FETCHER.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Where how means why.
Posts: 3,621
Default
About life being suffering... Such true words but the strongest, most determined and driven people I've ever met have always had a whole load of **** thrown at them that they shouldn't have ever had to deal with.


Not saying it is always the case but what is for you will not go by you.
__________________


Quote:
Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 View Post
i havent i refuse to in fact. it triggers my ptsd from yrs ago when i thought my ex's anal beads were those edible candy necklaces
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Rez View Post
Keep it in your pants scottie.
FETCHER. is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 07:11 PM   #128 (permalink)
GuD
Dude... What?
 
GuD's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,322
Default
Life is more than suffering though. It's definitely a struggle, for some more than others by a metric ass-ton but there's a lot out there to enjoy too. I'm just gonna guess and say most of us are from relatively well-off parts of the world where there's more or less an equal opportunity for a happy, comfortable life.
__________________
I spit bullets in my feet
Every time I speak
So I write instead
And still people want me dead
~msc
GuD is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 10:24 PM   #129 (permalink)
Key
.
 
Key's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 13,153
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 View Post
havin a vasectomy that young sounds really dumb to me
Exactly. I don't want kids, but I don't need to have a vasectomy to prove that. That's just extreme, imo.
Key is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-24-2013, 10:24 PM   #130 (permalink)
Maelian
 
ladyislingering's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 695
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Burning Down View Post
I honestly think doctors everywhere are like this. They even hesitate to perform hysterectomies or even partial ones even if it's medically necessary. My mom should have one done because (ok the rest is in spoilers)

Spoiler for some TMI crap:
For years she has had problems with fibroids and it's gotten worse after two kids. They're benign but there is always a chance that they can turn cancerous, especially now that she is almost 53. But they keep coming back and now it's getting to a point where they're bothering her. She's entering menopause now so it's so much worse and she's in so much pain when she gets a period. And fibroids will keep posing a problem and chronic pain even after menopause. The solution: a hysterectomy. Her family doctor is refusing to even consider it, and same with her gynecologist. I think they are being idiots.
That's completely ridiculous. There are risks involved with having a hysterectomy but they're wildly hyped up because of these pro-breeding weirdos. She's well past the prime childbearing stage (in medical terms) so I don't see what the holdup is. I think she needs a new doctor, to be honest.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ki View Post
Exactly. I don't want kids, but I don't need to have a vasectomy to prove that. That's just extreme, imo.
Literally the only reason I haven't gotten a tubal ligation is because I don't have health insurance.

Not because I want to prove anything, but because I don't want to get pregnant. Sterilization isn't a social statement, dear. It's a personal choice.
__________________
You and I,
We were born to die.
ladyislingering is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 13 of 50 « First 31112 13 141523 Last »

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Thread Tools
Display Modes
Linear Mode Linear Mode

Similar Threads


Terms & Privacy - Contact Us - Music Banter - Archive - Top

© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.