God hates celiacs now? It's getting to be a long list.
yeah, the Pope confirmed that gluten-free wafers aren't acceptable.
God hates celiacs now? It's getting to be a long list.
Oh, celiacs shouldn't have a problem, though, because the communion wafer is literally transubstantiated into the body of Christ. There's gluten in the wafer but once the priest abracadabras it, it's not a wafer anymore.
No, life is not pointless without children. Children are one way to make a positive difference in this world, if you can raise them properly, but if you can't, or just don't want to, best you try some other way. And if there's no other way for you and all you want to do is be self-indulgent, then you're a waste of food, air, and water, and probably vote for the right, if you bother to vote at all.
The point of life is to serve God, and God said to go forth and multiply. So many of you are only getting the half of it. Yes, you've multiplied but have you gone forth?
Exactly.
When I think of all the hardships and struggle that those before me went through for me to exist, it blows my mind.
To snub all that effort is something I see as the most selfish thing a person could do.
You get the chance to do it all over again...to experience your second childhood vicariously through your own offspring.
I've loved every minute of being a Dad. I believe I'd be a miserable single person.
I love my kids but if I had a second chance I would be more selfish and wouldn't have given in to social pressure.
I'm very fortunate to have a supportive family and I will do the same for them, but if we're going to be selfish for a minute here, I know life would be much easier and there would be an enormous opportunity to make a societal contribution elsewhere.
Not having kids is the new, nature took you out of the gene pool.
Whether I have kids or not I'm still going to die. Whether or not my genes live on after my death is irrelevant to me - as I'll be dead. If I did reproduce the genes going on would still only be temporarily. Sooner or later those genes will die in future generations as will our species on a long enough time scale.
Angstrom, would you consider a Don Juan who impregnates women in every part of town as making a great contribution to society?
Yes, society needs kids, and yes, having kids is a great contribution, but so is raising the kids.
Angstrom...
You're quite the 'snappy turtle' on this thread! Is everything okay? Nobody likes to be known as a Buzz Kill.