No kids for me.
Ever.
I do wonder what will happen when I am an old fuck.
I am hoping I will get taken out with a massive heart attack around the age of seventy. And I make a point of being pretty unhealthy in order to meet that target.
A good death is an important part of a good life. That is a common belief in the east where people pray for a happy death. It is a way of thinking that is lost here in the west.
I have noticed that when people go into old person's homes - they lose their independence very quickly. As such - I hope that if I do my own shit and be independent everyday. Then my brain will never allow me to get to the stage where I am incapable of looking after myself. Use it or lose it.
And luckily shit is getting easier - particularly with the internet. And home deliveries for shopping. Of course - fi shit goes wrong I have a Plan B which I sometimes mull over:
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/...-plan.html
Anyway - I don't give a fuck about leaving a genetic legacy. If you are worried about that - become a sperm donor. And besides who gives a shit anyway. Einstein had five kids. Can you name any of them?
And besides - I am on the side of death and entropy when it comes to evolution - 99.99999999999% of all the people that have ever existed - no longer have any living descendents living today.
The same is true of the 99.9999999999999% of species which are now extinct.
We are alive - so we think evolution is about life and getting better with each generation.
But evolution is overwhelmingly about death. The occasional animal/species/person who makes it through to the next round is statistically negligible. And it means that 99.9999999% of you who are reading this and planning on having kids will soon have their genetic legacy wiped from the earth within a few generations.
But even that doesn't make no sense.
Me, RooshV, GManifesto, Teedub, IndianRaceTroll, Prince Charles and David Beckham share the same number of genes as I share with my great-great-great grandfather.
The gene pool for humanity is not that big. And after a few generations you have as many genes in common with a complete stranger as you do with a direct descendent who died a few generations ago.
Along similar lines - your surname is a very bad marker of who you are directly descended from.
Stephen Fry made this point in a way which is interesting and easy to understand:
http://youtu.be/OamQy8wc2XE?t=6m58s
Cardguy
PS Great photo from Bacon's article! http://www.returnofkings.com/17283/the-b...fatherhood
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Ever.
I do wonder what will happen when I am an old fuck.
I am hoping I will get taken out with a massive heart attack around the age of seventy. And I make a point of being pretty unhealthy in order to meet that target.
A good death is an important part of a good life. That is a common belief in the east where people pray for a happy death. It is a way of thinking that is lost here in the west.
I have noticed that when people go into old person's homes - they lose their independence very quickly. As such - I hope that if I do my own shit and be independent everyday. Then my brain will never allow me to get to the stage where I am incapable of looking after myself. Use it or lose it.
And luckily shit is getting easier - particularly with the internet. And home deliveries for shopping. Of course - fi shit goes wrong I have a Plan B which I sometimes mull over:
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/...-plan.html
Anyway - I don't give a fuck about leaving a genetic legacy. If you are worried about that - become a sperm donor. And besides who gives a shit anyway. Einstein had five kids. Can you name any of them?
And besides - I am on the side of death and entropy when it comes to evolution - 99.99999999999% of all the people that have ever existed - no longer have any living descendents living today.
The same is true of the 99.9999999999999% of species which are now extinct.
We are alive - so we think evolution is about life and getting better with each generation.
But evolution is overwhelmingly about death. The occasional animal/species/person who makes it through to the next round is statistically negligible. And it means that 99.9999999% of you who are reading this and planning on having kids will soon have their genetic legacy wiped from the earth within a few generations.
But even that doesn't make no sense.
Me, RooshV, GManifesto, Teedub, IndianRaceTroll, Prince Charles and David Beckham share the same number of genes as I share with my great-great-great grandfather.
The gene pool for humanity is not that big. And after a few generations you have as many genes in common with a complete stranger as you do with a direct descendent who died a few generations ago.
Along similar lines - your surname is a very bad marker of who you are directly descended from.
Stephen Fry made this point in a way which is interesting and easy to understand:
http://youtu.be/OamQy8wc2XE?t=6m58s
Cardguy
PS Great photo from Bacon's article! http://www.returnofkings.com/17283/the-b...fatherhood