Estsblish relationships with others and find one that you are willing to live and die for. Then procreate with them, creating more that you would live and die for. When you understand that your greatest legacy you could ever leave behind is your children, then you have found your purpose in life.How do I find my purpose for life? — TheMagicSchool
Did I stutter? — Harry Hindu
How do I find my purpose for life? — TheMagicSchool
I didn't take it as anti-gay, particularly, but I find the idea of people having children in order to find a purpose in life a little disturbing. It's asking a lot of one's children to make your (parental) life purposeful. — Bitter Crank
I didn't take it as anti-gay, particularly, but I find the idea of people having children in order to find a purpose in life a little disturbing. It's asking a lot of one's children to make your (parental) life purposeful.
I don't see it as asking much of anything of one's children. The way I see it, the burden is all in the parents. They are the one's that must produce the genetic material and the environment in which a child can become a viable adult and contributor to society. It is the parents that determine what kind a person that the child becomes as an adult. That is the problem with most people today - that their parents didn't devote as much time and energy in raising them properly and they end up becoming self-centered or not having any self-worth. Most of society's problems, if not all of them, are a result of improper, or a lack of, parenting. The first years of life are crucial in designing a proper human being.I didn't take it as anti-gay, particularly, but I find the idea of people having children in order to find a purpose in life a little disturbing. It's asking a lot of one's children to make your (parental) life purposeful. — Bitter Crank
Nah. Just ridiculously antigay and advice that is useless to anyone who cannot have or decided not to have children. Come to think of it, probably everyone can ignore this utterly vapid advice. — Rich
It seems that it is only you that took it that way. Even the gay person didn't take it that way. But then what do you expect from someone who takes offense with anything they disagree with - even when they aren't really disagreeing with the reasoning behind what was said because either they are too dense, or intellectually dishonest.To promote the idea that humans only purpose is to procreate falls in line with any anti-gay agenda. Beyond this, it is so hopelessly empty that is certainly can be quickly dismissed by anyone who doesn't intend to spend their life in bed and then ending it quickly once their procreation powers have dwindled. Ugh. I remember actually hearing this stuff in public school. — Rich
Establish relationships with others and find one that you are willing to live and die for. Then procreate with them, creating more that you would live and die for. When you understand that your greatest legacy you could ever leave behind is your children, then you have found your purpose in life. — Harry Hindu
Like I said, nurturing your children is part of the procreation process. You children need to develop into viable and social offspring in order to say that you have procreated. Procreation doesn't end with sex and the subsequent birth.Billions of people have found fulfillment in not just reproducing, but nurturing their children and bringing them up to become happy successful adults. That's all to the good, and when taken seriously is a fine purpose for any life. I think most people in the world approach marriage and family in that way, if they have a choice (some don't have much choice in the matter).
What isn't so fine is casual reproduction where someone thinks having a baby will make their life better (the baby becomes a means to an end) or where someone has a baby they don't want, and resents it. — Bitter Crank
That's another thing: Why does seeking a purpose seem like a chore to so many? Why do so many people look to others for their purpose (like God)? Why do so many people give other's the power to determine their purpose in life? Is it weakness? Is that why so many turn to religion for purpose?Purposes seem like a lot of work... I'm pretty lazy... — Wosret
Gays can procreate and have procreated. — Harry Hindu
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