This is probably what will happen to me too sadly, I've never built any sort of life for myself independent of my parents. I'll probably just die some way or another shortly after they're gone
Premise 1 - your forgot love & some luck - good parenting IMO needs some of those qualities and the skill element is acquired on the job. Agree with motivation, although I would rephrase that as desire, a little more passionate of a description for me.
Make yourself financially secure if you can. Thats the only thing that is useful.
I will leave behind a legacy of bringing joy to people through racket sports.
I don't know about kids. I have only one kid.
what is so special about humans? Every animal eats, drinks, sleeps, mates etc. Human intelligence lies in the choices man makes. Money can be used for glorious causes. You can build hospitals, you can help for medical research, establish academic scholarships etc. Why should money be given only to your children?
Another view is that human life is mostly suffering and so we should not bring more people into the suffering.Humans were created by ancient alien gods and so the extra intelligence we have is given to us for a purpose, the purpose is to migrate to the stars, spread in the universe etc etc... So for all that we have to have kids. Animals cannot move to other planets/stars, but man can, then man can take animals with it as well... Humans rule earth, it is a responsibility, not a random fluke which should be throw away.
Secondly, having kids is the greatest joy on earth, creating a human life inside you, women often say that creating a life inside is the most special feeling they've had, you think it is nonsense ? Plus when people have kids, they hold the kid in their hands and feel satisfied, happy, even selfish people become selfless when it comes to children.... why is that ? It is what is natural.
What good are hospitals if we don't have kids born in it ? What good is building a school if no kids to teach there? What good are academic patents? Somebody else would also discover/invent those patents if we don't, is that a big deal ? All these things only have relevance if humans procreate.
See if someone cannot reproduce due to birth defects or some health issues then it can be considered as the will of God ..... no worries.... but if we have a gift and we don't wish to explore it, then what is our purpose on this earth ? Elon Musk's dad says that only reason why humans are on this earth is to procreate, he is right in some way you know.
Yes society gives us freedom to do anything,nobody will arrest us if we dont have kids or marry, but end of the day if we have a gift (we are fertile) and we choose to waste it then it means we are living an aimless life with no contribution on the cosmic scale...
Karan Johar is rich by himself and through his father Yash Johar. He has enough money to provide for many children. Just because he has the means and the desire to continue the Johar name doesn't mean others have any such desire. Why are you so bothered with what other people do?
Your legacy is incredibly meaningful for those that survive you - and it could be your kid that contributes something remarkable. Alexander Flemings discovery of penicillin changed the world with previously fatal infections then being treated with ease - countless lives being saved - each one with its own legacy to leave. He's a very famous example but there are millions that pass to leave remarkable legacies, admittedly some not always positive. To suggest they are meaningless because you will not be around to experience it is strange. The legacy is experienced by those that follow.
All such feelings are there only when you are alive. They don't matter after you die. You are responding to my post only because you are living and thinking about this.
If you look beyond you you'll see the significance. Yours might be the elite 3.5 level internet tennis instruction who knows?
He might become a Hitler too. What is the guarantee?
But is this what your aliens want?
Sorry what? You believe in ancient-astronauts? This stuff is rejected by all serious scientists and academics.
Congratulationswow, 5 years later.
I have a 2 years old son and 2 month old daughter now.
If they created us 200k+ years ago why did it take roughly 190k more years for the first known civilisations to emerge in Sumer and ancient Egypt? What is maybe possible is that there are older civilisations who we don’t know about and who were destroyed by floods or earthquakes but whose ‘survivors’ brought some knowledge to less civilised cultures and were therefore seen as “gods” (which could explain the tendency of seemingly unrelated cultures in different parts of the world to build pyramids or other similar constructions). Anywho there were no aliens involved, there is already enough research to basically rule out that there is any planet allowing life to evolve, anywhere close enough that they could ever reach us. Those theories from Erich von Däniken and other clown authors who wrote about ancient astronauts have long been debunked.
That is awesome manwow, 5 years later.
I have a 2 years old son and 2 month old daughter now.
I am sitting with an old TV in my bedroom. It has long antennas. Do you think I will receive transmissions?
I hope so, you would make an excellent choice for humanities representative for first contact. Hope they don’t mind the commercial breaks.
Research as done by physicists and astronomers who I would believe more than random self-made “book authors” who want to made good money by selling theories that sound interesting but are debunked after any half-serious scrutiny.
Exactly. Those people thought as Gods can well have been survivors/descendants of more advanced civilisations destroyed by floods, no need to bring aliens in there.
And? I am religious myself that does not mean that I believe in aliens visiting earth if that is very unlikely based on modern science.
I didn’t say we are alone in the universe. It is not impossible that there are aliens somewhere in the universe, however, for any planet being suitable for living species to exist, let alone intelligent species to evolve, so many things have to fall in place, that it is next to impossible that they live anywhere close enough to us to ever reach our planet.
If you don’t believe that humanity/intelligent species can evolve by itself but need to be created by others (aliens), your theory does not solve but only relocates that problem, as it wouldn’t explain how those alleged aliens could evolve into an intelligent species all by themselves. If they could do it why couldn’t humans do it?
Actually I too stopped believing in evolution theory after joining TT especially when reading GPPD.
Let’s just disagree here. If you believe guys like von Däniken more than scientists so be it, no need to derail this thread by taking this further.
well even I am in doubt sometimes here especially when Sabratha starts one of his spam-attacks.
There are paintings and ancient Egyptian hieroglyph-texts writing about how pyramids were built, nothing mentioned or painted about alien-help. Scientists can prove on how unlikely it is that civilisations from other planets could ever visit us. Laws of physics are the same for them.
Yea, for me it doesn’t. Not at all.
Von Däniken, Elon Musk, who is the next source we should believe more than scientists? Tsitsipas? It is ok let’s just agree to disagree, I don’t think we will see eye to eye on that one.
I can't tell if he's committing to a bit, or if sincere in his beliefs...
