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are you a genetic dead end?

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Genes may live on but my families last name is in the hands of my only other male cousin. Tons of girls in the family including my daughter.
 
snoopy7548 said:
I'd rather have pinball machines than kids. If that means my genes die with me, so be it. 😀
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IronWing said:
Because the rats would want to play with the machine, less play time for dad.
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Nah. My son can't even reach my arcade joysticks comfortably. It will be a couple years before he can play it comfortably.

Unless he just pulls over a chair.

Then I'm fucked.
 
zinfamous said:
They learn, you know.
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You don't say...

I have been contemplating pinball machines myself but then I see the prices and am like OH NAAAAH. And I hear nightmare stories about the problems they can get and how it's not simple to fix them.

When I had a local guy fix my arcade monitor recently, he showed me this pinball machine he was working on and had over 100 hours into it. When he lifted up the playfield to show me the insides, I was like HOLY SHIT! A lot of stuff in there to mess with!

But I'm going to be getting more arcade games soon too. Will be fun when my son is old enough to play em with me.
 
You guys should start an atot sperm bank.

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brainhulk said:
You guys should start an atot sperm bank.
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Lol

In my 49 years, it never really occurred to me that passing on my genes and continuing some genetic or family line is important. I still don't view it as important. You only get once chance at life, so I figure that you should do what makes you happy and not set out to fulfill some medieval notion of family lines, etc. - unless, of course, if doing that makes you happy.

I really like kids but never wanted the expense, responsibility, and time commitment of having my own, as there are many other things I chose to pursue.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Lol

In my 49 years, it never really occurred to me that passing on my genes and continuing some genetic or family line is important. I still don't view it as important. You only get once chance at life, so I figure that you should do what makes you happy and not set out to fulfill some medieval notion of family lines, etc. - unless, of course, if doing that makes you happy.

I really like kids but never wanted the expense, responsibility, and time commitment of having my own, as there are many other things I chose to pursue.
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What if I told you that life is not about making yourself happy.
 
I've often considered donating (selling) my sperm. I might as well make a few hundred a month rather than flush it all down the toilet.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
I'd tell you that you were wrong. Obviously you can't be happy all the time, nor can you be happy at the expense of others, but you must pursue the course which fulfills your life to the fullest possible extent given your own circumstances.
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Why would the evolution of the universe peak in the construct of *you* pressing your own dopamine button? Think about it 😉.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I am, I just have no interest in a relationship or to have kids. I kinda feel bad in a way though since continuing the family name basically depends on me or one of my cousins, who is kinda in the same boat as me. I'm just happy single. So the family name basically ends at us. I think he actually wants to get married though, he just has not had any luck yet with relationships. He's a bit younger than me but we're both getting there in age where even if we wanted to it's kinda late.
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WTF does your name have to do with it? 🙄

One of the best reasons to have kids is that they're apt to care for you if/when you get old. Another great reason is that, as Henry Miller mused, there's a whole world of emotion that you are denied if you don't have kids. Of course, if you're reasonably sane you can have this by adopting kids, or semi-raising some (i.e. family, friends, who know what kinds of arrangements/relationships you might have in your life?).

Anyway, it seems unfair to yourself to fret about not leaving your DNA behind. Plenty of people are doing that for you, ... after all your DNA is part of the larger pool. You don't have any kind of monopoly on it.
 
Muse said:
WTF does your name have to do with it? 🙄

One of the best reasons to have kids is that they're apt to care for you if/when you get old. Another great reason is that, as Henry Miller mused, there's a whole world of emotion that you are denied if you don't have kids. Of course, if you're reasonably sane you can have this by adopting kids, or semi-raising some (i.e. family, friends, who know what kinds of arrangements/relationships you might have in your life?).

Anyway, it seems unfair to yourself to fret about not leaving your DNA behind. Plenty of people are doing that for you, ... after all your DNA is part of the larger pool. You don't have any kind of monopoly on it.
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For me having kids unlocked the second half of my DNA. It turned something on that I never knew existed. Cant be explained, only be experienced.
 
cytg111 said:
For me having kids unlocked the second half of my DNA. It turned something on that I never knew existed. Cant be explained, only be experienced.
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I've never sworn it off, not even a little, although my last two relationships were with women who said they didn't want to have kids. I didn't argue with them! I'm cool with that. I've always felt that having kids is attended with a lot of responsibility. I'm talking about having confidence that you won't screw them up. Most parents aren't up to that. I remember one woman friend who had a couple of young boys, what she said: "Tell me it's easy!!!"
 
Muse said:
I've never sworn it off, not even a little, although my last two relationships were with women who said they didn't want to have kids. I didn't argue with them! I'm cool with that. I've always felt that having kids is attended with a lot of responsibility. I'm talking about having confidence that you won't screw them up. Most parents aren't up to that. I remember one woman friend who had a couple of young boys, what she said: "Tell me it's easy!!!"
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I think, its one of those things where if you havent been hit with a massive childhood trauma, you grow with the job as it goes along. Nobody is ready for parenthood before the fact or even after the fact. Suddenly there is this thing in the universe that is *even* more important than yourself ... and since you have figured your self out up till now, you will figure it out for this new person as well... as you go along 🙂.
 
cytg111 said:
For me having kids unlocked the second half of my DNA. It turned something on that I never knew existed. Cant be explained, only be experienced.
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I agree with this 100%. It's something that is simply unexplainable and has to be experienced. And it's also something about caring for something that literally came from your body. You can't really explain what it feels like to hold a child that was created from you, for the first time. And you don't want to let them go. Even still when I get home from work and see my won, I just want to hold him, and he's turning 5 in March. Again, it's just not explainable and can only be understood by people who have kids and have experienced it.

That said, I am 100% behind people who know they don't want to have kids and decide to not have kids. Having kids is not for everyone and IMO it's less selfish and better for those people to realize this and not have kids, rather to not realize it and have kids.

Before I had my son all I heard from everyone who had kids was excuses why they can't do this or that. But my wife and I have not really ran into that problem and we just take our son with us everywhere. He's been traveling with us since he was before one and he goes with us on vacation like 3-5 times a year, nationally and internationally. I still also have time for pretty much everything that I want to do. But I was never one to make excuses so there is that too.
 
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