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The Problem With Self-Absorbed Singleness
https://pjmedia.com/ ^ | 11/22/2024 | CA Skeet

Posted on 11/22/2024 8:58:00 AM PST by bitt

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1 posted on 11/22/2024 8:58:00 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/22/2024 8:58:12 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt
But pets are meant to accentuate human relationships, not replace them.

Yes! My wife and I have three children, two at home, two cats, and a small dog. All of our lives are better because of our furry friends.
3 posted on 11/22/2024 9:05:54 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: bitt
The beauty of having freedom is having the freedom not to procreate.
4 posted on 11/22/2024 9:06:12 AM PST by SeanS
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To: bitt
The reason for civilization is the protection of babies, children and pregnant ladies.
5 posted on 11/22/2024 9:11:56 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: bitt

Sadly, married people are just as self absorbed.


6 posted on 11/22/2024 9:12:57 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: bitt

One of my daughters is single with a cat. Living in NY, she says that she’s not very hopeful for ever getting married because the guys she meets are either flakes or on the autism spectrum. Another of my daughters has a boyfriend who is masculine in nature, though surprisingly weak with girl hands, haha.

I think the problem is with what leftist culture has done to our boys, not with selfish women. Many of the boys coming out of leftist schools have nothing to add to what women already have: no strength, no leadership, no fixing skills, no courage, etc....


7 posted on 11/22/2024 9:16:35 AM PST by MikeyB806
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To: bitt

it’s okay to be selfish in my book. Let people live their lives as they see fit.


8 posted on 11/22/2024 9:18:10 AM PST by ronniesgal ( he's back, baby!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

😁 I had a professor who said, “...’civilization’ is what people do between ice ages.”


9 posted on 11/22/2024 9:19:12 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: bitt

In Darwinian terms genetic suicide by Leftists is a net positive.


10 posted on 11/22/2024 9:22:34 AM PST by katana
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To: ronniesgal

Hear, hear!


11 posted on 11/22/2024 9:23:22 AM PST by SeanS
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To: bitt

I don’t disagree this is a problem.

But selfish people are still selfish when they have kids. Now they have victims of their selfishness. Often generationally.

I had parents like that. It was an unpleasant childhood, and I had very little to do with either parent once an adult. I fulfill my Biblical mandate and nothing more, putting far more into my wife, children, my siblings, and the wife’s parents (who were lovely).

I’m doing fine because I joined the military young and got away. My siblings are permanently damaged. And Democrats. One insanely so. They passed the selfishness down to their children.

In sum, I don’t think selfish people having kids is a bad thing. It’s probably for the best, overall, in fact.


12 posted on 11/22/2024 9:23:52 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: SMARTY
He was not wrong if you regard civilization as cool art which seems to be the default most of the time.

If you regard it as the protection of the most vulnerable and valuable in the group civilization would far more necessary during the ice age when survival is harder.

You need to keep the old alive so they can teach necessary skills, you need to keep the children alive so they can learn those skills and you need fecund females to have those children.

Everyone else is just there to provide food, protection and move big rocks. :)

13 posted on 11/22/2024 9:29:16 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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I had a woman exactly like this as our neighbor.
Very old, Terribly dirty! Her place smelled horribly.
She used to feed stray cats.
Cats did not recognized property lines so they constantly trespassed on our yard, covering it with feces and urine.
Yuck!
I hate cats since!


14 posted on 11/22/2024 9:32:24 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: bitt
Difficult to read this article.

Seems like secular pontification.

Selfish, self-indulgent, or self-centered are not adjectives which describe anyone who believes there is something greater than self and puts God first and foremost.

I kept looking for references to God and spirituality but didn't find any.

Then I read the smart-ass comment in the author's bio.

Follow him at local pub crawls to ensure he gets an Uber.

15 posted on 11/22/2024 9:33:53 AM PST by Biblebelter
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What has destroyed America was the replacement of the founding Americans with global immigration, all from cultures with big families and zero concern for the country outside of their own family, which is why all of their nations are varying degrees of hell holes, no one thinks of the common future and what is good and decent for their neighbors.


16 posted on 11/22/2024 9:36:59 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SeanS

“Calm down. Nobody is taking away your precious “choice.” But be honest about it. The choices you make are done with the intention of making the least amount of sacrifice possible in the perpetuation of a privileged and sheltered life.”


17 posted on 11/22/2024 9:40:09 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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What has destroyed America was the replacement of the founding Americans with global immigration, all from cultures with big families and zero concern for the country outside of their own family...

Large families to blame?

What is the family size that you deem acceptable?

Of course, it has nothing to do with family size less than three because they don't have a father present, or a families where the siblings have different, and absent, fathers.

18 posted on 11/22/2024 10:12:26 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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You completely misunderstood the post, the founding American generations all had large families, it was the American norm.

My point was that having kids alone has nothing to do with the quality of the voters, as we can see from immigration.


19 posted on 11/22/2024 10:25:01 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Dr. Sivana

We always had a pet dog for 34 years. We loved their company. But now I am doing too many cruises (8 cruises in 2024) so will not get another dog until I taper off on cruises.


20 posted on 11/22/2024 10:42:52 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
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