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Nutty Profs Blame Kids for Gloom
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 19, 2008 | Olivia St. John

Posted on 05/19/2008 10:42:19 AM PDT by SeasideSparrow

It's springtime, and all God's creatures are ready for mating, but psychobabble killjoys are warning: Don't have kids. They'll make you miserable, and you'll deserve taxation for environmental abuse.

On May 8, just as the songbirds were readying nests for their offspring, a Harvard professor tried to put a damper on the joys of human procreation by declaring that having children strips happiness from their parents. Professor Daniel Gilbert announced to the Happiness and its Causes conference in Sydney, Australia, that with each child the barometer of happiness plummets.

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To: SeasideSparrow

Typical PhD. I had one twenty years ago that said the exact same thing. He went on for about 40 minutes on how unhappy children made people, how he was so happy he had none, all of his friends secretly wished that they had never had children, and that every parent, if they were honest, would admit the same thing.

At the time I thought the guy was a real POS. Since then I’ve had two children and I KNOW he’s a POS. My children bring me great joy daily, like nothing else in my life.

I’m now 42 and I frankly regret not having had more children. And that’s the advice I will give any young couple.

I think libs hate children, because they all have their own Peter Pan syndrome and see the children as direct competition.


21 posted on 05/19/2008 11:32:28 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if this dude would carry it to the exreme, meaning that to avoid the possibility of the joy of children, people must be prepared to avoid the joy of sex.

You're forgetting that they really do carry it to the extreme. They kill the babies.

22 posted on 05/19/2008 11:34:02 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: SeasideSparrow

OK, come on now.

Does anyone still want to deny that the left is out to destroy the traditional family
(which is the basis of Western Judeo-Christian culture)

?????


23 posted on 05/19/2008 11:34:26 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: JRios1968

Absolutely beautiful! My heart swells looking at your three wonderful blessings!

(Going to kiss my youngest one now...)


24 posted on 05/19/2008 11:34:31 AM PDT by jnygrl (A big mouth coupled with a small mind is a dangerous combination)
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To: derllak

You could afford to have more of them if you weren’t paying for the illegitimate kids of others.


25 posted on 05/19/2008 11:35:06 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: derllak
Then you better check the Princess in October...

 

26 posted on 05/19/2008 11:37:11 AM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: SampleMan

Abortion is the penultimate expression of liberalism.

The most innocent human (God’s image) life pays with its life for the irresponsible sexual behaviors of others.


27 posted on 05/19/2008 11:37:45 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: JRios1968
We're just starting down the path of misery with our first son:

And now I'll have to talk to my wife to see if she really wants to continue with our plans to add more misery in the near future...

28 posted on 05/19/2008 11:38:32 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

What a cutie! God bless him, and Mama and you. We were told we were done adding misery to our lives when #2 arrived.

They forgot to tell the Princess...


29 posted on 05/19/2008 11:40:29 AM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

What a cutie! God bless him, and Mama and you. We were told we were done adding misery to our lives when #2 arrived.

They forgot to tell the Princess...


30 posted on 05/19/2008 11:40:29 AM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeasideSparrow
what codswallop. My husband and I have three, and they're the most wonderful blessing in our lives.

I only wish I'd started earlier. I'd have liked to have a couple more.

31 posted on 05/19/2008 11:40:52 AM PDT by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: JimSEA; JRios1968

Sheesh! Those pics of those kids are getting everyone here down in the dumps. Why did ya have to post those anyhoo? ;o)

Jim, good point.

And to think that so many Americans are biting at the bit to get someone in the highest office in the world - who cherishes partial-birth abortion.


32 posted on 05/19/2008 11:41:32 AM PDT by SeasideSparrow
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To: SeasideSparrow
You will note that the very existence of a "Happiness and It's Causes" conference indicates that 1) There is entirely too much grant money available, and 2) Liberal, elitist, arrogant, Leftist college professors themselves feel miserable, and need to project it upon others.

If you need to brain-chew "happiness" on an intellectual level, brother, you ain't even in the same zipcode as Happiness, and probably not even the same timezone. I am a peaceable man, but this bozo makes me want to B-slap him silly, and then explain to him what a sad childhood he must have had if he thinks children make you less happy.

33 posted on 05/19/2008 11:48:01 AM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: JRios1968

Awwwww......you’re so lucky to wake up to that every day.
She’s a doll! *kisses for sweetcheeks* :)


34 posted on 05/19/2008 11:48:26 AM PDT by derllak
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To: JRios1968

If I didn’t have my two beautiful girls, I would be about $97,000 richer so far, and would also be the saddest, poorest man in existance. What a doofus this guy is.


35 posted on 05/19/2008 11:49:47 AM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: JimWforBush; martin_fierro; Jersey Republican Biker Chick; najida; Allegra; RockinRight; ...

FREERIDERS!

36 posted on 05/19/2008 11:53:13 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: SeasideSparrow

What a miserable, selfish bunch of bastards. Might as well be Europeans.


37 posted on 05/19/2008 11:54:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding. Worse followed. Worst to come.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Maybe his kind of sex cannot lead to children.


38 posted on 05/19/2008 1:01:00 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: SeasideSparrow
James's reaction to the professor:


39 posted on 05/19/2008 2:03:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("If Global Warming did not exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did." ~Don Feder)
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To: dfwright

I’m betting his expertise comes from direct observation of his parents.


40 posted on 05/19/2008 2:39:30 PM PDT by kenth (Just think, .000001783% of the population is screwing it all up for the rest of us.)
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