01-01-2019, 08:41 AM
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I slept through the New Year's Eve countdown. Upside: no resolutions to fail at.
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01-01-2019, 09:39 AM
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How can it be the first day of the year if it's already Tuesday? Hmmmmmmm....
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01-05-2019, 02:45 AM
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One thing that is extremely bothersome to me is when someone tries to push me to do a new-year resolution. I think this is the most pointless BS of the season, well, maybe as pointless as pretending to not having anything against some annoying family members to avoid a fight on a Christmas dinner... |
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01-05-2019, 07:07 AM
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I can't admire things like family (with also relatives), since they all come from the same sick and stupid irrational society, and so most will be similar to.
What unites family? DNA ? I don't think so... Some connection from reunions ? Maybe... But I presume most it's the law, since law, impose rules and obligations, and of course money.
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One thing that is extremely bothersome to me is when someone tries to push me to do a new-year resolution. I think this is the most pointless BS of the season, well, maybe as pointless as pretending to not having anything against some annoying family members to avoid a fight on a Christmas dinner...
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01-05-2019, 07:13 AM
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If you have kids you'll find out how strong family ties really are. If you have grandchildren even more so.
It is not about a date, or the special properties of the event, but just a good reason or if you want excuse for coming together again.
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01-05-2019, 10:46 AM
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That's close family, close relatives. And if somone have a family with some health relations. But a lot of families today are horrible even for close relatives.
Forgive my too pessimist remarks earlier. If your family is very nice it's good for you. But one question always rise : Do people really need excuses? Maybe some do need, do you agree?
Redpoint could came here to say some uncle Jordan's quotes about family disintegration in modern times. 
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If you have kids you'll find out how strong family ties really are. If you have grandchildren even more so.
It is not about a date, or the special properties of the event, but just a good reason or if you want excuse for coming together again.
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01-05-2019, 12:53 PM
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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01-05-2019, 11:51 PM
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What unites family? DNA ? I don't think so... Some connection from reunions ? Maybe... But I presume most it's the law, since law, impose rules and obligations, and of course money.
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In the end you're right. The concepts of a moral obligation with relatives, enforced by law and requiring some money expenses if need arises, are now the strongest family ties. I bet many families would be dismantled if it wasn't all about that... |
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01-06-2019, 01:12 AM
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Children are chattel. They're the property of the parent (or guardian) until granted personhood by state fiat at whatever age obtains in that jurisdiction.
...for better or worse. Nobody minds good parenting, but how do you counter bad parenting without trampling the right of the bad parent to raise the little proto-human as they see fit?
Too much interference and you risk dis-incentivising parenthood.
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01-06-2019, 07:21 AM
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When I look around most people, society, and even some relatives, I feel like watching some National Geographic documentary about some tribe, some primitive people.
No kidding... that's how I feel.
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Children are chattel. They're the property of the parent (or guardian) until granted personhood by state fiat at whatever age obtains in that jurisdiction.
...for better or worse. Nobody minds good parenting, but how do you counter bad parenting without trampling the right of the bad parent to raise the little proto-human as they see fit?
Too much interference and you risk dis-incentivising parenthood.
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