Out of Pod Experience

What is this thread about, you might ask? Well, let me tell you.

If you would like to take part in this thread, there are a few main questions I would like you to answer for me. The first group of questions are about Human Relationships, specifically romantic or reproductive relationships. The second group is about human beings overall, our purpose of existence, and the possible / probable coming Apocalypse. The third group of questions will be a combined group, dealing with human relationships in light of overall humanity and the possible / probably coming Apocalypse.

Relationships

Humans are basically like any other animal in this sense. We see something we like, we go and make babies with it. Throughout history people have often romanticized the vehicle of human reproduction. You have concepts like love, hate, dating, and the ill-conceived notion that we ought to find one person to "spend the rest of our lives" with. With all that in mind, here are a few questions

1. What is love? How would you personally define love? (Humanity's definition of love is incredibly variable depending on who you ask)

2. What is the point of being in a monogamous relationship, if your partner has already had sex with other men or women, probably many times? Why do people feel the need to be with "one person" when that person has already been thoroughly penetrated? Also bear in mind that you will most likely not spend your life with one person, why do so many people cling helplessly to this sort of pipe dream?

I don't even want to go into the concept of dating, since it would just become a long rhetorical rant about the uselessness of the idea, not to mention it's overall ill-conceived nature.

The Apocalypse

As you probably know, we are creatures living on a planet, drifting around infinite space, eternal time, and we have NO idea what we are doing. We're just doing it. We've committed many genocides, even to our own species, and contributed massively to the amount of suffering that takes place in this world. We are digging massive holes into the earth, we are polluting the air we need to breath, polluting the water we need to drink, and in general we just seem to be nothing more than a really nasty infestation. Kind of cool when you think about it. With all that in mind, here are a few questions

3. Are we as humans, in truth, destroying the planet we live on? If so, just how much destruction do you think we have managed to do to our environment? Is it too late to turn back? Are there ways to save us as a species?

4. If you answered yes / yes / no to the above questions, do you think that space travel and / or the colonization of other planets can save humanity from the pollutions and infections we have created, or will we be long gone before we even get that chance?

5. Do you think that I am way off base in these descriptions? Am I overreacting? Am I reading too much bullshit? Is global warming just a myth?

Human Relationships And The Apocalypse

The dumbest people are the ones who always have the most babies. People pump out units without even thinking about it before hand, basically just because they were horny. I've seen it first hand because I am a product of this selfish idiocy. My parents had 5 children together, and my dad had other children in other cities who he has never met. Irresponsible, idiotic, indescribable stupidity. With all that in mind, here are a few questions

6. Is it irresponsible to have more than one child?

7. Should more humans elect the decision to NOT reproduce at all? Keep in mind that every human who decides not to reproduce would still have the option of adopting a child. So for every person who elected not to reproduce, that would be one less person born in the world, and possibly one more parentless child given a family.

I feel if I am going to ask for answers from you all, and to ask that you even bother to read all of this nonsense in the first place, that I should at least have the common decency to give a bit more information on my own views. Given the atmosphere of this thread, you can probably guess somewhat accurately where I stand on all of these subjects.

Believe it or not I am a romantic. It's just that I've grown up, I've had a relationship or two, and although I still remain naively hopeful that I will find "the one", I recognize this hope for what it is - a silly pipe dream. You can make it happen if you want. You can wife up some girl, but what is that worth really? You could have just as easily chosen the other girl on the block.

Personally I have elected not to have children in my life. For all I know, I might live long enough to see the world go to Absolute Crap. I would not want to unleash that possibility on another soul nor would I want to contribute at all to The Machine

Maybe I'm just a bitter, lonely virgin, but these are some of the questions that are troubling me. If you read all of this, thank you. If you answer any of these questions, thanks again.

And I apologize for my terrible writing, my horrible composition form, and my idiotic ramblings.

I got nothing better to do and this seems interesting enough for me so i'll go ahead and try to answer.. I might even learn something here

[Mandatory Baby don't hurt me]

How i've seen love is that it is a system programmed to every human to ensure the best possible setup and survival chance for the offspring by the two parents to staying together long enough for them to protect and teach the child all mandatory and if possible non-mandatory survival skills.

Studies have shown that the more parters your other has had, the more likely he/she will stay with you as he/she does not have the need to explore or see if the grass is greener.


There is still time to save earth and avoid venus 2. The issue is that most people can't see more than 5 meters in front of them, but if we would now stop developing more eco friendly stuff we're boned. Most likely when people are actually starting to see the effects things will change more rapidly. More nuclear and re-newable power generation, less coal and oil power plants that do **** tons of pollution = yay.


Honestly if overpopulation starts being a problem (That it will soon™). Me and my friend have been thinking of the life token system. Everyone will have a life token. That token means that you can produce one child and one couple can obviously do two childs max. Unless someone donates one of their tokens to them. Once a child has been born and registered, both parents will lose ½ tokens. Those tokens can't be sold only donated. Min token usage age is 20 and max is 45. Adpoting will also consume a token.

And those who choose not to reproduce should. There are people who operate solely on emotion and ignore the stuff coming from their left.

And it is good to see that people are thinking about this stuff

tl,dr OP secretly hopes for the apocalypse to happen so he can finally get laid.

Ok, enough with the sarcasm and snark, I will address a question you had:



That is a question you best ask.. I dunno, your parents?

I knew that was going to happen when I wrote it lol, sure enough there it is ... Baby Don't Hurt Me, No More

Thank you for all the answers, they were clear and they made sense. I like the idea of a Life Token, although I dislike the idea of ******* with people's freedoms, it could end up being a necessity.

Oh yeah and this part


I just want to make sure I understand you here. Do you mean that someone who chooses not to reproduce should instead choose to reproduce?

Or that a person who chooses not to reproduce is right and should stick to their guns and not reproduce at all?

Thank you sir. By the way, there are a surprising amount of people who have no idea what global warming is, they just kind of make moronic assumptions about it based off of no actual information other than stepping outside on a cold day and saying, "global warming? Bull Crap! It's way too cold for that!"

Or they hear about global warming, then they hear about a possible ice age and come to the conclusion that the two will simply cancel each other out.

Or they just write the whole thing off as fear propaganda.

Oh, jeez!

Of course the stupid massively outweigh the rational. Other than being glaringly obvious I am sure there are statistics that could prove this point.

Then you have religious people who will tell you that it's not god's fault, it's our fault because He gave us free will. So you're free to do whatever you want, but if you do something God doesn't like you're gonna go to hell to burn forever. Unless you ask for forgiveness. It's a cycle of retardedness.

Thank you.

I wouldn't describe it as cynical or jaded, but hey, maybe that's what it is.

I don't think it has anything to do with a lack of experience. I understand how great a relationship can be and I understand as a human being how good it feels to be in a romantic relationship or how good it feels simply to have sex. Most humans are capable of understanding these basic natural feelings. What I mostly have written about here, is the human being's romanticized version of reality. You have religion telling us that it is bad to have premarital sex, and then you have the average person who simply does not care. Yet this same average person wants to be with only one person and while they are with that one person they want their relationship to be monogamous. What I don't understand is why people want monogamous relationships so much if their partner has already been screwed every which way anyway. It makes no sense to me. If I was looking for a one true love she would likely have to be a virgin. Otherwise for me the whole idea kind of falls apart.

Whether most people are stupid or not ... they certainly are. Or maybe I should say "we" certainly are. But it also depends what your definition of stupid is, and what your definition of intelligence or rationality are. The average human would seem quite intelligent if observed in comparison to a chimp. But if observed in comparison to something like a supercomputer or something they would appear ********.

But I mean most people believe that all of our dead ancestors are floating around in the sky somewhere. Humans are dumb as ****.

I realize there are many more sides to the story than this. And these thoughts on relationships are only partial thoughts as there is much more to it than what is written here. I have to go to my gym for a couple hours though, so I will post and read more later.