The single biggest factor in our plundering the earth and killing off the other animals is our overpopulation: 7.6 billion on a planet that could support 1.5-2 billion of us sustainably.
Some religious folks feel they should overbreed because the Bible’s God said, “Go forth, be fruitful, and multiply.” However, Pete Seeger reminded us that when She said that, there were only two people per square earth.
I would add: we’ve multiplied, okay? Now let’s consider peace on earth, love one another, and some of the other injunctions that have fallen by the wayside.
Then there are the men who think that the more women they make pregnant, that proves they are a “real man”. For example, a man who makes one hundred women pregnant is more of a “real man” than someone who can make only fifty women pregnant. I was taught that a “real man” stays around and helps raise those children whether or not he has any intention of marrying the mother of his children. He is involved in the lives of his children no matter how many he has.
I'm a retiree in his seventies. That may not be significant to many, since there is a bunch of us Baby Boomers around. However, in the year 2,000, when I received a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, I expected to be dead in three to five years.
The single biggest factor in our plundering the earth and killing off the other animals is our overpopulation: 7.6 billion on a planet that could support 1.5-2 billion of us sustainably.
Some religious folks feel they should overbreed because the Bible’s God said, “Go forth, be fruitful, and multiply.” However, Pete Seeger reminded us that when She said that, there were only two people per square earth.
I would add: we’ve multiplied, okay? Now let’s consider peace on earth, love one another, and some of the other injunctions that have fallen by the wayside.
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The whole quiverfull movement is just feeding overpopulation. It also ignores the injunction to take care of the earth.
But, ya know, fruit.
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It seems to me that there are too many people who know how to multiply but they cannot solve a math problem to save their life.
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That is truly profound. And would confuse those same people. 😉
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As someone told me many years ago: There are lots of intelligent races in outer space (or maybe that should be otter space). They all have cats.
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I would love to go to otter space. I’d wear my significant otter socks.
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Also, Flat Earthers have nothing to fear but sphere itself.
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Ba-dum-bum!🥁
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Then there are the men who think that the more women they make pregnant, that proves they are a “real man”. For example, a man who makes one hundred women pregnant is more of a “real man” than someone who can make only fifty women pregnant. I was taught that a “real man” stays around and helps raise those children whether or not he has any intention of marrying the mother of his children. He is involved in the lives of his children no matter how many he has.
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True.
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Incorrigible? Have you heard, “I am an incorrigible punster. It doesn’t take much to incorrige me.”
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Mwahaha!
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