[chajin]

It started even earlier. Back when I taught about egoism in my ethics courses, I would point out that one of the anomalies in Ayn Rand's 1949 movie version of The Fountainhead is that there were couples, but no families and no children. Children require self-sacrifice, but as Rand herself wrote, “Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

[avenir]

God has successfully brought down every demonic plot for millennia, at His set time. He has also prepared a lake of fire for the devil and his angels. The chief architect of our woes (along with all his cohorts) is headed for a certain and eternal destruction.

[Jan_Sobieski]

instead of becoming a unique individual who does not think much of himself but possesses high levels of awareness and consciousness, you become just the opposite: You become a dull, interchangeable, yet narcissistic cog in a social machinery, one that thinks he/she is God.

So true!

[FarCenter]

After doing a little genealogical work on my ancestors, I’ve come to the view that fertility varied widely in the past.

Direct ancestors in my pedigree tend to come from large families, but this appears to just be survivor bias. Given that someone presently exists, they are likely to have come from ancestors with large families in the past, simple because they had more descendants.

But if one looks at the aunts and uncles, there are lots that never married, married too late to have children, died after having one or two (especially aunts), and so forth.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

There is a lot to dig into here. Thanks for posting.