Your purpose is to deliver acceptance speeches containing interesting biological details that change everyone’s perspective on common sayings. “Trust your gut” sounds quite different after the sea cucumber speech.
Despite my being postmenopausal, none of my children want to provide me with my apparent sole reason to exist. Oh well, guess I’ll just enjoy my retirement years somehow making art and doing what I want to do…what a waste. 🙄
Thinking about how the Apostle Paul once said that even procreative sex is cringe and you should avoid it if you can. Hard to square that with the "Only purpose of human existence is to breed endlessly like bacteria" crowd.
Paul came at a time when christianity was a death cult fully expecting the apocalypse to happen Any Minute Now. They revised the game plan once when it failed to materialize in time to skip producing the next generation.
Also Paul was a) deeply misogynistic, b) a sex-repulsed asexual, and c) never even actually met Christ. I think anyone who’s not drinking the biblical inerrancy kool-aid can realise that he’s a deeply flawed commentator.
JD Vance is probably the single best justification why abortion should be legalized nationwide… otherwise, this is what could actually happen in your lifetime.
...now, see, if you'd used the word "kids" rather than "children" that would have also headed off people trying to get you to raise their young goats for them.
Peri-menopausal 41-year old here. I'm happy being the bougie Auntie who helps pay for field trips, and love the occasional day out, or evening in to give my friends a date-night. Not available to help raise, though. My cats need me. #childlesscatlady
Assigning arbitrary purposes to groups of other people seems kind of close to Pratchett's witch's admonition not to treat people as things, from the wrong side.
He is so blatantly motivated by his unresolved mommy issues. It’s extremely annoying how all these GOP weirdos could have been normal if only they’d seen a family therapist as a child, but no, everyone gets to suffer because they’re too macho for therapy.
Worth noting my father wound up being the de facto babysitter/childcare for much of the neighborhood, and wound up investing in a pig herding stick. Basically a large cane, very useful for corralling a half dozen small children and getting them swarming the right direction.
As an aside: I loved the Irish farmer I met who was training two young sheepdogs, one in Irish and one in English, so that he could give them commands independently.
A hypothesis for how a trait like survival beyond menopause evolved in the our species should not be confused with any person's purpose in life. I feel like that's really obvious, but some apparently need to hear it.
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*arranges a shipment of goats*
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Very useful.