6/9/2023 0 Comments Got dammit im not![]() This one was posted by an administrator and titled “Ask an atheist.” It was an invitation for questions, and the thread was, miraculously for fb, respectful. It was on a neighborhood page, where the Discourse is usually confined to incensed complaints about the homeless and reports of lost cats. I hope you will go read that post and then laugh your heads off at the comments.Īnd I hope you will be moved to comment here, so we can laugh some more.Ī thread on Facebook caught my attention last week. Comment threads like these have kept me writing here for a million years, and while they don’t occur very often, they are pure joy. ![]() Hint: He is miserable.)Īnyway, Pat Benatar caused me to go back and read the post from 2008, and just as I recall, the comments are hilarious. (The most well-known proponent of antinatalism is a guy who insists on strict privacy about his private life so that we can’t extrapolate anything from his history or psychological make-up. Yeah, well, some depressed people may see things more realistically than an incurable optimist, but it’s inherent in the illness to see the world in distorted ways that only therapy or meds can modify. We may also find it self-evident that a person who believes that “life is harm” is a deeply unhappy person.īut in trying to refresh my memory on the lunacy of antinatalism, I came across an essay that tries to refute the idea that antinatalism is a philosophy borne of depression. By unconscious knowledge, I mean instinctual knowledge. I mean, it’s unconscious knowledge that this is nuts. On the face of it, this argument is just nuts. Why is it wrong? Because “life is harm” and because the unborn is unable to give consent. “This was a conscious decision on my part to break a cycle with a way of life I want no part of for myself or my children.A Pat Benatar song came on the car radio the other day and I was instantly reminded of a blog post I wrote years ago about antinatalism.Īntinatalism is the belief that it’s morally wrong to have children. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship.” “I found out they had done this through the press. “Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother’s death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother’s deaths as the subject,” Lourd said. Lourd then released a statement confirming she did not invite them over “hurtful actions.” Fisher’s brother Todd and sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh released statements in which they expressed shock and sadness over being excluded from the ceremony. “Very funny, very spontaneous, very witty.”įisher’s Walk of Fame honor generated drama ahead of the May 4 ceremony when the actor’s daughter, Billie Lourd, disinvited Fisher’s siblings from the event. “I was completely unprepared for the person I met, who just was overwhelming, in the sense that she seemed so much wiser than her years,” Hamill said. He was 24 years old at the time, while she was only 19. In an interview with Variety prior to the Walk of Fame ceremony, Hamill recalled what it was like meeting Fisher for the first time. I’m grateful for the laughter, the wisdom, the kindness, and even the bratty, self indulgent crap my beloved space twin drove me crazy with through the years. I’ll never stop missing her, but I’m so thankful we had her as long as we did. “But every thing would’ve been so much drabber and less interesting if she hadn’t been the friend that she was. “Was she a handful? Was she high maintenance? No doubt,” the note continues. Both would’ve been far emptier without her. She played such a crucial role in my professional and personal life. Determined and tough, but with a vulnerability that made you root for her and want her to succeed and be happy. “She was our princess, dammit! And the actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fearlessly independent, ferociously funny, take charge woman who took our collective breath away. She belonged to us all, whether we liked it or not,” Hamill’s note reads.
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