I hope none of you kidless people take offense, but I think a lot of you are in lala land. Having kids opens your eyes a bit wider to what is going on in this world. While I respect anyones decis...
i don't think it's the kidless part that there are more DF-ings...it's the singleness part.
My point is, it makes people stronger to have children. Selfishness goes out the door. That is, if Jehovah is put first.
why do you need a reason at all? it's not like we are required to have children and have to come up with a good reason not to. Please.
you don't have to have a reason at all. I just think people with kids are more in tune with reality.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. People with kids are more in tuned to what life is with kids - everyone's lives and priorities are different. Just because someone's priorities involve their pets and spouses instead of children doesn't make them less important or mean that their life is less "real".
If you ever have kids you will then understand. Since I am in a minority here on this site, I expect to hear people think otherwise.
Ok. As long as you admit you're wrong.
What am I wrong about? I see a lot of young single people and married couples that really don't know what true adversity is. Yeah, they go to work, they get to their meetings, go out in service, take care of a home. That can be hard. Throw a kid in the mix and a lot of them would be like chickens with their heads cut off. Its this generation. All I'm saying is that if you are successful rearing kids in the truth, it makes you a stronger person and more appreciative of the truth than if you had not had kids. That's not to say you wouldn't still appreciate the truth, it is just magnified by raising people who rely on you 100%. And if you don't have children, then you don't know what I mean. And I'm not saying you need to have a kid to survive this system. I'm just saying having kids fortifies your resolve further. I have two people I get to have bible studies with. How encouraging is that?
Dude, come on. Kids are cool and do take a lot of work. But just because the majority of people on this site don't have kids at this point, doesn't mean that they've faced less adversity then you. You have no idea what goes on in other people's lives and what makes their faith strong. You only know what it's like to be in your life, having kids when you did, and nothing else. So you can't act like you have the perspective of NOT having kids and growing spiritually as a single person.
Let's just agree to disagree.
so you're saying that having kids is a good strategy for JW's to make them "stronger in the truth." if a kid is going to make your life harder and miserable why have them?
Basically I'm telling the people who laugh at the notion of having kids, that kids build even more strength in a person than what they already had. I can certainly understand people shying away from having kids. This system sucks. People who are miserable having kids are weird.
Just give it up, man. NO ONE AGREES WITH YOU.
And you are the snottiest person on this site. And I'm also talking to people with NO kids. SpecialK would agree with me.
See fivezero's comment above.
Didn't mean to call you snotty, but it seems like you lash out a bit too much with me. I don't know if you are kidding or not.
And you are the snottiest person on this site. And I'm also talking to people with NO kids. SpecialK would agree with me.
that's not the greatest example of how having kids made someone stronger to bring up right now
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Oh, I guess something happened I don't know about. Ok, stupid me.
haha this doesn't make any sense because the kid-less could easily say "well if you didn't have any kids you would understand"
just because you have more crap to deal with doesn't mean you are more in touch with "reality"
I have plenty of crap to deal with, people/things to take care of, bills to pay etc. etc. etc. so how is that not reality? haha please enlighten me
I hate to say this, but she is right. Not in how she says it, but she is right. Follow carefully for the following is a brief line of reasoning:
A single person is responsible for one life.
A married person is responsible for two.
A married person with children would be three or more (obviously).
Since by admission it makes you open your eyes up more as to how bad or tough things are-and this would grow exponentially with each child-the logical conclusion would be not to have any children and perhaps even more drastically, not to get married. This reminds me of something said very long ago about a married man being anxious for the needs of his wife as opposed to a single man's anxieties...
Please don't refer to me as "she"; it's derogatory.
Not to mention the fact that you completely echoed what I said, albeit in a more verbose way.
You get sensitive way too easily. Take a chill pill.
Maybe if I take a chill pill, my eyes won't be open enough to reality.
Ooh...Sarcasm! I like it! Haha...
just a heads up...the term "chill pill" went out at about the same time the slap bracelet craze ended.
Sorry, I'm a child of the 80's.
haha now they are called prozac...
yeah that is ridiculous