Existence is a non-consensual agreement you never had a choice in accepting, with the only guarantee being that you will suffer in some capacity at some point in time.

Time, once lost, is like a debt you will never be able to pay back — a debt that just keeps growing and growing the more it is wasted.

Childhood is an extremely deceptive, seamless Ponzi scheme. It sets kids up with unrealistic expectations about the success they are destined for in adulthood. When reality sets in, however, all of being is revealed to be fraudulent. Evolution is a swindle, justice and equality do not exist/are false constructs, and all we think we know, as individuals living in a false society, rest on egocentric, anthropocentric assumptions.

This is the Greatest Scam.

I posted what was on my mind on Facebook as we’re all prone to do in this day and age. I know that we all think our opinions matter when they amount to dick if we’re being honest. I post a lot concerning my antinatalist beliefs. I don’t think I do it often enough to be obnoxious, but I post semi-regularly about people not reproducing and how beneficial it is to everyone else and the world around us. You may think it all comes from a selfish place, but it doesn’t. I won’t lie and say it’s all altruistic because it isn’t. I’d like to see less people because I flat out get annoyed with people and less of them is going to benefit me.

I also believe in antinatalism for selfless reasons. It’s the only way to end human suffering. If we stop human reproduction then there will be no more humans (obviously) therefore no more human suffering. I’m getting off track with what I originally came here to post though. I know I tend to do that a lot. I posted the following on Facebook:

“If the point of existence is to have kids then life itself is a Ponzi scheme.”

One of my friends who has possibly gotten annoyed by a lot of my anti-children/anti-reproduction posts reponded:

“Ok. We get it. You don’t want or like kids.”

I don’t like thinking it’s just about me, though. Like I said, I don’t come from a purely altruistic frame of mind because part of my decision is selfish. I also post things such as this and antinatalism memes not to annoy, but in the hope that it resonates with someone. Maybe someone is considering having a child, but they’re really not fit to have one. I can only hope that they see one of my posts and reconsider. Sadly, people are selfish and stupid and are going to have one regardless of what I say for no other reason than “Babies are cute and I want one.” I think that’s another problem we have in today’s society. People think babies are cute, but seem to forget that babies grow up and at some point they’re no longer cute. They become children, then preteens, then teenagers. Babies grow up to become assholes.

I’m going to get personal for a second, but I knew my last relationship was not going to last much longer when she told me out of the blue one day, “I think I want to have a baby eventually.” After two years of dating, seven years of knowing each other, she knew where I stood as far as children were concerned. She knew I didn’t want any. She knew I’d had a vasectomy as well. I think she just wanted a baby more than anything. She had mentioned a friend of hers had just recently had one and how cute the baby was. People get too wrapped up with the whole “baby fever” that they don’t think about down the road when the baby is no longer a baby.

So no. I don’t want nor like kids. Yes, I think you should stop having them. No, I won’t stop expressing my views because my not having kids affects no one aside from maybe annoying you on social media. Your having children affects everyone, sometimes to disastrous and tragic degrees. Hitler’s parents had him. Dahmer’s parents had him. Do you see where I’m going with this? Having a child is a coin flip. You could quite possibly give birth to the one person who brings peace on earth or you could give birth to the next person who commits a genocide worse than the Holocaust. Given humanity’s record, which one do you think is more likely?

“U.S. fertility rate at an all-time low 2019. It is now below the rate to replace the current population.”

About time we heard some good news.

I’ve never viewed my last name as anything special. It’s no more special than anyone else’s first, middle, or last name. Unless you’ve done something for the benefit of all mankind, made some discovery, helped others in a tremendous way (Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Harriet Tubman, etc.) then the name on your birth certificate that you happen to have just because your parent(s) happen to have the same name does not make you an extraordinary person in this world. You will be forgotten, your “legacy” will not live on forever. It may even die with you if you keep trying and trying for that boy and end up with nothing but girls. My grandfather has three girls so as far as he goes, his last name died with him. It still lives on with his brothers who had sons, but with my mother and her two sisters, they no longer shared the same last name as my grandfather.

I try to encourage others not to reproduce. I know I am a proponent of leaving people alone and letting them do their own thing, but having children does interfere with the lives of others and I’ll discuss that in another blog. I try and try again to get the word out there that we don’t need more of us wandering this planet, spreading our genes around like seeds. We’re a virus. Bill Hicks said we’re a virus with shoes and I think that fits. Viruses have names and that’s all it appears to be when people talking about wanting someone to carry on their last name. They want them to carry on a virus.

“I want someone to carry on my family name.” Why? Why is that so important? You’re not going to live forever. If you’re lucky you’ll live to see your grandchildren. If you’re really lucky, you’ll live to see your great-grandchildren, but it’s rare that it’ll extend beyond that. You won’t be around to see where that name takes them. In all probability it will take them nowhere. It’ll just be another name among the millions of other names. Just another name in a world that doesn’t care about it or what it does in the future. No record of you ever being here, no record of your offspring ever being here. No one is going to log onto Ancestry and find any significance to tack onto your name. People are looking to see if they were related to one of the people in history that mattered such as Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King, Jr. Do you know who Anthony Franklin is? No. You don’t. I just made him up. I’m sure there is an Anthony Franklin out there somewhere, but he’s not going to do anything that’s going to change the world.

Instead of worrying about your name being your legacy, do something worthwhile and let that be your legacy. Do something that helps someone; do something that helps millions of someones. Discover something, invent something, benefit someone or a lot of someones. I don’t know where we got this idea that we need someone to carry on our family name. It doesn’t justify our existence.

“I want everyone to be as comfortable as they can be while they’re waiting to die. Unfortunately, the major part of Western civilization consists of capitalists, whom I regard as unadulterated savages. As long as we have to live in this world, what could be more sensible than to want yourself and others to suffer as little as possible? This will never happen because too many people are unadulterated savages. They’re brutal and inhuman.

Case in point: Why is euthanasia so despised?

Answer: Because too many people are barbaric sons of bitches.

And even in those places where euthanasia is allowed, you can’t be assisted in dying until you’re suffering to the brink of madness. At the Swiss clinic known as Dignitas, where you can be humanely euthanized, or in Oregon, where euthanasia is still legal, though perhaps not for long, you have to jump through a host of hoops to prove you’re mentally lucid. Who the hell is mentally lucid when they’re in such pain that they can hardly think? What a boon to humankind it would be if we offer everyone euthanasia before they are reduced to zombies of misery, so that they could say good-bye to their friends and families with a smile on their face and a clear mind. And what about people who are in mental pain from which they are not likely to recover? Have some fucking mercy. There is nothing in this world as important as to be able to choose to die in a painless and dignified manner, something we do have the ability to bestow on one another.

If euthanasia were decriminalized, it would demonstrate that we had made the greatest evolutionary leap in world history. If we could only arrange society so that we didn’t have to fear every one of us, the throes of agony that routinely precede death, I would be proud to call myself a human being.”

It was some time ago that I expressed my views with someone online about how humans are doing more damage to this planet than good. Quite honestly, it’s fine by me. In a few decades it’s not going to matter to any of us anyway because we’re going to be dead. I know some of you out there are entertaining some fantasies of living to be 200, and I am sincerely sorry to break the news to you that that’s just not going to happen. Even if you live to be 80 your mind could go on vacation and never come back, which is the case for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

My solution to this problem is to stop the problem at the source and stop reproducing. We are the ones causing all of these issues: global warming, pollution, mass extinctions, etc. That’s not to say that the planet itself would do its own part in cleaning itself up, which it does from time to time. The planet has a way of getting rid of resources it doesn’t need anymore. Many species of plants and animals alike have gone extinct just because the planet decided “fuck them” one day. One day the planet is going to get tired of us and tell us to go fuck ourselves as well. We can’t stop it, but we’re arrogant enough to think we can.

The person I was discussing earlier has had five children. She has had five children because she believes that out of those five one is going to make the world a better place for future generations. At the rate we’re going, I don’t see that as likely. I don’t see how the problem with the world (humans) can be solved by adding more problems (humans) to the world. To me it seems like you’re trying to put out a fire with gasoline. With every child you have that’s more food and water being used, more resources being expunged. Babies require so much from their mothers that it does more harm than good. We’re greedy by nature so when the child grows up it’s going to be just as self-centered as everyone else on this planet.

If you truly want to do your part and help the planet then stop with this line of thinking that adding more people to it is going to fix it. With a global population of over 7 billion right now and not one thing being accomplished, another billion or two billion isn’t going to do the world or society as a whole any favors. The honorable thing for us to do is either hope for a mass extinction to happen at once or we just continue to live our lives without reproducing until we die out naturally.

I started this blog up once again to delve into my philosophical views regarding antinatalism since that has been the one constant belief I’ve held onto for so many years now. For those who are unfamiliar, antinatalism is a philosophical position that assigns a negative value to birth. Whereas most people jump for joy at the news someone gives that they are having a baby, I am perplexed and asking them “Why?” Why would you subject something that doesn’t exist to existence?

I don’t remember feeling any pain or suffering of any kind before I was born. I don’t remember anything before I was born. It was only after coming into this world that I started feeling these things: loneliness, despair, depression, pain. If I didn’t exist then I wouldn’t have to feel any of these. I suppose a case can be made for the pleasures in life, but do they outweigh the pain? I guess it depends on the individual and their circumstances.

I haven’t heard a single, rational argument as to why people should be brought into the world. It all boils down to two things: selfishness or a mistake – a person’s selfish need to bring a life into the world that never asked to be brought into the world, or the person just didn’t know how birth control worked and believes that abortion is somehow more cruel than subjecting a human to a life of torment and disarray.

We’re thrown into the world without having a say in the matter because we can’t speak. We can’t say “no.” Someone has already made the decision for us. Some of us grow up resenting that fact, but suicide is not an option because as much as we believe not having children prevents them from hurting, we don’t want to hurt those who gave us life. Parents go to great lengths to protect their children from pain and suffering, not realizing that the only way they could have possibly avoided all that pain and suffering that’s inevitable was to not give birth to their children from the start.

There is also the issue of consent. No one consents to being born. We have to give consent for surgery, for sex, for virtually everything. It seems immoral to toss someone into the world, confusing and corrupt as it is without their consent. Can babies give their consent? Absolutely not, but it seems to me that when something is crying when it first comes into the world, it’s not especially happy to be here. It’s all downhill from there, kiddo.

Facebook has become the place for old people. It all started going downhill when our parents and grandparents were allowed to set up their accounts. Now we have dinosaurs on the site, expressing their opinions when they no longer matter. I’m sorry, but they don’t. Once you reach a certain age no one cares about your opinion and you’re too old to change anything in the world anyway. Enjoy “Wheel of Fortune” and wait for the Reaper.

It may sounds cruel, but hear me out. I find these particular people to be cruel, and it’s because of the things I see them post on social media. One person asked what it was we could do to make our world a better place, to which another replied, “I would make sure every child is cared for and loved.” That’s fine and good, but why stop at children? Why can’t all people be cared for and loved? Don’t we all deserve love? I replied to this person’s comment with “Why not every person, regardless of age?”

“Because I feel that it all starts with kids. It would be ideal to have that all during our lives, but I would at least want to give everyone a great chance at a good life, if that makes sense.”

“I just always wonder what the cut-off age is for when we stop caring about people. Everyone wants to care for children, but at what age do we just throw in the towel and say ‘Fuck em, let em starve and die’?”

I get confused when it comes to people’s concern for the unborn. Why do we worry ourselves so much with humans that don’t exist and leaving behind a better world for them? How about giving the humans already here a better world for the time they have left. Once you’re born your clock starts ticking. Hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second, it ticks. You’re losing time. We all are. It’s like the line in Alice in Chains’ song “We Die Young”: “Some say we’re born into the grave.” All the time we spend trying to live longer and avoid death, seemingly oblivious to the fact that once we’re born and brought into this world we start to die.

The honorable, most compassionate thing we can do for one another is take care of our fellow living human beings and just ride out this whole “life” thing. Make things less shitty for our fellow man before we all one day check out. Stop worrying about bringing more humans into the world to clean up our mess and instead stop leaving a fucking mess in the first place.

What do I know? I’m just a blogger with a laptop, internet access, and an opinion. When has the opinion of someone online ever changed someone else’s mind?