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> He sees children as a way to perpetuate his genes and ensure his existence beyond death. “It’s an atheist’s way to achieve immortality,” he said. This desire is futile and I hope it's not really anchored in the atheist mindset.
This guy is not achieving immortality. His genes are. His genes are controlling him to believe in this, but he is only the puppet.
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The funny thing about it, is that at the time the name "United States of America" came to be, "America" was the full continent and the name of the new nation simply reflected the fact that it was a union of states in that continent. I think the name "America" for the country got stronger because people from there were calling them selves "Americans" for a lack of better demonym.
Hard to believe 'United Statesians' didn't get more traction :)
ProTip: if an American man in Silicon Valley wants a wife, he should look to places like Czech Republic, Ukraine, Brazil, Colombia and Panama are worth exploring. They will typically find people whom are more agreeable, gracious, attractive, genuine, confident, feminine and educated in the world around them than the majority of petty, immature, bitter, insecure, uncurious spoiled brats in the US. Most S and C American people (and visitors) need to be screened for Zika btw, which can really put a damper on reproduction.
As a Brazilian, this is not surprising, as being white in Brazil is socially advantageous. However, as a white person, I must correct with facts the erroneous idea that there are few whites in Brazil. That sentence in the article is mostly based on the old prejudice that south of the border everyone is the same. Especially in the southern area (Sao Paolo included), brazilians are mostly white, with the majority desce…
As a Brazilian from Sao Paulo, I used to consider myself white. But now I live in North America, and I don't think that anymore. If you think about, many very white people in Brazil get nicknamed "Alemão" (German), independently of their origins. That's a sign that we are not so white after all.
PS: I guess I should monetize my genes: 6’5, gifted, blond to brown w age, blue to hazel. Fuck, I should just visit Brazil and bang some rich ladies trying for preggers. lmao.
500 donations a year do not justify that title for me.
In the hispanic and the greater spanish colonial world - "white is right" is a core ethic. It's how the spaniards ( with low numbers ) managed to rule so much of the native americans, asians, africans, etc for hundreds of years. It's interesting to know this also played a role in portuguese colonial world as well.
I didn’t realize this was one of our exports.
500 donations a year do not justify that title for me.
Consider that despite all the media attention surrounding women with careers freezing their eggs, statistically the percent of women who actually do this rounds down to 0%. In total less than 5,000 babies worldwide have been born this way, as compared with the 135M babies born each year.
Similarly, despite all the hype around banking cord blood, the actual number of families who do this is less than 1%. Most of those only do it because they got grants to do it for free due to some medical condition. And the number of times cord blood has actually been used to even attempt to treat some illness is less than 500 times total worldwide.
> He sees children as a way to perpetuate his genes and ensure his existence beyond death. “It’s an atheist’s way to achieve immortality,” he said. This desire is futile and I hope it's not really anchored in the atheist mindset.
Information is the one true faith-agnostic way to both achieve greatness and exist eternally. For those who aren't spiritually inclined, the universe's mysteries are still just as shrouded and tempting reconciliation. For those who seek ascension, maybe solve RH or reveal the GUT of the universe, create digital life or tackle the hard consciousess problem - maybe then Light pokes his head out and says Hi, and then yo…
As a Brazilian, this is not surprising, as being white in Brazil is socially advantageous. However, as a white person, I must correct with facts the erroneous idea that there are few whites in Brazil. That sentence in the article is mostly based on the old prejudice that south of the border everyone is the same. Especially in the southern area (Sao Paolo included), brazilians are mostly white, with the majority desce…
As a Brazilian from Sao Paulo, I used to consider myself white. But now I live in North America, and I don't think that anymore. If you think about, many very white people in Brazil get nicknamed "Alemão" (German), independently of their origins. That's a sign that we are not so white after all.
The rest of the world uses ethnicity/descent to describe skin colour/appearance.