If there's one great illusion in high school, it's the "popular" kids.

I can relate. I'm one of the quietest people in my school, so of course, people pick on me for no reason whatsoever. I've never had the urge to join their little clique of "popular" people though, since I view them all as being below me. After all, why would I want to spend all my time with a bunch of idiots who talk about things that don't matter at all and use their influence on others to prey on the "weak"?

I agree with you completely. I hate how most teenager nowadays are sucked into this fad of rebellion. They feel that they have to do extraordinarily stupid things in order to prove themselves to their friends, or in order to establish themselves as adults among their peers. It really makes me sick, since they're the reason that most teenagers are viewed as delinquents.

I couldn't agree more. It's all a well-packaged lie.

Now on to the topic. I definitely want kids some day, since I feel that they will make my life more meaningful. Of course, I'll wait until the right moment, since having them right away would be a huge mistake, and result in endless consequences that may reshape my life and the life of the child or children for the worse. I definitely want to become very close with my children, so that I could help them make more conscious decisions when it comes to certain things, and also so they don't feel that they have to turn to drugs, alcohol, etc. for comfort. I just always want to be there for them, and I want them to know that I will always be there for them, no matter what.

Definitely, but the thing that isn't an illusion is how some of them act. (EX: better than the rest of us.)

Not saying all popular people act like that, but from experience I could name some that do.

But couldn't their belief of their own popularity also be an illusion? Couldn't their so-called "friends" just act that way in order to gain their own popularity? :p

Exactly... everyhting they know is an illusion. except they don't know it yet.

Heh, poor delusional fools. I almost feel sorry for 'em.

All teenagers of every generation have acted like this. And they all eventually grew out of it. Just like how our generations will. It really doesn't matter.

Eh, it still bugs me though, since I didn't go through that whole odd phase. I just hope my kids either grow out of it quickly, or don't go through it at all.

Oh believe me, you'll go through that "odd phase." It's called PMS.

Unfortunately not, seeing as how I'm not female :p

Oh, boys have periods. :P You're all a nightmare! XD

I remember the popular kids in school. Fortunately I got on alright with them but most of my friends got really badly bullied by them because they weren't "cool". It just turned out that 3 years later, we're the "cool" ones because we're arty and shiz.

- Rexy

Aw yeah! See? I guess you are right Used: )... they DO grow out of that phase. (except fopr the pcychotic people out there who think they are Super Man when they aren't.)

An interesting site refuting many people's arguments for having children and continuing humans;
http://vhemt.org/biobreed.htm

Oh, so you can talk like a real human being without a curse or insult on
every line. Nice to see.

You're so superficial it's not even funny.

True dat.

I've never been bullied, which is a good thing, but most of the girls who are surrounded by at least 5 people wherever they go, most of the time are complete shitheads. I don't want to be around shitheads, therefore I don't hang out with them. I'm not popular, but I'm not unpopular either...which may sound rather strange but hey, it works
(Since we're on the topic)

I will now be making my usual last-person-into-this-topic entrance. And by that, I mean totally disregarding the previous 8 3/4 pages and posting my own opinion.

I'm planning to have kids, but, thankfully, I have a minimum of 3 years until I have to worry about it. Having kids is supposedly the Holy Grail of parental happiness, but I'm starting to see that, like most adult things, it has been grossly overrated.

Lately, i've been noticing that whenever people are going to get married, they seem more concerned about making babies than actual love.

So, i'm kinda torn. On one hand, there's the always present married-couple-having-children expectation from society, but something inside tells me life would be much, much easier if I didn't have kids.

So, this whole post of mine is mostly just a decision to be indesicive.

What the hell, i'm only a Freshman, anyway. Why should I be thinking of it now?

I know exactly what you mean. People nowdays could care less about love. They're more concerned with either their hedonistic little adventures or reproducing rather than what should really matter in a relationship. It really bugs me.

Yeah, eactly. You have plenty of time before you even have to think about that.

You know, the only reason I still come into this forum is to check and see what half ass insults someone might be using on me so I can be a prick for a couple minutes. You suck. Seriously. Not as in a "Oh my god, he just won't stop" or a "Oh my god, how dare that cum snuffling feces barber say such things about me" way. It's just that everything you say is so completely stupid that I figure we must all be hearing you wrong from having that giant penis stuffed in your mouth at all times. My reccomendation: Take it out occasionaly.

Try taking yours out, too, occasionally.

The only reason people look in threads where you just posted in is to see if your downgrading someone or saying a whole load of crap nobody want to hear. What a coincidence you showed up so fast here.

Why would someone voluntarily go see something they don't want to see?

So they can continue to say things that are stupid. Like... "You are a fag! Go and make out with a toilet! Fatty! Oooooooooh!"

See? the endless circle of taunts...

Spirrow, you really shouldn't be talking. You're the one who's egging him on and wating for a response so that you can continue this childish nonsense.

Maybe we should just end this nonsense ourselves by Not egging on anybody.

I would still like kids, unless my balls somehow got chopped off in some wierd accident involving a pair of scissors and a large hammer. and chill pills. Then I'd still probably adopt some kids.

Get your own insults.

Jesus Christ guys, stop bickering like a married couple or siblings. This is supposed to be a topic about having kids, not who is the biggest and best or why you guys are arguing.

Of course, this just paints a huge target on MY back for being sensible and saying it out loud...

I agree with you, mitsur. This entire arguement is completely pointless. Let's just all drop it and get back to the discussion.

Damn, homies.

Sorry to ruin your fun Used ;) I dunno why us peace-lovers can't argue for the sake of arguing.

:D

Somehting to do with the molecular structure of our brains... not sure though. :)