[QUOTE="RaptorPen"]I really like living with her though and she likes me living with her. Its a good relationship. Why should I move out just because society says I have to? airshocker

It's a fire-hazard? How many people are living in that tiny apartment?

Free lance work at 25?? Time for you to get a full time job and leave your Mom's apt.

roulettethedog

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[QUOTE="Setsa"] Personally, I'd rather live than never be born. If you're taking a pro-choice stance though, then you really can't support the OP because he's trying to force someone else to do something with her body that she's not comfortable with. How would you feel if people pressured you into getting a vasectomy?Setsa

He cannot force her to do anything, he can just let her know his opinion and how they cannot afford another kid, even if they have mental disabilities.

If you're 25, may I ask how old your mom is?

Pirate700

Excuse the rather harsh title but my family is currently facing an existential crisis.

I'm 25 and the older brother to two developmentally and physically impaired children. Her husband died 5 years ago but my mother quickly found another partner who she felt reminded her of him. My mother and her new lover who despite not being able to marry (he was still technically married and didn't want to divorce so he could keep health benefits) had two children together.

Despite my pleading for my mother to consider other options she decided to go ahead and carry them to term. I'm not going to lie they are a drain on this family financially and mentally.

Now my mother is pregnant for a 3rd time and due to her strong beliefs on abortion refuses to consider it insisting that something will come along. We are living in a one bedroom subsidized housing and are financially at the brink. We pretty much knew there was a good chance the first two would end up the way they did and now its happened again.

Should I attempt to convince my mother to consider other options? Its still very early on. Less than a month. Am I being unfair to her here?

Welcome to existentialism!RationalAtheist

Why am I seemingly arbitrarily experiencing life through the body and mind of a random human and not an alien or an elephant?

So basically on paper the idea of each human having their own individuality makes sense but to be one of those people experiencing life vividly and subjectivley at an arbitrary place in space and time seems to be without any obvious cause.

Why does my individual conciousness feel so vivid to the point where as far as I can tell everything else could be fake but I know at least that I am real? Its as if the universe might as well have not existed until I came along.

If there is no real reason for this is it possible that any sense of self is just an illusion or at least not really seperate from other "individual" minds?

I hope I made sense but this stuff keeps me up at night.

[QUOTE="RaptorPen"]I have to ask what is the purpose of all this. What good will come out of such "science" I'm much happier just assuming that all of the stars in the sky are just christmas trees that are really far away and its gotten me through several grades of school just ifnedramaybaz

Edit: Knowledge is Power!

Why did scientists want to know about gravity, what good has it done for us?