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03-23-2024, 12:19 PM
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Is there anything more cringe than guys who are concerned about their "legacy"?

It literally means nothing

Nobody cares who your sons, grandsons, and so forth are after you die

In fact, after your grandsons (even if that) nobody will care or even remember that you ever existed

I mean do you know or even care who your great grandfather was?

Exactly

It's all cope to make believe that you mattered because you left some people behind after you're gone when in the grand scheme of things you're nothing
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03-23-2024, 12:27 PM
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The whole idea of having to achieve and get promotions and want more is the same insanity driving consumerism.

The only result is us giving up our lives so someone else can get rich and we get to take some off the top.

Capitalism is based on exploitation. As simple as it gets. These people have been brainwashed to aggressively making other people money and being grateful for the opportunity. And if you don’t do the same you should feel bad, you are a deadbeat. Your only value in this world as a man is what you can provide for others, and we have to ensure everyone knows that.

It is insanity.
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03-23-2024, 12:32 PM
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03-23-2024, 12:45 PM
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your ancestors of whom you have no memory lived tougher , harder lives than you could cope with and over time that has created the world in which you have more opportunity than any time in human history

they never knew who you might be but they did what they did to ensure it

it is a basic human drive to leave a better place for those who come after , especially family………………whether you are remembered or not is irrelevant you have your time and pass on to the next generation

If we did not do this , you would be eating bugs, chitting in the forest and eating bugs
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03-23-2024, 01:01 PM
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I have fond memories of my grandparents, and their pictures will never be discarded, nor their medals from WW2 and Korea.
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03-23-2024, 01:13 PM
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I have fond memories of my grandparents, and their pictures will never be discarded, nor their medals from WW2 and Korea.
You have fond memories of your grandparents, but will your offspring have those same memories? You'll probably show them pictures and they'll know your grandparents name, but they will never care as much as you do. All it would take is some natural disaster or a major move and those invaluable pictures you've passed down to your kids will get left behind, lost or destroyed. The saddest part? They probably won't even notice the photos are gone.

I know this because i'm going through it now with my grandparents.
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03-23-2024, 01:26 PM
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You have fond memories of your grandparents, but will your offspring have those same memories? You'll probably show them pictures and they'll know your grandparents name, but they will never care as much as you do. All it would take is some natural disaster or a major move and those invaluable pictures you've passed down to your kids will get left behind, lost or destroyed. The saddest part? They probably won't even notice the photos are gone.

I know this because i'm going through it now with my grandparents.

Its doesnt matter……we honour the past and those who created our present whether we know them or not and likewise we do the same for future generations


unless you are an amazing human being whose accomplishments changed the world: Tesla, Darwin, Einstein, or a huge cnt who fckd the world: Hitler, Genghis Khan, Biden

if not then you will be forgotten in 2 or 3 generations but it matters not, you did what you did that has had some benefit or you did fck all
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03-23-2024, 01:47 PM
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03-23-2024, 02:27 PM
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You have fond memories of your grandparents, but will your offspring have those same memories? You'll probably show them pictures and they'll know your grandparents name, but they will never care as much as you do. All it would take is some natural disaster or a major move and those invaluable pictures you've passed down to your kids will get left behind, lost or destroyed. The saddest part? They probably won't even notice the photos are gone.

I know this because i'm going through it now with my grandparents.
Okay, but it's your job to tell them about their great grandparents.

You don't think that Mike Tyson's future, great, great grandchildren will be told who their great, great grandfather is?
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03-23-2024, 02:32 PM
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Yes. I'm pretty sure you've made this thread, but the "muh legacy" thing is so dumb. If you genuinely want to have kids, then go ahead, but making dumb feels based arguments like that in order to try to convince yourself (or others) that it's the objectively "right" thing to do is silly.
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03-23-2024, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted By Dave22reborn
You don't think that Mike Tyson's future, great, great grandchildren will be told who their great, great grandfather is?
they could be told but it won't be anything tangible or even imaginable by that time

gotta agree with the OP that as far as a legacy goes it virtually stops with the grandchildren
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03-23-2024, 03:24 PM
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Disagree.

Your legacy matters far more than you think. Things your great-great-grandparents did still affect you today. They may not know your name, but actions you take in your lifetime carry on to your descendants for hundreds of years.

Examples:

The richest families in Florence, in 1427, are still the richest families. The wealth carried nearly 600 years and counting. https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-fa...es-in-florence

The black belt, a region where slavery was especially strong in Alabama due to geography (richer soil). Even hundreds of year later, there are more African-Americans in that specific region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_...on_of_Alabama)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Society
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03-23-2024, 03:41 PM
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My family seems to have forgotten my existence now so I cant imagine they would care after i am gone.
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03-23-2024, 06:21 PM
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they could be told but it won't be anything tangible or even imaginable by that time

gotta agree with the OP that as far as a legacy goes it virtually stops with the grandchildren
There's videos where a grandchild visitited their grandparent, to show them their great grandchild, and to honor them, they named the child after them, and got to hold them with tears in their eyes.
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03-24-2024, 12:06 AM
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Yeah who is Abe Lincoln's great great grandson? Who is Richard Nixon's granddaughter?
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03-24-2024, 12:50 AM
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Yes. I'm pretty sure you've made this thread, but the "muh legacy" thing is so dumb.
He's made the opposing thread too where he says life is pointless without kids. It's just trolling obviously.
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03-24-2024, 12:51 AM
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03-24-2024, 01:09 AM
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There's videos where a grandchild visitited their grandparent, to show them their great grandchild, and to honor them, they named the child after them, and got to hold them with tears in their eyes.
you're thinking in the opposite direction of the OP

the GGF might have fond memories of his GGC in his last days/weeks/months but will the GGC ever think of his GGF in his adult life?

that's the OP's point
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03-24-2024, 05:35 AM
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you're thinking in the opposite direction of the OP

the GGF might have fond memories of his GGC in his last days/weeks/months but will the GGC ever think of his GGF in his adult life?

that's the OP's point
Depends what they did, or who they were.
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03-24-2024, 05:43 AM
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Well under your logic basically everything iscmeaningless in life so you could basically make this tread on anything
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03-24-2024, 05:46 AM
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Depends what they did, or who they were.
I doubt it

both my grandfathers fought in WW2, one had been POW and was highly decorated even

do you think my nieces (their GGC) are gonna have some genuine emotional connection to them or their struggles? they've been gone decades before they were born

I'm not even hating, just being realistic here

if you really believe you're gonna be loved and remembered for 2+ generations… lmfao
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03-24-2024, 06:04 AM
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plus tech will wipe out mankind within 1000 years anyway
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03-24-2024, 06:10 AM
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People should be concerned with what actually matters to their life. "Legacy" is basically another form of obsessing about what other people think.
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03-24-2024, 06:18 AM
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plus tech will wipe out mankind within 1000 years anyway
I think we have waaaaaaay less than 1,0000 years with the way tech is going.
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03-24-2024, 07:14 AM
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I think we have waaaaaaay less than 1,0000 years with the way tech is going.
but but but…

what about my legacy??????
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03-24-2024, 07:19 AM
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Yes there are

It isn't cringey
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03-24-2024, 05:51 PM
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but but but…

what about my legacy??????
That's the irony. Unless you're someone who made a huge impact on the world, nobody will care in the end.
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03-24-2024, 07:10 PM
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