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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

301--family and the sanctity of the sperm

OK, gang. We've talked about our biological families, and we've talked about families in general, along with the problems that face them. I would like you to be aware that where I'm from, people sometimes shun the sanctity of the sperm and the egg...they cast off all biological ties and create their own family. People latch on to others, that's human nature.

Life can be very hard. Without some kind of family structure, people do not thrive.

Why do we need other people? Why are we not solitary creatures? What does it say about this drive that we will dismiss our bloodlines and pick up on people who offer something we need? And most importantly, how do we communicate this? Is it verbal? Physical? Textual or understood, or perhaps chemical?

Discuss.

Comments

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*brings coffee for CJ, craddling her own possessively*

*as she sits down and listens to CJ start to speak, her eyes widen* She wasn't at the party, no... But you talked to her, didn't you?

*The second she realizes what she did last night is obvious*

Crap

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

It's just common sense to attach yourself to people who... who offer somethin' you need. ::shrugs:: Sometimes people just get kinda...kinda thrown together. And it makes more sense to stay with them instead of..of going off on your own because they have somethin' you need, like protection or safe transport or somethin'. And after a while you can't help being like..like a family because you're around each other all the time and experiencing the same dren that they are.

[not-an-ex-demon.livejournal.com]

Anya finds a seat and listens to what the professor has to say. She hopes Jack will show up to class today.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory curls up in the back of the class. Given recent events, she wasn't particularly in the mood to discuss why she needed others.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Sydney comes in and takes a seat, thinking about things. "Because alone we'd lose our minds..." she whispers

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna frowned a little, "Nothing is solitary, so why should we be? As for forming bonds outside our family, perhaps it's a rite of passage? A declaration of our own personal independence and individuality."

[absolutesnark]

Piper wanders into class and takes a seat. She isn't feeling particularly well, so she just listens to the discussion.

[kimberly-shaw.livejournal.com]

Kimberly takes her seat and listens to the discussion.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica thinks about the fact that her father raised her not knowing if she was his biological child or not. And she thinks about the fact that her mother ran off and left them both when things got too hot to handle.

"I don't think there is some deep, philosophical answer to your question, Professor," she says after long contemplation. "I think it's just the way we were made."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

I don't think you choose who becomes your family. One day you have a group of friends you'd do anything for and the next day you realize you'd do anything for them and the thought of anything bad happening to them gives you an actual physical pain.

Communicating it can happen in a lot of different forms but I think it's usually in the small things. Like bringing someone a bowl of food if you know they haven't eaten all day or moving their papers so they don't drool all over their work when they fall asleep on their desk.