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Comment on What's the point of marriage? by Sarah Hill

Sarah Hill — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:19:32 +0000

This is my first time ever writting something online or I guess you could say…ever writting something at all. Im kind of a private person. I come from a divorced family with no religiouse upbringing so naturaly I have had a strong curiousity for both. I have questioned marriage for as far back as I can remember…since I was a young child I suppose. I spent hours asking people questions about their relationships. Some married young, some waited for that special someone and some are still waiting. I vowed to never marry because I thought the odds were bad. I dont care what anyone says…children who grow up in single parent homes do not feel complete. I am one, I have tons of friends who are and I have raised a child alone who will tell you the same thing. Marriage is a necessity for children to have less feelings of depression, jelousey, abandanment and overall fear of the opisit sex. I met a boy once who was always sad and since I was always sad, it seemed we would make good friends. we spent almost everyday together for about two years until some other girl developed an intrest in him. I had feelings for him but thought that this other girl would win anyways so I walked away. I found out that I was pregnant two months later. He seemed to be happy with her so I left him be and raised our daughter myself, I was sixteen. Years went by and I dated other people but none were quite like that first boy and I continued my vow and never got married. He had some trouble with the law and drugs, he tried to end his life a couple of times and one day out of no where he calls me (14 years later). We decided to marry and it was the right choice. We married so that we wouldnt loose eachother again and to creat security for our daughter who despretly needs it. Its been a mess, but hopefully marriage will help clean things up.

Comment on Good vs Evil? by inalox

inalox — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:16:48 +0000

I think human beings are born neutral and selfish as babies, as a necessary means for survival. In my view, human beings have both good and bad characteristics. These develop with time from a newborn into adulthood through a combination of both nature and nurture.
What is clear for me however, is that the struggle of mankind between good and evil is as old as our human race. Some of acts / emotions that we view as virtuous such as compassion, are brought about by seeing pain experienced by others. Pain /Suffering is not a good thing to happen to someone. In the abscence of pain/suffering, would we even be able to experience compassion? To sum this up, both good and evil are very part of our nature in the universe we live in.

Comment on What's the point of marriage? by Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:35:52 +0000

Interesting comments…

I’ve been married for 2 years now and I am trying to find out what the point of marriage is. The religious aspect is outdated and I’m sure marriage was around long before organized religion was but took religion to hijack it as a means of control. Now, you can tell me all day about how Adam, the first man, was married before religion started, but I’ll have my pet dinosaurs stomp on that argument. So, we go back to the social aspect of it. It seems evident that it changed according to the whims and wants of any particular culture you look at. I cannot find a purpose in marriage other than it affords children a better chance at life. I good nuclear family, optimally, provides stability, shelter, and nourishment (social, mental, emotional. However, we all someone that was in the ‘typical’ family that turned out to be a complete waste of space. This just leaves sex. I’ve heard that if you put a penny in a jar every time you have sex for the first year of marriage and then take a penny out every time after the first year, you’ll never run out of pennies. Who knows? If you marry *just* for sex you’ll get bored of it. If you get married to ‘complete’ someone or to be ‘completed’ yourself you’re in for a lot of work. If you marry for money, you’ll earn every cent, or be very lonely.
Sorry,
I wish I knew what the point of marriage was.

Comment on The 100 Things Challenge, or: Getting Rid of My Useless Crap by Tigerblade

Tigerblade — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:29:22 +0000

@Me&U: Interesting to hear from someone who’s gone the minimalist route in practice (as opposed to just “oh yeah, we’re minimalists, but ignore that pile of stuff over there). I tend to think of myself as a minimalist but realistically I have too much unnecessary stuff to truly qualify.

I’m curious about this paper thing you mention. Paper of what kind? Records? Bills? Mail? How do you deal with the influx of paper every day? My printer hasn’t seen the light of day in probably two years, but I still end up with mail, paystubs, etc.

Comment on “I’m turning 17 today. Tell me something you wish you’d known at my age.” by Me&U

Me&U — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:27:06 +0000

1. That love takes time – and that’s ok.
2. 40 is not old so don’t freakign panic
3. No matter what – you are alone so get use to it
4. Stuff will never make you happy, even expensive designer stuff
5. That a job, career and work are not the same thing
6. Parents may actually be right about a lot of things (ugh)
7. friends you have now – will liekly not be the ones you’ll have for the real battles ahead
8. Masturbation can save your sanity so damn it use it!
9. Nurture the relationships that actually matter – let go of the rest (yes, it’s ok to clean sweep your friends list – and family)
10. Being yourself is always goign to be the toughest thing to do and the greatest achievement.

Comment on The 100 Things Challenge, or: Getting Rid of My Useless Crap by Me&U

Me&U — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:22:56 +0000

Books. I use the local library as my storage unit for all books, DVDs, CDs etc. If they don’t have it – I buy it then after watchign it – donate it. If I want to see the movie again or read the book again – I just check-it out.

We are minimalists. Two adults, living in 800 sq. feet. Modernists in style. Lofts – witht he open concept make clutter an absolute NO WAY. every item must play double duty.

As for kitchen – we did get rid of most of it. Fact is – you’ll notice you use the same 2-3 knives and about a dozen itmes and nothign more. We don’t even have a microwave and – we don’t miss it. WE counted cable as a thing – that’s gone. The dvd player? gone – we kept the PS3 for that. The junk drawer does not exist …. but the real enemy??

Paper.

Comment on What's the point of marriage? by MasticatedAltoid

MasticatedAltoid — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:47:30 +0000

Marriage is a legal binding of assets. So if you want to marry someone in order to combine your wealth, or wealth making potential and receive government benefits from said union, then marriage is right for you, particularly if you want to start a family.

If you do not want to start a family, and you do not wish to have your assets bound to another individual out of love/ and or trust, then marriage is not right for you.

As far as the whole God thing, well… its 2009. Odin, Zeus, Jehovah, Allah, Angels, Demons, Djinn, Fairies, Ghosts, Unicorns, and Optimus Prime are all fictional characters. There are no gods, and no supernatural. We as humans made these things up to understand things that we didnt have the ability to fathom, to keep and preserve law and order in societies, and to give us hope when there is none.

We now have the scientific method which helps us to understand those scary things, such as mental disorders, lightning, and evil. People don’t become posessed, they develope schizophrenia. Zeus doesnt throw lightning, its an electric discharge. Satan doesn’t twist peoples minds, some people are just bad individuals.

Ultimately, marriage exists because women, just like slaves, cattle, and gold were possessions. Before men started treating them like humans, they treated them like property and made pacts to avoid other men from using them. However, marriage is an institution etched in stone in our society, so more than likely we’ll all be married for different reasons.

Comment on Good vs Evil? by thought

thought — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:31:30 +0000

Truth is a matter of perception, it would have been better if creation had never been, since man is only an infintismally small parrt of it, what do we matter any way. Nothing is perfect , and so only “Nothing” is perfect. If there is a god, then he, she, it is responsible for all imperfection since they are responsible for existance, and susequentially responsible for all good, evil and every shade in between. Untill the moment when the prime cause of existance manages to destroy all creation culminating in itself, there will always be the dichotimy of good and evil.
Possibly the ultimate source of all evil is that of religion, faith and belief that self or group is right.

Comment on Calming Thoughts by spanky

spanky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:20:27 +0000

mainly it is my girlfriend, but when she isnt around it is aggressive inline skating it is so fluid and spurr of the moment that if your mind is on anything else, you get hurt

Comment on Good vs Evil? by Ime

Ime — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:53:57 +0000

Im doing my paper on this topic. Is man born good or evil. I really am not sure about this. It is hard to tell whether we are or we are not. I personally believe all men were born good. But as i was reading this I saw good points like lying as kids. No one teaches us how to do this we just know how. I believe we have evil thoughts to see of we can overcome them and be good. Because how would you know how to be good without seeing evil. Im starting to think we were born evil. We were born to make wrong choices to learn from them and make good choices from them. That’s how we become “good” people. I dont know. This is a hard topic.