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magicjay38 said:

Aren't we a bit off topic? Marriage was originally a means of forming strategic alliances between kinship groups. The concept of legitamacy of birth, ---> you bastard,<---



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You're technically correct, I am a bastard, but I'm a bastard because I never knew my father. He left shortly after getting my teen-aged mother pregnant. I am not technically a bastard however solely based on the fact that my opinion differs from yours. That's an increddibly immature tact to take and I had expected more from you based on the few diolouges we'd had. On top of that you clearly didn't read my posts very well. It appears that you just skimmed my posts and let your biases and biggotry form your opinion of me. While i believe both Jim and Klinton understodd what I was saying yet dissagreed (respectfully I might add) you clearly didn't understand and are lashing out from a purely emotional stance. I wouldn't have thought someone so familiar with cognitive dissonence would be so suseptable to it's grasp.




My apologies. The bastard thing was intended as a joke. I have a twisted and sarcastic sense of humour and I thought it would be funny. Apparently it wasn't. Again, sorry if I offended you. Fact is I like what you have to say though I don't always agree with it.

I'm really not strident about this issue. My opinion of marriage can be summed up as 'Been there, tried it, didn't like it. I'm one of the 50% or 33% or whatever proportion it is (only once). The next time I feel like getting married I'm just going to find a woman I really hate and buy her a house!


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I brought up SoS for the sole purpouse of pointing out that teh idea of romantic love predates your claims. Frankly I believe romance in inherant in the human phychi.



Agreed. My point is that it was not an essential element in the origins of the institution of marriage. It's late but I'll address your other thoughts in the AM.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.