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- From: pm3_norr@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: Getting Married: Grounds for Insanity Plea?
- Keywords: Off Your Rocker
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222028.4260@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:20:28 GMT
- References: <stone.721680394@cwis> <BxsB6r.G6z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- alex@mentor.cc.purdue.edu ( ) writes:
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- [Travis' request for good reasons to marry...][munch][burp]
-
- } I'm hoping that this is nothing more than a very cynical joke.
- }If it is, it's a very sick one. But you wanted three good reasons,
- }so here they are.
-
- No, I think he's genuinely, if slightly cynically, enquiring.
-
- }1) It gives one a good excuse to live in the same house as your SO.
-
- These days, who needs an excuse? If you love one another, want to be
- together, want to share the downs and mundanities as well as the ups and
- special occasions all you need to do is decide to move in together.
-
- }2) Marriage shows that you love your SO enough that you are willing
- } to commit your entire life to them, making the bond between you
- } that much stronger.
-
- This I tend to agree with, but as others have pointed out, divorce rates
- show that an awful lot of people make that commitment and regret it later.
-
- }3) It gives one a personal captive audience for any and all cynicism
- } which one chooses to spew from that time forward.
-
- Same reply as for point one :)
-
- }The Idea behind marraige is that two people are willing to work
- }together, in order to share their lives together with some sort
- }of greater emotional attachment. If you are unwilling to work
- }at problems, don't get married. For those of us whose relationships
- }are based on trust and understanding, there is nothing wrong with it.
-
- The idea behind committing to live together is to share your lives and grow
- with each other by so doing. For those who have relationships based on trust
- and understanding etc...
-
-
- }>So, seriously, folks: Why the hell buckle yourself into a social
- }>straitjacket you'll (statistically) probably want out of a few
- }>years down the road?
-
- }Simply because most people on this newsgroup have no wish to be, or
- }intention of ever becoming, a statistic.
-
- But that's the whole problem. *Nobody* has any intention of being a
- statisitc, but statistics are made up of what happens to individuals,
- everything form divorce rates, to causes of death to market share for
- the latest brand of breakfast cereal.
-
- } Face it, nothing's ever set in stone.
- }We choose what happens in our lives, and if you choose not to
- }make your own choices, then you will indeed wind up as a "statistic".
- }Live your life, and you'll be too busy having fun to worry about
- }some pathetic number.
-
- But statistics come from lots of people making their own choices - and
- sometimes having choices made for them (I don't intend to end up as a cause
- of death statistic, but sooner or later I will...) After all, if everybody
- made the same choices, life would be very boring ;)
-
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- Paul
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