On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:28 -0600, Ray Hauge wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:38 -0500, tedd wrote: > >> At 4:27 PM +0100 2/26/08, Jochem Maas wrote: > >>> tedd schreef: > >>>> Now you sound like my wife. :-) > >>> for your sake I hope I don't look like her :-P > >> No, I have an absolutely beautiful wife -- no complaints in that department. > >> > >>> that said I'd hazard a guess and say you listen to what she says ... my ex > >>> used to say the same thing. > >> Ex's are the experience you need to get it to work. > >> > >> I've always said that everyone should go through at least one divorce > >> before getting married. > > > > Marriage?? That's for backwards people stuck in ancient pointless > > traditions >:) And moreso in today's culture... it's just a commercial > > suckfest when your money could better go to student loans and raising a > > family. > > > > I've been happily living in sin with my common-law wife for 9 years. > > Besides, isn't marriage primarily a religious thing? In the old > > testament marriage was often implied by the simple act of laying with a > > woman... or two... or three... Polygamy, how did that fall out of > > religious favour? :) > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > I know it was a rhetorical question, but I was curious. > > A lot of the modern standards started when St. Augustine started > teaching that the fall of Adam and Eve was the "original sin" which was > sex. Somehow that took hold and then sex became a "bad thing" and to be > the most holy of holy you should be celibate. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo > > As far as the history of monogamy goes, I had to look this one up. It > also seems to stem from the teachings of St. Augustine (late AD 300s). > Martin Luther eventually allowed polygamy after coming to the conclusion > that there was no scriptural evidence that polygamy was wrong. > Obviously that's no longer in effect though. It has also been allowed > after certain wars to beef up the population again. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy#Christianity > > I typically don't use wikipedia for sole sources, but everything else I > could find was some religious site that was very biased. Interesting. So... using this system, a world where everyone is as holy as can be would be a world devoid of humans (gotta have sex to reproduce). I don't think St. Augustine was thinking it through :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
