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Can You Actually Afford To Be A Polygamist? Here's What It Takes.
The Huffington Post - South Africa ^
| May 26, 2017
| Zongile Nhlapo
Posted on 05/26/2017 6:07:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: MeganC
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:09:27 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
All over the world it is the same. Women are dependents.
Women are mans children. Then they have children and those are also mans children.
Whether they are grateful and loving back, or not. What a frigging great deal there.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:11:04 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
It was that way when we lived in caves. Nothing changes much.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:13:07 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
When I was in India, I saw a few polygamists who were unemployed drunks. Their wives would go out to work everyday though. I never figured out what was in it for them.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:14:33 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Bathi asiganwe umfazi ngamunye. Lezi zintombi ezingangotshani zizophelelaphi?" Shakespeare it ain't. Looks more like a cat walked across the keyboard.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:15:05 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Only the most backward societies allow polygamy today.There's a very,very important message contained in that fact.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The biggest penalty for having more than more than one wife is having more than one mother-in-law.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:15:49 PM PDT
by
EandH Dad
(sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Polygamy seems not viable in the 21st century if you can't afford it," she told on Wednesday HuffPost SA. Sort of: "you can't do it, if you can't do it."
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:16:27 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing coming from South Africa surprises me-——it’s a geographically beautiful pit.
.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:16:49 PM PDT
by
Mears
("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
To: MNDude
Saw a Mormon polygamist “family” on TV many years ago. Several of the “sister wives” had careers and the others stayed home to do the domestic work and raise the kids. The man also worked; overall about 4-5 incomes took care of about 20 people.
Complicated.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Money problems? Just come to America with one wife and get on welfare, then add another one and put her on welfare. Want another wife? Do the same thing over again.
Pretty soon you can be raking in close to half a million off all them American taxpaying suckers. And you be styling with your feet up all day long while your women feed you peeled grapes and they do all the work and baby-raising.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:19:05 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
To: EandH Dad
Mark Twain got into an argument with a Mormon over polygamy and was challenged to prove from scripture that it was wrong.
He immediately answered: “No man can serve two masters!”
To: EandH Dad
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:23:03 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the US all you have to do is get all your wives and kids on govt assistance
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:25:58 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Matthew 19:4 Havent you read, he (Christ) replied, that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female,[a] 5 and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:29:27 PM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
To: CitizenUSA
Do you want a list of polygamists in the Bible?
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:37:25 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Does South Africa have welfare for single mothers and their children? That’s how Britain’s Moslem polygamists afford it, and how the American West’s Mormon polygamists afford it. The government supports the women and children, while the man is free as a bird, or the breeze.
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posted on
05/26/2017 6:56:07 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
To: Secret Agent Man
While Mseleku may arguably be the anomaly, the country saw that polygamy, at least in the Mseleku household, does not come cheap. Each wife has her own fully-furnished double-storey house, at least two cars, the children have their own designated drivers, over and above the day-to-day sustenance of both the wives and the children.This particular man has dependents. In most of Africa, at the ordinary economic level, poverty, women work as much as men - more, in agricultural communities. Sometimes, the men don't work at all and aren't expected to.
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posted on
05/26/2017 8:00:53 PM PDT
by
heartwood
(If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
To: Chauncey Gardiner
Many of the Mormon offshoot polygamists rely on welfare. The women are legally single, with a whole lot of children.
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posted on
05/26/2017 8:02:31 PM PDT
by
heartwood
(If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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