Posted on 03/09/2009 8:34:56 PM PDT by rawhide
You said — “If your definition of getting married is to be sold like a possession on an open market.”
Well, if I understand it right, for those who try to find ways to “meet the right guy” — it’s “exposure” — i.e., getting out in the public and getting more people to see you. Except the methodology as practiced here in this country seems to be getting “exposed” in bed, in serial relationships, until you find the right guy.... LOL...
In addition to that, it also seems that many (here) put themselves “on the market” in advertisements that they “blast to the world” on the Internet and on the online “dating” sites (which could be called “prostitution for free” sites... :-)
I supposed we have a “more sophisticated way” of being on the “open market”....
Your fork over $2,000 for a young Gypsy Chick, the next morning you wake up to find your wallet, your passport, and your camera gone.......LOL!
Gypsies?
Mitt Romany?
Look at mamma if you want to know what’s in store...
They are only being sold to MEN right, Rosie O'Donnell can't bring a money clip?
There were a lot of people targeted for elimination by Hitler. Didn’t it start with the mentally retarded and terminally sick? Same as today.
Is that Lot's wife? Do you have a picture before she was turned into a pillar of salt?
LMAO
That was entirely too good!
“Can I get some blueberry syrup please?”
Somebody check his travel logs. Perhaps he was in Bulgaria taking pictures and bagging beauties.
I think I found him:
But where are the bridesmaids? Shouldn’t there be a bunch of ladies wearing a dress that looks like that?
At six years old, they could pick the pockets of a Secret Service Agent. You see a bunch of gypsy kids running around some tourist site, hold on tight to anything you value.
Yes, it’s called dating and getting to know the person you wish to marry first before making that final committment. The decision is supposed to be made not just on looks but on mutual values and spirituality, not just sex.
Notice the position of his right hand.
Yep. That’s Laz all right
You said — “Yes, it’s called dating and getting to know the person you wish to marry first before making that final committment.”
That idea about “dating” is something more recent, and is not, apparently, all tht it’s “supposed” to be. It doesn’t turn out the way that some would like it to turn out (i.e., the so-called “dating process”). And..., that’s definitely not what was done in the Bible times, for sure. So, there’s nothing special about “dating” that makes itself some sort of sacrosanct ritual.
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You said — “The decision is supposed to be made not just on looks but on mutual values and spirituality, not just sex.”
Now, isn’t that a novel idea, these days... LOL... It’s too bad you can’t convince society of this...
This present society, that we’re in, doesn’t hold any more of a moral high ground, than what those in the article are doing. And furthermore, at least, in the article, they are getting married and will have families. Here you just have the sex first, and then, maybe and maybe not, you’ll get married. Well..., on second thought, who cares about getting married these days anyway... (according to the mentality of a lot in our society...).
The culture of Jesus’ time, of which we are the “bride of Christ” in that we were “bought for a price” — is the example that is given for us to understand our relationship. Christ is called the Bridegroom, who goes to the house of the bride, puts down a “bride price” and a contract and the bride-to-be can agree or not agree. If she does agree (and she doesn’t go out dating either... :-) ... ), then she waits until the Bridegroom goes away for a while and then comes back to get her, having paid the “bride price” for her and having fixed up their place to be.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a “bride price” these days, along with a contract and a time to go away and prepare their place and come back and get the bride-to-be.
It sure would beat the ‘dating process” — which turns into serial sex with multiple partners, and then living together for a while and then “ooops”... here comes a kid — and “who cares about getting married because ‘we love each other” — at least until something better comes along... LOL...
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