Yeah well, we'll risk it - It's what humans do.
YMMV.
Posted on 10/06/2016 4:00:53 AM PDT by expat_panama
The "quiet catastrophe" is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14%.
If the labor force participation rate were as high today as it was as recently as 2000, nearly 10 million more Americans would have jobs.
The work rate for adult men has plunged 13 percentage points in a half-century. This "work deficit" of "Great Depression-scale underutilization" of male potential workers is the subject of Nicholas Eberstadt's new monograph "Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis," which explores the economic and moral causes and consequences of this:
Since 1948, the proportion of men 20 and older without paid work has more than doubled, to almost 32%. This "eerie and radical transformation" -- men creating an "alternative lifestyle to the age-old male quest for a paying job" -- is largely voluntary.
Men who have chosen to not seek work are two and a half times more numerous than men that government statistics count as unemployed because they...
...Only about 15% of men 25 to 54 who worked not at all in 2014 said they were unemployed because they could not find work.
For 50 years, the number of men in that age cohort who are neither working nor looking for work has grown nearly four times faster than the number who are working...
...The "economically inactive" have eclipsed the unemployed...
...Eberstadt does not say that government assistance causes this...
...America ranks 22nd, ahead of only Italy, in 25 to 54 male labor force participation...
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
>>It’s not that I don’t understand what altruism is,
You have FAILED to provide evidence of that.
Rom 1:28
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
NIV
{ shrug } Maybe the culture of "slaves" should've RTFM and followed Christ's commands!
I have no interest in or obligation to provide you evidence.
Why don’t you ping us all when the United States of America is replaced by the Kingdom of Christ so we can all stop worry about obeying the silly laws on the books of the USA, eh?
Real men support their wives and families as directed by Jesus Christ.
And you’re still whining like a poodle.
“Real men support their wives and families as directed by Jesus Christ.”
Never said they didn’t. You still have failed to produce this supposed command by Christ that tells us all we must get married, though.
“And you’re still whining like a poodle.”
And you’re still making personal attacks, in your very Christ-like demeanor, rather than having a rational discussion.
>>History repeatedly demonstrates that cultures who fail to maintain sociobiological fitness get un-existed, conquered, subjugated, eaten by (or fed to the pets of) those with superior fitness.
We’re already there. Can’t you see it? Supplying bodies to be subjugated is cruel to your offspring. Give them the courtesy of not having to exist. If God wants them to make a baby that much, he’ll find a way for some sperm to hook up with an egg.
>>There are Christians and there are devout Christians.
There’s a lot more categories than that on the Christian spectrum.
Christians obeying the laws of Christ regarding marriage have no penalty there.... yet.
Marriage in the context of the Creator's Natural Law: Worked for America's founders. Worked for my parents. Works for me! Seems He knew what He was talking about.
Follow the law of the "slaves", however -- well, just ask the folks in Romans chapter 1 how that works out!
Ping us all when the laws of the USA/Empire Dejoure supersede the laws (altruistic and otherwise) of nature and its Creator.
Got Due Penalty?
[Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea]
http://www.cdc.gov/std/gonorrhea/arg/
>>Supplying bodies to be subjugated is cruel to your offspring.
Except my offspring aren’t subjugated.
YMMV!
>>Except my offspring aren’t subjugated.
No one is yet. It might be their offspring who will.
“Follow the law of the “slaves”, however “
We were commanded by Christ to follow those laws, remember? “Render unto Caesar...”?
You also seem fond of referencing Romans, which also tells us to obey the laws of the country we live in:
“All of you must yield to the government rulers. No one rules unless God has given him the power to rule, and no one rules now without that power from God.” Romans 13:1
Or do you only follow the parts of the Bible that are convenient for you?
Where did I say we must all get married?
I said --
“Real men support their wives and families as directed by Jesus Christ.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3477249/posts?page=120#120
If you're just "volunteering to become a slave so some woman can sit on her lazy ass." - then your marriage is in the world of poodle dung, not in Christ.
If you're going to marry like a poodle and sire poodle pups - then don't whine about being held accountable to poodle law.
>>We were commanded by Christ to follow those laws, remember?
That’s only a problem for poodle marriages.
Christian marriages are for life.
Yeah well, we'll risk it - It's what humans do.
YMMV.
done!
“Christian marriages are for life.”
If your spouse wants a divorce, you will be subject to all the laws concerning divorce in this country, whether you’re a Christian or not.
>>Yeah well, we’ll risk it - It’s what humans do.
Yes it is. That’s why Third-Worlders keep making babies they can’t feed.
“Where did I say we must all get married?”
Well I asked you where God commanded that, and you responded with a quote from Matthew, which implies you believe the command was located in those verses you quoted...
“don’t whine about being held accountable to poodle law.”
You continue to pretend that we aren’t all accountable to the same laws whether we like it or not. I’d like to see you plead to a court that you aren’t subject to those same laws and see how far that gets you.
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