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The Marriage Crisis Hurts Social Mobility; Implications for Australia
Topic Started: 4 Oct 2013, 07:15 AM (4,230 Views)
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In the absence of BP supplying us with religious tidbits, I'll do my paltry best to compensate:

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version) :

"What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun."

The author (Solomon) had a 1,000 wives 'n concubines or some such if I recall correct. But I don't gather that they made him especially joyous? (He sounds a bit jaded to me in fact? :re: )
Edited by herbie, 5 Oct 2013, 06:40 PM.
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It is interesting stuff though Kulganis. (But not fascinating because it really is just an old rehash of a rehash of a rehash of stuff that's been going on for millennia minimum it would seem.)

But anyway, the points coming out of the original article and subsequent discussion that being single is harder than being a couple finance wise, though when said coupledom falls over, that it's right proper damaging for the participants in the couple, remain quite valid - IMO. (In a society like ours that is pretty much couple orientated anyway.)

'Couple' of amusing quips:

* Avoid divorce - Stay single!!!
* If you can't have the one you love, then love the one you have ... :re:

'N PS Kulganis: Your lot is not the first lot that has ever 'discovered' the joys of having multiple 'friends that come with benefits' - My 62 yo neighbour who got married for a year once (and figured he didn't like it), reckons they suit him right down to the ground too ...

Hmmm - Just thinking about it; I also had an uncle who never married - He'd be 82 or 83 yo now if he was still alive I reckon? Anyway, he liked ladies well enough - 'N was never short for one (or more?) as I recall. He especially liked ones with cars I gather; As he didn't have a car. But he inherited a house when his mum croaked (he'd always lived with his folks - NEVER moved out of home.) Shacked up with a bird (similar age ta him) when his ma was no longer around ta cook his tucker 'n do his washing 'n ironing 'n darning - He was more into doing the yard.

Another one - A dude I read once who reckoned blokes having multiple sheilas just might have a bit going for it (for quite exceptional blokes) reckoned it was maybe workable if the bloke had a HUGE heart 'n was just an especially giving type - Who had the energy 'n desire ta genuinely contribute ta the wellbeing of more than one other soul.

Last one - Thinking about me ole workmate with his six wives: Yep, he was/is pretty special - A very genuine 'elder/patriarch' type dude what oversaw the lifting of his offspring out of the very primitive conditions he grew up in to being uni educated types. But fuck, didn't it take it out of him! He struck me as just being very, very genuinely tired the last time we had a meal together and a decent yarn. (And he knew it himself too.)

Different strokes for different folks; And under different circumstances.
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