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Originally posted by FissionSurplus
You basically have two rant topics in your OP, Dawg.
Anyway...a somewhat confusing rant. Might as well have just said "eff romance, love, family, and mushy emotional ties". I think that would sum it up.
Originally posted by 123143
On the health care front, it's called social responsibility. Other countries offer nationalized health care. Enjoy your capitalism.
Marriage is indeed a business contract, but not how you think it is. Marriage back in the day,WAY BACK, was about professing their love and commitment to each other among family and close friends, ceremoniously. Sometimes a member of the clergy officiated, sometimes the couple exchanged vows to each other without a clwrgyman. They would then record their ceremony in a family Bible, and in the eyes of everyone, they were man and wife. Enter the state. They wanted couples to have permission to marry, so they required marriage ''licenses'' to get married. When you get a marriage license, you forfeit important leeway within your own marriage and you give the state certain rights to interfere in your marriage. Things like, divorce. A total stranger gets to dictate who gets what, and the state cashes in on the tax aspect of marriage. It gets much deeper, but that's the gist of it. ''Licensed'' marriages are a sham that benefits the state.
This is true, Seeker.
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by poloblack
Marriage is indeed a business contract, but not how you think it is. Marriage back in the day,WAY BACK, was about professing their love and commitment to each other among family and close friends, ceremoniously. Sometimes a member of the clergy officiated, sometimes the couple exchanged vows to each other without a clwrgyman. They would then record their ceremony in a family Bible, and in the eyes of everyone, they were man and wife. Enter the state. They wanted couples to have permission to marry, so they required marriage ''licenses'' to get married. When you get a marriage license, you forfeit important leeway within your own marriage and you give the state certain rights to interfere in your marriage. Things like, divorce. A total stranger gets to dictate who gets what, and the state cashes in on the tax aspect of marriage. It gets much deeper, but that's the gist of it. ''Licensed'' marriages are a sham that benefits the state.
Before that, (pre church) marriages were quite commonly arranged by the parents! Which indeed goes to show that originally, marriage was more of a business and social status issue, where a family could become more affluent by pawning off their son or daughter to a more wealthier and prominent family. That standard of practice precedes those of how we in todays society view it as a "religious" ceremony......