I am sick and fucking tired of typing out a bunch of shit on a post and then I look up and it just got erased and I can’t undo it because somewhere along the line everything got selected and I deleted it in one fucking keystroke.
WHAT
THE
FUCK
AM
I
DOING
WRONG?!?!?!
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It’s enough to make a nigga start throwing controllers again.
Not really open, it comes with stipulations. He can only have sex with another woman only if it’s a threesome and she’s present. Ashton apparently broke that rule.
Why get married then? Why not just “kick it” as the kids say?
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I think I should make a “Controller Throwing Zone” thread like I did a long time ago. Not being able to dribble, pass, or shoot consistently in NBA2K12 is taking me there.
I’m playing through Bayonetta with Jeanne right now, trying to go for good medals and i tell ya I’m right there with ya. Shes so fucking hard for me to play with.
I have no problem with people getting married. I’m married. I know a lot of people who are happily married.
Real talk… too many kids today just wanna go through life and not take a chance on anything that doesn’t have a reset button. That’s why people aren’t scared to go to prison. It’s just a reset button with bars around it. You do your time and your life is reset when you get out and barely anything has changed. You can’t reset a marriage even if you get a divorce. People wanna put restrictions on it and prenups and get more alimony and all that…
WTH.
Doesn’t anybody move in with the other person first anymore? It’s what I did.
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Nothing’s wrong with marriage. Marriage isn’t and never has been the problem. There is nothing wrong with promising to live the rest of your life with someone you love and them agreeing to do the same. It’s a great ideal.
People (or rather, young, stupid people) are what is wrong with marriage.
That’s not really what Marriage was about tho. It’s been twisted into something it’s not.
And while young people are stupid, I’d say turning love into a Marketing Scheme has done more damage to it then young stupid ever could. Valantines day for example is a fucking joke.
I’m pretty sure “open relationship” to a lot of people just means “you can have threesomes with me sometimes under really stringent conditions rather than never” as opposed to “you’re generally free to have with people under certain, reasonable conditions”. Even without the way “love”, marriage and (the myth of) monogamy are marketed socially, many humans are creatures easily made jealous.
Status, the illusion of a moral high ground, lower taxes, naivete, the irrational fear of being alone forever and thus a “loser” for it due to social conditioning, etc.
I could go on.
Do it!
Eh, not really, though I’ve been considering maybe doing that; I have a lot of pictures. I think I’ve only changed it…thrice (since the new SRK) and I only had that Caim avatar for like a couple of weeks, of which I mostly wasn’t even on SRK.
Of course, I could always go back to the Flapjack one you like so much.
Sadly, this is pretty much true, especially since I know there have been homeless people who commit crimes strictly to get arrested since being in jail or even prison is nicer than being on the streets in too many cases.
While I suppose I could ultimately agree nothing is wrong with the concept of marriage in and of itself, I would argue that everything you’re saying about marriage applies to just generally making a commitment to people you care about. This is why I don’t feel marriage is nearly as especial as most people have been duped into believing–I would probably feel this way even if all that current bullshit attached to marriage magically disappeared overnight.
When people think of marriage, they tend to think of religious institutions rather than a strictly legal construct as well, thus marriage (unnecessarily) takes on a religious aspect, which even if you don’t qualms towards religion obviously adds some inflexibility to it and some (unrealistic) expectations of what it “should” be; I’d probably even go as far as arguing that the religious aspect of it (or something along the same lines of what I view as vain hope) are what is responsible for the equally damning naivete of a “one, true love” (that often goes along with marriage) and all that jazz.
However, I don’t want to go on an anti-marriage rant (right now), so I’ll just leave off with asking a (perhaps rhetorical) question: If people are what’s wrong with marriage, then why bother having marriage around in the first place?
(Or are you pushing for literal animal husbandry, TIS? I’d like to not think thurst rubbed off on you.)
Please don’t get me started about Valentine’s Day again. There’s four months before I have to disembowel the very concept of that and I need to get around to Thanksgiving & Christmas first, thank you.
I guess I’ve been naive about marriage then. When I and my wife first thought about marriage our main thoughts went simply like this…
#1 Do we love each other? Yes #2 Is this a temporary love? No. #3 Are we gonna stay faithful? Yes. #4 Am I good with the kids? Yes. #5 Do we both have stable jobs to make enough money for all of us. Yes.
In any case, I’ve seen marriages that have been extremely stable on all counts fail simply because one party hated the stability/monotony or just “fell out of love” and other BS. If you feel that marriage works for you, then by all means enjoy the matrimonial bliss you’ve attained.