Laudate_Dominum Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Aubrey de Grey [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iYpxRXlboQ"]TED talk on aging[/url] (a good intro to what the guy is about) [url="http://edge.org/response-detail/2790/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation"]The Overdue Demise of Monogamy (answer to Edge annual question, 2012)[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='homeschoolmom' timestamp='1326919312' post='2371097'] My boys don't cheat. [/quote] Nor do I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1326920223' post='2371109'] My husband cheats, and there's going to be a killing alright. I've told him I won't kill him, but will the woman who went after a married man. Him, I will make suffer watching me go off to jail because of his infidelity. I'm not worried though, he worships the ground I walk on. [/quote] I told my husband before we ever got married if I found out he cheated on me his arse would be on the curb and I'd take him for everything he's worth. Good thing my husband worships the ground I walk on, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
his_remnant Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='DMcB' timestamp='1326920027' post='2371107'] Random thoughts: - Being selfish isn't nearly as satisfying as some make it out to be. [/quote] but isn't that one of the hardest lessons to learn. I'm in my 20's and it's hard to face, well, that I can't and shouldn't live only for myself in any aspect of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1326919141' post='2371095'] [i]Boys [/i]need to cheat. [i]Boys [/i]judge their happiness solely on physical pleasure and not intimacy. [i]Boys [/i]don't have the emotional strength or testicular fortitude to keep on loving when it's no longer hormones, but a daily decision to hold someone up over yourself and your needs. Our bodies aren't toddlers -- they can and should be disciplined. And if marriage leads to anger and contempt, then marriage is not the issue. It's the people involved. That's not to say good people don't struggle in marriage ... but getting rid of commitment and monogamy is not and never will be the answer. Stuff like this depresses me. The world needs men that are really, truly [i]men.[/i] [/quote] Women are just as bad as men when it comes to cheating. I think they're better at it and more sneaky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1326929720' post='2371177'] I told my husband before we ever got married if I found out he cheated on me his arse would be on the curb and I'd take him for everything he's worth. Good thing my husband worships the ground I walk on, too. [/quote] Isn't adultery against the law for military guys? Just send him to Leavenworth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1326933486' post='2371200'] Isn't adultery against the law for military guys? Just send him to Leavenworth. [/quote] Yeah, it's a punishable offense. It probably depends on who's in charge, though, because I can't think of anyone who has been given the max penalty. I know of one person who barely got in trouble, and for the multitude of offenses she should have gotten worse. "[i][b]Maximum punishment. [/b][/i] Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 1 year" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Really, monogamy is killing marriage? I imagine the mortality rate for husbands who cheat is much higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithLuin Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The prevalence of divorce is making people say all sorts of ridiculous things about marriage. I don't think our culture even remembers what marriage [i]is[/i] sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 real men don't cheat monogamy one of the greatest joys and graces of marriage fathering a child does not necessarily make you a man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_nine Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 we're just animals. monogamy is too hard. we have hormones. repression is psychologically damaging wahhhhhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 No. Apparently it is only men who are the animals. However, women are catching up. Has anyone seen this idiotic bumper sticker? [img]http://www.stickershoppe.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/d27.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_nine Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1326923346' post='2371128'] I was reading something from that Aubrey de Grey dude the other day in which he was predicting that monogamy would soon be dead - and good riddance. [/quote] "It is simply that there is nothing about sex that morally distinguishes it from other activities that are performed by two (or more) people collectively." I facepalmed multiple times. I'm almost tempted to say to these folks, "fine have it your way and we'll see whether or not we end up with a utopia or a society in the [mod]bad word[/mod]." That's not a very good attitude maybe but I'm at the point where I think it's going to have to get worse before things get better. Edited January 20, 2012 by Lil Red edited a bad word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 "Monogamy is killing marriage." Next thing you know water will be killing alcoholics. And broccoli will be killing fat people. And money will kill the economy. Oh wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fides' Jack Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1326920223' post='2371109'] My husband cheats, and there's going to be a killing alright. I've told him I won't kill him, but will the woman who went after a married man. Him, I will make suffer watching me go off to jail because of his infidelity. I'm not worried though, he worships the ground I walk on. [/quote] I had to reread this like 5 times before I understood what you meant. I thought you were saying that your husband was cheating on you and that you're going to jail for killing the other woman... I'm glad that's not what you meant!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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