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ParticipantLuck.
ParticipantPeople in love getting married are flying high on hormonal brain craziness such that the drug equivalent is a cocktail of 10 mg oxycontintin, 100 micrograms LSD, .5 grams cocaine and one (1) Cosmopolitan.
No small wonder the matches seem odd.
ParticipantWeddings, for married spectators, produce a feeling related in some respect to that of horror films. You know the actors are in grave danger.
You know something bad will happen at some point.
The actors are blithely unaware of any risk.
you want to yell at them, warn them, but the bride and groom are as unable to hear as celluloid images on a screen
And those vows. Oy
Why else would the vows make you promise to love honor and obey, before witnesses, unless the audience knows that at some point you will be unable to do just that
But it’s a good kind of danger.
Making crazy promises, binding future you, a self you cannot know, or perhaps even imagine can be a romantic, tragic and even intelligent thing to do.
a buy and hold strategy, with a reasonably good fund, or adequate mate, pays dividends. Though downturns are sickening, hold on …too much trading virtually guarantees failure.
I’m available to officiate weddings, if you need a quirky officiant. Reasonable fees. No guarantee the bride won’t despise me. Someday she’ll get it.
ParticipantThat’s part of it. But there’s more going on.
Hope, nostalgia
Beginnings
Clean slates.
Fear for them.More shit too.
I tried to find the opposite of schadenfreude and one option was mitgefuhl. (Compassion, condolences) but not sure that’ll work. May need a whole new word.
Participantwhy do married people enjoy weddings so much?
there’s a certain feeling that overwhelms married couples when they attend weddings, even if they despise each other at that time.
need a word for that.
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]If we can prove we are a simulation, I would feel better about it.
IMO after 2008/9 the TPTB got together and decided nothing can ever be allowed to crash for any length of time ever again.
Now that that’s said I expect a big crash to start next week.[/quote]
You don’t need proof. Just accept this is a simulation, and feel better.
Participant“the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” used to be good advice, but I think I’d limit it nowadays to “the market can remain irrational” and edit the remainder.
Or perhaps…
“It is very risky to be prudent.”
Further proof we are living in a video simulation.
Participant1. Some balance of gun rights
certainly should be permitted to bear arms during an insurrection at the Capitol, for instance.
2. Woman’s right to choose
the right to choose MURDER?
3. Some partial social safety net heavily incentivized for people to take some personal responsibility
fair enough. does that include discharge in bankruptcy for student loans?
4. A balanced social policy that addresses some glaring social inequity, not something ad-nausem
huh?
5. Some reasonable middle fiscal policy
Too late. The billionaires won.
6. Some in between amount of regulation meant to protect the environment and some amount of regulation meant to protect US businesses.
Too late; the earth is burning.
Participant[quote=barnaby33]Dumb people aren’t happier, they just express their rage in more comedically acceptable ways.
Stupidity in an age of diminishing resources isn’t a recipe for happier citizens, it’s a recipe for civil war.
Josh[/quote]decriminalize sapiosexuality between consenting adults.
Participantmy wife is a sapiosexual.
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer]Oh yeah, they both took care of that issue. We’re glad our daughter listened to us on that, since her real estate and other family holdings are considerable, as are his, from various sources. You always hope for the best in every marriage, but you never really know what might happen, so better safe than sorry. We’ve suggested prenups to all of our kids.[/quote]
a prenup should generally only be recommended where one’s childs income is greater than the target. Since media moguls generally make more than physicians, the correct advice likely is no prenup. heck the doctor’s income barely covers the car, driver, and occasional helicopter trip. But then again, consult one’s own high powered lawyer for actual advice.[/quote]
Or just tell your kids to marry up and not marry down, that would be easier. Why would someone with “considerable real estate holding” actually want to marry significantly downward where a prenup would be necessary….just saying..[/quote]
Wait, did flyer marry up or down? Was he the sucker or the genius?
Participant[quote=flyer]Oh yeah, they both took care of that issue. We’re glad our daughter listened to us on that, since her real estate and other family holdings are considerable, as are his, from various sources. You always hope for the best in every marriage, but you never really know what might happen, so better safe than sorry. We’ve suggested prenups to all of our kids.[/quote]
a prenup should generally only be recommended where one’s childs income is greater than the target. Since media moguls generally make more than physicians, the correct advice likely is no prenup. heck the doctor’s income barely covers the car, driver, and occasional helicopter trip. But then again, consult one’s own high powered lawyer for actual advice.
Participant[quote=an][quote=Coronita]No one cares.[/quote]
I wonder why even bother getting “married”? Why not just live together and if it no longer works out, just leave? It’s a lot less headache.[/quote]“A Ulysses pact or Ulysses contract is a freely made decision that is designed and intended to bind oneself in the future. The term is used in medicine, especially in reference to advance directives (also known as living wills), where there is some controversy over whether a decision made by a person in one state of health should be considered binding upon that person when they are in a markedly different, usually worse, state of health.
The term refers to the pact that Ulysses (Greek name Ὀδυσσεύς, Odysseus) made with his men as they approached the Sirens. Ulysses wanted to hear the Sirens’ song although he knew that doing so would render him incapable of rational thought. He put wax in his men’s ears so that they could not hear and had them tie him to the mast so that he could not jump into the sea. He ordered them not to change course under any circumstances and to keep their swords upon him and to attack him if he should break free of his bonds.
Upon hearing the Sirens’ song, Ulysses was driven temporarily insane and struggled with all of his might to break free so that he might join the Sirens, which would have meant his death.”
I believe that marriage is a ulysses pact
Participant[quote=flyer]Sounds like a good plan, Scaredy. I have no doubt that your kids will do just fine.
Our kids seem to be doing well, and enjoying their chosen fields. Our daughter, in particular, who always knew she wanted to be an MD had been practicing for about a year when she met “Mr. Right” via her mother’s introduction, and it was a whirlwind romance and wedding.
He’s an entertainment executive (or media mogul as my daughter would say) and they are loving their lives in Malibu, so I don’t know if she’ll continue to practice when they start a family or not. Having kids definitely keeps life interesting.[/quote]
Mazel tov! Any man in serious need of a pre nup is by definition senor right! Cali- hoolywoooood 4 ever
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