I wont marry myself.

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  1. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    Dang! I'm heeding advice from Yahoo

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    https://ca.yahoo.com/news/apos-sologamy-apos-people-now-170718031.html

    Sologamy? Seriously, this was a new word for me, I guess the idea was as probable as the thought of men giving birth -- utter nonsense.

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    I don't imagine myself as orthodox, but that stuff is plain weird.

    Would anyone like to marry themselves?
     
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  3. DrKrettin Registered Senior Member

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    I just do not want to imagine the wedding night. If later you actually met somebody with whom you wanted a relationship, you would have to divorce yourself, which would be even weirder.
     
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  5. Seattle Valued Senior Member

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    I think Trump might like the idea.
     
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  7. C C Consular Corps - "the backbone of diplomacy" Valued Senior Member

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    Pseudo-marriage or domestic partnerships in this vein could be said to have already been around for centuries, with even their own brand of consummation. These unions just aren't officially recognized and their contracts consist of personal thoughts and feelings rather than being documented on legal / institutional papers.

    Like common-law marriage, "there is no formal ceremony to solemnize the joining before witnesses"; but it should be noted that these particular relationships (especially with the ego) do not qualify as that type of marriage, either. The first manual or battery-powered encounter could be deemed a vague ritual of self-infatuated commitment, yet that's hardly an outright public occasion of taking sub-matrimonial vows.

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  8. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    Without thinking about some Trump consummating viral sex video...

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    I can imagine myself wasted in Vegas and acting stupider than average, but I'm not going to research this... right now.
     
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  9. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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  10. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Sounds like a bad idea, certainly. Las Vegas is ghastly.

    Why not cut down the drink, find a decent man* and get married to him?

    *the sort of man who would not suggest Las Vegas for a honeymoon.
     
  11. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    I mentioned Vegas because of how easy it is to get married there.

    Just Google. First page, like seriously?

    A Canadian’s Guide To Getting Married In Las Vegas
    http://www.weddingbells.ca/travel/d...adians-guide-to-getting-married-in-las-vegas/
    I wonder if scopolamine (Devils Breath) is sold on the streets and people get married without even knowing the next day.
     
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  12. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Puts a new spin (for men) on

    Go f... yourself

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  13. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Utterly frigging stupid. I wish those people no ill but it would make more sense to say this demeans marriage than same sex marriage or interracial.

    The "idea" is nearly as ridiculous as something from nothing.

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  14. Seattle Valued Senior Member

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    Interracial marriage demeans marriage?
     
  15. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    I think he or she means self-marriage really does demean marriage, unlike these other things that some people (apparently, yikes!) may think does so.

    Living in the UK, the interracial one shocked me, I admit. I can't imagine anyone - outside the S. Asian community, at least - thinking interracial marriage demeans it.
     
  16. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Thanks.
    You never heard of that?
    I do not hear of it much these days unlike earlier in my life. It came out some during the big uproar over same sex marriage becoming legal here in the US.
    There is still significant racial prejudice in this country.

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  17. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    It's a statement.

    It is essentially someone standing up for themselves and saying 'I am not defined by my relationship with some other person, not am I meaningless without some other person'. This resonates with a lot of people.

    If one's culture puts enough emphasis on a particular "norm", then even the best of customs can have deleterious consequences on one's self-image. It's not really about marriage at all, it's about self-esteem.


    View this stunt in that light.
     
  18. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Oh there's plenty here too, but it seems less formalised, if I can put it that way. For instance the term "interracial" does not really exist in the UK, whereas it was not so long ago that Bob Jones "university" forbade something called "interracial dating".
     
  19. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    They can do that quite well without calling it marriage.

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  20. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    It's not like some person deciding to make a point actually "demeans" marriage.

    To suggest so is to suggest that virtually anyone who raises their voice or writes something down about a topic - and that you disagree with - is demeaning that topic.

    I made a giant poster that says "The love of money is the root of all evil". Am I demeaning capitalism?


    The only way something can be demeaned is by the willing collusion of a significant portion of the population buying into that viewpoint.

    In other words, don't give her any more power than she has.
     
  21. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    I did not say it demeans marriage.
    It is a mockery, illogical & a stupid careless misuse of the word.

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  22. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    I don't see how it matters what anyone's else's view of it is.
    All that matters is her view, and those with which it resonates.

    Judging an act of someone else to try to better themselves 'stupid and illogical' seems ... unwarranted and cynical.
    Why not just laud the attempt of someone to better themselves? Or ignore it?

    There's a german word for wishing ill upon other unnecessarily, but it escapes me right now.
     
  23. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Some say it is sensible & logical. Do you tell them not to judge?
    Don't understand why you mention wishing ill.
    Either it is a mockery or it is not. Seems so to me. I cannot say so without being villified?

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