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Originally Posted by MDCnorthlands
If your religion prescribes that you spend your whole life with one woman, that religion isn't for me. I know kids from my rink who married their high school sweethearts and are still together. They must be tormented daily wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere. To me, they're ticking time bombs and by the time they hit 40 they'll probably be seeing prostitutes regularly.
The only thing I've followed religiously in my life is smoking, Costco hot dogs, gambling, and women.
MDCnorthlands
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I personally feel a sense of loss for you, MD. The idea of license mistaken as freedom, of self-gratuity vs. self-gift runs through your post, and through the culture at large. Authentic love is the acceptance of responsibility and obligation, willingly undertaken on my part and the part of countless individuals better than me. It's the difference between a culture built on family, vs. a utilitarian society whereby someone's worth isn't dependent on who they are, but by what they can provide.
