Posted on 01/23/2005 8:03:29 PM PST by churchillbuff
In fact, it wasn't David's 7 wives that ticked JHVH off. That was fine and dandy. It wasn't until David covetted another mans wife that it was considered a "sin".
Moses had more than one wife. Solomon. Ezra. Esau. The list goes on.
True, but in just about every instance it caused trouble later.
They keep talking about "commitment." Commitment to what exactly? "You keep using that word. I do no' think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya
Gee, he sounds like a looker.
I'm not a man, but I would wager that's because they are getting ready to kick that guys ass.
Sometimes even one wife is trouble...I have a friend who is waiting for a comet to hit him..
Some tribal cultures do practice polyamory, but it's rarer than polygamy. Polygamy goes back to the time of the Old Testament patriarchs.
It's outlawed explicitly in the New Testament (every man should have his own wife and vice versa or something like that). I don't think it's outlawed in the Old Testament since a lot of thos patriarchs had more than one wife. Does anyone know if Judaism specifically prohibits polygamy?
A Rabbi Gershom issued a thousand year ban around the tenth century.
You should lead an effort to get everyone one of the 1,000 attendees to call and write the paper. There are finally chinks appearing in the MSM's armor. Attack. Fight the bias. Given the CBS fiasco, the timing is perfect, and issues like this are perfect because the bias is so blatant, so undeniable and indefensible.
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'Open marriage' by another name. The situations I am familiar with wound up with really messed up kids. Totally disfunctional situation.
It's his right to state an opinion on "immoral," but in looking at the rest of nature it seems that monogamy is the rarity, the one that may be going against the laws of nature.
Why? I know a monogamous pagan couple that's already way past the national average in length of marriage.
Not exactly. I had friends who tried an open marriage against my advice, and it ruined them. But that was sex outside the marriage with different people, basically a license to cheat.
In this case we're talking polyamory, basically one big marriage, everybody loving the other as husband and wife, and in this case wife and wife. Notice this one didn't dissolve until someone cheated -- went outside the marriage -- just like in a real marriage.
Still, are they out of their minds? Especially when children are involved!
Lord have mercy, are these folks self-centered, or what? It doesn't matter what it does to anyone else as long as it feels good to them.
LOL! The "head chimp" looks a lot like Marshall Applewhite. ;)
You're right. Polyamory (or at least, serial monogamy) is probably the way we are designed to operate, biologically. Culturally, though, it causes all sorts of difficult problems.
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