metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Now you got me excited-- er, I mean interested.
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are people supposed to be in monogamous relationships or polyamorous relationships?
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Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
I hope you read it. Or listen to the audio book. It's very interesting.
Dell
Asteroid insurance?
Back in the day when the Male population was being reduced constantly by war, and infant mortality so high, small civilizations saw it as survival, and females chose to accept it or chance hardships and no children.. I've heard from grand parents that during WW2 that hardly any young men were to be seen in town unless injured, or older men or pre adult boys.
Today we are fortunate to strive more for love, relationship, and family than physical survival. Naturally when it comes to love and companionship there is jealousy... no body usually wants to share the one they love with another... we want it all.
Even if it were legal, our nature wouldn't make it a good life for all involved... Lord knows it's hard enough to please and relate to one wife...
Riders
Well-Known Member
Polygamy not Polyamory. I was in a polyamory relationship with a guy who went off dated other women had sex with others watched porn and i had sex with other guys and tried to be in another relationship.But it didn't work for me I got worn out I can't do it now because of my addiction however, its not he same thing.
Polygamists married different wives it was usually the man not the woman, in polyamory women like me can go out and have different relationships. In Polygamy they are married to different people not jsut going out and having sex with others like me and Robert did.
The FLDS folks LDS folks the ones on tv shows are polygamists.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
And all partners are happy with the decision.
Most definitely
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
First/second Commandment "Love God above all" + "Love thy neighbor as thyself".
Many people take "Love" to mean "inluding having sex". The first Commandment PROVES (declaring the second is like unto the first) that this is not true
People confuse the word "Love" used in the Bible in this Commandment ... understandable ... "to like sex" is not same as "to like Love"
Etritonakin
Well-Known Member
While one man marrying one woman is what SHOULD ideally be done for the good of families and society....
God ALLOWS what should not be done for a purpose.
It might seem strange, but allowing things to get messed up is part of how God teaches us. Experience of evil is used to eventually completely eradicate evil.
A good example is that of clean and unclean foods.
In Eden, they were essentially vegetarians -if not Vegans.
Afterward pretty much anything was allowed.
After that only some things.
Later, not only will humans not eat animals, but animals will not eat each other.
It made more "food" more readily available -but had adverse physical effects -as well as a positive overall psychological effect (people eventually becoming averse to harming and consuming animals)
God "gave the creation over to futility in hope".
God ALLOWS what should not be done for a purpose.
It might seem strange, but allowing things to get messed up is part of how God teaches us. Experience of evil is used to eventually completely eradicate evil.
A good example is that of clean and unclean foods.
In Eden, they were essentially vegetarians -if not Vegans.
Afterward pretty much anything was allowed.
After that only some things.
Later, not only will humans not eat animals, but animals will not eat each other.
It made more "food" more readily available -but had adverse physical effects -as well as a positive overall psychological effect (people eventually becoming averse to harming and consuming animals)
God "gave the creation over to futility in hope".
Muffled
Jesus in me
I believe people are sinners so they opt ought of monogamy settling for something less good but not necessarily evil. Do you want to live in poverty become a vegetarian, lock yourself away from women in a monastery. God will allow it but does want better for us.
Duke_Leto
Active Member
We share roughly the same amount of DNA with bonobos, who are even more promiscuous than chimps!
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Yep-- and they're cuter. Actually married one, and I really go bananas over her.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Let me ask you the same question that the medieval Rabbis asked. Can you give to more than one wife all that she needs? Can you provide for her all the material necessities of life for her and all her children? And what is even more important, can you give to her all the time for listening, for cuddling, for fixing dinner together, for sitting on the porch, for watching TV together, for helping all her children with their homework and going to their ballgames and dance recitals? And if you have the time for even that one wife, do you also have time for the second? Because, quite honestly, most men find they don't have the time and money and heart enough for the first wife, let alone another.
In the ancient cultures of the past, it was NOT true that every man had more than one wife. Only a very few VERY rich men had multiple wives, because THEY had the wealth with which to support them. So even back then, monogamy was the norm, polygamy was the exception to the rule.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
The difference is, we have enough of a conscience to know better than to cheat. Our sense of justice and empathy is more developed than that of other primates.
Duke_Leto
Active Member
It's not cheating when you agree to have an open relationship with your partner.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Societal values are based on what is best for the group, not what works for the exception to the rule.
The West, especially those who lean to the left, emphasizes an extreme individualism. This is a cultural value that should not be imposed on other cultures. And I would say that the West needs to re-examine the extremeness of its own position, and the relative worth of the value of community. Those on the right tend to have a greater sense of the worth of community and their values underscore this sense. There is, I think, a healthy balance. Things get awful when a culture goes too far one way or the other.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Just because there are no happy polygamous marriages in the bible does not mean that there were no happy polygamous marriages.
There are individualists and collectivists on both the right and left. It's mostly America that has this individualist slant and America is more right-wing than most Western countries.
whirlingmerc
Well-Known Member
On the other hand if the Bible is a guide to life as it claims it carries allot of weight
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
It is also a guide to doing many harmful things, slavery, for one.