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Prearranged marriages actually have better success rate than most western marriages. I mean why does India have the lowest divorce rate in the entire world? Obviously there doing something right
Or the people feel so much stigma against divorce they choose to stay unhappy just as their parents were.

I can guarantee that if someone had told me who to marry I would have told them in no uncertain terms where to shove it.
 
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Oh Free-thinkers from a future age, please look back at us and be thankful this ground was tilled and covered long before you were born.

In Dawkins name we pray, amen :bow:

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Tilled and covered by christian hands and economy.
 
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We each have a right to our own opinions and if it came to a vote, we'd all have an equal vote. So mine doesn't matter any more than yours. I'm just trying to explain why.

How about we all have our opinions, respect each other's right to those opinions, and FORGET about voting? My rights should not be subject to the vote of others. (neither should yours)
 
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Or the people feel so much stigma against divorce they choose to stay unhappy just as their parents were.


wow, proceeding to speak for the billions of india's marriage. Coming from the western country which has the highest divorce rates in the world I doubt your qualified to discern what constitutes a true happy marriage or not. Maybe countrys like Greece, Macedonia or Arminia which has very high marriage success but not most western countrys who don't know their butt from first base of what constitutes a good marriage.
 
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wow, proceeding to speak for the billions of india's marriage. Coming from the western country which has the highest divorce rates in the world I doubt your qualified to discern what constitutes a true happy marriage or not. Maybe countrys like Greece, Macedonia or Arminia which has very high marriage success but not most western countrys who don't know their butt from first base of what constitutes a good marriage.
Have you considered that maybe people feel more able to express their dissatisfaction in the US than in those countries so the only reason the marriages tend to last longer is that the women have less recourse? It is not a success if the people are unhappy.
 
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So why is it the Blue states pay more in taxes which goes to funding the welfare of the red states.


Maybe because most blue states(California, New York) have higher population and bigger economys?

lol
 
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The difference is that being gay is a choice and is wrong. Being black is genetic and not wrong. Feel free to disagree on gay being a choice/being wrong, but I am simply telling you MY belief.

You are entitled to your belief. But you are NOT entitled to legislate or discriminate against me based on your opinion.
 
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Have you considered that maybe people feel more able to express their dissatisfaction in the US than in those countries so the only reason the marriages tend to last longer is that the women have less recourse? It is not a success if the people are unhappy.


And how do you know they are unhappy? You proceed to speak from everyone outside the western countrys? Maybe the women there don't need to speak out there in the first place because they don't have unrealistic grandoise expectations most western women do and have stronger will and stronger family moral? Think of that maybe?

Based on stats America has the highest rate of unhappy marriages actually and is the number 1 leader in divorce in the WORLD with england and sweden right behind them.

Keep shooting yourself in the foot Ophidia.
 
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And how do you know they are unhappy? You proceed to speak from everyone outside the western countrys? Maybe the women there don't need to speak out there in the first place because they don't have unrealistic grandoise expectations most western women do and have stronger will and stronger family moral? Think of that maybe?

Based on stats America has the highest rate of unhappy marriages actually and is the number 1 leader in divorce in the WORLD with england and sweden right behind them.

Keep shooting yourself in the foot Ophidia.
I actually have read up on the subject and those women that choose to speak out or get divorced are often ostracized from family and friends so they choose to stay in an unhappy relationship, there have been documentaries also stating this. You just choose to think it is all hunky dory everywhere else when it is often the fact that women are considered second class citizens and it is perfectly acceptable in those cultires for the men to have mistresses.
 
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Is there some gay communications outlet trying to tell you about our sex lives? I've never heard of it.
Maybe I am weird but I enjoy learning about the sex lives of others and about how to always improves mine.
 
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Per capita the blue states have far higher incomes.

Maybe because California and New York lead in the worlds consumerism, media, hollywood, marketing and production and have an extremely high living price to live there(and hence greater taxation on million dollar homes and buisnesses)?

Its obvious high population and economy states will pay more taxes

Oh by the way the democrats were originally the main pro-slavery party who wanted to keep slavery illegal. Good to know your roots.
 
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Maybe because California and New York lead in the worlds consumerism, media, hollywood, marketing and production and have an extremely high living price to live there(and hence greater taxation on million dollar homes and buisnesses)?

Its obvious high population and economy states will pay more taxes

Oh by the way the democrats were originally the main pro-slavery party who wanted to keep slavery illegal. Good to know your roots.
Just because Democrats were that way then does not mean they are now and since you are all about roots it was the Republican party that was for the pro-choice rights of women until the Reagan era.
 
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They have the same right as me - to marry someone of the opposite sex. Whether they want to act on that right or not is up to them.

That is outrageous. It is not the same right, and you are dishonest at best to make this claim. You have the right to marry the person you love. We do not share that right, yet.
 
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Maybe because California and New York lead in the worlds consumerism, media, hollywood, marketing and production and have an extremely high living price to live there(and hence greater taxation on million dollar homes and buisnesses)?

Its obvious high population and economy states will pay more taxes

Oh by the way the democrats were originally the main pro-slavery party who wanted to keep slavery illegal. Good to know your roots.
Look up per-capita.
 
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I actually have read up on the subject and those women that choose to speak out or get divorced are often ostracized from family and friends so they choose to stay in an unhappy relationship, there have been documentaries also stating this. You just choose to think it is all hunky dory everywhere else when it is often the fact that women are considered second class citizens and it is perfectly acceptable in those cultires for the men to have mistresses.


Thats funny cause I live near a compound that has alot of immigrants from india and they seem far from what your describing. In fact they seem to live in alot more peaceful marriages than our western neighbors that its almost an embarassment compared. The mutual respect I've seen between wife and husband from their familys almost shames us in comparison.

Less of the TV and more of reality...
 
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Even the Pope is bound to get something right from time to time it seems.

This particular Pope seems every bit the Christian Peter, John, James, Jude and Paul are.

His bravery against the oppressive tide of those proliferating sickness and perversion sweeping the western world, can only be a sign that God is not done with saving the Church from those committed to destroy it by any means necessary.

Including calling repentance and forgiveness a hate crime and labeling abomination activism to celebrate.

Truly a seperating of the sheep and goats, the wheat and weeds and the chaff from the kernal is awakening in The Church Universal.

Ekklesia The Church, the original "Called Out Ones."

May God richly bless this brother in Christ.
 
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