Recent content by Mling

As I said, I came out of christianforums retirement because I thought you were posing an interesting question. It's stopped being interesting, and if we continue, this conversation will turn into exactly the sort argument that I was trying to get away from. For the safety of any romantic...

Being persuaded that a thing is true and right and good still involves actively embracing the idea yourself. What you're describing is still, "I *have* to do this because everybody says I have to. Even Pastor said I have to--he said that *God* says I have to. If I don't accept this, I'll get...

I've pretty much left Christianforums for all but occasional lurking when I'm bored, but I think that's a really interesting question, so I guess I'll pop back in for a moment. The conventional wisdom is that children can't give meaningful consent because they're so vulnerable to...

It's not entirely about tax breaks etc, of course. It's about wanting to be married. What "concession" are you talking about? The only concession I've made is, as I described previously, taking better care of my health. And really, that was something I've known I needed to do for a while--I...

I know that insurance works on principles that I really don't like. That's why, when you first asked specifics of how I would participate in it, I brushed it off because the context (the way insurance as a whole works) was too messed up for such a specific question to be meaningful. If it was...

And you trust people specifically to the degree that you know, or feel it is safe to presume, that they are trustworthy. You trust them within their level of expertise--the shepherd is likely to know about terrain and direction, but not about specifics of military forces-- and their not knowing...

Well...evidence needs to actually be relevant to be useful, and what we're talking about is small pockets of plural relationships in a broader social context that promotes monogamy. This is a very different thing than a culture which promotes polygamy. I understand the problem that...

And then the guy finds himself back with just one partner, because his first wife has gone and divorced him! It's not polyamory if your partner thinks you're monogamous. That's just cheating. The fundamental point does remain that it would change a basic essence of all marriages, in that they...

Not paying income tax doesn't necessarily mean you aren't working. It means your income is low enough that you are exempt from paying taxes on it. The unemployment rate is under 10% right now.

That's why I divided "wanting lots of sex" from "wanting multiple relationships." There are probably a fair number of people who find *some* aspects of poly appealing, but ultimately don't want to deal with some of the complications that they can create. Under "upbringing and social norms," for...

I am a real person. My positions are more nuanced than the 2-dimensional stereotype you keep trying to force me, and this conversation, into. I'm not set on the "whatever" aspect. For example, I think most addictive drugs should be illegal, (exception being the obvious--drugs that are...

I can't control how you feel. Every answer i've given you has been "straight." You just arent getting what I'm saying, and I've pretty much run out of ways to say the same thing over annd over again in different words. And have you read my posts in other threads? That's quite a feat. I'm not...

Regardless of.the virginity aspect, why would anybody want to treat sex in such a competetive, antagonistic way? One person does something *to* (not with) somebody else because the second person "gives in?" (Not "also wants to"). This is supposed to be a loving experience people create together...

Lol, wow. Cheapest of cheap shots. Are still trying to pretend you're a poor innocent victim when forum conversations turn nasty and personal? Yes, I'm fat. I see nothing wrong with it, but i know how it sounds on the lips of somebody who does, and especially somebody who would bring it up in...