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Is it possible we have been lied to for years?

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Zaha Torte

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If a business picks up too many contracts for one person to handle, you hire more, and you can take a step back from personally running each contract. Its utterly different from a marriage and the comparison is frankly bizarre to me.

A marriage is a lived partnership between two people. If one of those two has to divide their time up between multiple partners (and their partners children) you cant hire a crew to make up for the lost intimacy as your time and attention is split into halves or quarters.
Your personal feelings about the practice notwithstanding there are instances of God-sanctioned plural marriage in the Bible.

Not only this - but when practicing polygamy - a man was not required to take on more wives than he could handle.

In fact - men who had difficulty providing for just the one wife and their children were not required or encouraged to participate in the practice.

I don't know why you assumed that this practice required men to take on more than they could chew.
 
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Not only this - but when practicing polygamy - a man was not required to take on more wives than he could handle.
I should introduce you to my wife...
 
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Your personal feelings about the practice notwithstanding there are instances of God-sanctioned plural marriage in the Bible.

Not only this - but when practicing polygamy - a man was not required to take on more wives than he could handle.

In fact - men who had difficulty providing for just the one wife and their children were not required or encouraged to participate in the practice.

I don't know why you assumed that this practice required men to take on more than they could chew.
"Provide for" doesnt cut it. This is another way its not like a business. You cant just allocate resources to the various household "departments" and think youre done. You have to be personally available as a husband and father.

As for my "personal feelings" on the matter, looking back I dont think Ive revealed any.
 
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"Provide for" doesnt cut it. This is another way its not like a business. You cant just allocate resources to the various household "departments" and think youre done. You have to be personally available as a husband and father.

As for my "personal feelings" on the matter, looking back I dont think Ive revealed any.
You can provide your time, attention and love as well as any other "resource".

Look who just tried to reduce a man to no more than a wallet.

A marriage is a contract - there are contracts in business - a man having more than one wife does not change the structure or nature of the contract.

If you do not like the idea of plural marriage - take it up with God.
 
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Trump hates immigrants
But
Just appointed an immigrant from South Africa and the son of immigrants to a high level advisors position.

This is, while unintentional, very funny.

You get three guesses as to why this isn't the own you think it is.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Like when Trump actually was president and could have gone after Hillary to lock her up but chose not to and said she’s been through enough!
More likely it is just another thing he failed to do when he got elected, kinda like having Mexico pay for the wall or replacing the ACA with something better.
 
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Talk about spin! Interesting how you leave out “illegal “ immigrants who actually by definition are lawbreaking criminals.
I left it out because it is irrelevant to the obvious point I was making. But I get the need for distractions in the face of facts about Donald's past behavior.
 
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Actually Trump and Biden and Kamala have a DUTY to go after ILLEGAL immigrants.
Did Trump also have a DUTY to try and ban Muslims from the country?

I get it though, the need to spin this as being solely about undocumented workers is vital to get approval from the general public.
 
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So? People can make mistakes. He seems quite forgiving
Did you get that from his promises to use the military against his political opponents?

Come on. I get that the goal here is to try and dump all of Trump's previous bad behavior down the memory hole, but the spin should at least be somewhat plausible.

 
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They're not paying out 3/4 of a billion dollars for lying, for one thing. How's Fox doing on that metric?
I believe that Fox is failing in that metric unless you have some source that says otherwise.
 
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You can provide your time, attention and love as well as any other "resource".

Look who just tried to reduce a man to no more than a wallet.

A marriage is a contract - there are contracts in business - a man having more than one wife does not change the structure or nature of the contract.

If you do not like the idea of plural marriage - take it up with God.

Or the government since it's illegal.

Is the topic over now, I take it?
 
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More likely it is just another thing he failed to do when he got elected, kinda like having Mexico pay for the wall or replacing the ACA with something better.
Have you thought about finding a new hobby? These next four years are going to be hard on you.
 
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They're not paying out 3/4 of a billion dollars for lying, for one thing. How's Fox doing on that metric?
Have you heard how much Kamala paid the stars to come out and support her? I might have spoke in support a a rally for 10 million. Nobody would have cared what I said and I could have laughed all the way to the bank.
 
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Did Trump also have a DUTY to try and ban Muslims from the country?

I get it though, the need to spin this as being solely about undocumented workers is vital to get approval from the general public.
Nice pivot. Joe and Kamala wouldn’t even ban murders from entering the country. The blood of Laken Riley and others is on their hands.
 

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Look who just tried to reduce a man to no more than a wallet......
Hmmm. I literally said a husband needs to do a lot more than materially provide in the post you quoted. Theres no way you could have missed it. It was my whole point.

I think youre deliberately trying to misread me in order to make a point. This is no way to have a discussion.
 
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Did you get that from his promises to use the military against his political opponents?

Come on. I get that the goal here is to try and dump all of Trump's previous bad behavior down the memory hole, but the spin should at least be somewhat plausible.

Ah yes, the MSM loves painting Trump as the villain. He really isn’t. More conspiracy theories.
 

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Nice pivot. Joe and Kamala wouldn’t even ban murders from entering the country. The blood of Laken Riley and others is on their hands.
Amen!
 
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This is, while unintentional, very funny.

You get three guesses as to why this isn't the own you think it is.

-CryptoLutheran
It's an even more devastating own? Is it "pwnage"?
 
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