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May 28, 2008

Some questions etc.

 

Does a child need beer? Coffee, tea? Coca Cola? Cigarettes?

Do companies make and sell products because they care about people?

Do the people in the United States who run Coca Cola care about people in Romania?

Who controls Coca Cola? The shareholders. What do they care about? Money.

You invest in stocks to make money.

Did parents arrange marriages because they cared about the children and teenagers they created?

Were marriage licenses created because the people who created them cared about the people who were being married?

What does it really mean to be married?

What is more important: a marriage license or love?

Do people who call themselves Christians believe that Adam and Eve were married? If so, do they believe "God" married them? When did "God" stop marrying people and when did humans start to "pronounce" someone as man and wife?

Is it possible to love more than one person romantically? Is it possible to need more than one person romantically or sexually?

What if you have needs but you are stopped from fulfilling them?

Sanctioned. Sanctified. What do those mean?

Why do gays want to have their relationships sanctioned or sanctified by society or churches

1 : to make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (as ratification)
2 : to give effective or authoritative approval or consent to

Sanctions, plural of sanction, punishment or permission depending on context (from wikipedia)

 


Please forgive them. They know not what they have done.

They were born into their cultures and sub-cultures. It was not their fault.

It's not his fault he's from Texas.

 

(I wrote this after I read about Brian Rand, the US soldier who killed himself after being sent to Iraq. I was thinking of how Mayer, Salovey, Caruso don't really understand emotional intelligence and have unintentionally misled people. The last one is about a guy I met in Bulgaria from Texas who used to shoot at Mexicans trying to cross the river into the USA.)