Over-generalize much?Deersbee wrote:'fraid people take such stuff seriously, Americans are very fond of 12 steps, 3 phases, 4 keys or 9 whatever-systems.Trolldor wrote:The 'third date' significance is a staple of Merkin movies for sure.[/quote
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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LOL, certainly, liberal atheists are excluded from this proposition!FBM wrote:Over-generalize much?Deersbee wrote:'fraid people take such stuff seriously, Americans are very fond of 12 steps, 3 phases, 4 keys or 9 whatever-systems.Trolldor wrote:The 'third date' significance is a staple of Merkin movies for sure.[/quote
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I can't think of any of my American friends or family who think like that and most of them are christian and conservative.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Deersbee wrote:LOL, certainly, liberal atheists are excluded from this proposition!FBM wrote:Over-generalize much?Deersbee wrote:'fraid people take such stuff seriously, Americans are very fond of 12 steps, 3 phases, 4 keys or 9 whatever-systems.Trolldor wrote:The 'third date' significance is a staple of Merkin movies for sure.[/quote
Thank you."A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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There's a clue in the article indicating that you'd win: "Professor Dean Busby, from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life in Utah, said..." The Herald is quoting a study done by Mormons.Trolldor wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifemat ... 19945.html
$20 bucks says they were Xtian, and lying.Holding out improves marriage
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Not so fast . . . there are rewards for waiting to have sex until marriage, says an American study.
Not so fast . . . there are rewards for waiting to have sex until marriage, says an American study.
Couples who avoid sex before marriage end up having happier, more stable relationships, and a better time in bed, according to psychologists.
An American study backs the straightlaced view that sex should wait until your wedding night.
Researchers questioned more than 2000 married individuals about their relationships, and asked them when they started having sex.
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I'm curious... if they waited 'until marriage' to do the deed... they would not have had a sex life, so improving on that would be quite easy, no?
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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That's the point, making it scarce raised its worth. I'd say, do it when you desire it, because by the time you've reached what is considered reliable and trustworthy twosomeness by US-standards, particularly the part where all discord is communicated away and there is agreement on all practicalities of life, desire may have totally fizzled out.Trolldor wrote:I'm curious... if they waited 'until marriage' to do the deed... they would not have had a sex life, so improving on that would be quite easy, no?
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Oh, and it gets worse. The stated 'Mission' of the Brigham Young 'Family Studies Center' (from the Brigham Young University Center homepage):
Brigham Young, by the way, had 55 wives.
- The Family Studies Center is the research division of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The mission of the Family Studies Center is to make unique and valuable contributions to strengthening families by encouraging, sponsoring, coordinating, and disseminating the university's intellectual effort related to the family. The FUNDAMENTAL GUIDING DOCUMENT of the Family Studies Center is The Family: A Proclamation to the World, by the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family Studies Center associates seek to UNDERSTAND AND PROMOTE the principles articulated in this proclamation through research, with outreach activities for interested audiences worldwide.
Brigham Young, by the way, had 55 wives.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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Rather shocking reporting by the SMH to be honest, omitting this. I expected more from them.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Deersbee wrote:If you are religious, apparently, the married years are not lean. "God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... R_20101228
So you are correlating "Number of Offspring" with "Amount of Sex"? I think you may be missing the "Enough Sense to Use Contraception" term from your equation.
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You've got a point there! But still, they hardly go without sex.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Deersbee wrote:If you are religious, apparently, the married years are not lean. "God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... R_20101228
So you are correlating "Number of Offspring" with "Amount of Sex"? I think you may be missing the "Enough Sense to Use Contraception" term from your equation.
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Not without, no. But we can't be sure they do it more than once per kid.Deersbee wrote:You've got a point there! But still, they hardly go without sex.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Deersbee wrote:If you are religious, apparently, the married years are not lean. "God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... R_20101228
So you are correlating "Number of Offspring" with "Amount of Sex"? I think you may be missing the "Enough Sense to Use Contraception" term from your equation.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
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