I don't know numbers, but China had the one child per family law a while and the culture favors males. Not saying only boys were born, but I recall hearing it being disproportional.
I always figured they'd become a generally gay dominate country, but I got to thinking that maybe they could take our spare women since we have more women and alot of men in prison who may come out indifferent to their partners' sex upon release.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
rainbows
I was taught in Sunday school that God gave us rainbows as a reminder that He will never try to flood the Earth again. I wonder that using the rainbow on a flag is meant to remind or mock that promise?
Friday, June 26, 2015
Same-sex Marriage
The various headlines in my Twitter feed say that marriage is not limited to a man and woman union. I'm not surprised, though I feel slightly uneasy with the SCOTUS ruling.
The origins of getting a marriage license is based on the notion it prevented bigamy, thus gave legality of passing estates to the results of legal unions.
My understanding of biology along with what I understand from The Origin of Species makes the long term ramifications of same sex marriage murky when compared to traditional marriage when considering family lineage.
Bastards used to be frowned upon. I'm not sure when bigamy became frowned upon.
The meaning of marriage has been embedded into religion, so it's naturally embedded into the tax code.
Marriage laws have had other lax moments such as those involving common law marriage.
I remember many years ago, the actor Nick Nolte was sued for palimony by a woman who claimed to have been his common law wife back when they both lived in a commune community. I googled trying to find it, but only got this.
Now, suppose that you have a roommate with whom you have no physical love, but share in household tasks or clean after because he's a slob and you can't stand too much filth for a given amount time while you are in college or getting established in a rent is too high city, does that mean you can sue for your share of your roommate's wealth if he becomes rich or famous many years later?
The origins of getting a marriage license is based on the notion it prevented bigamy, thus gave legality of passing estates to the results of legal unions.
My understanding of biology along with what I understand from The Origin of Species makes the long term ramifications of same sex marriage murky when compared to traditional marriage when considering family lineage.
Bastards used to be frowned upon. I'm not sure when bigamy became frowned upon.
The meaning of marriage has been embedded into religion, so it's naturally embedded into the tax code.
Marriage laws have had other lax moments such as those involving common law marriage.
I remember many years ago, the actor Nick Nolte was sued for palimony by a woman who claimed to have been his common law wife back when they both lived in a commune community. I googled trying to find it, but only got this.
Now, suppose that you have a roommate with whom you have no physical love, but share in household tasks or clean after because he's a slob and you can't stand too much filth for a given amount time while you are in college or getting established in a rent is too high city, does that mean you can sue for your share of your roommate's wealth if he becomes rich or famous many years later?
Monday, June 1, 2015
irony
How do you make God laugh? Make a plan.
That unfunny joke is what my brother once used to start a phone conversation with me. My brother always told bad jokes. It was his way of moving forward... I have no idea what or why because I always dreaded talking to my brother after he moved to California.
Nothing he says is of interest to me. I somehow talked to him an hour last week about baseball. Yes, baseball. He never cared for it much after high school until the last few years when he'd talk to our dad.
I am trying to give up on sports, but baseball is my stumblingblock. My withdraw from sports made conversation with my dad minimal. His politics clashed with mine so he thought I was evil, thus it was to be avoided if he didn't want to be made a fool.
Anyways, I don't know how much longer I have for this world, but I'm finally at peace with much of my existence, and that scares me. It means a shoes is gonna drop or something else to that effect. Maybe I'm not blissful enough since I still have an ego that resents stuff.
Most of the time I laugh off the twists and turns at which points my life has deviated from any form of plan I ever embarked upon. My life is a series of unremarkable meanderings that always netted the opposite intended effect. Best example was my going to grad school with the intention of being a hermit.
That unfunny joke is what my brother once used to start a phone conversation with me. My brother always told bad jokes. It was his way of moving forward... I have no idea what or why because I always dreaded talking to my brother after he moved to California.
Nothing he says is of interest to me. I somehow talked to him an hour last week about baseball. Yes, baseball. He never cared for it much after high school until the last few years when he'd talk to our dad.
I am trying to give up on sports, but baseball is my stumblingblock. My withdraw from sports made conversation with my dad minimal. His politics clashed with mine so he thought I was evil, thus it was to be avoided if he didn't want to be made a fool.
Anyways, I don't know how much longer I have for this world, but I'm finally at peace with much of my existence, and that scares me. It means a shoes is gonna drop or something else to that effect. Maybe I'm not blissful enough since I still have an ego that resents stuff.
Most of the time I laugh off the twists and turns at which points my life has deviated from any form of plan I ever embarked upon. My life is a series of unremarkable meanderings that always netted the opposite intended effect. Best example was my going to grad school with the intention of being a hermit.
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