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The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

akomtu wrote: post #8

"People will no longer get married and will live with each other just for sexual pleasure." - taken from the Wikipedia page about kali yuga. There are many more entertaining observations there: Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life. People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs. Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy t…

> All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.

I mean that is a perfect description of LinkedIn and Instagram to some extent.

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by iammisc »

pcbro141 wrote: post #2

Interesting times ahead. Especially for Gen Z and younger, who rely heavily on dating apps instead of going out to meet new potential partners. Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I predict Gen Z birth rate will be less than 1 per woman, but this might not be a problem for Western economies for now as Western countries can ju…

Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again.

This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by bamboozled »

akomtu wrote: post #8

"People will no longer get married and will live with each other just for sexual pleasure." - taken from the Wikipedia page about kali yuga. There are many more entertaining observations there: Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life. People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs. Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy t…

People in Ancient Rome (for example) were into all those types of things way more than the society I live in now. Don't really see the connection.

Are Earthquakes truly more common now?

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Post by LurkingPenguin »

akomtu wrote: post #8

"People will no longer get married and will live with each other just for sexual pleasure." - taken from the Wikipedia page about kali yuga. There are many more entertaining observations there: Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life. People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs. Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy t…

Also from the Kali Yuga Wikipedia page:

> Lasting for 432,000 years (1,200 divine years), Kali Yuga began 5,122 years ago and has 426,878 years left as of 2021 CE.

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by dijit »

My ex wanted to get married and I was keen on the idea.

But it is a scary endeavour with no practical upside, high financial cost and absurd legal risk.

Why would I get married? Love? You can love without marriage.

If marriage is to prove you love someone then I don’t think I want to bother loving anyone.

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by LurkingPenguin »

pseingatl wrote: post #5

Getting into an institution with no easy way out discourages entry in the first place. Alimony has no place in a society where men and women are equal; child support is based on the paradigm of a traditional stay at home mom who never worked and who will never work, taking numbers from Kentucky(!?) in the late 50's, early 60's as a base and slowly increasing from there. Add to this the fact that to get out of the ins…

No doubt the things you mention make marriage less attractive, but I think it's also worth noting that more and more young couples are choosing not to have children. I suspect, based on my own experience and that of friends, that this is a big factor in decisions not to marry. Why get hitched if you're not planning to start a family?

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by gsich »

pseingatl wrote: post #5

Getting into an institution with no easy way out discourages entry in the first place. Alimony has no place in a society where men and women are equal; child support is based on the paradigm of a traditional stay at home mom who never worked and who will never work, taking numbers from Kentucky(!?) in the late 50's, early 60's as a base and slowly increasing from there. Add to this the fact that to get out of the ins…

That's a feature of marriage.

"Therefore, examine whoever binds forever".

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by drukenemo »

iammisc wrote: post #12
pcbro141 wrote: post #2

Interesting times ahead. Especially for Gen Z and younger, who rely heavily on dating apps instead of going out to meet new potential partners. Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I predict Gen Z birth rate will be less than 1 per woman, but this might not be a problem for Western economies for now as Western countries can ju…

Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again. This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.

I hope very much that doesn’t happen. That’s not pejorative.

Re: The Married Will Soon Be the Minority

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Post by dutchCourage »

iammisc wrote: post #12
pcbro141 wrote: post #2

Interesting times ahead. Especially for Gen Z and younger, who rely heavily on dating apps instead of going out to meet new potential partners. Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I predict Gen Z birth rate will be less than 1 per woman, but this might not be a problem for Western economies for now as Western countries can ju…

Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again. This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.

> we will have normal social structures again.

What do you consider "normal"?

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