The Impending Extinction of Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
Marriage is as relevant today as the horse drawn carriage.
— Xenocrates
How convenient.
The biggest problem with the institution of marriage likely has very little to do with what we’re doing wrong with marriage as opposed to marriage itself. If you’re having marital problems, you may want to consider the fact that marriage is fairly antiquated. In this post, I will cover the remaining five of the top ten issues with the popular concept of marriage and why they are now a recurring cause of failure in marital relationships as societies continue to evolve.
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The Impending Extinction of Marriage (Part 1 of 2)
Everyone falls in love with wedding days, but few of us fall in love with marriage.
— Xenocrates
Marriage is dying. Studies show that marriage is on the decline all over the world. More and more people are opting out of being married. The number of people who are married in the most developed societies around the world are at an all time low. But as you’ll note from the above linked article, this is not a cyclical trend. Marriage has been on a steady decline since the 1950′s. What gives? I explore this phenomenon in this post about the slow death of love.
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The Point of Pointless Rituals
An idea doesn’t need to make sense to be popular.
— Xenocrates
Why do we torture ourselves each new year by making promises to ourselves we won’t keep?
Now that my lengthy vacation is over (and I can continue updating this hallowed space as the fine purveyor of humanity’s oddest propensities), I have a trick question to ask the lot of you: Have you ever wondered why we create so much excitement over days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and a myriad of others? Why do we make new year’s resolutions we’re going to break anyway? It’s only ONE day right? So what exactly is the excitement for? I got asked this a LOT while on vacation. There is a point to all these rituals. Allow me to explain:
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The Infidel’s Guide To Islam (3 of 3) — Islamic Governance
According to Islamic law, freedom and democracy are punishable vices.
— Xenocrates
Sharia Law is notoriously brutal — especially to women.
As Islam exploded across North Africa and Southern Europe, engulfing the Byzantine Empire to the west and the Arabian peninsula to the east, it became entrenched in several sovereign states in these regions, retaining much of the primitive ideologies of the day, which includes systems of governance and law which have been notorious for their misogyny and brutality.
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The Infidel’s Guide to Islam (2 of 3) — The Anatomy of Jihad
According to the Qur’an, there’s no such thing as a Muslim Extremist.
—Xenocrates
This is the true intention of Islam. Anything else is a pacifist lie.
I’ve always wondered if Muhammad were still alive, if he would have wept over what all these modern day Islamic governments have done to their people and how they may have misread, misinterpreted or utterly misconstrued his teachings. He originally set out to unify all Arabia. They in turn invented Sharia law and justification for flying passenger jets into office buildings. Now western governments have tried to appease Islamic moderates by suggesting that Islam has no political agenda. Take a long hard look at the picture above. This is far from the truth.
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