tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post1114257015934740334..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: Just wait 'til you see the cake!Lucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-7294354486797592842011-12-22T09:08:05.068+13:002011-12-22T09:08:05.068+13:00So married couples not having children is wrong An...So married couples not having children is wrong Andrei? That's a peculiar one. I didn't mistake desire or passion - that stuff usually subsides after time, but love remains.<br /><br />I'd prefer a marriage between two loving adults over a meaningless 'showmance' marriage that ridicules the concept of marriage for the rest of us.Just my opinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614554113040355062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-73703747205587432962011-12-22T09:04:38.166+13:002011-12-22T09:04:38.166+13:00Marriage is about making babies and raising childr...Marriage is about <b>making babies</b> and raising children Clint, "love" is a desirable but a bonus.<br /><br />Don't mistake sexual desire and passion for love either.<br /><br />How people live their lives is no concern of mine - important social structures that are about the orderly raising of the future generations are - and it concerns me that this fundamental thing, marriage, is being rewritten into something it is not and something that serves no real purpose except to indulge peoples vanities.Andreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536593172412406428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-71547095515281573152011-12-22T01:10:00.079+13:002011-12-22T01:10:00.079+13:00Indeed! And as all these couples have been togethe...Indeed! And as all these couples have been together for many many years, involving sacrifice and a lot of compassion - they most certainly fall into the category of unconditional love.<br /><br />The Mills and Boon types of love you can easily see when you click on the Daily Mail or something. <br /><br />So why judge unconditional love?Just my opinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614554113040355062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-76065857736317487512011-12-21T13:13:00.667+13:002011-12-21T13:13:00.667+13:00A couple of things here Clint
Life is not a Mills...A couple of things here Clint<br /><br />Life is not a Mills and Boon romance and "Love" in the chick flick sense does not necessarily equal marriage - indeed that is a modern vanity.<br /><br />Secondly English is imprecise with its word for "Love" <br /><br />In Greek there are four words with different shades of meaning - the relevant two are<br /><br />Agape - unconditional love<br /><br />Eros - passionate love <br /><br />The former should develop in marriage while the later is often unfortunately mistaken for the former<br />The later of course by its. very nature is ephemeral.<br /><br />In any case in societies struggling for survival the Mills and Boon notion of "love" is a luxury that cannot be afforded and marriages are arranged in which strangely enough Agape love develops and prospersAndreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536593172412406428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-1668206362815732602011-12-21T12:56:27.950+13:002011-12-21T12:56:27.950+13:00Trouble is, I don't think people know what lov...Trouble is, I don't think people know what love is these days. "Love" tends now to be the lovey-dovey feeling you get when you're with someone. That feeling won't always be there; that's when love becomes based more on commitment. I'm not saying that a couple fall out of love, or don't love each other any more, but that it changes. That's what Hollywood couples (and others) whose marriages last a maximum of 10 years don't realize. They associate love with the feeling of that first blush of romance and when that changes they feel they've fallen out of love and get a divorce.I.M Fletcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02221772173209860714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-91528575184184363792011-12-21T11:46:43.524+13:002011-12-21T11:46:43.524+13:00If you mean love between to people of the opposite...If you mean love between to people of the opposite sex is meaningless on comparison to the fake weddings we see every day then you have a few more problems than that.<br /><br />I have been to a lot of weddings lately, and what struck me was of the love shown by the two participants. My best mates had their weddings to two lovely girls - and the gay wedding I went to had no less class, not a single lack of love or anything else that made it look any cheaper than the other two weddings I attended.<br /><br />Love is love.Just my opinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614554113040355062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-87783567672724296622011-12-21T10:49:16.820+13:002011-12-21T10:49:16.820+13:00Well said!Well said!I.M Fletcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02221772173209860714noreply@blogger.com