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Marrying for money

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Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

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achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Though I don't believe in love, I am hoping she married for it rather than money. There has to be some decent people still in the world.
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Confused wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Though I don't believe in love, I am hoping she married for it rather than money. There has to be some decent people still in the world.
Interesting how you put that. . .

Decent people . . .

Does this mean that you believe marrying someone for money to be a detractive or immoral action? Why?

After all in most countries today (especially our own) Marriage has become something of an econmic or social institution. It has been done away with by many people who simply chose to live together and even have and raise families without ever being married. It has become nothing more than a paper to many people.
It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

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achilles12604 wrote:
Confused wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Though I don't believe in love, I am hoping she married for it rather than money. There has to be some decent people still in the world.
Interesting how you put that. . .

Decent people . . .

Does this mean that you believe marrying someone for money to be a detractive or immoral action? Why?

After all in most countries today (especially our own) Marriage has become something of an econmic or social institution. It has been done away with by many people who simply chose to live together and even have and raise families without ever being married. It has become nothing more than a paper to many people.
Marriage has almost always been mostly an economical system. Now it is more political or institutional. I believe in marrying anyone for anything other than love to be stupid. Hence, not married. Since I don't believe in the accepted form of love and mine is so utopian I have no worries of falling victim to it, I would still like to believe that there are people out there who may be delusion in their thinking that they are in love, but they marry for that delusion rather than wasted materialistic gain.
What we do for ourselves dies with us,
What we do for others and the world remains
and is immortal.

-Albert Pine
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Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one persons definition of your life; define yourself.

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Confused wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:
Confused wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Though I don't believe in love, I am hoping she married for it rather than money. There has to be some decent people still in the world.
Interesting how you put that. . .

Decent people . . .

Does this mean that you believe marrying someone for money to be a detractive or immoral action? Why?

After all in most countries today (especially our own) Marriage has become something of an econmic or social institution. It has been done away with by many people who simply chose to live together and even have and raise families without ever being married. It has become nothing more than a paper to many people.
Marriage has almost always been mostly an economical system. Now it is more political or institutional. I believe in marrying anyone for anything other than love to be stupid. Hence, not married. Since I don't believe in the accepted form of love and mine is so utopian I have no worries of falling victim to it, I would still like to believe that there are people out there who may be delusion in their thinking that they are in love, but they marry for that delusion rather than wasted materialistic gain.
Ah. Ok.
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achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Peopel who marry for money usually earn it.

It made him happy. She didn't get any of his money after his death.. but the noteriety gave her the attention she craved.

On the other hand, I do know of someone (someone my mother worked with), that was given an offer to marry someone terminally ill with cancer. SHe would be
his care taker for the last year or so of his life, and then she inherits his possessions. That was the deal ahead of time, and she did so. He got a live in nurse, she got a lot of money. Good deal for both of them.

Often , now, marriage is a economic insitution.

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goat wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Peopel who marry for money usually earn it.

It made him happy. She didn't get any of his money after his death.. but the noteriety gave her the attention she craved.

On the other hand, I do know of someone (someone my mother worked with), that was given an offer to marry someone terminally ill with cancer. SHe would be
his care taker for the last year or so of his life, and then she inherits his possessions. That was the deal ahead of time, and she did so. He got a live in nurse, she got a lot of money. Good deal for both of them.

Often , now, marriage is a economic insitution.
Actually she was awarded 474 million dollars. Then it was taken away. The most recent supreme court decision is that she did get the money. That was 2006.

Now she is dead. . . .

hmmm?
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goat wrote:
achilles12604 wrote:Mrs. Smith recently died. A sad day for all those whose taudry world revolve around the porn and smut industry.

She married billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the age of 29. He was 89 I believe. He died the next year.

I am willing to assume she married him for money rather than love.

Is there anything wrong with this?
Peopel who marry for money usually earn it.

It made him happy. She didn't get any of his money after his death.. but the noteriety gave her the attention she craved.

On the other hand, I do know of someone (someone my mother worked with), that was given an offer to marry someone terminally ill with cancer. SHe would be
his care taker for the last year or so of his life, and then she inherits his possessions. That was the deal ahead of time, and she did so. He got a live in nurse, she got a lot of money. Good deal for both of them.

Often , now, marriage is a economic insitution.
In the words of one of the best speakers of our generation:
"Relationships are just two people waiting for something better to come along"-Will Smith. Marriages are nothing more than another degree of extreme mankind in their infinite amount of stupidity condemns themselves to yet antoher form of torture.
What we do for ourselves dies with us,
What we do for others and the world remains
and is immortal.

-Albert Pine
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Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
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Confused wrote: In the words of one of the best speakers of our generation:
"Relationships are just two people waiting for something better to come along"-Will Smith. Marriages are nothing more than another degree of extreme mankind in their infinite amount of stupidity condemns themselves to yet antoher form of torture.
They find that men that get married actually live longer than single men.

Women die younger though. Must be the stress.

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years, then we met.

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