In a world where nobody got married

Ban Ki Moon

Would you get married?

You wouldn't?

SadieSue

No.. if nobody got married why would you? :pac:

hondasam

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

Would you get married?

I don't understand the question

Ban Ki Moon

SadieSue wrote: »

No.. if nobody got married why would you? :pac:

maybe that explains why people actually do get married, because other people do.

Sir Gallagher

Surely the concept of marriage wouldn't exist in a world where people don't marry.

Bog

The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

Bog

Bog wrote: »

The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

In a world where nobody got married, one man, tired with societies angst and problems with people's attitude towards marriage, does the unthinkable......

AND PROPOSES!!!

amacca

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

maybe that explains why people actually do get married, because other people do.

A lot of customs/traditions/practices are adhered to solely due to conditioning.

eating/drinking/breathing would not be among them but marriage possibly could.

still there must be some underlying reasons that most cultures had something akin to marriage (albeit to more than one partner and one gender in some cases) - maybe these reasons are not as relevant now but it seems to have been almost universally desirable to have some sort of a formal arrangement and it seems it still is (cant all be due to blindly following tradition can it?)

or am I incorrect?

anyway - I suspect if I lived in world with no marriage then I myself would be unlikely to get married following instead the lead of every other member of my species.

galwayrush

An ideal world where it would always be ok to leave the toilet seat up/:)

Daegerty

If my name was Nobody I would

eternal

Stupid stupid .Post doesnt even make sense .At all .Not at all.

amacca

Bog wrote: »

The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

I think it could be a great film believe it or not

sci-fi/rom com and action blockbuster all rolled into one genre blurring roller coaster ride.

just on the strength of this thread alone Michael Bay is probably already intimidating some desperate media graduate into storyboarding a cyber highway chase scene involving lots of explosions and some tart in a latex wedding dress or something

Hank_Jones

I'm confused, if nobody got married, then there would almost certainly be no marriage.

So therefore I wouldn't get married because marriage wouldn't exist.
If something is possible, then someone, somewhere has most likely done it.

amacca

eternal wrote: »

Stupid stupid .Post doesnt even make sense .At all .Not at all.

don't judge yourself so harshly

just type what you were going to type...it might not be as bad as you think.

Ban Ki Moon

I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

hondasam

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

you did say in a world where no one got married. That means no marriage.

EverEvolving

In a world where nobody got married - would marrige exist?

Nobody gets hung anymore so gallows aren't seen very often.

amacca

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

AH yeah....but they probably think its funny that you asked if they would get married in a world where nobody gets married

if you had proposed time travel to a world/parallel earth/other dimension where there is no marriage but you knew it...would you then get married even though no one else was.............................

starbelgrade

In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

smk89

Deleted User wrote: »

In a world where nobody got married, one man, tired with societies angst and problems with people's attitude towards marriage, does the unthinkable......

AND PROPOSES!!!

Adam Sandler stars in... The Proposal. Rated PG 13.

hondasam

starbelgrade wrote: »

In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

I could not live in a world where crisps did not exist but marriage I'd survive!

Ban Ki Moon

hondasam wrote: »

you did say in a world where no one got married. That means no marriage.

No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.

stevejr

Although unmarried myself, I respect the institution of marriage...

Daegerty

smk89 wrote: »

Adam Sandler stars in... The Proposal. Rated PG 13.

Don't forget that Gervais fecker, he'd be in it too

Hank_Jones

EverEvolving wrote: »

In a world where nobody got married - would marrige exist?

Nobody gets hung anymore so gallows aren't seen very often.

Saddam Hussein?

amacca

starbelgrade wrote: »

In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

does the humble potato, deep fat fryers and cheese and onion flavoring exist and do I bring the knowledge of what happens to thin slices of potato when fried in oil with with me?

if yes...then yes I would eat crisps and attempt to sell them for a profit to my new parallel friends

Hank_Jones

starbelgrade wrote: »

In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

What kind of crisps?

I wouldn't eat bloody Tayto anyway, too salty.

hondasam

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.

hang on I'm blonde but I ain't a dumb blonde, you did not mention a choice

amacca

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.

If the choice was there then it would exist because someone would want to get married

there's all sorts of nutters at large


unless its not a human world ......are we talking giant squid monsters with no fallopian tubes or something?

Ban Ki Moon

starbelgrade wrote: »

In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

Eat crisps, they exist. so does marriage

amacca

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

Eat crisps, they exist. so does marriage

I preferred Kofi Annan.....he was slightly easier to understand.

Hank_Jones

The fact is that if marriage did exist, people would want to get married.

In a world where abortion exists, people want to get abortions.

In a world where murder exists, people get murdered.

This thread is nonsense.

Ban Ki Moon

hondasam wrote: »

hang on I'm blonde but I ain't a dumb blonde, you did not mention a choice

Did I say marriage is illegal?

Metallitroll

whats that.. smells like.. opportunity.

in a world where nobody drove each other crazy, i'd drive. them all to suicide!

hondasam

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

Did I say marriage is illegal?

do you not understand your own question ?

you did not say it was legal

there was no choice

Hank_Jones

Jake, is that you?

Ban Ki Moon

Yea some people can not see what the question is actually about so I will spell it out for those few

(Do you think its a trend that people get married)

hondasam

I have wasted to much time on this pointless thread all ready. marriage is not a trend OP.

Ban Ki Moon

hondasam wrote: »

I have wasted to much time on this pointless thread all ready. marriage is not a trend OP.

FACT

Metallitroll

yeah it is. its a fad

EverEvolving

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Saddam Hussein?

Been keepin' it Irish, didn't pay particular attention to the 'world' part of the title, oh well, I sit corrected, but in the mainstream, hanging isn't popular.

Marriage is a contract between a man and a woman whereby they legally commit to spend their lives together. The rest of it is socially implied. In different countries it means different things. In a lot of countries there remains arranged marriages, here luckily both parties agree and they get hitched. I’m really a romantic at heart.

amacca

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

(Do you think its a trend that people get married)

No I don't anyway

I don't think its solely down to conditioning or a fad

I think that certain types of marriage (ceremonies etc) are a trend but that marriages of one type or another (not just christian) are also in part to do with a lot of peoples(psychological) need to have some sort of stable formalized arrangement when it comes to this part of their lives

does that answer your question?

hondasam

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

FACT

I'm happy you agree with me !

marriage is not a trend.

Hank_Jones

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

Yea some people can not see what the question is actually about so I will spell it out for those few

(Do you think its a trend that people get married)

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

FACT

I know these responses were supposed to clear everything up for people.
Just made it more convoluted tbh.

starbelgrade

Another Ban Ki Mon conundrum.

Ah... we're all in a tissy.

If marriage didn't exist, then most likely, no-one would get married.

But then someone would invent it & it would become an "institution" and we "all" would.

The real question is -if it didn't exist, would there be a need to invent it?

Hank_Jones

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?

ascanbe

Bog wrote: »

The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

I read it in the voice of that guy that used to be on every trailer. In the 80's and early 90's, practically every trailer started..'In a world where..'.

starbelgrade

Ban Ki Moon wrote: »

I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

It must be really nice to be you. Laughing at the stupidity you see in others.

If you found someone who could share your time with & enjoy your mutual feelings of superior intellectual musings over others... would you marry her?

Even if marriage didn't exist? Would you?

Or are you sooo cool that you think that you'd be the one to invent it?

Oh what a tissy.

It's one thing being an amateur philosopher.It's another thing being an amateur.

frecklier

Do you mean in a world where marriage doesn't exist, so is therefore not the expected norm, would you commit to stay with the same one person for the rest of your life? Something I've often thought about. I'm not sure many people would.

jimmycrackcorm

So basically the op is asking if you are in Ireland and are gay?
Juici Luci says no!