tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2351225159881491753..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The New Custom of Arranged ParentingStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30186622316647789742013-02-15T18:30:57.014-08:002013-02-15T18:30:57.014-08:00I want.
I want.
I want.
Now give it to me!!!
Conse...I want.<br />I want.<br />I want.<br />Now give it to me!!!<br />Consequences for who... the child?<br />Rubbish! I want a child! Now!!!<br /><br />That's what this is about. For many millennia, religion and spiritual depth have instructed on very simple, constructive idea: it's not about you.<br /><br />But now it is... it's all about you. <br /><br />And how's it going?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49281933746062210572013-02-15T18:20:15.200-08:002013-02-15T18:20:15.200-08:00Interesting quote by George Bernard Shaw, the grea...Interesting quote by George Bernard Shaw, the great misanthrope, considering that he married a woman who refused to consummate their marriage. Yes, that's right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87357331033884899032013-02-14T06:48:52.942-08:002013-02-14T06:48:52.942-08:00Luther is a Renaissance figure... the Middle Ages ...Luther is a Renaissance figure... the Middle Ages at best lasted into the late fourteenth, early fifteenth centuries. Luther was early sixteenth century.<br /><br />During the Middle Ages there were many priests who were decidedly uncelibate, but I do not think that they married. Pope Alexander VI, in the late fifteenth century openly had a mistress, but he was not married. See the TV show, The Borgias.<br /><br />The best studies of celibacy in the Middle Ages were written by a French historian named Georges Duby. His works have been translated.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20354224718634106042013-02-14T06:40:02.523-08:002013-02-14T06:40:02.523-08:00"When Martin Luther’s followers left the Chur..."When Martin Luther’s followers left the Church they were relieved of their vows of chastity. Bereft of property or power they faced an unusual challenge in finding mates."<br /><br />I think there were a ton of married priests (or at least priests with children) during the high middle ages because the church at the time of the Cluniac age/the pornocracy was pretty lax on such things, if I recall correctly.<br /><br />I'm not sure when the massive reforms toward celibacy started. JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40234248080842415832013-02-13T09:58:38.009-08:002013-02-13T09:58:38.009-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87378007121177183522013-02-13T09:58:18.426-08:002013-02-13T09:58:18.426-08:00Thanks Sam. That's the issue here. We know wha...Thanks Sam. That's the issue here. We know what the best situation is. We are trying to evaluate the other options when people, for whatever reason, do not choose to bring up their children in stable two-biological parent families. Arranged parenting needs to be compared to single mothers bringing up children they conceived at the sperm bank and same-sex families, where the child is necessarily deprived of either a mother or a father.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27847449676409789672013-02-13T09:53:51.273-08:002013-02-13T09:53:51.273-08:00Which is better than un-arranged/single parenting,...Which is better than un-arranged/single parenting, most likely.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8265354850867800212013-02-13T09:06:46.490-08:002013-02-13T09:06:46.490-08:00What a soulless,sordid,selfish and appalling optio...What a soulless,sordid,selfish and appalling option. The arranged marriage, with which Shaw would have been familiar, which might develope into a loving or at least respectful relationship offered more to offspring than this apparent arrangement.<br />Now, I confess that I speak from 50 years of happy destitution. My point of view is therefore, not to be considered unbiased.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com