polygamy in Montana. . now.

Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago to Culture
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here we go -- is your State next? -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the generators run on gasoline, and we have some 5-gallon cans here
    to run them. . and gasoline is both seasonal and perishable ... it tends
    to form sediments when it evaporates, sediments which
    gunk up things like carburetors and injection systems. . so we
    rotate our stock -- first in, first out, burning the gas in the car or
    truck so that it doesn't get old. . but how long may it be held
    and still be good? . I have a boat in the garage with a full gas tank
    from about 2004 . . . and must try to burn that gas. . drip by drip.
    mixed in with new gas, for good measure -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    she was a good woman and a fine mother. . we were good friends
    while we were together. . Thanks, Salty. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and we lost her almost 3 years ago -- she decided to
    quit eating and just faded out. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we are puzzled by the process of micro-hoarding gasoline.
    it must be used before it gets old. -- j
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well Done! You have done all that one can to provide an insulation against inimical reality.

    Jan, needs to get her ducks in line
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hope that we have a Heinlein expert among us. . his books were

    a big part of my childhood. . another wonderful mind!!! -- j

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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 9 months ago
    Who's read enough Heinlein to comment on line marriage and other types of group marriage he presents?

    Line marriage just makes so much SENSE to me - it's almost like a company in that there always remains someone to look after the business, and a business which can endure 100 years under the same management is a desirable thing.


    I'm not sure where I am now, after 40 years of marriage, about the jealousy thing.....except that I can't get to sleep without some high-class cuddling - and he has a tough time, too.

    I think you cold lose yourself In the mechanics, especially since the legality, morality, religious aspects [I think that's all] are moot to us.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    windows are wire-reinforced quarter-inch tempered glass;;;

    the refrig is full and there are MREs stacked high. . water

    in jugs, but not enough yet. . and there are two generators. -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ours, here, has a 17-foot ceiling and three windows, all

    covered with translucent stuff. . we work down there. . it's always

    about 65 degrees, like a warm cave. . the periscopes are

    merely in our dreams. -- j

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    undoubtedly as that type of arrangement is more prevalent than the one and one type. With one and one the one stayed home and minded the family, house and kitchen garden. The other worked to obtain local currency to pay for other needs including taxes. Two halves made a whole. Now it takes one to pay the taxes, one to pay the bills and one to mind the home unless you just abandon the children to the school districts and a latch key.Finally when ends don't meet one or the other or both quit. But then we have high school kids getting up at four am and getting to bed at ten or eleven or midnight to accommodate academics, extra curricular activities and part time jobs. The same group refers to their first marriage as starter marriages. and many of the young women readily admit they expect it will take two or three to make enough retirement money. Ergo sum? 60% plus divorce and separation rate and increases in dysfunctional families. I would think polygamy wouldn't work in the USA due to basic cultural differences amongst them a distinct lack of moral values other than the fool your neighbor variety. Not so elsewhere. On the other hand Hong Kong has one particular street full of night clubs and pick up bars where ...single guys heaven. Mostly day time secretaries and so forth looking for a few extras in life and most of them from Malaysia right across the causeway.

    Anywhere you find Uncle Sam's presence there is an American Alley. Uncle Sam is one of if not the world's largest providers of customers for the seamier side - in light of all that I see no problem with voluntary relationships of any type between consenting adults - if they work. The current system has not done so. if it's good for two ganders it's good for one gander and the geese. The time for spouting hypocritical moral systems is gone - as a nation. especially one that votes for the likes of Bill and Hillary.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have had two -- in series. . one substantially prevented

    me from wanting to have kids in her family (waaaaa) and

    the other did not, but we were too old. . one out of two ain't bad. -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    basement -- requires a fingerprint for entry. . has a huge

    periscope on each wall to make it seem like it has a penthouse view. -- j

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  • Posted by TheRealBill 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sure, but in the context of a polyamorous situation? It's one thing to encourage a friend to "go girl" on her man when you have her story, another when you are intimate with him as yours as well.

    Or so I'm told. But it makes sense to me, and these people seem to make it work.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    (I hope he kept one floor as his man-cave...I would think that he would need that.)

    Jan
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well I am a woman and I can tell you, women tend to wind each other up. "you go girl!" comes to mind...
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  • Posted by TheRealBill 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Funny thing is, from what I hear via those in the know is that one women tends to calm the other down. Sounds counterintuitive but that's what I hear. Perhaps because it might take more understanding for such an arrangement to work those involved have more practice at being less angry over stupid things.
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  • Posted by ChuckyBob 9 years, 10 months ago
    There is actually a way that legalizing plural marriage could work out well for the government. There are some polygamist groups that encourage the later wives to file for Aid to Mothers with Dependant Children because, in the eyes of the law, the mothers are unwed mothers. So, if they were legally married it would cut off that additional source of recenue for the family and reduce the drain on the government.
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