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Originally posted by Incinerator+Apr 10 2005, 10:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Incinerator @ Apr 10 2005, 10:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Perhaps you should learn how to read within context and not nitpick at individual words like a 3 year old and cry to mommy when the world don't agree with you.
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It's not a word or 2 that I'm nitpicking at. Your entire definition of marraige is a huge stretch beyond anything ever found in any dictionary and sounds more like a personal rant than a definition. That is what I'm nitpicking at. You can disagree with me all you want, all I ask is that you try not to make things up and back up your wild claims.

As far as the Greek thing goes, I still don't understand how you think I'm saying Greeks=Beginning of Civilization.
I simply pointed out the Greeks as an example of a society that has existed sometime between the dawn of time and now that clearly does not share your defintion of marraige. If the Greeks are troubling for you I can supply many more examples that don't fit you definition in various ways.

Originally posted by Incinerator@Apr 10 2005, 10:49 PM
The fact of the matter is that marriage is a social construct

Thank you for prooving my point. Marraige is a social construct and like any social construct it is viewed and defined differently by different societies and in different times. By definition of being a social construct marraige is not set in stone and not unniversily difinable.

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Not Social Constructs. Do you see the difference now?