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...Ps - what has not being married got to do with social ineptitude??

I think you are the most qualified to answer that question.

Ask the Vatican

We have a catholic in our midst.

Ha.....just wondering where that leaves you

Minimum age to marry below Saudi Arabia: None currently Sudan: Puberty, with requirement for willing consent of both parties Yemen: In practice, "Yemeni law allows girls of any age to wed, but it forbids sex with them until the indefinite time they’re 'suitable for sexual intercourse'."[58...

Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country that has not stipulated the age of marriage for a boy or a girl, and there are no accurate statistics on the number of underage marriages. It is necessary to "review fathers’ guardianship of children older than nine years, especially after it has been confi...

Women are demanded to hide their hair according to Islam , whether I don't like that or not , I'm not the one who decided that , God did , according to his knowledge and wisdom , this is my religion and I have to take it or leave it , this is faith Tell the believing men that they shall subdue thei...

Whilst I agree it can be painful BobbyM I think the difference is that Melvyn is a professional presenter and not a philosopher whereas Grant is a philosopher and not a professional presenter as such he is not playing the role of mediator but is an active participant in the discussion and will be h...

Ex-Muslim Speaks Out about 'The Koran Dilemma' By Erick Stakelbeck CBN News Terrorism Analyst Friday, May 11, 2012 These days al Fadi, which is a pseudonym, lives in the West. He also left Islam for Christianity, a move that would bring a death sentence in his native country. "The Koran will e...

A list of Philosophers who remained unmarried. •Immanuel Kant •Friedrich Nietzsche •René Descartes •David Hume •John Locke •Thomas Aquinas •Gottfried Leibniz •Baruch Spinoza •Jean-Paul Sartre •Arthur Schopenhauer Granted, there were some religious men who were not allowed to be married, perhaps ther...

Reasonemotion and reasonvemotion are one and the same. So, I successfully stuffed up my login, forced to create a new me. I think many on this forum will welcome the change, although in time I will disappoint again. Cheers. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitu...

In the other extreme the subconscious is a swirling mass of confusion born of internal conflict in response to negative, conflicting external stimuli, that thwarts the freedom of will that would have been a pure self supporting system, otherwise. Yes, I understand. The freewill is caged, somewhere ...

Khalid In this Western world we are all not adulterers, sex maniacs, selfish, materialistic, insincere or aggressive human beings. Some are ordinary, caring, hard working people. We stress about our jobs, how to pay the mortgage, if our children will survive the brutality of what the world has to of...

This is very upsetting, to read the damage that is being thrown back and forth in these posts.


Arising always ready to pierce a heart or mind

and Spheres always ready to wear his heart on his sleeve

Realise this both of you and tread carefully.