Traditions passed down to keep you from your potential

Speak on any traditions passed down that keep people from their potential.

I'll start off:

A guy has to only be with one woman in an intimate relationship. Said who from when?

And if a guy wants to be with more than that one woman he'd have to keep the women unaware of each other. It shouldnt have to be like that that you'd have to keep them unaware of each other just because of some moral tradition passed down that you just know got people's minds enslaved to some BS. Like damnit, open your minds up people! Stop continuing those traditions just because they're planted in your head as being moral and accepted nationally! Break free from the mental enslavement of the past and present kept traditions of others.

A person can only marry one person. And it's till death do you part for when you can then marry yourself another. It not only shouldn't be that you're allowed only one to marry till death do you part...it shouldn't even be that you should believe that you have to get married to begin with. Why follow a tradition? Moral related traditions have only brought on a sense of guilt that shouldnt even come to be in your mind to begin with.

Could marriage be apart of the reason people think there can only be a couple/pair/duo/twosome (two people) in a relationship and not, say, a threesome/trio (three people) or a quadruple/foursome (four people) or etc in a relationship?

Because of moral related traditions there has been a stop to the rise of kingly men and queenly women amongst.

In my book a king gets to have, to serve himself however he wants, more than one woman that get to be aware of each other.

Hell, women like making and having many other women friends anyway, so how on earth could any woman oppose 'being with' ('belonging to') a king like that? Plus, what woman wouldn't love flashy things and a beautiful home to top it off which can be obtained with combined income?

If it werent any enslaved minds to the BS traditions that make people so restricted more of us would be living in mansions by now with incomes combined of most or all of the people involved in the relationship. Nowadays it'll sure take more than two to make it with speed. Yeah, the utopian dream can never be reached because of what traditions, started from religions, embedded in the minds of people (which includes even people who arent even religious--You know there are some still as mental slaves to traditions though they don't belong to a religion).

 

I totally agree with you. Why should we have to follow all these traditions that hardly anyone knows where they came from?

 

Congratulations. You've just become a member of the Hipforums Idiot's Club.

Am I "brainwashed" because I refuse to belong to a polygamous relationship? If your definition of brainwashed is that general, then by your standards everyone (except yourself, of course) is brainwashed. The vast majority of people on earth subscribe to at least some moral standard--how does this make them brainwashed?

I would NEVER take part in a polygomous relationship. The exact reason monogomy started is irrelavent. The reason we have monogomy today is at least partly because most decent people feel that it is important for a child to know who his father is, not to mention the DISEASE factor. In Africa, part of the reason HIV/AIDS has spread so rapidly is because a man will become infected and then come home and infect his wives.

Religion aside, monogomy is the most logical. You are just bitching because you're a greedy bastard who can't have all the women you want.

NEWSFLASH: Vaginas are a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Grow the fuck up.

 

It's a choice. My husband and I are friends with a couple who are married, yet are not monogamous. They have a great relationship.

To call someone brainwashed over a personal decison they make is unfair. Not everyone has the same perspective on life.

There is nothing wrong with questioning traditions, however. Personally, I encourage it!

 

I dont really think thats a tradition as such because most people only want to be with one other. I'd hate being with more than one girl and i'd hate it if she had other guys. Plus if you dont wanna get married then dont. Getting married isnt the law. And if someone wants to have more than one wife/husband than why cant they? Haha no offense to the ladies but i think living in a house full of chicks would drive me insane

 

Y'know, sometimes monogomy just happens naturally....don't penguins or something mate for life? As well as a slew of other animals.

I have no problem with polygamy. I'm personally monogomous, but I think polygamy can work of course, even if you all got married. I think polygamous people should be able to get married if they want....except for those idiots out there who go having like, 3, 4, maybe more SECRET families out there that don't know about each other. That's just mean and awful. Nothing involved in love, marriage, and family should be secret.

 

If you study anthropology, you find many different sorts of marriage arrangements that seem to work well within their culture. People I know who were raised by hippy parent's tend to be able to deal with polygamy and "open" relationships better than those who weren't. You can't always just shrug off how you were raised, so I would think hard about whether or not it is worth your time and energy if you want to have an "open" relationship with someone. For some people is is easy, for others it is emotional gymnastics.

 

In your passage, you mension "they" to refer to a 'force' or 'power' that created these 'traditions'. First you need to define and say exactly WHAT "they" are and then WHY "they" created these 'tradition'. Only then can you begin to tackle this huge issue including the areas of social norms etc etc.

 

I support monogamy....but technically it is a males human nature, as animals of nature, to want to spred the seed.....im not condoning cheating here, but it is nature...

 

In my opinion, it's all ok as long as all parties are upfront, honest, and respectful of the other person's feelings on the subject.
Cheating (which is LYING) is dead wrong no matter how you look at it.
Just tell the fucking truth no matter what.