Friday five!
Jul. 21st, 2017 04:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antonin1) Do you want to get married?
No. Marriage never made any sense to me, such that for a while I was against same-sex marriage as well as opposite-sex marriage. Then I realized it wasn't about me, it was about others having equal rights.
Anyway, marriage is a pointless institution, hopelessly outdated, and was pretty shitty to start with. On top of that, it's utterly ridiculous to think you're going to love someone forever, unless they're your child, parent, or sibling, and that's not really relevant here. What's relevant is that people change. The only constant is change, after all. And pretending for even a minute that marriage is anything other than a pointless waste of time that will inevitably end in divorce or worse is just the height of delusional.
2) Where would you like to get married?
Nowhere, realistically. But if it were to happen for some reason (madness, personality transplant, dementia, becoming a citizen of another country or helping someone become a citizen of this country, or some other sort of necessary fraud), I'd probably go with some woodsy place, it would be a pagan handfasting.
3) If you were getting married in a week, who would be in your wedding party?
In the vanishingly unlikely event of my impending marriage, assuming I did not come to my senses before then, I suppose my friends Brooke, Amy, Lily, Jesse, and some of my pagan meetup friends would get invites.
4) What would your wedding colours be?
Again prefacing this with "in the unlikely event of my marriage," I'd go with green and silver; Slytherin colors. It would be a Slytherin-themed wedding, if I had a choice in it.
5) Does marriage mean to you 'til death do us part?'
Pretty much answered this already, but no. It means 'til death or annullment or divorce do us part.'
On a side note, I've just decided that any "marriage" I got that was happening for some reason that didn't require the full legal marriage, would likely just be an informal thing, not involving the government at all, and vows would reflect this fact by essentially saying "yeah this isn't really a marriage, it's something superficially similar, and could end at any time."
No. Marriage never made any sense to me, such that for a while I was against same-sex marriage as well as opposite-sex marriage. Then I realized it wasn't about me, it was about others having equal rights.
Anyway, marriage is a pointless institution, hopelessly outdated, and was pretty shitty to start with. On top of that, it's utterly ridiculous to think you're going to love someone forever, unless they're your child, parent, or sibling, and that's not really relevant here. What's relevant is that people change. The only constant is change, after all. And pretending for even a minute that marriage is anything other than a pointless waste of time that will inevitably end in divorce or worse is just the height of delusional.
2) Where would you like to get married?
Nowhere, realistically. But if it were to happen for some reason (madness, personality transplant, dementia, becoming a citizen of another country or helping someone become a citizen of this country, or some other sort of necessary fraud), I'd probably go with some woodsy place, it would be a pagan handfasting.
3) If you were getting married in a week, who would be in your wedding party?
In the vanishingly unlikely event of my impending marriage, assuming I did not come to my senses before then, I suppose my friends Brooke, Amy, Lily, Jesse, and some of my pagan meetup friends would get invites.
4) What would your wedding colours be?
Again prefacing this with "in the unlikely event of my marriage," I'd go with green and silver; Slytherin colors. It would be a Slytherin-themed wedding, if I had a choice in it.
5) Does marriage mean to you 'til death do us part?'
Pretty much answered this already, but no. It means 'til death or annullment or divorce do us part.'
On a side note, I've just decided that any "marriage" I got that was happening for some reason that didn't require the full legal marriage, would likely just be an informal thing, not involving the government at all, and vows would reflect this fact by essentially saying "yeah this isn't really a marriage, it's something superficially similar, and could end at any time."
