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Roy42
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A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy
Why?
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #1 on: Jul 17th, 2006, 8:35pm » |
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Because he married each one in succession, after his previous wife died.
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Roy42
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #2 on: Jul 17th, 2006, 8:39pm » |
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Nope
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #3 on: Jul 17th, 2006, 10:53pm » |
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Sorry Roy, but I must say:
Unsolved problems just keep repeating themselves! 
But do keep them comming. Personally, I found a few I didn;t know 
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #4 on: Jul 17th, 2006, 11:06pm » |
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Would the man possibly be a priest/preacher?
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #5 on: Jul 17th, 2006, 11:52pm » |
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Puffster: Yes, he was the priest marrying couples.
BNC: Well in these forums solved problems would keep repeating themselves by other people but i just reworded it from a zen type card i remember reading with a guy bouncing on a trampoline and a message that said something like 'if you don't settle out your problems you will be destined to repeat them over and over and over....'
but i suppose i'll change the message.
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #6 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 1:04am » |
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It would also work if polygamy was legal. You can't be charged with doing something legal, after all.
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #7 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 1:06am » |
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true, i saw that on tv once when a criminal became Mayor and made crime legal.
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #8 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 1:49am » |
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on Jul 18th, 2006, 1:06am, Roy wrote:| true, i saw that on tv once when a criminal became Mayor and made crime legal. |
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The old Batman series?
Anyway, polygamy is allowed in various cultures and countries. So no need to make it legal; you can just find a situation were it already is. Mormons in the US can be legally polygamous, can't they?
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #9 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 2:10am » |
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Towr: No  That was way back in the day when there weren't many of them and the guys kept getting themselves shot.
I wish I'd read this one earlier, because it immediately made me think of my father who married his sister
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #10 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 3:06am » |
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Towr: no, i think it was the powerpuff girls or something
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Re: Polygamy
« Reply #11 on: Jul 18th, 2006, 5:51pm » |
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on Jul 18th, 2006, 1:49am, towr wrote:| Mormons in the US can be legally polygamous, can't they? |
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No. Polygamy has never been legal in the United States. In order for Utah to become a State in the U.S., they were required to make polygamy illegal. Those who still practice it do so by legally marrying only one of their brides. The others brides are only married in their own minds, and perhaps their local congregation's minds. Even the main body of the Morman church does not recognize such marriages anymore. While this is legal, most polygamists are guilty of fraud because they are unable to support their large families without government assistance, which they have to lie to get.
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