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Says Sneak before the wife kicks his ass 
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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You're just a dirty capitalist Imran (and not a humanitarian)
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Damn straight! The only humans I care about are me and my g/f. The rest of you can sod off.. unless you are making me money.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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you AND your g/f.. hmmm, there is a bit of a communist in you after all
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Who says? She's there to make more money.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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My mother is not that conservative - she's Western in blood and Western in outlook. My father is Chinese and somewhat more traditional than my mother, but still astoundingly openminded in certain affairs (for example, letting me and my brother have our mother's surname instead of his own... something traditional Chinese men don't tend to approve). Of course, he married a Western woman, so that just goes to show.
The thing is, when I first met this cousin, a few years back, my father seemed really impressed by him, dropping all sorts of hints like "bet he wishes he wasn't your cousin". He also said a lot of good things about him, which is unusual - I don't think I've ever heard him say anything good about my previous boyfriends.
So I'm trying to work out what's going on here. If my dad is trying to get me interested in my cousin, then he's succeeded because there's definitely something in the air with us two. But this would seem to go against his traditionalist views.
In any case, I asked my mother for advice and her advice was to keep up email contact with my cousin for the two years that I'll be away. If we're really meant to be together, then we'll endure the two years and come out of it even closer than before. If not, then at least email will be able to keep us two good friends.
The somewhat depressing thing is that this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened to me, either."lol internet" ~ AAHZComment
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I am for the most part been trying to think of something I could say to help but I can't. All I can say if it works out, and even with my ethics, I say go for it.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Yes...who dares, wins.
Screw convention...have a hot sweaty fling and if it works out, great...if not, you'll have something to tell people when you're an old bag and nobody thinks you ever had sex at all.Life and death is a grave matter;
all things pass quickly away.
Each of you must be completely alert;
never neglectful, never indulgent.Comment
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WHAT?! Another cousin? My dear it is begining to sound like you have poor boundries... Are you sure your not a southerner?Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia The somewhat depressing thing is that this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened to me, either.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I've never met a person who uses family reunions as a chance to pick up dates before.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Then I assume you haven't met Horse?Life and death is a grave matter;
all things pass quickly away.
Each of you must be completely alert;
never neglectful, never indulgent.Comment
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The previous time was far weirder. For a start, the cousin in question was a first cousin. Furthermore, she was a girl - and I am not a lesbian.
However, we still keep up email conversations so that's something good."lol internet" ~ AAHZComment
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You keep saying that your parents, or at least your father, holds traditionalist views. Are Chinese traditionalist views different than American traditionalist views?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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alinestra-- nope, haven't been following you around. it would incur an extra "private detective/bodyguard" fee, which, i hate to say, would be rather steep (usd29.99/hr, 1yr contract minimum, payable in gold boullion on the twelfth and twenty-third of every money for deposit in a swiss bank).
and overall, asiatic traditionalist views are hella lot more restrictive. list of permissible things stretches maybe, two inches, in size seventy two wide impact font. but seriously, i dunno about china, but in korea there's a huge incest taboo. people with the same last names generally don't marry: kims don't marry kims, even if they may not be genetically married (there are at least four unrelated kim clans that i know of.)
this is very interesting, it having happened before...
i dunno what to say, actually. not about it happening twice, i mean about what to do with it. the traditional asian in me is saying that you ought to just bear the pain of not ever really being able to complete the circuit with him...
but the liberal in me is saying, although you're second cousins, this might be the real thing...
i dunno. my gut feeling here, though, is to just kinda grin, and bear trying to be friends. i'd tell you to try to cool it off, but...
are you quite certain that this might be "real love" ?B♭3Comment
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AH! Stop using Ron's login!Originally posted by Ron Jeremy
Do it! Fewer combined relatives! Cheaper wedding reception!“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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