This is Diego Fusaro writing about monogamous, lifelong love:
A chance encounter of two people who fall in love transforms into a new destiny oriented towards the eternity. The two separate individuals fuse together into an unbreakable living duality.
Diego Fusaro
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That’s the most delightfully romantic thing I’ve read all year!
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God, how silly. And the introduction of the concept of “chance” here is arbitrary, ahistorical, and banal.
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Fusaro uses the word “chance” to point out that the very nature of love is that it’s not a choice. It’s not a decision. And that’s what turns it into a possible escape from consumerism.
I took the quote out of the context and it lost a lot in the process.
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Appreciate the explanation, Clarissa – thank you!
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Always good to have you around!
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Bible > Mark > Chapter 10 > Verse 8
◄ Mark 10:8 ►
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and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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“two will become one flesh”
Don’t come out of a bag on me or anything…. but I thought that was a metaphor for intercourse.
I know about pair-bonding and sympathy bonds and all that, but I thought that particular verse was about the consummation of the marriage (a very big thing traditionally in the middle east… and in many other cultures).
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It’s not less than that but it’s also more than that.
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It’s that, and it’s also ‘one family’, ie separate from the families of origin.
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