I’ve been doing some research lately. My research is far from complete, but it's giving me a better picture of things. As a Christian, having been raised to see marriage as a good thing, I’ve realised that if it’s something that could be in my future, I better find out what it’s really about. After all, marriage today seems to be very important and specific to individuals, but on a universal scale it often appears to be nothing more than a retractable contract.

I have a friend who, last I checked, was opposed to marriage. He claims it doesn’t make sense. Under any other circumstance, you wouldn’t sign a contract with a lifetime commitment. 1 year? 3 years? 10 years? Sure, depending on the business. But until you die? Most people would call that a bad business move.
So I decided to see if I could get to the bottom of it. I wanted to see the roots of this union. My research is far from complete, both based on biblical sources and non-biblical sources. But some important questions I wanted to...

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What is it that defines a good person? Or an evil person, for that matter. What is the value of a conscience? Does it make someone a decent person? What is being nice? Is it the same as being kind?

I have a theory.

In the pure extremities of perception of the world, pessimists say the world is a horrible place, everything sucks and everyone's to blame because we all suck, too. Optimists say the world is beautiful, there's joy in every person and we are surrounded by nothing but opportunity. Personally, I believe both sides of the coin are truths. We live in a world that I believe is falling apart, and most of us are probably making it worse. In first-world countries, we make victims out of ourselves through affluenza, and in third-world countries we're dying of causes that in the first-world, we'd shrug off and cure with a diabetes-inducing cheeseburger. The world and the people in it are full of pointless tragedies. Life sucks. And yet, I love life. I love this world.

I'm getting to...

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