lack of transition?

on one hand it's silly as how you walk depends where you're going and under what circumstances, it's functional

the ideal is not rigid

That it is the lack of irrational, or further, much lower dependence on psychic and physical influences and their imperatives

on the other hand the concept of the importance of graceful behavior is good

absence of something does not suffice as an answer

so, rational, removed from emotion?

Which again, is the sign of one's acceptance of the unconditional

in a way, yes

But

I'm speaking yet of an ideal

Don't get this too autistic

The greater measure of one's conviction of the transitory nature of physical existence

The greater his ability to "walk calmly" so to speak, but this refers to any aspect of life

And isn't necessarily a religious mandate

It's merely an ideal

dude you are really bad at pinning down specifics

all of this is well and good, but how does it solve the question

and I agree with it too

me too, his underlying idea is one I agree with but he doesn't even know what he's trying to say

that "calmness" extends to all action, all thought

When speaking of marriage

apply the same logic

Which measure makes marriage conform to a more heavenly ideal

you didn't present any logic to apply

you gotta be concrete, my dude

what is heaven like and how can we know it?

don't we need to know that before we can conform any part of life to it as an ideal?

how do we know heaven is your thing and not a bunch of niggers having a drug orgy while dave matthews sings songs about peace and tolerance in the background?

It depends on what your goal or purpose is

If we accept scientific proposition, which says that everything is basically mechanical

Then such a perfectly mechanical cultural event would be quite fitting in fact

so what is it you are even trying to say about marriage, then? you said marriage was no good because reasons, so what ought to be done instead?

Hmmmm

I wouldn't say that generally marriage is no good, but that it certainly is inferior to not getting married - from purely individual perspective

not getting married and having children, not getting married and sleeping around without children, or not getting married and remaining celibate?

My idea of perfect marriage, if I need to make examples

see you have to specify to make sense

would be Roman Republic

so specify what you mean and then indicate with one women or many if any sex is still involved

not getting married and having children and not getting married and celibacy would be superior for an individual male