there was a snippet on one of the local newspapers about Sandra winning the million dollars for the survivor contest, it ends with the statement “Diaz-Twine, at one point, swore on the life of her two children that she was voting with a fellow contestant when, in fact, she was lying. - AP”
nevermind that the whole thing was taken entirely out of context, no one would blame Sandra for giving jonny obnoxious a taste of his own medicine… or would they?
i don’t blame her at all. i didn’t even think it until i read the above, though i will not do the same in her place, because my children’s life will not be something i can stake even in jest.
I don’t belive that swearing on the life of anything has any meaning. Are her kids going to die just because she swore on their life and then lied?
On the show they had her explain the swear. She said that under her breath she was saying something like “I swear on my kids that I am going to screw you over”.
Also, the guy she was swearing to was also swearing on his grandmother’s grave and his grandma isn’t even dead!
then in that case, it should be ok for johny to swear on his dead grandmother’s grave since it doesn’t have any meaning? Surely he’s grandmother is not going to die just because he swore on her nonexistent grave? will it help if he mutters under his breath something like “you stupid fools! muahahahahaha!!”
we all know it’s meaningless to swear on the life of your loved ones, but is it something you should do anyway? is objecting to it being moral, superstitious or just plain silly?
Swearing on someone’s life or grave is not a promise that the loved one will die or roll in their grave if you are lying, but more like a statement that as much as you love said person that is the same amount of truth in your statement. You care enough about that person that you don’t want them to die, or to think badly about you in whatever afterlife they exist now.
Your ability to use this statement and lie can be directly proportional to your assholishness, because you are saying something to the effect of “I don’t care if my kids (or Grandmother in Jon’s case) dies.”