# Whats wrong with having many wives? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099 "2007-08-18T23:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Frozen\_Fish\_Sticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Frozen\_Fish\_Sticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frozen_Fish_Sticks)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/81 "2007-08-20T23:31:37Z")
Huh… I thought kanicbird was being deliberately antagonistic and posting that shit for the sake of riling up Der Trihs, because no one can say all that with a straight face. And, sometimes it’s funny to make the puppet on a string dance some more… but apparently not? I guess I need to read more before making these internal assumptions about posters. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/82 "2007-08-20T23:54:49Z")
**Dangerosa** Thank you for your comments, I did not account for the ‘shrapnel effect’ an was quite taken back from the replies. As for how I view the turn you took, at this point all I will say is it’s between you and God. [QUOTE=Der Trihs] Because I am NOT “a zealot of the worst kind”, or even close; I’m a blunt guy on the internet, who doesn’t bother to hide his contempt for the biggest sacred cow in our culture. Exchange, say, racism for religion for my target and few would call me a “zealot” or “hateful”. [/QUOTE] From our exchanges I can see a lot of virtue in what **Der Trihs** believes, such as no genocide, wiping out nations, enslaving people, etc. He also seems to want to be against the powers and authorities that he perceived that create those conditions. I do believe he was intentionally deceived as to who are the powers and authorities. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/83 "2007-08-21T00:00:29Z")
[QUOTE=Frozen Fish Sticks] Huh… I thought kanicbird was being deliberately antagonistic and posting that shit for the sake of riling up Der Trihs, because no one can say all that with a straight face. And, sometimes it’s funny to make the puppet on a string dance some more… but apparently not? [/QUOTE] No I’m not being deliberately antagonistic, as I stated above I do see him coming to God. I started to notice this in some of his posts about a week ago, and really do rejoice at the possibility. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/84 "2007-08-21T00:04:32Z")
[QUOTE=kanicbird] Ok to respond to the numerous messages. I do see **Der Trihs** coming to God, I see the signs, I wish I could call it prophecy, though I just see the patterns that occurred in others and nothing I would be willing to go out on a limb on yet. I truly beleive it is a great moment when a person comes to God and serves God and I rejoice at that possibility. [/quote] How utterly condescending of anyone with a different viewpoint. > [@](#): > > As for insulting people of different beliefs, Christians have been continuously put down by people who claim that science is the most logical way to explain the world, they call Christians different versions of ‘fools’ because they refuse to accept the scientific conclusions and theories to the absolute degree. They ignore the fact that some of these Christians are far more intelligent then themselves, and understand scientific principals better them themselves, may have developed some of them, but they know that this world is but a illusion and God is the only way to the truth. I’ll call anyone who places faith ahead of proven and provable conclusions a fool. I don’t care if they are wearing a cross, a star of david, or a three-handled moss-covered family gredunza (and no, I don’t know how anybody could actually wear the last one…) > [@](#): > > If some of you want to call me hateful because I want eternal life for all of you with God through Jesus then go ahead. Would it be hateful for me to say that I expect everyone posting to this board to die…eventually…and that when they do pass, that is all? No metaphysical happenings once the heart and brain stop. No bright lights, no pearly gate, no St. Peter passing judgment. We’ll all be gone, and with rare exception, forgotten within the next century. The difference, however, is that I’m not going to go around telling people this - at least until prodded by some witnessing fool who thinks they’ve found the one true answer. When you get everyone else on this third rock from the sun all thinking the same way, then I’ll consider buying it. Until then, your word is as good as the drunk’s on the corners with “The End is Near” sign. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/85 "2007-08-21T00:14:27Z")
[QUOTE=Frozen Fish Sticks] Huh… I thought kanicbird was being deliberately antagonistic and posting that shit for the sake of riling up Der Trihs, because no one can say all that with a straight face. And, sometimes it’s funny to make the puppet on a string dance some more… but apparently not? I guess I need to read more before making these internal assumptions about posters. [/QUOTE] That was one of the main reasons I stopped getting into GD. I was constantly getting whooshed on who was actually nuts and who was just being facetious. Kanicbird really reads as being a jester, but it turns out he is mostly a joke. Der Thris is just not funny. He cannot bear anyone say the word “god” without foaming at the mouth and calling everybody in a 48 foot radius a monster. A real shame because both of them have a point to make and maybe some people would take them seriously if they weren’t so completely out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/86 "2007-08-21T01:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] A real shame because both of them have a point to make and maybe some people would take them seriously **if they weren’t so completely out of it.** [/QUOTE] (bolding mine) This from the woman who intentionally brings cranky kids to the long lines at the cable TV place to make [everyone there suffer?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433204) (scroll down to post 50) And all because she can’t deal with moving her lazy ass like everyone else has to? Maybe the next time she’s there one of her kids will yell in out in a loud voice, “Hey Mr Kettle! Mr. Pot says you’re Black!” ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/87 "2007-08-21T01:35:31Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Q: **Whats wrong with having many wives?** 1. Remembering which dress doesn’t make which one ‘look fat’. [/QUOTE] You don’t have to remember, because **none of them do**. RIGHT, HONEY??? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/88 "2007-08-21T02:03:30Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola] You don’t have to remember, because **none of them do**. RIGHT, HONEY??? [/QUOTE] Yes Dear… …and you know, if you’re ever just walking by and you see me cutting hedges just smiling and enjoying life…Just Shoot Me, 'Cause I’m In Hell! _Oh…Oh…OOOHHHH!!!_" -Sam Kinnison 1953-1992 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/89 "2007-08-21T04:50:00Z")
Going through this thread reinforces to me what utter heaven it is to live in a total non-Christian environment. I never have to endure ANY of this crap. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/90 "2007-08-21T04:58:42Z")
You are asking about compounding the most basic of truisms. The only thing more expensive than a woman… is getting rid of a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/91 "2007-08-21T05:06:49Z")
Or in this case, getting rid of two women. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/92 "2007-08-21T09:59:23Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] (bolding mine) This from the woman who intentionally brings cranky kids to the long lines at the cable TV place to make [everyone there suffer?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433204) (scroll down to post 50) And all because she can’t deal with moving her lazy ass like everyone else has to? Maybe the next time she’s there one of her kids will yell in out in a loud voice, “Hey Mr Kettle! Mr. Pot says you’re Black!” [/QUOTE] Several points, none of them particularly relevant to anything, but since you insist. What does that thread have to do with this one? Did you feel like that trainwreck didn’t have enough spectators and you preferred to bring it up to this one? I am a man. My lazy arse spends all day outside the house. My boy goes to school. I stay home with the girl. We run all kinds of errands. We spend most of the morning at the park. I even haul a table there so she can paint under a tree and not among four walls. She doesn’t watch a single minute of TV while she is alone with me. At naptime, I put her to bed and I clean the house, cook dinner, do laundry, etc. It is not that I don’t like to get my arse out of my recliner, It is that I don’t want it to sit for 3 hours in a waiting room to speak for 3 minutes to the same person who answers the phone and told me I needed to go there in person. That has happened exactly 3 times in the last 3 years. One for Sprint, two for the cable company. I have many flaws, quirks, lose bolts and hangups. Being a one note piano is not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/93 "2007-08-21T15:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=Chimera] One possible reason could be that you are as deformed by your own anger as he is. [/QUOTE] Hey, he agrees with that other guy and not me! He obviously suffers from the same made-up problem I say that other guy has! :rolleyes: [QUOTE=Miller] Because like most bigots, deep down you’re a coward. [/QUOTE] Wow, did you hurt your knee with that wild leap to conclusion? Care to pile any more meaningless horsecrap into all these accusations? Cmon, you can make up better insults than that. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: [QUOTE=Frozen Fish Sticks] Huh… I thought kanicbird was being deliberately antagonistic and posting that shit for the sake of riling up Der Trihs, because no one can say all that with a straight face. [/QUOTE] If **kanicbird** seriously believes all the stuff he posts, then he’s dangerously delusional. If he doesn’t, and posts it to get a rise out of people, then he’s an asshole for spewing that kind of crap around. Either way, I just skip over his posts when I get to them. I value my time to much to waste it reading anything he has written. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/94 "2007-08-21T17:43:42Z")
[QUOTE=hotflungwok] Hey, he agrees with that other guy and not me! He obviously suffers from the same made-up problem I say that other guy has! :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Congratulations on proving me right. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/95 "2007-08-21T18:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Which, calling him a coward, or calling him a bigot? [/QUOTE] Calling him a coward. \*\*Der Trihs \*\* is indeed biased against religion and religious people. If you feel that makes him a bigot, it’s certainly within your rights to say so. “Coward”, however, in the context you’re using it, is a bit less subjective. Are you honestly saying that you believe he’s a coward for not calling for the persecution and eradication of people he disagrees with? And if not, what exactly \*is \* cowardly about what he’s said? ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/96 "2007-08-21T18:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Chimera] Congratulations on proving me right. [/QUOTE] Ah, the old ‘just make the assertion, screw logic or rationality or even common sense’ tactic. Gosh, I haven’t seen that one in about 15 minutes. You have zero reason to even consider me ‘deformed by hate’. Trying to point out that making fun of **Der Trihs** instead actually bothering to argue against his point, as I did, does not in fact qualify me for any hatred deformation. If you think it does, then I must refer you to my position in post 93 on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/97 "2007-08-21T20:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Calling him a coward. \*\*Der Trihs \*\* is indeed biased against religion and religious people. If you feel that makes him a bigot, it’s certainly within your rights to say so. “Coward”, however, in the context you’re using it, is a bit less subjective. Are you honestly saying that you believe he’s a coward for not calling for the persecution and eradication of people he disagrees with? And if not, what exactly \*is \* cowardly about what he’s said? [/QUOTE] Fair point. “Liar” would probably have been more accurate. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/98 "2007-08-21T20:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Fair point. “Liar” would probably have been more accurate. [/QUOTE] Not really. Just because you think somebody (or a group) is evil doesn’t make you a liar just because you don’t advocate their death. I personally think Phelps and his clan are pure hate-filled evil, but that doesn’t mean I want to kill or harm them. Doens’t mean I’m not being honest when I say I find them despicable. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/99 "2007-08-21T20:43:39Z")
Yes, I’m with **woodstockbirdybird**. Now I’d like to know where exactly you claim he’s lying. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-having-many-wives/416099/100 "2007-08-21T20:52:00Z")
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