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2007-11-15 08:14:34 · 18 answers · asked by GarlicMan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Well, I don't know if you will consider this a serious answer or not, but to me it is just a logical next step once we start down the slippery slope of defining marriage as anything else besides a union of one man and one woman.
2007-11-15 08:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by arklatexrat 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are people who simply believe in superstitions, & will do any number of proscribed things to ward of supposedly otherwise unnavoidable negative experiences...
Consider the neighborhood...
The majority of the population in India believe in reincarnation. They have for generations. Reincarnation is the belief that when someone dies, they can come back as a different life form. Depending on the type of person they were in the 'past life', determines what life form they come back as...
(I personally know of people who aren't from India, but rather from & still in the USA, who believe that one of the dogs they rescued is one of their mothers, reincarnated... They may have adopted Hinduism or Buddhism...)
So, they likely believe that the animal they marry was someone they knew who has died, & come back in another life form, as the animal they marry... In the case you site, however, this may not be the case. It was just done in an attempt to keep the girl safe from tigers, which sometimes take young children. They have a superstition that if a child has a tooth rooted a certain way (reminiscent of a tiger's fang?), that the child is more likely to be taken by a tiger.
Real marriages? In *whose* eyes? Apparently the people performing & entering into them think so. Their Creator has the opposite view, however... Especially if they consumate!
2007-11-15 16:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i guess they marry but i dont think its like the same kind of marriage that a man and a woman would have..obviously but well one time i heard of a man that married a doll somewhere over there..he had said that his late wife's spirit was in the doll..i dunno people are are wierd
2007-11-15 16:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to what I read, it's a real marriage. The guy obviously felt bad for stoning two other dogs to death, so to make up for it, he married one. For better or worse...heh...I just wonder if they consumated....things that make ya go...uuggghhh.
2007-11-15 16:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by araknid80 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well the English say that only Christian marriages are liget, (various gasps and angry shouts from the crowd) by that definition every man here mother is a Whore and he himself a BASTARD
2007-11-15 16:19:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything that encourages nature to thrive is alright in my book. We used to baptise dogs, and I'm sure he whole thing is just a sham, but it is better than bulldozing forests and making parking lots I suppose.
2007-11-15 16:18:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If a man can marry a man. (And they can in Massachusetts.) Why can't a man marry a Penguin?
2007-11-15 16:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by t. B 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There was a doggie marraige here....seriously...wedding gown, gifts, minister, guests, tux, honeymoon.....sick but true.
2007-11-15 16:19:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No they can't be. Some one is a little off.
2007-11-15 16:18:00 · answer #9 · answered by Sugar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
for heavens sake, no...it's just to appease the 'gods'...because some people think they've made them angry.
2007-11-15 16:17:59 · answer #10 · answered by Chrys 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋