I know this may seem silly, but I have wondered. I really like post-apocalyptic movies like the Stand, Neon City, Mad Max series, Damnation Alley, etc. What I have always wondered was that after something like that with law gone, if a man and a woman hooked up, would they or could they consider themselves married without any church or governmental authority in existance? I have thought yes, but was curious.
I know it is a weird question.
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Marriage traditions and legal definitions are different worldwide now. In some tribal cultures a dance in the pressence of the tribal elders along with a few minutes in the marriage hut made you married in the legal sense of the tribal laws. So I guess in a post apocolyptic world your tribe can make up it's own legal rules. As for religious marriage, that would have to take place with someone who had the right authority and in the right place aka sealing power in the temple or in the past in holy places in lieu of an actual building.
I don't know why. We're only considered legally married by the law of the land, so if the laws fall apart, what's left? I wouldn't just 'hook up,' but I don't see why in that situation, people couldn't use common law marriage. Personally, I'd like to find an authority figure to perform and witness...a Bishop, some officer, or even another minister...
Edit: It's not a temple marriage, but as far as the law of chastity goes, I'd consider it covered.
Okay, so forget the whole post-apocalyptic twist. Let's just say some leaders get into positions where marriage as we know it, the ceremony etc. is no longer needed - whoever you can prove co-habiting with for 30 days, you can claim marriage or something... I don't know. Never mind. I guess I just have no interest in anything outside the temple. Especially in some post-apocalyptic format with no pharmacies open and no birth control. What's the point? I guess men don't have to deal with post-nuke wilderness birthing, though.
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Let's face it... in a post apocolyptic world, as Hollywood has taught us, only the beautiful people will survive. They will solve the problems of the world by their intellect, charisma, catchy one-liners, and of course good looks.
They will then go on to live happily ever after in a world envisioned by Al Gore. Marriage will be part of what was the problem that led up to the apocolypse, so as long as a set of plural individuals are commited to providing emotional support to each other, they shall be allowed to live and let live, as long as they stay beautiful people. Any that become less than beautiful people shall be miserable and be pollutors and objects of scorn and ridicule and shall be uncivilized barbarians that live in the shells of junk cars on the streets of abandoned cities that take on the look of warehouse districts at night time.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I had a vision of the post apocolyptic world the other day. In the world of 2116, a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: twenty-one years, to the day. When people reach this Lastday they report to a Sleepshop in which they are willingly executed. A person's age is revealed by their palm flower a crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years, then turns black on Lastday. Runners are those who refuse to report to a Sleepshop and attempt to avoid their fate by escaping to Sanctuary. There were these guys hunting them down. And the runners looking for Sanctuary only to get killed by a giant robot, frozen, and used as food. It was pretty scary!
Sounds like Jason has been watching Logan's Run. We watched several weeks ago, I love those kinds of shows.
It is sad, Jason, that you won't even allow them to reach 30.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
You know, I think I was watching that same movie. I must have been dillerious on those wonderful olives stuffed with garlic cloves that I picked up from trader joes. In that state I must have had the T.V. on and suffered from a false vision! It happens.
I guess I haven't seen most of these post-apocalyptic movies ya'll are talking about... What are the names and could you give a one sentence synopsis? (Just your personal faves, please)
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Soylent Green: Soylent Green is People Logan's Run: No one over thirty can live Mad Max Series: Braveheart kills the bad guys. Solar Babies: No water, children save the planet while playing roller hockey. Original Planet of the Apes: We did it to ourselves Red Dawn: Russians invade and highschool kids kick their booties!
I kinda' liked The Postman. Despite it has Kevin (gag me) Costner in it. He brings some civilization back to humanity when he begins delivering messages for people. Plus, Tom Petty's in it!
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Stephen King's mini-series "The Stand." It's about how this bad, mutated flu strain kills most everyone on the planet and there becomes a battle between the good and evil of the people left over who didn't die of the flu. I like it. It has Gary Sinise in it. It's not as bizarre or scary or gorry like most of Stephen King's movies. Good triumphs over evil in the end too.
Waterworld: The world is flooded, no dry land but the myth and search for it. Damnation Alley: Post-nuclear, going to an area not affect. Not on DVD. Neon City: Climate gone awry, civil breakdown. Mad Max Series: -Mad Max: Closest to a possible reality IMO, pre-nuclear societal break down, pretty brutal. -The Road Warrior: Post-nuc, fighting for fuel, pretty intense. -Beyond Thunderdome: post-nuc, civilization reforming, power struggle Defcon 4: post-nuc, astronauts mannnig a nuc space station return to earth after the war. Children of Men: women can no longer have children and its affect on society, most realistic battle scene I ever saw. The Stand: post-plague, rebuilding society, struggle between good and evil. Dawn of the Dead (Original): zombies take over and four hold out in a mall, the original is way better that the remake. Omega Man: post-plague, a man thinks he is the only one left against mutated people, then finds others. A remake being made, They Call me Legend with Will Smith. Soylent Green: over population, the dead are used to make food, soylent green. Planet of the Apes Series: post-nuc, the remake is not worth it. The Time Machine: Man goes forward in time and the world has degenerated. Remake is great. The Postman: man becomes a postman in post nuc world and rallies people against a tyrannical warlod. The Time of the Wolf: French, family goes to a vacation home where others have taken over in a breakdown in society. Red Dawn: Russians invade. WOLVERINES!!! Logan's Run: Environmental breakdown, people live in a closed city and only allowed to live till they are 30. The Seventh Seal: The end of time, the Guf is empty. A play on the opening of the seven seals at the end of days. The Day After: post-nuc US, scared the crap out of people in the 80s. The Day After Tomorrow: global change On the Beach: post-nuc world. Jericho: post-nuc US, TV series, still going, excellent show about nucs being set off in a conspiracy. Good show as to what life could be like, though I think it would be far more brutal. Jerimiah:
There are others, but I have a meeting.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
