While Ryan and I continue to disagree with Nietzsche regarding philosophers shunning marriage (see earlier post), it should be noted that a comment has already been made as to how our interaction as a married couple sometimes resembles a sitcom or comedy… 
A long time ago…Well, actually, the time is approaching 6 months since Ryan and I sealed our vows to each other and were married before God on May 19, 2008. You can see our wedding photos under “Wedding Details” on the right. Half a year of married bliss! So exciting…
And if you look at the link “Married Life”, you might want to take a peek at an important new announcement there…
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness” - Bertrand Russell
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Bertrand Russell
This is to announce that Ryan and I were engaged to be married on January 4, 2008. The Lord willing, our wedding will take place on May 19, 2008, in Bowmanville.
This photo showed up on the front page of the Toronto Star on Sept 24, 2007 during the Ontario provincial election.
I encountered this short article by Steve Watters in the June 2007 edition of the Focus on the Family magazine. A man wrote to Focus with a concern over his wife’s fascination with romance novels. Like most women, his wife saw no harm in reading these books.
But consider Steve’s response to the man’s question:
“Romance novels for women are often ‘just stories’ in the same way that men might say adult magazines are ‘just magazines.’ Both romance novels and adult magazines manipulate men’s and women’s God-given desires with worldly and unhealthy fantasies.
While pornography presents images of women with perfect bodies who are always ready for sex, romance novels present men who have been emotionally re-engineered to spend all their time fulfilling a woman’s romantic fantasies. Both pornography viewers and romance novel readers end up disappointed by spouses who live in the real world.
As imperfect people living in an imperfect world, we already face enough challenges nurturing marital intimacy. Seeking to meet our emotional and physical needs with fantasies makes it that much harder to love our spouses and find contentment.”
While some may think Steve’s comparison of romance novels to pornography is extreme, he nevertheless reveals the danger that romance novels can be. Women can be prone to fantasize about meeting and marrying the perfect man, and feeding these fantasies with fictional love stories further distorts reality.
The truth is, almost all men are imperfect. Husbands will make mistakes and fall short of loving, serving, sacrificing, and leading in a perfect way. As wives, we are called to love and respect our husbands regardless of their faults and shortcomings, and to be content.
However, sisters, if this news discourages you, take heart: there is one perfect man I know. He loved His bride sacrificially, with a most perfect love. His Book is one you have got to read. 
Thus, the philosopher dislikes marriage as well as what might persuade him into it—marriage is a barrier and a disaster along his route to the optimal. What great philosopher up to now has been married? Heraclitus, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Leitniz, Kant, Schopenhauer—none of these got married. What’s more, we cannot even imagine them married. A married philosopher belongs in a comedy, that’s my principle. And Socrates, the exception, the malicious Socrates, it appears, got married ironically to demonstrate this very principle. -Nietzsche
We think he’s wrong. Only rebellious, anti-Christian philosophers shun marriage on principle. We embrace marriage, the pursuit of true wisdom (philosophy), and all other blessings from our good Creator.
I have found a quote which vindicates my early suppositions regarding Fichte and Hegel: Will Durant in The Story of Philosophy comments, quoting Schopenhauer: “Fichte and Schelling took Kant and excogitated magnificent spider-webs of metaphysics. ‘But the height of the audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most bare-faced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity.’”
If man was made to enjoy life in union and fellowship with his Creator, then living in alienation is to embrace insanity and an early death.