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Dollar Baby (Top Posts - Social/Legal - 052307) - - - Just saw it. Sad. If you're the type to cry at movies, bring several buckets, you'll need them as this movie transitions from hope and glee to the depths of despair and gloom. - - - Spoiler -- This conveys the essence of the story from beginning to end, so *don't* read it (or don't read too much of it, as it gives away the ending towards the end of the synopsis) -if- you prefer to watch the movie without knowing how it will end: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405159/synopsis - - - For me, a disbeliever in the super- natural mindtrap, a revelation of how dastardly real life can be, something we're all prone to either be in denial regarding, or simply willing to pre- tend that somehow real life can be twisted into something other than it really is, as if by ignoring or pretend- ing, all the downsides of life can dis- appear or be magically transformed into meritable via religious faith. Meanwhile ... While looking for news on the Super Bowl at the Dallas Morning News website, ran across a story on a man killing his wife and 7-year-old son, in Carrollton, a 'burb my fam- ily and I once resided in. Sad, what can happen when the hopes and dreams of marriage suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I wonder if society is doing enough to help the suffering recover. I think more can and should be done. I know, from personal experience, when my ex-wife tossed me out, there was no help from anywhere, church or state, and in fact, the legal system and, for that matter, my ex-wife's priest were MIA when it comes to any efforts to rescue the marriage. The legal system, in fact, was gung-ho to end the marriage. If that's the way it is across this country, it's no wonder that so many suffer so greatly when relationship crises occur. I wonder how many religious entities magnify differences, and work to end marriages rather than, as they suppos- edly espouse, to further and nurture them. I suspect that the primary motivation of religious entities is religious perpe- tuation, and marriages are no small sacrifice encouraged to dissolve whenever one party in the marriage differs with key religious tenets of the other party. - - -
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