[split] Adversary relationships, and the mated pair

[KaliSouth]

I guess I will jump in with a few thoughts. There has already been some good feedback on the intention of Ra's statements being more objective than accusatory.

My feeling about marriage is that it should not even exist as a legally binding contract, and furthermore, if it does, then the persons involved in the contract should be any consulting adults whomever they are. I personally feel that monogamy for monogamy's sake is infringement of free will. If two (or more) people want to be together, then they are, as simple as that. The conviction to commit to someone should come from within, not from anywhere else. I feel that laws and societal judgments are archaic in this regard.

Having children is another subject. In this world, I seldom see really good reasons for having children. Then the children are born into dysfunctional families of varying degrees. I suppose this is a way to generate catalyst or process "karmic" relationships and issues. But it seems to me that when we have more, and significant, life extension, there will be a better opportunity to learn about self, without the complications of this kind of enmeshment. 

Yes, I do think that Ra is observing from a distance not judging.

As a wanderer who is not interested in procreating, I can see how these kinds of parent-child relationships contribute to karma. People get into the tribalist thinking ("my family first a who cares about the rest of society"). I leads to a certain kind of dysfunction in society as a whole where the concept of "fitting in" becomes the norm because you are part of a family or group. It also allows people to become ignorant to the way the world works because they get too busy to with work (which tires them out) and catering to their children (which also tires them out), and then trying to fit all of this into the expectations of family and a sub-section of society (also takes a lot of energy). So when you go further up in the power structure the political or economic elites can see that you are too busy to ask too many questions, i.e. you've been "dumbed down". They have money to pay for other people to raise their children and clean their homes. You have school fees, mortgage payments or rent to keep you motivated to work. So they can do whatever they want secure in the knowledge that you are not going to question inequality or exploitation because they don't have the time to look up what's going on behind the scenes or ponder the meaning of life. And if you do, it's going to be whining on Twitter or Facebook which is mostly inconsequential.

Maybe there's a better way to go out about this, but I haven't seen that much of it.

Just my observation about power relations on Planet Earth.