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Staying out of Cartoon World, June 1st, 2022.

Dear Darla, okay so now we are getting into some treacherous territory.

This is an area fraught with peril and one of the reasons that is so perilous is that

we all for emotional reasons have decided to ignore and suppress a major facet of male

female interactions.

The end result is that nobody knows what is going on, everybody's doing it, but nobody's

paying attention to it.

Now assume that you have a room full of young men and young women all unattached, it is

a social event, a mixture of some kind.

For the purposes of this thought experiment, let us assume that character issues are equally

important to everyone, nobody wants to marry a bomb, a dirt bag, or a harlot.

So the character issues are fixed, everybody there is going to heaven when they die.

Just because everyone is exhibiting godly character does not mean that any given couple

would be a good match.

There are all sorts of additional variables in play.

You couldn't just pair everybody off randomly and have happy things result.

Godly character is a necessary condition for a good marriage, but it is not a sufficient

condition.

What this means is that character is essential, if you don't have it, you cannot have a

good marriage, but a sufficient condition is stronger than that.

If you have the sufficient conditions met, you will have a good marriage.

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