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2013-03-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Religious nuts.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-12 01:54|| 2013-03-12 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Realtime Anthropology, right here on Rantburg!
Primitive tribes, ancestor worship, praying to ghosts, child sacrifices and exorcism ceremonies.
People(?) fill the empty spots in their heads.
...and they vote.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-12 08:12|| 2013-03-12 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 People(?) fill the empty spots in their heads.
...and they vote.
Posted by Skidmark

Mostly voting ANC however. Not familiar with the African National Congress (ANC)? Think - BCC on steroids with an outlawed Republican party. You've arrived!

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-12 08:26|| 2013-03-12 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Religious nuts

Religion has nothing to do with it.

Study up on Africa. You might learn something.

Posted by Pappy 2013-03-12 10:59|| 2013-03-12 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait a minute...the article says the bride was already married and a mother of five...so my question is: What did her current husband think about all this? Seems like it would have been a reasonable question for the reporter to ask and include the answer in his report.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-12 11:41|| 2013-03-12 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 With that age range it likely has nothing to do with boinking. Without knowing the local culture, it could be a way to influence fortune, could be political, could be something the gifted kids do as an apprentice system. Heck, maybe they just wanted a good reason to throw a party, sure beats trying to gather everyone together to watch the KC Chiefs.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-12 14:34|| 2013-03-12 14:34|| Front Page Top

#7 The whole thing sounds mighty "un-Islamic" to me. Maybe they better be thoroughly investigated.

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-12 14:40|| 2013-03-12 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The whole thing sounds mighty "un-Islamic" to me.
Since it took place in South Africa, it probably was.

It all sounds quite sweet: the boy is doing this for his dead grandfather, after whom he is named, who asked him to have the white wedding Gramps always dreamed of; the "bride" is someone he is fond of; there are no legal or behavioural expectations of the parties beyond the ceremony itself; and, the lad looks forward to marrying a girl of his own age for real when he is grown

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-12 16:10|| 2013-03-12 16:10|| Front Page Top

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