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Cohabitation
FOUND by Jonathan Cherry
in Cambridge, Massachusettes
Found crumpled on the floor of the #75 bus.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Intresting. Yes today is more or less why buy the cow when the milk is free? Or if it doesn't work out you can take your shit and go, nothing ventured nothing gained I suppose.
Is this really what our education system is coming to? dang.. that's sad. that was almost painful to read.
I think this is really a paper on how many times the word "Cohabitation" can be written. (Good grief!)
You know, when it's repeated SO many times like that, it does start to sound dirty.
*giggles*
...my private catholic high school made me write a paper like this. it brings back awful memories.
I'm glad I'm not Catholic. I like gettin' my slices free! Mmmm yes siree.
Lol, wait. I meant milk. I don't eat bread! Lol. I drink milk though. Lol. I don't buy no damn cows either. Lol.
WOO!
funnily enough, I did a little bit of research into cohabitation myself recently! I was trying to figure out why cohabiting couples had a statistically higher divorce rate, when I stumbled across a U.S. Catholic website article detailing two types of cohabitation and which one of them isn't as bad as it's made out to be. It was an interesting article anyway, and does bring up a (what I find to be) valid point about how there are different types of guys and gals living together, and grouping them all into one big "COHABITATION" pile isn't very accurate or precise.
then again i am not really into religious brain washing in general, and don't buy into psychological mumbo jumbo for the most part.
What a fascinating find, in any case. I wonder if the student who wrote this with her (or his) pointy "e"s believes what s(he)'s researching.
I just hope that this was high school and not college.
I wouldn't put this beyond 6th grade level, though I am afraid it is probably from a high schooler. It is painfully bad, yet will probably get an 'A' for brainwashing 101.
Good thing that was crumpled up.
Did no one else notice that it's written by more than one person? Look at the a's and the y's in the handwritten parts, for instance. Totally different. "My paper" indeed ... O.o
I'm gettin' my red crayon out!
rava- I noticed that it was more than one person's handwriting. Maybe it is a group project? I know that in my sophomore year at a public high school we had to write a research paper on a topic like that. Some wrote on legalizing/not legalizing tobacco or animal rights.
I meant marijuana, not tobacco, sorry.
I don't want to burst any bubbles for those of you who said this was sixth grade level writing, or (gasp) high school level, but this sounds an awful lot like many of the papers I receive in my college freshmen composition courses. In fact, I received a research paper on cohabitation that was pretty much this paper. I actually thought that this was that paper for a few seconds, until the Catholic Church was brought up (my student thankfully didn't bring up the Catholic viewpoint). It did scare me, though. The last thing I want is to find one of my students' papers discarded and found for Found.
A prime example of the reason US colleges require a Writer's Competency exam in order to graduate...or at least they did 20 years ago. This person needs the preparatory course, badly. I just hope their own thought processes aren't as confused and directionless as this rough draft...otherwise their decisions mustlead to a lot of nightmare scenarios...
I really like "at this day in age." I collect that sort of malapropism. "If you think that, you've got another thing coming" is one of my favorites--and another, written by a friend of mine describing her new apartment: "And the building has a pharmacy right next store!"
I went to Catholic high school and this essay topic is familiar. I think it was just another scare tactic in their brainwashing strategy. They told us that cohabitation results in more divorces.
What with a war going on, all of this (unsubstantiated) worry about global warming, rising gas prices, and the like, what I fear MOST about the world is that 32% of America's voting population describe themselves as evangelical Christians.
Also, clearly, our education system is located up someone's ass. Crimeny.
This sounds like a really interesting paper. I am guess someone was writing a summary for a school paper they were writing on the subject. However, I was not aware that the Catholic Church ever frowned upon 'cohabitation'. As far as I know, it is widely accepted that people live together. Living with other people is a good thing. Perhaps the person here was thinking of a different word.
sure, bring back the "good ole days" when everyone lied about having premarital sex, got married as teenagers, and went away on holiday to get secret abortions.
In this comment I'm going to talk about the hazards of starting a paper with "In this paper I am..." I will cover three reasons that this is so...
Ok, enough of that, I'm going to make myself sick. I wrote a paper like that in 8th grade and my English teacher promptly beat it out of me. I still count the verbs in the introduction to make sure they're all different. She was a scary lady
I think I have whiplash from the first typed sentence!
what a mess
This entry is better suited for http://ahfb.blogspot.com/
Dem preests are nuttin' but a bunch of Boosh-luvin' God-fearin' war-whorin' Catho-lick futt buckers!
Whoa Spawn, chill out. Not all Catholics are like that. While you made me laugh (it was funny, your spelling is inspired) I just wanna keep generalizations out of it. Some "Boosh-luvin' God-fearin' war-whorin' Catho-lick futt buckers" do deserve to have their faith handed to them in a bucket, but there are people who are Catholic (or Christian (should I use "and"?)) who just don't fit the stereotype. Yay tree huggin', bare footed, commune belonging, peace mongering Catho-lick faithful!
and you are an idiot
Also have to share the story about a bunch of 70+ year old nuns who approached a missile silo and promptly started the bash the doors with huge hammers so that they couldn't open. Nuns kick ass sometimes. They're in jail at the moment. Don't know their opinion on cohabitation, but they're old school nuns, so I think they'd frown on it. But they're awesome anyway :)
R U a priest, "really"? You've really got to lighten up. Hoos da idiat nao? Blah blah blah, idiot. Booosh! Raaaaaaawwwr!
Now, really, that's was really uncalled for. Really!
Now bow down to your master, really, and beg for his priestly forgiveness.
I also teach at a University, and sadly this is even better than some of the papers I get! I even teach upper division classes (thankfully not English or writing I think I'd kill myself!) full of seniors about to embark on the world. Orinoco, if there were a writer's competency exam for the students to pass before they graduate, I'm afraid very few would ever leave! (Even though someone has clearly passed them through writing classes). Sigh.
Well, if they're gonna break up because of living together- its much easier to break up before they get married!
The first paragraph tells us that the writer will tell us WHAT cohabitation is. Um...Not so much. This is awful.
Thanks Katherine for ahfb. Thank you Rex and a few others for past neutral comments.
I agree w/ Living In Sin above - "clearly, our education system IS located up someone's ass."
After all, it has been dubbed : No Child Left BEHIND!
(sorry, couldn't resist - but it's truth)
this is clearly written by a harvard student
Wow. This actually takes me back to my college days when we had to exchange papers to proof read (now I see why the profs had us do this before it got to them). I never understood how so many people made it to college with such poor writing skills.
I don't really see why cohabitation is a bad thing.
A lot of divorces happen becuase people get married too young and don't know eachother well enough. For instance, if I liked someone I'd been dating for a few years, I'd live with them for a little while. What if I found out that I hate the way they never clean anything up, or that I can't deal with seeing them every day when I get home?
It sounds like a good deal to me. And if they start treating it like they're getting the milk for free? I'm not sticking around and being a vending machine, that's for sure.
This kind of makes me think of the pre-marital counseling I had to take with a former fiance. The pastor was none too pleased with our living together. We broke up, and sure it's difficult moving out of a cohabitated space, but happily, it was not a divorce. Counseling didn't change my mind at all, I still think that it's important to know if you CAN live with someone before you commit yourself to a HAVE TO.
Besides if you cohabitate you can spend less money on renting two seperate places and put all that extra money towards your ridiculously expensive wedding.
Marriage is the first step to Divorce.
dictionary.com definition:
1. to live together as husband and wife, usually without legal or religious sanction.
2. to live together in an intimate relationship.
3. to dwell with another or share the same place, as different species of animals.
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to: Teresa in The West ...
What's the link to that article? I've "co-habitated" in both the "definition 1" and "definition 2" types of relationships; including before my (ex-)husband & I were married. (um, we also co-habitated after we were married. I get along better with him now, divorced, friends, with 1200 miles between us.)
I spent some time "co-habitating" (the "definition 3" - different species type, i guess -lol) with 5 guys & another gal... 7 bedroom house, 1969-70. We just had a reunion in Washington state; it was great! A bunch of 'keepers' in life, and their spouses & kids & friends are too.
~~~~Katherine, thanks for the blogspot
~~~~~~~hannahbelle - you are correct (in my humble evaluation)... Ain't no vending machine! And Pixi - you too. The 'can' is very important before the 'have to'.
~~~ Living in & Gigi - that was great - no child left behind... gigi's got me giggling
~~~~ and Lizard Bits; *I* had the same teacher maybe! Only mine just beat it into me that it was stoopid (although she spelled better than I do) to start a paper saying what the paper is going to say. If the paper says it well, that sentence is redundant and -uh- stoopid.
Hey, Chekhov! Are you old enough to remember how wonderfully creative Norm Crosby and Victor Borge were at butchering the language? They were a couple of my heroes, but, alas, I think most people these days wouldn't "get it". I'm happy to say my kids do. (One of them is a Badger alum. GO BIG RED!) My personal homage to Borge is replacing "too" with "three" in all conversation. EX: "I'm gonna go to State Street." (my response)--> "Me three." But I digress. This find was painfully familiar. It was the same dance I did when I hadn't studied and was suddenly forced to cover a topic. Thank God those days are long-gone and I've learned my lesson. I no longer "punt", I cram. (There is NO sexual connotation in that whatsoever.) As far as the Catholic church goes, I think it has no problem with cohabitation, as long as no "impure thoughts or acts" are taking place. Anyone else remember when "ejaculations" were printed on holy cards? Yikes . . .
It's a Lizard-y day, I suppose, so much to comment on! I LOVE VICTOR BORGE!!! Especially the punctuation skit :) Good old Denmark-ian piano comedy.
Ok, this is the last one of the day, I swear :)
It's crimOny, Living, but it does sound kinda like crimEny. Perhaps your dictionary is lodged up someone's a**, too!
Oh for heaven's sake Domino, it's "criminy", not crimony (or criminey).
It seems to me that it is our culture has brainwashed us into such a single mindedness that people cannot stand to hear alternative opinions without dismissing them as "brainwashing."
LizBits: Always nice to know there are others who "get it".
OK, this has nothing to do with anything, except that I enjoy throwing this one out: the spelling of "vittles" is REALLY "victuals". Look it up, peeps! My kids had to see it to believe it.
So long for today...
Lulu, that was very clever. Made me chuckle.
This annoys me greatly. The generalizing alone ("most researchers say," "back then people knew it was bad") is worth a big fat F!
when I got married, the catholic churches around here would not marry us as we were "living in sin"; my reply was always, "Don't you want to get us OUT of sin,isn't that what Christ would of done? Aren't we trying to "fix" our "sin" by getting married?" Then the priest would usually hang up on me, or declare the meeting over, secondary to my "unrepentant" attitude. My husband's heavy-duty ultra-Catholic family simply suggested that we "forget" to mention that we were living together, and suggested that we could use their address for an "alternative" address. Okay, let me get this straight, cohabitating is a sin, but lying to a priest to get what you want is acceptable.
okay, so I cohabitated with my ex for about 2 years. We both kept apartments, we just never slept in different ones. Is that somehow better? After all, we were trying to keep it from our kids.
NO cohabitation allowed. When yer done boinking the altarboy in the rectum, uh, I mean rectory, you gotta send him home.
Domino, I didn't realize that dogs could use computers, let alone read dictionaries.
To those criticizing the grammar: you guys are idiots. It's clearly a rough draft, it isn't meant to be grammatically correct. Whenever I write a paper I begin with writing down my first thoughts, whether they are grammatically correct or not, simply to get the ideas onto paper. Trying to write the paper perfectly on the first attempt is much too tedious and counter-productive to the flow of ideas.
I don't find this funny.
I studied English at university. Often times the professors had us type up a paragraph or short paper about our a topic for a paper or research as well as annotated bibliographies and the like.
Perhaps the assignment was to write a paragraph about a proposed research topic, then in groups expand on those ides. Or it could have just been to do the paragraph and then the student just started taking some notes in a hurry and followed up later when they had more time to work.
As you can see from reading this, when I'm rushed or tired, I often times lose track of my spelling and grammar (even after 6 years of english and communication classes).
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Additionally, I always prefer to cohabitate when a relationship gets to the point you're spending most nights in one or the other's beds. You either spend twice as much money on rent or you move in together get to save lots of green. I also feel that it is good to discuss the subject of marriage before doing so. Often times people will be under the impression that marriage would be the outcome, however sometimes it's just easier economically even if they are not sure about the other person being the one for them forever or if they are not sure they even believe in marriage at all.
they must have figured that using the word "cohabitation" over and over would make it seem as if they had actually researched the topic. and the grammar? ouch.
and to all the people who were brainwashed in their catholic high schools? i actually attend one, and i have never had to write anything like this. hopefully, won't ever have to.
Not all Catholic high schools brainwash people. I don't consider myself Catholic, but I did go to an all-girls Catholic high school and had a great experience. I was NEVER required to write a paper like this, in fact, we could pretty much write about whatever we wanted.
If this poor person was required to write a paper on why cohabitation is so bad, I feel awful for the guy/girl.
I guess some Catholic schools are more liberal than others.
I especially like the part about living with someone you "think" you love. Good lord....
My favorite part is the end where s/he says "I hope that by the end of my paper I get to see many views on cohabitation". Yeah, I hope you do too! But what about us?
Perhaps this is for an ESL class? That would make it forgivable, huh?
For your next assignment, please write a brief essay on how people in the 1960s knew LSD was bad for them, so they didn't do it as much. You may wish to address how LSD is different today.
This is a such a sweet find. Let's help her out:
Cohabitation is a prissy term for living together and having sex out of wedlock.
The Church generally disapproves of cohabitation.
Not much has changed in the last 40 years.
There! Wasn't that easy?
Ok. So the paper is crap. It is. But can someone just take a step back and realize that this is not brainwashing. It's simply a way of trying to teach kids about the ideas of an institution. If you want a kid to learn about rainforests, you have them write about depleting rainforests. No brainer.
I am 19 years old, and I have been dating a guy for a year now, and we have a really great relationship. I don't want to "cohabitate" with him, and I certainly don't think that it would make our relationship stronger, I think it would damage it imensely.
It makes me sad to think that so many people think that sex is just a fun thing to do when you've been dating for a while. I don't know about the Church, but personally... not cohabitating is about a lot more than boosting the likelihood that a marriage will last.
Think what you will, but if you want to pretend to be open to ideas, then be open - to all ideas.
I swear, this looks like my handwritting and sounds like something I would write as notes....hm.
This brings back memories of an argument I had with my Sacraments teacher sophomore year. It was reguarding this exact subject. The catholic school system gets really hard after you get past that age where everything the teacher says is word, and you start to think on your own.