The Assyrian Christian, Past and Present
Mark Dickens from King's University in Edmonton, Alberta, presented The Church of the East along the Silk Road Network. Jonathan Loopstra from the University of Northwestern, St Paul, presented The Church of the East and the Transmission of Ancient Knowledge. Tala Jarjour from the University of Notre Dame presented Syriac Chant as Cultural Heritage. Second of three sessions in a daylong symposium.
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NYSTV - Nostradamus Prophet of the Illuminati - David Carrico and the Midnight Ride - Multi Language
Nostradamus is the most well known prophet of the millennium because his predictions came true. What was the true source of his visions? How deeply ingrained in the occult was he? What was his medical background? What innovations did he use to fight the Black Plague that was rampant at the time? Was he a puppet working for the Illuminati? Or were they working for him?
Now the real question is, was Nostradamus just a psyops planned hundreds of years ago and the demonic forces are just controlling events as Nostradamus predicted?
Some deep insights into the life and times of Nostradamus with David Carrico of The Midnight Ride.
In depth information you'd have to watch like 8 documentaries about Nostradamus to get.
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Artists and Global Citizenship: a Pilot ArtsLink Assembly produced by CEC ArtsLink, New York City
CEC ArtsLink presented a pilot ArtsLink Assembly on Artists and Global Citizenship livestreaming from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 16 November 2018 at 2 p.m. EST (New York) / 19.00 UTC +0 (London) / 20.00 UTC +1 (Berlin) / 21.00 UTC +2 (Bucharest) / 22.00 UTC +3 (Moscow). Use #ArtsLinkAssembly in social media.
The ArtsLink Assembly is a new public forum to share practices and ideas, to network and foster dialogue with international and U.S. artists, cultural institutions, foundations, and city and federal agencies.
Central to the Assembly is the exploration of the impact of international cultural exchange and the artists' growing role in social justice and building an open democratic society. The ArtsLink Fellows 2018 from Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine will participate in presentations and focused dialogues.
Speakers included, among others, Simon Brault, Director, Canada Council for the Arts; Izabel Galliera, author of Social Practice in Post-Soviet Europe; Leyya Tawil and Mike Khoury, artists; Nina Murray, U.S. State Department; Noor Zafar, lawyer; and Guiomar Ochoa, NEA.
Foundations panel moderated by Cathy Edwards, New England Foundation for the Arts, features Zeyba Rahman, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Michelle Coffey, Lambent Foundation; Rashida Bumbray, Open Society Foundations; and Barbara Lanciers, Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Video index:
0:00 — Welcome
Hadrien Coumans and Brent Michael Davids, Lenape Center / Simon Dove, CEC ArtsLink
7:39 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Inga Lāce, Latvia / Assel Kadyrkhanova, Kazakhstan
18:30 — Undoing Nationalism: Laurel Ptak, Art in General, and ArtsLink alum Michal Novotny, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
29:20 — Arts Envoy Program: Nina Murray, U.S. Department of State
36:18 — The Ecological Challenge: Hadrien Coumans and Brent Michael Davids, Lenape Center
44:22 — New York Safe Haven Residency: Ashley Tucker, Artistic Freedom Initiative and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Residency Unlimited
55:13 — Arab Experimentalism in Music, Performance and Live Art: artists Leyya Tawil and Mike Khoury
1:06:20 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Bozhena Zakaliuzhna, Ukraine / Viacheslav Ivaschenko, Russia
1:17:50 — The Arts Beyond Borders — Beginning with the Americas: Simon Brault, CEO Canada Council for the Arts. View the English transcript on the Canada Council for the Arts website: View the French transcript on the Canada Council for the Arts website:
1:45:25 — Foundations Investing in Trans-National Cultural Programs: Challenges and Opportunities. Panel moderated by Cathy Edwards, New England Foundation for the Arts with Zeyba Rahman, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Michelle Coffey, Lambent Foundation; Rashida Bumbray, Open Society Foundations; and Barbara Lanciers, Trust for Mutual Understanding
2:30:30 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Zoya Falkova, Kazakhstan
2:41:10 — The Relevance of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Times of Crisis: Izabel Galliera, Assistant Professor, McDaniel College
2:57:33 — How the National Endowment for the Arts Fosters International Creative Collaboration: Guiomar Ochoa, International Activities Specialist, National Endowment for the Arts
3:07:35 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Adela Demetja, Albania / Karolina Halatek, Poland
3:18:26 — Make Sanctuary Not Art — Institutions, Artists and the Politics of Solidarity: Abou Farman Farmaian, The New School
3:29:17 — Priit Raud, ArtsLink alum, Estonia
3:41:14 — The Muslim Ban: Policies Targeting Muslim Communities: Noor Zafar, ACLU
3:51:48 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Raluca Croitoru, Romania / Filip Rađenović, Serbia
3:59:30 — Thanks: All Fellows 2018
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Pre-reform Russian orthography: Россійская Имперія, Modern Russian: Российская империя, translit: Rossiyskaya Imperiya) was a state that existed from 1721 until overthrown by the short-lived liberal February Revolution in 1917. One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires. It played a major role in 1812–14 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe, and expanded to the west and south. It was often in conflict with the Ottoman Empire (which in turn was usually protected by the British).
At the beginning of the 19th century, it extended from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean, and (until 1867) into Alaska in North America on the east. With 125.6 million subjects registered by the 1897 census, it had the third largest population in the world at the time, after Qing China and the British Empire. Like all empires, it included a large disparity in terms of economics, ethnicity, and religion. There were numerous dissident elements, who launched numerous rebellions and assassination attempts; they were closely watched by the secret police, with thousands exiled to Siberia. Economically it was heavily rural with low productivity on large estates worked by serfs, until they were freed in 1861. The economy slowly industrialized with the help of foreign investments in railways and factories. The land was ruled by a nobility called Boyars from the 10th through the 17th centuries, and then was ruled by an emperor called the Tsar. Tsar Ivan III (1462 – 1505) laid the groundwork for the empire that later emerged. He tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. Tsar Peter the Great (1682 - 1725) fought numerous wars and built a huge empire that became a major European power. He moved the capital from Moscow to the new model city of St. Petersburg, and led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political system with a modern, scientific, Europe-oriented, and rationalist system. Catherine the Great (1761 - 1796) presided over a golden age. She expanded the nation rapidly by conquest, colonization and diplomacy. She continued Peter the Great's policy of modernisation along West European lines. Tsar Alexander II (1855 - 1881) promoted numerous reforms, most dramatically the emancipation of all 23 million serfs in 1861. His policy in Eastern Europe was to protect the Orthodox Christians under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. That involvement by 1914 led to Russia's entry into the First World War on the side of Serbia and the Allies, and against the German, Austrian and Ottoman empires. Russia was an absolute monarchy until the Revolution of 1905 and then became a constitutional monarchy. The empire collapsed during the February Revolution of 1917, the result of massive failures in its participation in the First World War.
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Ball lightning | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:36 1 Historical accounts
00:02:12 1.1 Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor
00:03:36 1.2 The iCatherine and Mary/i
00:04:23 1.3 The iMontague/i
00:05:40 1.4 Georg Richmann
00:06:40 1.5 HMS iWarren Hastings/i
00:07:29 1.6 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
00:08:08 1.7 Wilfrid de Fonvielle
00:09:58 1.8 Tsar Nicholas II
00:11:53 1.9 Aleister Crowley
00:13:01 1.10 R.C. Jennison
00:14:03 1.11 Other accounts
00:22:45 2 Characteristics
00:26:21 3 Direct measurements of natural ball lightning
00:28:23 4 Laboratory experiments
00:29:35 4.1 Wave-guided microwaves
00:30:05 4.2 Water discharge experiments
00:30:28 4.3 Home microwave oven experiments
00:31:51 4.4 Silicon experiments
00:32:45 5 Proposed scientific explanations
00:33:20 5.1 Vaporized silicon hypothesis
00:34:51 5.2 Electrically charged solid-core model
00:35:39 5.3 Microwave cavity hypothesis
00:36:35 5.4 Soliton hypothesis
00:39:18 5.5 Hydrodynamic vortex ring antisymmetry
00:42:17 5.6 Nanobattery hypothesis
00:42:54 5.7 Black hole hypothesis
00:43:38 5.8 Buoyant plasma hypothesis
00:44:40 5.9 Transcranial magnetic stimulation
00:46:33 5.10 Spinning plasma toroid (ring)
00:47:47 5.11 Rydberg matter concept
00:48:59 5.12 Vacuum hypothesis
00:54:17 5.13 Other hypotheses
00:57:06 6 See also
00:57:37 7 Notes
00:57:46 8 Further reading
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Ball lightning is an unexplained and potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, the phenomenon lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt. Two reports from the nineteenth century claim that the ball eventually explodes, leaving behind an odor of sulfur.
Until the 1960s, most scientists treated reports of ball lightning skeptically, despite numerous accounts from around the world. Laboratory experiments can produce effects that are visually similar to reports of ball lightning, but how these relate to the natural phenomenon remains unclear.Scientists have proposed many hypotheses about ball lightning over the centuries. Scientific data on natural ball-lightning remains scarce, owing to its infrequency and unpredictability. The presumption of its existence depends on reported public sightings, which have produced somewhat inconsistent findings. Owing to inconsistencies and to the lack of reliable data, the true nature of ball lightning remains unknown. The first ever optical spectrum of what appears to have been a ball-lightning event was published in January 2014, and included a video at high frame-rate.
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The Mongols (Mongolian: Монголчууд, ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud, [ˈmɔŋ.ɢɔɮ.t͡ʃʊːt]) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and to China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China (e.g. Xinjiang), as well as in Russia. Mongolian people belonging to the Buryat and Kalmyk subgroups live predominantly in the Russian federal subjects of Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The Mongols are bound together by a common heritage and ethnic identity. Their indigenous dialects are collectively known as the Mongolian language. The ancestors of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols.
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00:00:44 1 Definition
00:01:54 2 History
00:02:57 2.1 In the Chinese classics
00:07:58 2.2 Era of the Mongol Empire and Northern Yuan
00:13:31 2.3 Qing-era Mongols
00:23:12 2.4 Post-Qing era
00:36:47 3 Language
00:39:26 4 Religion
00:46:57 5 Military
00:48:03 6 Kinship and family life
00:53:20 7 Historical population
00:53:30 8 Geographic distribution
00:54:18 8.1 Subgroups
00:56:28 8.2 Mongolia
00:57:20 8.3 China
01:00:09 8.4 Russia
01:00:30 8.5 Elsewhere
01:00:53 9 Gallery
01:01:02 10 Data tables
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The Mongols (Mongolian: Монголчууд, ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud, [ˈmɔŋ.ɢɔɮ.t͡ʃʊːt]) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and to China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China (e.g. Xinjiang), as well as in Russia. Mongolian people belonging to the Buryat and Kalmyk subgroups live predominantly in the Russian federal subjects of Buryatia and Kalmykia.
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Slave labour | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:58 1 Terminology
00:03:20 2 Types
00:03:28 2.1 Chattel slavery
00:04:15 2.2 Bonded labour
00:04:55 2.3 Forced labour
00:07:04 2.4 Forced marriage
00:07:51 2.5 Dependents
00:08:15 3 Characteristics
00:08:25 3.1 Economics
00:14:44 3.2 Identification
00:16:29 4 Early history
00:18:06 5 Classical antiquity
00:18:15 5.1 Africa
00:18:23 5.2 Asia
00:18:32 5.3 Europe
00:18:40 5.3.1 Ancient Greece
00:21:16 6 Middle Ages
00:21:25 6.1 Africa
00:22:10 6.2 Arab slave trade
00:22:52 6.3 Americas
00:23:00 6.3.1 Mexico
00:23:23 6.4 Asia
00:23:32 6.4.1 China
00:24:12 6.4.2 Korea
00:25:46 6.5 Europe
00:27:30 6.5.1 England
00:28:31 6.5.2 Ottoman Empire
00:29:46 6.5.3 Poland
00:30:06 6.5.4 Portugal
00:31:09 6.5.5 Russia
00:32:05 6.5.6 Scandinavia
00:32:19 6.5.7 Spain
00:33:20 7 Modern history
00:33:29 7.1 Africa
00:44:26 7.2 Americas
00:47:34 7.2.1 Barbados
00:50:11 7.2.2 Brazil
00:53:08 7.2.3 Cuba
00:58:03 7.2.4 Haiti
01:02:13 7.2.5 Jamaica
01:03:08 7.2.6 Mexico
01:03:52 7.2.7 Puerto Rico
01:08:39 7.2.8 Suriname
01:11:38 7.2.9 United States
01:18:09 7.3 Asia
01:18:24 7.3.1 China
01:21:18 7.3.2 India
01:24:57 7.3.3 Indochina
01:25:48 7.3.4 Japan
01:29:05 7.3.5 Korea
01:31:08 7.4 Nazi Germany
01:31:45 7.5 Ottoman Empire and Black Sea
01:33:56 8 Contemporary slavery
01:36:26 8.1 Distribution
01:38:26 8.2 Economics
01:39:00 8.3 Trafficking
01:41:01 9 Abolitionism
01:49:57 10 Apologies
01:55:10 10.1 Reparations
01:56:21 11 Other uses of the term
01:56:40 11.1 Examples
01:57:56 11.1.1 Wage slavery
01:58:32 12 In films
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Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Many scholars now use the term chattel slavery to refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto forced to work against their own will. Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour to refer to such situations. However, and especially under slavery in broader senses of the word, slaves may have some rights and protections according to laws or customs.
Slavery began to exist before written history, in many cultures. A person could become enslaved from the time of their birth, capture, or purchase.
Historically, slavery has been legalized institutionally in most societies at some point, but is now outlawed in all recognized countries. The last country to officially abolish slavery was Mauritania in 2007. Nevertheless, there are an estimated 40.3 million people worldwide subject to some form of modern slavery. The most common form of modern slave trade is commonly referred to as human trafficking. In other areas, slavery (or unfree labour) continues through practices such as debt bondage, the most widespread form of slavery today, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.
Mongol | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:38 2 History
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00:02:44 2.2 In the Chinese classics
00:07:04 2.3 Era of the Mongol Empire and Northern Yuan
00:11:51 2.4 Qing-era Mongols
00:20:11 2.5 Post-Qing era
00:31:58 3 Language
00:34:17 4 Religion
00:40:43 5 Military
00:41:39 6 Kinship and family life
00:46:09 7 Historical population
00:46:19 8 Geographic distribution
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- Socrates
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The Mongols (Mongolian: Монголчууд, ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud, [ˈmɔŋ.ɢɔɮ.t͡ʃʊːt]) are a Mongolic ethnic group native to Mongolia and to China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China (e.g. Xinjiang), as well as in Russia. Mongolian people belonging to the Buryat and Kalmyk subgroups live predominantly in the Russian federal subjects of Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The Mongols are bound together by a common heritage and ethnic identity. Their indigenous dialects are collectively known as the Mongolian language. The ancestors of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols.
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00:00:46 1 Definition
00:01:59 2 History
00:03:05 2.1 Origin
00:03:17 2.2 In the Chinese classics
00:08:35 2.3 Era of the Mongol Empire and Northern Yuan
00:14:26 2.4 Qing-era Mongols
00:24:39 2.5 Post-Qing era
00:38:57 3 Language
00:41:45 4 Religion
00:49:42 5 Military
00:50:51 6 Kinship and family life
00:56:28 7 Historical population
00:56:38 8 Geographic distribution
00:57:29 8.1 Subgroups
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- Socrates
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The Mongols (Mongolian: Монголчууд, ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud, [ˈmɔŋ.ɢɔɮ.t͡ʃʊːt]) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and to China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China (e.g. Xinjiang), as well as in Russia. Mongolian people belonging to the Buryat and Kalmyk subgroups live predominantly in the Russian federal subjects of Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The Mongols are bound together by a common heritage and ethnic identity. Their indigenous dialects are collectively known as the Mongolian language. The ancestors of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols.
Mongols | Wikipedia audio article
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Mongols
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00:01:43 2 History
00:02:41 2.1 In the Chinese classics
00:07:14 2.2 Era of the Mongol Empire and Northern Yuan
00:12:16 2.3 Qing-era Mongols
00:21:00 2.4 Post-Qing era
00:33:10 3 Language
00:35:34 4 Religion
00:42:22 5 Military
00:43:22 6 Kinship and family life
00:48:10 7 Historical population
00:48:19 8 Geographic distribution
00:49:05 8.1 Subgroups
00:51:02 8.2 Mongolia
00:51:51 8.3 China
00:54:24 8.4 Russia
00:54:45 8.5 Elsewhere
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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The Mongols (Mongolian: Монголчууд, ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud, [ˈmɔŋ.ɢɔɮ.t͡ʃʊːt]) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and to China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China (e.g. Xinjiang), as well as in Russia. Mongolian people belonging to the Buryat and Kalmyk subgroups live predominantly in the Russian federal subjects of Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The Mongols are bound together by a common heritage and ethnic identity. Their indigenous dialects are collectively known as the Mongolian language. The ancestors of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols.
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until overthrown by a liberal February Revolution in 1917. One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires. It played a major role in 1812--14 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe, and expanded to the west and south. It was often in conflict with the Ottoman Empire .
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Famine
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A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every inhabited continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history. In the 19th and 20th century, it was generally Southeast and South Asia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe that suffered the most deaths from famine. The numbers dying from famine began to fall sharply from the 2000s.
Some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, continue to have extreme cases of famine. Since 2010, Africa has been the most affected continent in the world. As of 2017, the United Nations has warned some 20 million are at risk in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen. Agricultural conditions have been fluctuating more and more due to variations in weather, and the distribution of food has been affected by conflict. Most programmes now direct their aid towards Africa.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)