Love or Money?

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July 28, 2006 at 7:35 am #1038672
Techno Viking
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“Tom Cruise may have found a way to convince Katie Holmes to marry him – $33 million. The couple, along with their lawyers, have come to terms on a new prenuptial agreement that will give Holmes $3 million a year (up to $33 million) for every year she is married to Tom Cruise. In addition, she will receive Cruise’s palatial home in Montecito, California. However, if the marriage lasts longer that 11 years, the contract becomes void and California’s community property law takes over, which will give Holmes half of Cruise’s estimated $400 million fortune. A source says:

If she walks now, Tom will fight her for custody of [daughter Suri], and Katie can’t outlast him in court,” an insider told the mag. “She knows she needs to marry him to get the money to fight him for custody, if it comes to that.”

Nice attitude to life…
July 28, 2006 at 8:44 am #1084208
wickedwreckage
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THEY ARE FUCKIN’ROBOTS!:sick_toot
July 28, 2006 at 8:49 am #1084205
General Lighting
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Looks like American “society” got what they wanted then; the ultimate triumph of the market over love!
July 28, 2006 at 8:56 am #1084207
triix
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thats the trouble with society, everything is about money……. they will prob break up in a couple of years, id ont like tom cruise anyway he is weird.:crazy:
July 28, 2006 at 10:02 am #1084206
General Lighting
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triix wrote:

thats the trouble with society, everything is about money……. they will prob break up in a couple of years, id ont like tom cruise anyway he is weird.:crazy:

wickedwreckage is also makes a good point – they are robots – so caught up with money and image they have made their humanity obsolete.

that is what is frightening about a lot of people today; technological progress is advancing so much but social progress is going back.

I think that humans are only on a social level with chimpanzees (who actually also make tools for war and have gang fights between tribes) and orang-utans are becoming more “civilised” than humans!
July 28, 2006 at 2:05 pm #1084209
bearded_teki
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The robot analogy is spot on.
I was thinking about the current hostilities in the middle east last night (and the ammount of violent shit everywhere else too).
It seems the only way of explaining it is in terms of Leary’s 8 circuit model of consciousness, basically most of the world is still stuck on the second emotional-territorial circuit most of the time, indeed leaders will even appeal to that circuit to get support for things like going to war.

I do despair sometimes, for about a minute and then realise how bloody lucky i am to have been born where i was and be as open minded as i am.

BTW, if you not read it, a good intro the the 8 circuit model of consciousness is Prometheus Rising by the great R. A. Wilson.
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