In Biblical times it would generally be closer to 30 for the men and 15-18 for the women to get married off. The pretty ones going the youngest for sure though. If your family was rich an 18 year-old boy could have "the pick of the litter" eh?
This is in the bible too: "If you have an orphaned daughter among you? It is better for her to marry an older man than to become a harlot."
This could mean a girl as young as 14 (maybe less) and a man past 40 :/ possibly a widower.
Remember that horrible Tsunami that hit Japan a while back?
We waited for it and LO! it arrived: a "climate expert" said it was caused by AGW (human-caused global warming). See: the warmer water is heavier (it isn't) and that set off the tectonic plates. This got published without dissent.
Bonus: A Muslim Imam, in Turkey iirc? Syria? Said that the earthquakes that hit there were caused by... women in bikinis in Western Nations.
Both were a while back but it shows how little has changed.
I met a fellow who'd spend 6 months in an Arabic country (Saudi Arabia iirc) and earn 4x the money he'd get here in Canada. Then he had a 6 month vacation! He'd done this for several years, his boyfriend was fine with it.
He was a nurse.
He said one day after 3-4 years there, the top hospital director called him to the office. He simply said: "If anyone, including me, asks if you are gay? You just say no and nothing else." He did know that, but it really reminded him how much risk he was taking.
Hard to say. The "troubles" in UK are far worse than in Canada, we're still doing sort-of ok.
But there's resistance in UK now, and none in Canada.
UK still has unbiased Media available. Not so in Canada, they've all been bought off by taxpayer money.
The Media has been harping on the exact same talking points lately: "Why is Carney unpopular, he's brought the best economic recovery ever!" And hot garbage like that.
There's only Pro-Liberal Media in Canada, paid by taxpayers to spout propaganda. The un-bribed Media have a very small audience.
For some reason the Federal Conservatives still imagine they can run a "moderate" candidate and somehow the Media won't roast him as a "far-right abortion banner". The Provincial Conservatives are even worse.
They still haven't learned from the USA that actual "right wing" candidates can win, especially on the down-ticket. But the Media is more fair in the USA... and it's 85% biased so that says a lot about Canada today, eh?
The non-stop barrage of propaganda and lies from almost every Canadian Media outlet takes its toll on IQ, eh?
They'll repeat any pro-Carney lie, no matter how stupid. They'll tell every anti-Conservative story like it was actually true, but it never is.
Except no one was doing anything. A guy with a phone filmed them walking into the station with a dozen or so police loitering at the entry. The cops told him he cannot enter, but there wasn't a crowd or anything.
There's also no images or video from that outing showing them on any trains... they'd have to change costumes mid-trip eh? To exit without drawing attention.
I'm guessing that for this "parade" they all got off at the FBI station.
I wonder what it would take for Frenchmen to actually wake up to the danger they're in? Summer riots by "youths of unknown origin" have been ongoing for decades now :/ Win or lose, the streets will be burning.
Then Monaco hosts it in 2030? That'll be a fiasco too.
Of course the left has been chanting "Feel! Don't think!" but I think (feel too) that thinking about one's spirituality is a very good idea.
Science keeps saying meditation is good for us, like prayers for example. The left wants to exclude those & focus on hippy-dippy stuff, of course.
Being a Deist, I get to believe in God (the All Creator) and just consider things like Bibles and Holy Persons as options. Advice. Literalists are generally a sad lot, I find. Or rabid zealots like 90% of Muslims...