I'm just happy for the excuse to dress up in a fun costume, and hit on/get hit on, by women, who are also dressed up in fun costumes.
In a religious forum I think we should try to avoid inappropriate sexual comments like that....
You don't date? It's a part of life. Try it some time, you might like it. Nothing in the Torah against it. Are we Jews or Puritans at Jamestown?
lou, we are varied people here, and adults, and nothing overt is being discussed, simply light banter, this thread is about something as silly as Halloween after all. Are you so easily shocked? You should get out more.
Dating is to find a wife, not recreation. All other dating is prohibited by Torah Law. Pre-marital kissing and especially pre-marital sex are absolutely forbidden. I don't even hug women. If a woman is really attractive, it's even better not to shake her hand because it is bad for my Evil Inclination.
Hey, I'm 40 kiddo, get back to me in 20 years and let me know if you feel the same way. Best of luck to you though.
Well obviously your life style of finding women didn't work. If you would have been set up with women for marriage, you would have been married by now.
Well that's simply circumstancial. I, like a lot a of people, are on their own on this particular aspect of their lives. Out there meeting people, getting into relationships, and they either blossom or not. Some even get married and it doesn't work out (some do), and there you are out there dating again, or you're married forever, but in the modern world, nothing is garunteed.
I for one have been in and out of relationships, some of them lasting for a very long time, but none of them resulting in getting married, and even if so, hey those could have succeeded or failed as well. That's life, no garuntees. I hope you really "luck out" and avoid needing these kinds of reality lessons in the years to come and you meet someone as idealogical as yourself, and she makes sure things stay together. But if you don't luck out, you can't be ridged in your thinking, there's many ways of life that can be quite happy that don't fit into a rigid script of boy meets girl, gets married and makes a family. Sometimes you have what you are dealt, and you make the best of it. Hey, I'm chillin' and loving life, actually, it's a lot of fun not having the traditional responsibilities, and I'm cognizant enough to recognize it.