It’s crazy and yet perfectly logical: One of the core constituting factors of humanity, the ability to love, is leaping forward thanks to the intervention of – machines.
It just happened to me – or that is: to my cousin (and his just-wed wife). And yes: I’m talking about marriages that starts out as online dating.
Anders (that’s my cousin) and Mette met 10 month ago at kristendating.dk – a Christian dating-portal. And this saturday I attended their weddingparty. (Which by now is fused into a 7ehimlen.com (7ehimlen=”seventhsky”)).
Anders is Catholic, Mette is Indre missionsk-Lutheran. Lives in each their part of Denmark. Different educations, different jobs. They surely owe their mariage to the internet (they wouldn’t have met otherwise).
One other couple at the wedding party – a carpenter and a Lutheran priest – also they met at kristendating.dk. (They celebrated their one hundred and eigth days wedding-anniversary at the party).
This makes me think 1: Seems logical that particularly religious people are attracted to online dating: those guys are less into surface (and sex) – and more into substance (and feelings). They’re attracted to the idea of meeting people through enlightened search on profiles, and Q and A ping-pongs that can bring out the inner thoughts of the potential partner-to-be. As opposed to the go-to-a-party-and-meet-a-total-stranger-blindly-hoping-for-real-love.
This makes me think 2: what they’re doing is actually goin down historys lane, and bringing the late 1800s-letter-writting-culture back into existence. This is the return of writing as a an emancipatory tool.