Posts by BenWilson
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
Of course now I feel deprived that my parents didn't cave into my grandparents and send me off to Sunday school, so I could get kicked out like all the cool kids :-)
Ya, my writing career is severely hampered by not having suffered enough as a child. With an atheist psychologist Dad and an Anglican (which seems to be the kind of Christianity where you don't even have to believe in God) humanities teacher Mum, God was less likely to come up than Freud, and that never happened except with dismissive snorts (Dad was a behaviourist in those days). I think I went to Sunday school once, thought it was dull, and said so, and didn't have to go again. It wasn't that it was so particularly dull for a school, but putting it on Sunday was a pretty dumb choice. Would I rather be playing with my mates or getting lectured in a church? Dur.
I think that's a big part of my tolerant attitude towards religions generally. I've had so little dealings that they seem like a foreign culture, and to dismiss them, bigotry. My approach to them for my children will be to treat religion as an anthropological study, so the kids will be exposed to a big range of them, compare and contrast. They can rate them on many criteria - like the coolness of the outfits, their architectural style, the food, the song and dance routines, their art. Not something to spend a great deal of time on, unless they develop an interest, though.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
My ex recently found, or re-found or something the Catholic Church, and we're negotating about her attending a Catholic school, which I'm fanatically against.
I was prepared to make it the one and only firm veto power I'd ever use, if it came to that. It didn't, which is great because ultimatums suck arse.
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I think I could be happy with the former, but it should apply to people under 65 as well.
Wasn't that Social Credit's main idea? It seems like a much simpler idea than welfare, I must say. Effectively it should be tax neutral on the current system, since employed people would be paying for it for themselves, and it would obviously need a corresponding tax hike. But it would take away the stigma of welfare and the massive marginal taxing that goes on with it that actively discourages incremental movements out of unemployment.
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I'm tired of being the "but" of your jokes.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
You stopped him before the "but"? You missed the whole blokey angle.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to 3410,
Without tapping her skull, I'd say a fairly convincing human. Possibly wielding the power of three.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to 3410,
Yes, that is technically a succubus.
ETA: Which in turn probably makes Murdoch technically a Warlock, rather than a demon.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Paul Campbell,
LOL that's brilliant, goes in my collection next to the brilliant one of Kate and Will on the balcony, caught in a position that looks more than just a little bit rude.
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I maintain that it works by making you never want to have sex again.
That's exactly how I feel about condoms. I'd actually rather have a wank, or more likely, just not bother at all. I feel I can say this now that there's very little chance of me ever having to use one again.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Done properly the effectiveness is in the high ninety percents but it does take both self-control and good communication (not that those are bad things in a relationship).
I wonder what the stats are on people not doing it properly.
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