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We're Happy Little Communists, As Red As Red Can Be
October 21, 2003, 11:11 p.m. My Philosophy of Religion lecturer called the Wanker a Communist today. I don’t think he meant it as an insult, so much, as he used to be a card-carrying Communist Party member, but it was pretty funny. We have such heated, lively tutes. Bring your own hatchets, pistols at dawn type stuff, but all in good fun. The lecturer also challenged athiests to provide a basis for the theory of equality that wasn’t Christian or Platonic. He said you couldn’t without relying on some sort of transcendental quality of humans, which atheists deny. A perplexing thought – I feel compelled to try my hand at the argument. I’m not quite sure why I believe in equality . . . it’s just something I feel, you know? I think it might be a little bit transcendental, what I believe. I mean, we’re all different – short tall, white, black, fat, thin – but that doesn’t mean there’s not something intrinsic in us, something that has nothing to do with the external trappings of our physical selves, that is equal amongst all. Perhaps that is transcendental, and I should stop calling myself an atheist . . . but I still can’t escape my feeling that there isn’t anything out there. Hmm, perhaps that’s the key – my slip of spirituality that says we’re all equal has no external source, but an internal one, and I have always been brought up to believe that religion is something that comes from without. Or perhaps I’ve just been indoctrinated by my Judeo-Christian-democratic-capitalist society to believe in equality, despite my refusal to accept the authorities that promulgate these views. Oh, by the way – I got my Aquinas essay back. 85%! HD! Zonino! Hahahaha! Powderfinger just won the Album of the Year ARIA, and they’re accepting with wine glasses in hand. They’re such derros, as the Brat would say : ) Oh wow . . . about this time, on this day last year, the Elf-boy was asking me out. Freaky.
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