Surrey Frollocks.

Yesterdaaaay I went on down to Guildford to see my lovelylovely gf. Our plan to see 'Up in 3D' was cruelly thwarted by an adverse reaction to children, or rather cinemas swarming with a child's birthday party.

So, we went to Sainsburys, and bought a duck.
I named him Cuthbert. Cuthbert the Duck.
We then went back to Nai's halls, saw Nai and Kay, cooked that duck out and had ourselves some lovely hoisin duck pancakes. We chatted for a while, listened to lots of old music (When I was 15, I rocked the fuck out.) Who would've thought back then..my longest relationship to date would be with a girl who doesn't and never has liked fall out boy. *sigh*. She does love Kanye though, I think that's why I'm ok with it.

Anyway, it was really really nice just being with everyone, especially Shob. We were very couply, what onlookers I'm sure would describe as disgustingly so. T'was nice. It's never nice saying goodbye, but when we were saying bye at the station I got really upset, uncharacteristically emotional. Just didn't want to walk away from her. Was really really hard. Still, as I write this, just want to be with her.

Anyway. After she left, Nai, Kay, a couple of their friends and I went to the on campus bar, had a drink, then went and sat in the kitchen and joked around. I was in bed by midnight, and today just travelled back home.

I'm now full of takeaway chinese, sitting on my bed, watching some Christopher Hitchens videos. For those who don't know, he's one of those militant atheist (Dawkins-esque) types. I find him really convincing, mainly because he's a brilliant speaker, a very good debater, very eloquent and purely logical.
Here's a few of his arguments that I liked:
'Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.'


'I've challenged religious leaders of all types, here's my challenge, you must name me an ethical statement that was made or a moral action performed by a religious person, in the name of faith, that could not have been made as an action, or uttered as a statement by a person of no faith. Not so far, no takers, no one has been able to give me that. Therefore I think we're entitled to claim that religious faith is surplus to requirements. That said, If i was to say think of a wicked thing said, or an evil thing done by a person of faith in the name of faith, no one would have to take a second to think of one.'


(Talking about a radio show he was on) '(The broadcaster) Said to me, imagine you are in a town you've never been before, on your own, you have no friends there, and it's getting dark. You see a group of men walking towards you, let's say 10. Do you feel better or worse knowing they've come from a prayer meeting. This was his question to me. I said to him I can answer your question without leaving the letter B. I've had that experience, in Belfast, in Beirut, in Baghdad, in Bosnia, in Bombay and in Bethlehem. And if you see anyone coming from a religious gathering in any of those places, you know exactly, how fast you have to run.'


I really like his arguments, of course they all have counter arguments, but I think they're good attempts.


Shob is about to call, so i'll leave it there for now, and possibly update later on tonight.
xxx