Today I flew out of Brisbane, heading to Zurich and then to a place called Ascona in the south of Switzerland to attend the RED conference (an education/technology conference). I have no idea what to expect as I've never been to this conference…I don't think there has been one actually. My mum is coming with me to visit Switzerland and later Norway. So far it's good - I think we have really interesting discussions. Today on the flight to Singapore we were mainly talking about my recent trip to the Philippines and my thoughts about inequity/poverty, as well as perspectives of a white guy from a white town visiting places like Manila and Cebu. We also had some good discussions about religion and god…very interesting.
Just read a fb post from Dr Simpson - it's snowing in Trondheim (unless he's exaggerating :P ). Mum said she hasn't seen snow before.
So what were the discussions about religion and God? So was your Mum on their side and u against?
ReplyDeleteYou do know that those two subjects and politics are taboo discussion subjects, don't you? ;-)
Gordon
Yeah I know! We are both Catholics, although I am severely lapsed. We were mostly talking about things like why religion might be considered "bad", how you can be "good" without religion, indoctrination, inconsistency, rational thinking, the differences between agnostics and atheists etc. Good talk.
ReplyDeleteOh, and to answer the other question: I dislike religion...I can't really speak for mum :-)
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