blog comment to blog: education! and childhood! and parents. etc.

my dad is an electrical engineer, and we had a really interesting debate last week about the oil problem and alternative energy sources and stuff. this was reassuring to me, because his usual answer when one brings up the energy crisis & suchlike things is, "well, it doesn't matter, because jesus is coming soon." my response is, predictably, not a visceral reaction of "WTF YOU SHALLOW MORON" but instead a theological response of, "yes, but they've been saying that since a month after the resurrection! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND!" anyway, it was reassuring to know that he has 'alternate' opinions in case some reporter ever sticks a microphone in his face and/or he ends up surviving past the point where we have to gas to burn in our fucking soccer mom SUVs.  

*inhales*  

really i can't get too pissy about my parents for their occasionally odd fundie viewpoints, because they are that rare beast: EDUCATED fundies, who are really stuck on education for their children.  

basically they started savings accounts for all four of their children and have been saving up, really, since their married life started, to make sure all of us could go to college, and have so far managed to put all of us through private school/homeschool for our elementary/middle school/high school parts of life. and they have basically zero credit card debt.  

so i've always had that weird perspective on life: going to school with rich white kids who lived in rich neighborhoods, threw away money like dirty kleenex, and took EVERYTHING for granted.  

fuck that noise, as my friend jack would say.  

education is important, even if you have to shove it down your kid's throat. EDUCATE THEM NOW SO THEY CAN ARGUE COHERENTLY WITH YOU LATER, DAMMIT.