Spiritual guidance?

There are many things that are annoying about the fact that so many of my friends have selfishly found time to fall madly in love, get married and have babies. However, there are a couple of upsides. One: I get to buy tiny clothes. And two: following the birth of the aforementioned babies, they then, generally, decide to pick godparents. As a committed atheist, I know I will never be asked - and even if my godlessness didn't bother one of my less faithful friends, I would have to refuse, as I could never stand in a church and promise to lead the baby in question towards 'the light'. So it is with a fair degree of objectivity that I regard the godparent selection process - and I am continually surprised by the choices.

I guess my attitude would always be to choose someone who will be helpful to my children when I and that child's father are being complete pains-in-the-ass. Obviously my child will, at one point or another, think I am absolutely unbearable and it would be good if there were an adult or two knocking about to whom they could turn to for advice at times like these. They won't have any uncles or aunts on my side, since je suis une fille unique, so I guess some sort of mentor with a sense of humour would be cool. The Humanist website advises calling them 'special friends' but that sounds worrying. Anyway, this clearly isn't something I need to concern myself with just now. I was discussing it last night with Em and Grania and it logged in my mind as something I should note. And that's the beauty of LLFF, isn't it? You never know what random piece of useless drivel is going to pop into my head next.

What else is news? Hamburgers with feta rock, but possibly not as much as lamburgers (two bs?) with feta. Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving should be compulsory reading. This morning I retook the political compass test (which you can take here). On a scale where -10 is left, and +10 is right, I came out as -5. And on a scale where -10 is Libertarian and +10 is Authoritarian, I came out as -8. I was surprised by how Libertarian I was, in that I thought I was more of a socialist. But the left/right thing sounds about right. Challenging questions though. I stumbled over a couple - one was whether people who have seriously degenerative hereditable conditions should be allowed to reproduce. Writing that out now, my answer is 'yes', only because I imagine it would be exceptionally difficult to draw any sort of line, and to tell people they shouldn't reproduce is like telling them they shouldn't have been born. I am ashamed to admit I did find it tough though. I did the test with Laura afterwards and we were both in a similar area of the spectrum. The only UK political party that comes anywhere near our beliefs is the Green Party... Bring on the next general election.