Lacewing wrote:Hobbes' Choice wrote:It's embarrassing to think that me and Simon were very close friends between 1968 - 1976
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Apparently he lost his virginity to an alien at the age of five.
Hobbes', did he never mention this to you while you were friends?
No. When we were about 12 he discovered "Chariots of the Gods" and we used to spent time watching the skies. I think it was around then that the fantasy of his life began to form. But after a couple of years he no longer mentioned aliens, and we went through school talking about Star Trek and sci-fi books, model making the usual stuff. By the age of 17 I became too cool for school and we drifted apart.
But we first knew each other from age 8 and we were both ordinary kids, a bit nerdy I suppose - not sporty, but with an interest in fossil collecting. Nothing about aliens.
I was truly shocked to find he had pulled off a career as a Labour councillor, as in the 1970 election he was blue and i was red, but I managed to turn him. I'd not realised I'd turned him that far!! And I only found out about all this last year when I did and FB search for him - to which he never replied. Don't know why. Maybe because I know the truth about his teens and late kidhood?
He definitely believes what he says and has managed to construct an impenetrable edifice of belief for which no falsification is possible. I don't see him as any different from any other religious person. This should act as a warning to anyone who allows belief into their lives.