austerity has hit mission control, times are tough, no fucking room to move, pan, the birds, the lizard and i are on rations, yes porridge for breakfast, salad for lunch and some sort of spinach pie for tea. 
stupid credit cards, saved my life but now we have to pay it all back before the bank comes and gets my blood. i have always hated being in debt, it's like a huge weighty thing that pulls me down dragging my body into the ground. ive managed to avoid it for so long and now i'm stuffed so out go all the non essential luxuries.
i'm lucky really, things could be worse.

now here's why i don't believe science can help us determine anything better than spirituality but in order for me to explain this i have to talk about something unrelated.
every year sydney hosts a 'festival of dangerous ideas' it's actually a festival of weak and feeble ideas from the usual suspects, but recently i read a book which was a compilation of dangerous ideas, and most of them were actually very dangerous.
however in one section, they spoke about science and in particularly a test used in psychology called the 'carriage test' where by they test peoples morality by putting them in a situation where they are witness to a runaway carriage. now this is about to hit a group of ten people but the observer can intervene and redirect the carriage so that it only hits one. most people chose to intervene because the utilitarian creed is deeply wired into us.
here's my take on it.
that one person you just killed may have in their future discovered a cure for cancer but now won't.
you just killed him because you attempted to save 10.
don't get me wrong, i would do the same thing, it's instinctive and natural but really in terms of the experiment it means nothing. 
what i am saying is science has not got all the parameters covered, it is one diminutional unless it is quantum. science can't be absolute, it's a metaphor for something else.
how about that for a dangerous idea?