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The Oscars serving as a 'welcome distraction' from the global economic mess?  I’ve heard quite a few people of voting-age making this comment online.  Well, If it wasn't for society worshiping and paying these celebs/royalty/elite/pop-stars as much as it does, we wouldn't be in this economic mess, we would have found a cure for HIV, and thousands of children won't be dying daily from starvation, poverty, contaminated water, and disease.  People are just reinforcing the foundations from whence arise consequences they bemoan.    People talk about the entertainment industry making their economy (i.e. The U.S. and to a far lesser degree, the U.K.) lots of money, but forget that this singular ‘economy’ they speak of is actually divisible by class.  It is the industrial elite/royalty/celebs/actors/pop-stars whose ‘economy’ is being enriched.  You just get pennies in exchange for their pounds mate.   Religion is certainly the opiate of the mass...

original image modified by ed Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the watershed, doctors have said, in a call for action over obesity. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents nearly every doctor in the UK, said ballooning waistlines already constituted a "huge crisis". Its report said current measures were failing and called for unhealthy foods to be treated more like cigarettes. - bbc This is similar to drug sellers giving discounts to new users, and then charging them high prices upon addiction. In this context, we have the pretense of concern for our well-being being used to justify said rises. Regulate these industries so that we can have a choice between good stuff as opposed to having a choice between having or not having what we have been made to be accustomed to. Secondly, There are quite a few whom believe that the government should just stay out of it and not ‘nanny’ the people in this, amongst other respe...

click image for larger view DM, lyrics from 'Heaven' I dissolve in trust I will sing with joy I will end up dust I'm in heaven...... .......making millions from stuff like this Whilst 10s of 1000s of children die from poverty and hunger and disease daily, Whilst Charities beg from the masses for funds to cure cancer to getting rid of poverty, Whilst People are deprived of the means required to make more of themselves, Whilst the poorer toil under the benevolent and transfigured self-absorption of the stars, But yet, thanks to us, they can live their significance vicariously through us, and be lulled into complacency in the face of all of the above. epilogue They are certainly in a Heaven of their own creation, that thrives on the Hell of the reality that is left in their wake. ed

An "atheist church" in North London is proving a big hit with non-believers. Does it feel a bit like a new religion? Not many sermons include the message that we are all going to die and there is no afterlife. But the Sunday Assembly is no ordinary church service. Launched last month, as a gathering for non-believers, it is, in the words of master of ceremonies Sanderson Jones, "part foot-stomping show, part atheist church, all celebration of life". A congregation of more than 300 crowded into the shell of a deconsecrated church to join the celebration on Sunday morning. Instead of hymns, the non-faithful get to their feet to sing along to Stevie Wonder and Queen songs. bbc: what happens at an atheist church 'Atheism' is logically impossible as every living breathing human being is incapable of not having aspirations of some sort, and having an ideal model for emulation. The heart of religion is belief and aspiration, with variation in Gods, be they supernat...