Religion

We've All Got Religion

Submitted by ALIHAYMEG, Published on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 16:51

Several discussions of religion take place here and in other mediums across the movement. Some maintain that religion is incompatible with the concept of a “Resource Based” economic model. Others feel that religion and religious belief will simply take on other less organized and personal forms as the bulk of the population becomes more educated and less subject to indoctrination. It seems to me to be more important to reduce the question to its lowest terms, and to look at the tendency to become rigid and unwavering in ANY belief as the root of the issue.

Slay Santa

Submitted by 4ndy, Published on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 03:39

Nearly six months ago now, a few friends from the Glasgow city chapter and I were out on the streets in the city centre to do a little culture-jamming in the form of a Yuletide anti-consumerism campaign. As usual, with not much time set aside for planning and gathering resources for anything special, we were doing our standard flyer-distribution and chatting that we had done for the last two years, albeit with a couple of new flyers that I designed with the help of some friends.

Hypothesis, Model, Theory and Law

Submitted by Luka Nieto Garay, Published on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:57

Among the most extremist -and extremely ignorant- of the anti-science crowd you will come across statements such as this: "But evolution is only a theory." Indeed, but scratch the only. In science, the terms Hypothesis, Model, Theory and Law are indeed gradations in a scale but they certainly do not share their colloquial meaning or hierarchy. If you think a scientific theory ever becomes a law or a fact you may need to read the following. Let's go back to the basics.

"Wickedness in high places"

Submitted by Luka Nieto Garay, Published on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 23:08

The reasons for the global protests that political and financial high circles are facing right now should be obvious for anyone who bothers to pay attention to the state of the world. They don't need to be repeated. However, there is a question I cannot avoid approaching: self-criticism.