Pepsi or Coke?
Coke obviously. Pepsi fucking hurts when the ice cubes get stuck in your nostril.

I've long subscribed to the view that religion exists purely as a social control measure, dreamt up by those in charge. The problem is, it's becoming less effective these days at controlling people. Witness (in Britain at least) declining church attendances and the loss of sanctity of Sunday.

So, this is precisely the reason why those in power seek other methods of social control. Witness the 'war on terror', and the rafts of 'green' measures that'll make fuck all difference to the environment, but nicely keep everyone where the governments want them and their money flowing to the places where the governments want them flowing to.

It's just a very high-level view of course. If I started analysing it in depth I'd probably become The Goat or something.

As for the wider picture that religion tries to address, nobody's come up with a convincing explanation as far as I'm concerned. There IS some much bigger factor out there that we're unaware of, but as yet there's no way of us proving what it is.
( rubberduck should only be used after consulting with your GP, Thu 19 Mar 2009, 19:09, Reply)