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So far it seems to be the only rational way to approach the subject of religion, at least for me.
I suppose you could call myself an agnostic, since I don’t believe one could know whether a god exists or not. Though I certainly do not call myself an agnostic.
In fact, I’m opposed to the idea of believing in a god, any god. Throughout the history of man, there have been numerous different conceptions of a god. Some of them have died out and are now forgotten, others are still going strong. To me, none of these religions have any more validity than another. They are all on an equal level, none of them have proof that their’s is the right one to follow.
The story of Scientology may seem farfetched, and it certainly is, but no more farfetched than the stories of the Bible. The Bible just appears more credible because it’s been along for so long.
With so many religions out there, I don’t bother choosing one, since if there is a god, I would probably choose the wrong religion.
Fuck religion.
In an effort to create a new nation with free culture the FreeNation Foundation has begun to build a community of supports in their efforts to actually purchase an island, proclaim their independence, and perhaps even start a little country. At the very least it will serve as a home for The Pirate Bay servers, which are under constant pressure for violating intellectual property rights.
I’ve considered for a while now that the French proletariat are the most developed of all the proletariat. We have seen numerous insurrections within the past few decades. Most recently we had the CPE riots in 2006. Now homeless Parisians have occupied an upscale office building in downtown Paris. They have no intent to leave. Hopefully this revolutionary fervor can spread to all over the world.
Here’s another card from Post Secret.
You are not the enemy, you are the protector of the enemy, but if you get in our way there will be hell to pay.
It’s not that I don’t have the time to blog, or I don’t have enough to blog about, it’s just that I don’t really feel like blogging right now. I haven’t stopped blogging, I’m just on a hiatus.
So, I haven’t left, I promise!
A shooting occurred today in Oaxaca City, Mexico, leaving New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead after being shot in the chest. He died before reaching the hospital, according to La Jornada. A photographer from the newspaper Milenio Diario, who was at Will’s side, was shot in the foot and reported injured, his status unknown.
If a household gets a washing machine, you never hear the family members who used to do the laundry by hand complain that this “puts them out of work.” But strangely enough, if a similar development occurs on a broader social scale it is seen as a serious problem — “unemployment” — which can only be solved by inventing more jobs for people to do.Proposals to spread the work around by implementing a slightly shorter workweek seem at first sight to address the matter more rationally. But such proposals do not face the fundamental irrationality of the whole social system based on market relations. While reacting to one manifestation of this irrationality (the fact that some people work long hours while others are jobless), they tend at the same time to reinforce the illusion that most present-day work is normal and necessary, as if the only problem were that for some strange reason it is divided up unequally. The absurdity of 90% of existing jobs is never mentioned.
In a sane society, the elimination of all these absurd jobs (not only those that produce or market ridiculous and unnecessary commodities, but the far larger number directly or indirectly involved in promoting and protecting the whole commodity system) would reduce necessary tasks to such a trivial level (probably less than 10 hours per week) that they could easily be taken care of voluntarily and cooperatively, eliminating the need for the whole apparatus of economic incentives and state enforcement.(1)
Some recent actions in France (which as usual have been almost entirely unreported in the American media) present a refreshing contrast to the usual “progressive” appeals for equal wage slavery.
In December and January tens of thousands of jobless people demonstrated in dozens of French cities, in many cases occupying unemployment offices, welfare offices, utility companies and repossession agencies, invading posh stores and restaurants, and making collective raids on supermarkets. This movement, though far bolder than jobless actions in the United States, unfortunately remained largely under the control of the official unemployment associations (dominated by the leftist parties and labor unions). Many of the occupations, however, were carried out on the initiative of individuals who began bypassing the official spokespeople and speaking and acting for themselves.
This radical tendency came to the fore in mid-January when jobless people briefly occupied the Paris Trade Center and the elite École Normale Supérieure, and then, upon being forced out by the police, took over an amphitheater at the nearby Jussieu University. Though this latter occupation was also clearly illegal, the university authorities refrained from calling in the police, and daily assemblies of 100200 people were held there over the next two or three months.
While most of the official movement’s occupations had been brief, bureaucratically controlled and purely symbolic (designed merely to pressure the government into passing certain reforms), the Jussieu occupiers wanted to create an ongoing forum for public debate. They opened up their assembly to everyone instead of limiting it to jobless people, and began seeking linkups with other terrains.
Two basic principles were generally agreed on by the participants: (1) that struggles should be carried on autonomously (parties, unions, and other hierarchical organizations were recognized as enemies of any truly radical struggle), and (2) that wage labor needs to be replaced by freely self-organized activity.
The Jussieu assembly did not claim to represent anyone; it simply served as a meeting place where people could discuss whatever they wanted to and then, if they were so inclined, join with others interested in carrying out this or that particular project. In some cases whole series of more or less impromptu actions were carried out by roving bands of a few dozen people, who might, for example, go downtown to disrupt a fashion show or toss rotten tomatoes at a repossession officer; then invade a supermarket and pressure the owners into “donating” a cartful of food; then hop the subway to another part of the city to hand out leaflets or spraypaint graffiti (”You never get back the time you’ve sold!” “We don’t want part of the cake, we want the bakery!”); and then make it back to Jussieu in the evening to report on the day’s adventures.
On the following pages we have translated excerpts from some of the leaflets and communiqués. We are circulating them because we think they may be useful and challenging to people in other countries faced with similar situations. Not (as so often happens with international “radical” reportage) in order to overwhelm people with a spectacle of exaggerated exotic events, giving the impression that revolution consists of nonstop earthshaking actions that can only be carried out by other people somewhere on the other side of the planet.
We don’t think France is on the verge of a revolution. The actions described here involved only a tiny minority of the population, and the movement already seems to have subsided (at last notice the Jussieu assembly was meeting only twice a week). But we do think that many of the participants have discovered that real life begins with personal experiments. And such experiments sometimes lead to bigger things.
BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
April 1998
Indoctrination of young children like this should be illegal. At least this movie highlights some of the harm that evangelical parents are bringing upon their children.
It hasn’t even been a month yet and I’ve already gotten to 1000 views. Thanks everyone for visiting my site and reading what I have to say.
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