What If… There Were No Religions?

I WAS READING the comment trail for an article I wrote recently entitled “Alien Anthropology: Religion Is Dead But Faith May Yet Prevail” when it sparked off a few chaotic thoughts in my noggin and got me thinking about a hypothetical scenario. It’s a simple enough question to ask, but the implications for any answer are likely to be far reaching and widely debated.

I’m not looking to evolve a perfect answer here folks, but I do think it might be interesting to see what perspectives you can bring to this topic, so please do feel free to comment on it. And so to the question at hand…

What if there were no religions?

Imagine a world without religion, any religion; what would it be like? Not a world where religions suddenly ceased to exist, rather a scenario where they never began in the first place. Would we be better or worse off as a result?

Please don’t just run to your comfortable corners with this one folks and spew out any practiced positions if you can avoid it, rather take some time to examine the possible implications and then let rip with your views. To kick things off here are my initial thoughts on the subject.

I decided to look at some key topics and examine if they would be significantly changed or not in light of the hypothesis and to be honest (speaking as an agnostic) I was quite surprised by the results myself because I would have predicted a completely different outcome… Read more

Keep Independent Bouncing In Porn, Save The Joggers!

OR, TO PUT it another way, an average female jogging for one mile will cause her breasts to bounce for approximately 135m. [Settle down people, this is science at work!]

Now, this is only a problem if she is not wearing a sports bra whilst jogging, because each of her breasts will move independently of her body by an average of 9cm for every step taken. Given that the average breast weighs between 200 and 300 grams [see, science can be fun too!], this movement puts great stress on the breast’s fragile support structure – the outer skin and connective tissues known as Cooper’s ligaments.

At least that’s the conclusion of a report produced into ‘saggy breasts’ by a team from Porstmouth University in the UK. The research seems to indicate that any female joggers out there looking to get themselves fitter are actually speeding up the saggy breast syndrome in the process – unless they kit themselves out with a proper sports bra to support their dangly bits.

And let’s be honest, the sport’s bra may also stop a few accidents happening when the unsuspecting motorist passes by and gets ‘dazzled’ by all that independent movement.

It’s kind of ironic in a way really. I’ve often passed those jogger types on the road early morning or late at night and wondered what the hell is driving them on to do such a thing, and the conclusion I came to was that a fair amount of them probably are interested in getting or keeping fit, but a chunky percentage are also focused on looking good and indeed more attractive to the opposite sex (or whatever sex lights your lightbulb!).

I’m fully in support of this initiative; I say we leave all the independant bouncing to porn movies and try some accident prevention on the roads by getting joggers to strap up and sway less. And for all you fitness types out there here is a little encouragement to help you make the right decision, because if you don’t don those sporty restraints you too may end up looking like this… Read more