My thoughts, in no particular order or structure.

"Religion is the opiate of the masses" - Marx
No.
"Religion is not the opiate of the masses, it's the placebo." - Gregory House M.D. (T.V)
Yes.

Try the real thing and then you can tell when someone is bullshitting you. Let someone experience life on their own. Allow them to draw their own conclusions.
Nature creates a person who is idealistic and pragmatic. Nurture creates a person that is idealistic but submissive (ergo Obama vs Bush).
The goal of human evolution should be to create a society of optimists who can see the whole picture and will recognize pain and misfortune but not dwell on it. People need to understand that a disagreement is an opportunity for discussion, not argument.
Cynicism is a plague that leads people to warped truths and talented orators.
A person should not have to commit themselves to an idea. Idealogical commitment closes so many doors. As a human it is your duty to think ORIGINAL thoughts.

I am not going to jump on any bandwagon. Especially not a bandwagon that is thousands of years old. This bandwagon is so old that the wheels and axles have rotted and now the only source of propulsion is a billion man march holding above their heads the golden frame of a wagon in which sits an empty throne. yea.

Inspired by the averaged google images at the axiom gallery I will now try and recreate the code that built the pictures. (half java half pseudo)


//PRE-CONDITION - All images by default are 100x100 pixels though this can be changed via some codework
//POST-CONDITION - The final image will be an average 100x100 image

Public Class Main
public static void main(String args[]) {

Picture[] picArr = new Picture[100]; //this holds the 100 pictures to be averaged
/* HERE WILL GO A FUNCTION TO FILL picArr WIT PICTURES *\
Picture final; //This holds the final picture


for(int i = 0; i<100; i++) {
//This block of code goes to each pixel in the image and adds its red, green, and blue value to //the appropriate spot in the final image....Each pixel/color will later be averaged
for(into j = 0; j<100; j++) { //FUN NESTED LOOP!
final.red = final.red + picArr[i][j].red
final.blue = final.blue + picArr[i][j].blue
final.blue = final.green + picArr[i][j].green
}
}
final.finalize() //Averages all pixel/colors


}// END MAIN CLASS

Public Class Picture {
int red;
int blue;
int green;
int[][] pixel = new pixel[100][100];

public void finalize(){
for(int i = 0;i<100;i++){
for(int j = 0;j<100;j++){
this.red = this.red / 100;
this.blue = this.blue / 100;
this.green = this.green / 100;
}
}
}




And there you have it. The art would would be stored in the final variable in the main class waiting to be output. Perferable some sort of broader filter would be applied to the final image to make it a little softer but I think that would just dilute the data/art.