Science is only good for the study of our realty.  Understanding the universe, god, takes philosophy or spirituality.

We are evidence of intelligent guidance, for our consciousness has created us to be humans, after long periods of evolving, from lower conscious-awareness states to higher.

There are a whole class of people who can't get credit cards, for example young people, students (in Europe) who have no regular income. Poor people who are too poor to get even a bank account, in developing countries. Illegal immigrants who can't go to a bank where they live. People with bad or no credit rating, ...

The list can go on and on.

This is a sizable chunk of the market which is currently not served by regular credit card companies.

Anyone who reads rolling stone regularly would have heard of silk road. Gavin Andresen is quoted in that article.

When the gawker article came out in 2011, a lot of news aggregators linked to it with  the same headline.....
"The underground website where you can buy any drug imaginable" or a more recent headline "Amazon.com for illegal drugs"

http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable
http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/amazon-com-for-illegal-drugs/

And there is word-of-mouth to spread the word.. which is part of the core culture of drug use. Help a brutha out.

How does the average joe participate? Through eBay sales. Joe isn't going to go through the trouble of signing up for an MtGox account. He's willing to pay as much as 50% over value to get bitcoins on ebay. The going rate is 30% over value. Of all the coins I have sold on eBay, the buyers are either holding on to them long term or they head directly to tumblers.

Based on sales and comments by buyers, I also assume that a group of people work through a tech savvy friend and coordinate/combine purchases. Also a core part of the drug culture.

Nothing new really except the guy who knows a guy is buying online and the price is a little higher but the options are greater. The casual user is you, your next door neighbor, your boss, your mom. If nothing else... Silk Road is a safer alternative than buying off the street.

Life is completely meaningless and rudderless: The pain endured trying to please certain institutions and people was in vain.

. I was well known to go into servers and troll. .

No, but religion can give a self-centered person reasons why they shouldn't be.

I sense that many pretend they are outraged only at the injustices and abuse that do happen in some religious institutions; but really, the one thing they are most offended by, in my opinion, is the idea that there is a God and that he has rules.

Admit it.  

After all, if the 1st humans were created by God, they would not only know about God, they would pass the story down to their children. If there was no God, how could you prevent the truth from getting out? Since evolution allegedly started with two humans, one male and one female, who exactly are they trying to control when they invented religion?

If there truly was no God, there would be a vocal majority of people who would testify that their ancestors never told any such stories of creation or God. Where are these people? I cannot recall to mind any society which does not have some form of creation and God legends in their history.

If there were such a society, and there was indeed no God, they would flourish unimpeded by the advantages of not "wasting" time and resources with religion, and dominate the whole world. Eventually eradicating all religious beliefs entirely.

Since evolution theory claims humanity has existed with the mental capacity for religion (and the debunking of it) for tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of years, where is this super race that is free of the heavy yoke of a supreme creator?

If the simplest answer is usually true, I submit that the function of religion is very simply humanity's (flawed) effort to acknowledge and worship the true and living God.

Religion teaches us that existence isn't centered on yourself.

Okay Chang, we are completely on the same page then, so don't call participants in a religion morons, they might have looked through the corrupt / scammy institution that they are a member of. Like being a Catholic does not mean that you don't believe children where ever abused or money are not pocketed in the Vatican.

Like vise, if you do local political work, like gathering signatures to save a wild life area and you are a democrat, you can still believe that your party's foreign policy is total crap and actually like the oppositions policies on the matter better.

religion has been, and is still being used as means for control. If you are a an official state supported or accepted religion, you have to make some compromises and give something in return to make it worth while for the state in which you operate.

As a simple private member you don't have to condone that or write of your practices because you doubt the integrity of your organisation and you know that others will feel like you too.

If I lived in a dictatorship and religion was used to pacify opposition or round them up, I would find another church.

About Muslims i general; I'm often met with greater common understanding From Muslims than the run-of-the-mill Christian, and we usually joke about that Allah and God is the same entity, so what went wrong!

I didn't see anything. Was just black, and then no memory until I came back.

BTW, I recently read that when you die, your body releases all kinds of chemicals from it's various glands, and you, as they said, "seriously trip balls." I.e. hallucinations and other crazy stuff. That may explain the lights and other stuff.

You're quite the post whore.