High on Mt. Sinai

[Eliaures]

Moses was stoned when he talked to the "burning bush" and brought the 10 Commandments from atop Mt. Sinai according to this article in The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/05/religion.israelandthepalestinians?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews).

This would explain a lot of The Bible for me. ;)

[Gragnak]

Oh yeah.....

Or, perhaps, this could explain there're a lot of drug addicted persons out there who think religion it's easy to explain by stupid and futile explanations.....:rolleyes:

Please, I think we can't find simple explanations for the existence of God using human methods or trying to reduce everything this way.:-/

[Remus]

It's so unfair, some peoples puffing on some crack got thrown into jail or rehab...

[dteowner]

Rumor has it that the march thru the desert was when they were looking for Woodstock.

[Eliaures]

Heh, heh. Good, I'm glad some of you got the idea that this was posted with a sense of mirth. I gather that most religions have some sort of drug induced spiritualism somewhere in their past. Personally, I think it humanizes The Bible which I guess to a fundamentalist or evangelical is a bit heretical.

[zahratustra]

Well, it kinda makes sense! Archeologists still haven't managed to find a single trace of Exodus. Maybe it was just a "trip" and not an Exodus at all? :)

[JemyM]

Ill go for the more supported theory that Moses never existed.

The theory that "Manna" or "Bread from Heaven" are Magic Mushrooms (http://deoxy.org/manna.htm) is hilarious though.

[Prime Junta]

Heh, heh. Good, I'm glad some of you got the idea that this was posted with a sense of mirth. I gather that most religions have some sort of drug induced spiritualism somewhere in their past. Personally, I think it humanizes The Bible which I guess to a fundamentalist or evangelical is a bit heretical.

Some people believe that St. John of Patmos may have been on some psychedelic fungus that, apparently, often infected stored grain at the time. Revelations sure reads like a really bad trip...

[magerette]

Well, the mystical and the spiritual are a valid expression of the unknowable in the human psyche and the cosmos--Revelations has also always seemed to me very similar to a drug induced vision (and I've listened to a few of them back in the day)-- just as the Song of Solomon reads like pure poetry. They're part of the human experience.

Reminds me of the controversy over the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castenada) of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge--and whether his purported apprenticeship to a peyote-ingesting shaman was nothing more than a sham, or if even if it was a sham it had a deeper philosophical truth.

[zahratustra]

Well, the mystical and the spiritual are a valid expression of the unknowable in the human psyche and the cosmos--Revelations has also always seemed to me very similar to a drug induced vision (and I've listened to a few of them back in the day)-- just as the Song of Solomon reads like pure poetry. They're part of the human experience.


LOL magerette and so is delusional. :)

[magerette]

If you mean I am delusional--frequently, but it's not drug-induced. Just natural ability. :)

If you mean being delusional is also part of the human experience, I can't argue with that.

[zahratustra]

Of course I didn't mean you magerette.

[magerette]

Of course I didn't mean you magerette.

Wait awhile--you may change your mind. After all, I frequently forget things like how many states are in my country, not to mention lots of other little details. I've pretty much learned to live with it. ;)




(I was just being silly earlier also. :))

[Remus]

I heard this awhile back:

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Was William Shakespeare partial to a good deal more than a pinch of tobacco while composing his sonnets?

While there is no proof the bard delved into narcotics, clay pipe fragments excavated from his Stratford-upon-Avon home and of the 17th century period show conclusively that cocaine and myristic acid -- a hallucinogenic derived from plants, including nutmeg -- were smoked in Shakespeare's England.

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/shakespeare1.htm