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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.

This would explain a lot of The Bible for me. ;)
 
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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.:-/
 
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It's so unfair, some peoples puffing on some crack got thrown into jail or rehab...
 
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Rumor has it that the march thru the desert was when they were looking for Woodstock.
 
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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.
 
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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? :)
 
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Ill go for the more supported theory that Moses never existed.

The theory that "Manna" or "Bread from Heaven" are Magic Mushrooms is hilarious though.
 
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Eliaures said:
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.
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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...
 
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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 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.
 
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magerette said:
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.
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LOL magerette and so is delusional. :)
 
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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.
 
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Of course I didn't mean you magerette.
 
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zahratustra said:
Of course I didn't mean you magerette.
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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. :))
 
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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.
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http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/shakespeare1.htm
 
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