[FRIAM] now it's personal

[Prof David West]

No Christianity is evidence that when you remove the psychedelics you get evil authoritarianism.

If Joe Sixpack and everyone else was belonged to the Church of the Vegetal in Santa Fe and partook in the Ayuhuasca ritual periodically, all our social and climate problems would go away and our scientific endeavors would be freed from the tyranny of Science.

davew


On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, at 11:07 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> OK. So Christianity is *evidence* that we should not allow normies to 
> do psychedelics? When Joe Sixpack takes a couple of hits of acid, he 
> might start to believe really stupid things and start a religion that 
> goes on to destroy the worlds' greatest artifacts?  So, what bar do we 
> have to put in place? The Political Compass? Only those with scores 
> below <-6,-6> are allowed to trip. 8^D
> 
> Or maybe the lesson is the opposite, only normies should trip. Those of 
> us who are *already insane* don't need them. We're already gods.
> 
> Speaking of heresy: 
> 
> Church torches altar used in a ‘demonic’ three-way sex session
> https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2020/10/church-torches-altar-used-in-a-demonic-three-way-sex-session/
> 
> This sounds like a great new form of vandalism: Run around the country 
> filming your 3-way sex on as many altars as possible. Fun and good for 
> society!
> 
> 
> On 10/13/20 9:51 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> > For those without 3 hours and want the 5 minute CNN version:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkL2DLBM1j0&ab_channel=MatthewChapman
> >
> > On 10/13/20 8:27 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> >> While I have always regarded */The Christian Church /*with disdain/antipathy/disgust and considered them the source of many many evils (e.g. Crusades, Inquisition), it was always kind of impersonal.
> >> 
> >> I just discovered that it was a Christian (nee Roman) Emperor, Theodosius, that shut down Eleusis and outlawed the Mysteries; setting the stage for the Visigoths to literally destroy the temple complex that an earlier Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, had, correctly, recognized as the fount of Athenian philosophy and science. You could make a good argument that banning the Mysteries is the direct primal cause of our alienation from each other as human beings as well as Nature — thus precipitating all our current woes, including the climate crisis.
> >> 
> >> To rub salt in the wounds, the same year Theodosius was wreaking his mischief, Bishop Theophilus led a rabid Christian Mob in the sacking and burning of the Library of Alexandria and hundreds of satellite libraries (all in Pagan temples according to Theophilus), around the city.
> >> 
> >> That makes it personal and I am pretty pissed that I was not informed of this long before now.
> 
> 
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