Hey! Somebody must have deleted a post because I posted post #666 this morning and now it is 665. Now I have to blog about religion and drugs just to get my number back.I used to joke that religion was started with the phrase, "Oops. Wrong mushroom." I'm still convinced there is quite a bit of truth behind that. Stories like the following don't do anything to dissuade me.
High on Mount Sinai?It started in the 1990's when an Israeli drug smuggling ring was uncovered. They were using people dressed as rabbis to smuggle ecstasy throughout Europe. Then there was the discovery that the Arc of the Covenant could very well have been a mobile meth or MDMA lab. Now this story about tripping out in the wilderness.
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
Maybe my dad was right. Maybe my family is Jewish. That guy at work thinks I am.
Damn it, I'm Jewish! And I want the right to drop X in the wilderness as my people have historically done. (No offense, X)
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I'm already in the wilderness.
Yeah, but does he want to drop you, drop you, or drop you? I'd make sure you know which before you consent.
Arthur Dent: What's so bad about being drunk?
Ford Prefect: Ask a glass of water.
So many of the world's incidences of mass hysteria can be traced to ergot.
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