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- Twinsfan14, on 03/05/2008, -37/+444Have you ever read the ten commandments........ON WEED!!
- TooHotty, on 03/05/2008, -6/+325How exactly is this a "study"? I mean, I love it but... sounds like some guy got stoned and wrote a paper.
- tribecanet, on 03/05/2008, -16/+331Imagine if he had said "Mohamed was high on drugs".
- canewediggit, on 03/05/2008, -19/+281dude dude dude, check this out. i'm gonna, like, part the red sea and we can just, like, WALK across.
woooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhh - Icouldbe, on 03/05/2008, -6/+128Nice opinion piece. But when "researcher" flatly states two options (especially legend) are invalid because he simply doesn't believe it, then offers the third option as what must have happened without evidence, it doesn't seem to hold up very well. Especially when he tries to prove that Moses used drugs because people across the Atlantic ocean in the Amazon happen to use drugs and it seems to look the same.
What research was done to prove his theory? If there's facts to back it up, cool, but this article amounted to some guy has an idea of what really happened and decides to tell people that it's fact. Not very scientific research. (just pointing that out...let the replies commence. haha) - Coven, on 03/05/2008, -13/+120What part of "Israeli researcher" did you not understand?
- VVarhead, on 03/05/2008, -37/+142Not surprising
- rkbabang, on 03/05/2008, -8/+102Oh you must be talking about the "conservative" version of the constitution that says in Article 1 section 8: "congress shall have the power to ban any substance it damn well pleases and go to war with the people of the several states in order to enforce its ban". Funny my version doesn't say that. A bible thumping self-described conservative referencing the constitution...that's rich.
- gypsi, on 03/05/2008, -16/+93hey it worked for the men that wrote the bible
- solid12345, on 03/05/2008, -17/+84While there is probably some truth to this, how can you call this "research?"
Nobody even knows if Moses existed in the first place. - Coven, on 03/05/2008, -3/+57Moses: Let my people go!
Pharaoh: What are you high?
Moses: Now that you mention it... - inactive, on 03/05/2008, -7/+60imagine how stoned you gotta be to write on stone
- canewediggit, on 03/05/2008, -7/+60hey savage- God also said, "Look, to you I give all the seed-bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth, and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this will be your food."
god and i both like our seed bearing plants. i especially like the bright green sticky ones. why do you hate what the lord has given you? - pizzas, on 03/05/2008, -3/+51you must have played it a lot in the past 2 years
- unicronband, on 03/05/2008, -5/+50Let my people grow!
- DiggedyDoo, on 03/05/2008, -37/+80i love being a jew
- spaceninja, on 03/05/2008, -40/+83Anyone who believes in imaginary sky wizards are on drugs.
- Trention, on 03/05/2008, -29/+68This is utterly stupid. There's ZERO proof that Moses even existed, let alone used drugs.
- PDAIsAOk, on 03/05/2008, -2/+39“See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'Cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... Rrrrrrrrreal ***** high on drugs.” BIll Hicks
- inactive, on 03/05/2008, -3/+37He was burning a bush alright
- MegaSmack, on 03/05/2008, -5/+39Trying playing Dark Side of the Moon at the same time as well.
- gordonj, on 03/05/2008, -6/+39Anyone ever hear of The Good Friday Experiment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experime ... - solid12345, on 03/05/2008, -34/+66He didn't need drugs he had pre-pubescent girls and boys for pleasure instead.
- DeepFriedFetus, on 03/05/2008, -8/+37"Moses, we think you've been burning some bush..."
- Jim Gaffigan - canewediggit, on 03/05/2008, -1/+30*****, i never read the bible. i just remember that from the opening of cypress hill's 2nd album.
- unicronband, on 03/05/2008, -1/+28Don't even bother. I highly doubt this guy has ever read a word of the bible. It's a lot easier to just believe everything your preacher tells you than to expend the mental energy it takes to convert written words into ideas and consider the context and implications of those ideas. We wouldn't want to overwork those few remaining brain cells.
- LeeSoong, on 03/05/2008, -3/+29" I give you these 15 "
(....drops one tablet, smashes into bits,)
" Uh, TEN Commandments ! " - inactive, on 03/05/2008, -17/+41No sources, just biased opinions. Buried.
- wlmh65, on 03/05/2008, -4/+28Yes, the founders were largely Rationalist Deists or Freemasons.
While I am a firm believer in the Mosaic Scriptures, I believe that each person has the right to think and do what they wish provided it does not interfere with the right of another to think and do as they wish.
There are two types of people: those who live freely and without fear, and those who seek to impose their fear on others through the threat of majority sanctioned force. - richporter, on 03/05/2008, -6/+30Never use the Bible and the Constitution in the same sentence. The U.S. Constitution is a godless document and there not need be any correlation between this godless document and a book claiming to be the word of God.
- Dumbledorito, on 03/05/2008, -8/+31"What pillar of fire?"
"Just shut up and say you see it, too. If we're walking, he's not talking." - cleverhandle, on 03/05/2008, -7/+30dugg down for this "researcher" only talking about his opinions on the matter and not actually providing ANY research or facts to back up his statement.
- badjoke, on 03/05/2008, -6/+28Because we really need a religion based on false history and knowledge to tell us not to kill, steal, envy, etc?
Apes have even been seen to exhibit morals. They don't kill other apes, and exclude those that do. They're against stealing, and very family oriented. Do you think the giant sky-banana needed to tell them those things? - Coven, on 03/05/2008, -4/+26BURN
- XNihil0Zer0, on 03/05/2008, -10/+32Spoiler: It's all in your head.
- schroeder, on 03/05/2008, -2/+24Nothing should be sacred and everything should be up for dispute or those you don't question will likely increase their power over you. Religion, government, whatever. Just think about the Nazis, cults, etc. where people were lulled into acceptance without question.
- kooft, on 03/05/2008, -3/+25Or they copied from one another.
- Abaddon1125, on 03/05/2008, -2/+23Is it just me, or is this entire "study" based on an argument from personal incredulity?
I mean, he says himself, "As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either..."
I'll agree the supernatural explanation is retarded, but being a legend is entirely plausible. I'm not sayin' the guy isn't right, but the foundation for his conclusion is a little shaky. - arbouler, on 03/05/2008, -2/+22the claim pre-pubescent girls is probable, where did you hear about the 'boys' part?
starting a rumor or heard a rumor? - PDAIsAOk, on 03/05/2008, -4/+24Is that a guy in the bushes? Oh ***** the bush is on fire save your ass!
- wlmh65, on 03/05/2008, -3/+23There was religion before Moshe. Ever heard of the Vedas? The Pyramids? Ancient Sumeria? Religion is as old as humanity.
- gordonj, on 03/05/2008, -7/+25"It would only make sense for Moses to have visions (or hallucinations) of behaviors that were self serving. Who gets high and then rights down a list of rules that are impossible to keep, though morally correct. That doesn't even withstand the simplest of logic."
I wasn't aware drug induced hallucinations were subject to logic. In fact that just sounds silly. - colonelbuckshot, on 03/05/2008, -15/+33I think he was high when he wrote the Mosaic code:
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.
Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. - VgRasta, on 03/05/2008, -3/+21And God saw that it was good.
- longtext, on 03/05/2008, -3/+20RED TEAM GO!! RED TEAM GO!!
- longtext, on 03/05/2008, -1/+18Psychotropic drugs have been used for centuries for religious and divining purposes, it wasn't until recent times that they were used on a recreational basis.
- XNihil0Zer0, on 03/05/2008, -2/+19You state that modifying your consciousness can only be a self serving act. But for millenia many cultures, including the israelites apparently, have used hallucinagins in religious rites to experience what they consider the divine and holy. DMT, the main component in the acacia brews mentioned in the article, Is a neurotransmitter released by the perineal gland in the brain when you dream and as you die. One of the most common effects it induces is the feeling that you are communicating with something. Depending on what the person believes this can be experienced in many ways. Some people think they are comunicating with aliens, some with God, some with parallel versions of themselves. When my friend and I took it he thought he was being instilled with ancient knowledge from the little Penny Hardaway puppet from the Nike commercials. Ancient people didn't understand neurotransmitters so they genuinely thought they were experiencing the divine. So if you're Moses and God is talking directly to you, you're probably going to want to right down what he says, and tell people about it.
- Jforsyth89, on 03/05/2008, -7/+24I'd just like to say - If you were born at a different time and/or at a different place, you would probably believe in some other religion as devoutly as you believe in Christianity now.
If that doesn't scare the crap out of you, than you really have lost all touch with reality and logic. - feliks2, on 03/05/2008, -2/+19NONONO PAGAN!!!! There is only ONE sky wizard, not many. You will burn in Hell and be tortured by the Lava Warlock.
- inactive, on 03/05/2008, -6/+23Drugs have been the cause and the formation of many crazy and supernatural ideas that venture beyond the realm of reason. God being one of them and The Icecapades being another.
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