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Re: I finally found god [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14572079 - 06/06/11 10:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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c0sm0nautt said: I don't think so.
I agree, from what I have read and studied drug use/abuse has only been opposed recently; (within the past hundreds of years) possibly to keep people from gnosis, or attainment of their own truths. I actually wonder how many religions were actually started or built from the use of psychedelics and other natural plants. 
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-------------------- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us all. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: Kinko]
#14572837 - 06/07/11 03:51 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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mellowparty said: Definition: The way I see it the concept of god is a malignant sociocultural relic that has been spawned by fear at some point in human history. The concept itself acts a bit like a symbiont: essentially it endows its host with a false sense of security whereas the host provides the platform for its existence i.e. the brain. However, in some cases it is possible that the symbiont morphs into a virus which is manifested in the highly irrational behaviour of the host.
Point of Origin: It originates at the 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor family. The concept is generated somewhere along the serotoninergic neural circuitry and often starts to exhibit a dominating behaviour over other patterns of neural activity. I base this idea on the fact that there is a myriad of religious experience reports after the consumption of 5-HT agonistic drugs such as DMT, LSD, psilocybin, various psychedelic phenethylamines etc. Also the concept is perceived as if it is indefinite in terms of time and at least IME 5-HT mimetic drugs induce a similar parallel in the perception of time. By sustaining the concept the host (the believer) receives false sense of security with regard to his future (the idea of life after death etc.)
all of the drugs you have mentioned did not exist during the middle ages , your point is invalid.
also 99% of religion folks oppose drug use/abuse.
Psilocybin didn't exist during the middle ages In fact there are reports of religion folks tripping on mushrooms and then doing religious deeds inspired by the shrooms. For example st. Ivan Rilski might have been tripping on P. semilanceata and dealing with such activities.
Did I said that you need to use 5-hydroxytryptamine mimetics to experience god? No! I just stated that the consumption of the above mentioned compounds may induce a religious experience. I haven't had a religious experience but I become more open to the idea while I trip. I dont think that the entities I see on high doses are gods. More likely the manifestations of a positive feedback regulatory loops in my brain.
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Psilocybe was present waaaaaaay before that. There are Egyption carvings of them, Maya, Aborigines of Australia, Africa, and other places. DMT was also present long before the middle ages. Dunno about LSD since it was made synthetically in a lab but with all the bizarre theories, I wouldn't be surprised if some extra terrestrials made it rain acid or something.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: OneU]
#14574420 - 06/07/11 01:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah really that was an epically dumb and uninformed response. "Mescaline shrooms and DMT appeared recently"
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Re: I finally found god [Re: Kinko]
#14574467 - 06/07/11 01:26 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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mellowparty said: Definition: The way I see it the concept of god is a malignant sociocultural relic that has been spawned by fear at some point in human history. The concept itself acts a bit like a symbiont: essentially it endows its host with a false sense of security whereas the host provides the platform for its existence i.e. the brain. However, in some cases it is possible that the symbiont morphs into a virus which is manifested in the highly irrational behaviour of the host.
Point of Origin: It originates at the 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor family. The concept is generated somewhere along the serotoninergic neural circuitry and often starts to exhibit a dominating behaviour over other patterns of neural activity. I base this idea on the fact that there is a myriad of religious experience reports after the consumption of 5-HT agonistic drugs such as DMT, LSD, psilocybin, various psychedelic phenethylamines etc. Also the concept is perceived as if it is indefinite in terms of time and at least IME 5-HT mimetic drugs induce a similar parallel in the perception of time. By sustaining the concept the host (the believer) receives false sense of security with regard to his future (the idea of life after death etc.)
all of the drugs you have mentioned did not exist during the middle ages , your point is invalid.
also 99% of religion folks oppose drug use/abuse.
In gnostic days christians were noted to drink a psychedelic wine. Since then alcoholic wine has been he "blood of Christ" There were fewer prohibitionists than non.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: Seanfu]
#14575472 - 06/07/11 04:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Psychedelic wine? That sounds pretty awesome. Any idea how they made it?
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Re: I finally found god [Re: laserpig]
#14575843 - 06/07/11 06:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: Psychedelic wine? That sounds pretty awesome. Any idea how they made it?
That's what I was just thinking, shit I need to get my hands on that TEK! 
Lah'Kesh
-------------------- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us all. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: don_vedo]
#14575874 - 06/07/11 06:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why not just soak some mushrooms in the wine? That sounds good actually. The alcohol will kill the pre-trip anxiety and you'll be prepared to indulge in utter psychedelia. It could be tough on the stomach though.
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mellowparty said: Definition: The way I see it the concept of god is a malignant sociocultural relic that has been spawned by fear at some point in human history. The concept itself acts a bit like a symbiont: essentially it endows its host with a false sense of security whereas the host provides the platform for its existence i.e. the brain. However, in some cases it is possible that the symbiont morphs into a virus which is manifested in the highly irrational behaviour of the host.
Point of Origin: It originates at the 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor family. The concept is generated somewhere along the serotoninergic neural circuitry and often starts to exhibit a dominating behaviour over other patterns of neural activity. I base this idea on the fact that there is a myriad of religious experience reports after the consumption of 5-HT agonistic drugs such as DMT, LSD, psilocybin, various psychedelic phenethylamines etc. Also the concept is perceived as if it is indefinite in terms of time and at least IME 5-HT mimetic drugs induce a similar parallel in the perception of time. By sustaining the concept the host (the believer) receives false sense of security with regard to his future (the idea of life after death etc.)
God is not a concept alone. God is a word (logos: Greek) which symbolizes Ultimate Reality, THAT (TAT: Sanskrit) which is Ultimately Real, transcends the spacio-temporal universe. Ultimate Reality cannot be reduced to energy, matter, or form (in descending order from its Point (Singularity) of Origin. Ultimate Reality is ontologically prior to existence, and existence is strictly derivative of Transcendental Reality. Ultimate Reality is not reducible to physical scrutiny because the Whole utterly transcends the sum of its parts. The Mystery on the other side of the Big Bang may be 'encountered' in consciousness, but since it is not space-time, it cannot be perceived, let alone quantified by the scientific method, which is merely a specialization of reason applied to phenomena of matter and energy. One cannot confuse "Ultimate Concerns" - the 'why?' with the 'how?' of science. Reason is a modification of consciousness. Pure Consciousness Events in which intimations of Ultimate reality may be encountered, are not bounded by the contours of reason or the restrictions of sense perception.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: laserpig]
#14577265 - 06/07/11 10:37 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: We are conscious fragments of the universe, slowly waking up to the fact that we are all hopelessly full of shit.
A bio-computer hacked together by chance and time needs a bag of tricks to make sure that a globule of semen will someday work its way into a vaginal cavity. The idea of God keeps people on their feet so that they might walk into each other and fuck. If orgasm and ecstasy and warmth did not exist, we would not bother to live, so the brain supplies them in the same manner that a horse trainer supplies a carrot. Day by day we fool ourselves into expending the energy to live, chasing whatever sense pleasures our nervous systems will allow, be they simple and personal, or complex and socially created. There is no difference between a saint singing the praises of God, and a convict rubbing his own dick. There is no God, there is no purpose, and all our joys and miseries are both equally illusory. Ephemeral electrical effects in some DNA transport meat.
 
Great post.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: deCypher]
#14577810 - 06/08/11 01:08 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Origin ultimately begs the question of causality, but to state what that ultimately is, seems impossible to prove with the evidence we have.
In relation to what anyone can examine with their own eyes, is a politically relevant theme that shows itself throughout most, if not all, religious texts.
Take the Hindu religion for example. The caste system and cycle of rebirth, is in the mainstream hindu religion that one is poor due to bad karma accumulated in a past life.
In the judeo-christian traditions, poor people, are given comfort by the idea that god prefers them over the wealthy.
There are many more examples, such as jesus saying that we should all pay our taxes to our government and through paul the apostle, who clearly states that a good christian is obedient to government and should hold government as appointed by god.
It makes much more sense to use religious beliefs, to control and subdue the larger poor class by their own minds, rather than by force.
In the past wealthy individuals always fought against rebellious poorer classes that were fed up with the inequality.
I think religion was simply a solution to this problem.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: don_vedo]
#14578844 - 06/08/11 09:29 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: Psychedelic wine? That sounds pretty awesome. Any idea how they made it?
That's what I was just thinking, shit I need to get my hands on that TEK! 
Lah'Kesh
i dont remember. Saw dat shit on the history channel.
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Re: I finally found god [Re: Seanfu]
#14578894 - 06/08/11 09:41 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's alright, mellow had a good point: just soak some shrooms in some wine for awhile might not be such a bad idea!
Lah'Kesh
-------------------- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us all. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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