Shenmue said:

Christians use mushrooms 😆? I thought it was witchcraft to them?

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MarkostheGnostic said:

Well perhaps I am not the "common human," but I have more affirmations here than detractors. I am not writing down to people, I intend to bring the level of Shroomery discourse UP! It is true that less than 2% of Americans have a PhD degree, but this is not something I am going to be made ashamed of by some newbie who simply has no experience interacting with university professors.   I was your age (what-ever it is, I'm way older), but unlike yourself who reacts with criticism, my reaction to university professors who were more knowledgeable than me was awe, humility, and the aspiration to learn from them. Never did I listen to a lecture in any of the 3 degree programs I was in and thought that the professor was a "know it all!" I was paying a lot of money to be there. Here, you have the benefit of interacting with a professional educator and clinician for free, but your uncomprehending reaction is to lash out at someone because he is older and more knowledgeable than you are. Do you wear a MAGA hat too?

My words are clear, "psychobabble" is a modern pejorative term, similar to the term gibberish. Gibberish is a word that people like yourself use who are not knowledgeable about complex or esoteric subjects. It comes from the the Arabic alchemist, philosopher, and mystic Jābir ibn Hayyān whose name was Latinized as Geber. Anything esoteric or abstract that was not understood by literal, concrete-minded people was dismissed as Geber-ish, which morphed into gibberish.

You have fewer than 100 posts, and I've been on these forums since 1999. What were YOU doing in 1999? You are gonna presume to school me on how I appear to you and how I should "reach people?" You can only speak for yourself, you do not speak for others, they speak for themselves. I have read sad criticisms like your's before. It is an ad hominem not a positive suggestion. My posts CAN often appear like a graduate school seminar because I've taught at that level. If you do not have the 'prerequisites' for reading my posts then move on or ask questions to explain, because clearly you do not understand them. Others may disagree with my position which is perfectly fine. I welcome dissenting positions because I, unlike yourself, are open to correction and further learning. Meanwhile, it would behoove you to know something about the individual you are 'advising' before you write publicly because it just makes you look foolish, it does not correct me. BTW, here is nothing "self-righteous" about being 'right' (i.e., correct) about a subject, and there is a HUGE difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. You may think I am being the latter, but I endeavor to be the former. Regardless, you are certainly not the arbiter, you just have an opinion such as it is.

"righteous
adjective
1 righteous living: good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent; ethical, principled, moral, high-minded, law-abiding, honest, honorable, blameless, irreproachable, noble; saintly, angelic, pure. ANTONYMS sinful.
2 righteous anger: justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, rightful; admissible, allowable, understandable, excusable, acceptable, reasonable. ANTONYMS unjustifiable."

"self-righteous | ˌself ˈrīCHəs |
adjective
having or characterized by a certainty, especially an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior: self-righteous indignation and complacency... sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, self-satisfied, smug, priggish, complacent, pious, moralizing, preachy, superior, hypocritical; informal goody-goody. ANTONYMS humble."

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Shenmue said:

I'm trying to offend them. I hate religion.

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It's time for these people to replace church with mushrooms 😛.

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It's time for you to learn and grow up rather than being ironic in your malice for you've only demonstrated detriments of yourself - not Christianity, nor mushrooms.

Whitelighter said:

I think that you are too psychobabble for the the common human, and that if you want to reach people, you will try to talk to them without posting an entire page of rhetoric.


Otherwise, you just come off as a self righteous know it all, that is still trying to be diplomatic.

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