Bible written while high?

Now the Bible makes scene 😄

Bible written while high?

Heheheheheeee they shoulda just ate, drank and giggled and fell asleep instead.

Maybe we need some of that drug to read the bible. 😱

I tried it. Only the nature of the bollocks contained with in it stand out further.

Could be why all the non-drug policies of religious based civilisations exist.

On a more serious note the title is deliberately misleading . . .

The article makes a reasonable case for what it's actually about. Moses goes off alone, find a bush, sets it on fire, cool stuff happen. Gee, I wonder.

Nah, they'd be too lazy and tired to write something that long with that much thought

also, they'd be too busy eating their chickenssss

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
On a more serious note the title is deliberately misleading . . .

The article makes a reasonable case for what it's actually about. Moses goes off alone, find a bush, sets it on fire, cool stuff happen. Gee, I wonder.

Makes perfect sense.

Leviticus was not written while high. Nobody who's trippin discusses how to treat mildew.

That must have been written the week of the great weed drought of 0050AD...

Revelation was obviously written by a dude on X or absinthe, not weed.

I'd imagine mental illness is more relevant to the origins of the bible than drugs are. Christianity, with the exception maybe of incense and wine, isn't an existential religion. South American mysticism, Asian mysticism, those things have clear connections between substance and divinity, Christianity does not.

There are some sects where usage of psychedelic drugs has been incorporated from these types of influences, but if a particular substance were of importance for Christian religious experience, I imagine it would be exalted much like the ingredients for an Ayahuasca are by native south and central americans.

We can ofcourse entertain the possibility that it is...true.

Originally posted by inimalist
I'd imagine mental illness is more relevant to the origins of the bible than drugs are. Christianity, with the exception maybe of incense and wine, isn't an existential religion. South American mysticism, Asian mysticism, those things have clear connections between substance and divinity, Christianity does not.

There are some sects where usage of psychedelic drugs has been incorporated from these types of influences, but if a particular substance were of importance for Christian religious experience, I imagine it would be exalted much like the ingredients for an Ayahuasca are by native south and central americans.

Wait, existentialism is about getting yourself to an altered state of conciousness? I thought it was "the ordering a reason of all things can be known and understood" or something.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
We can ofcourse entertain the possibility that it is...true.

NO! 😛

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Wait, existentialism is about getting yourself to an altered state of conciousness? I thought it was "the ordering a reason of all things can be known and understood" or something.

my understanding is that it deals with the human experience, but I'm totally not familiar with it.

I couldn't think of a better term, and "mystic" isn't really what I was going for, more like, faiths that believe divinity is attained through objects or substances rather than through action, blah, even that doesn't sound right.

Like, to reach God, one prays and speaks, but there is no necessity of a subjective "experiencing" through substances, like is seen with, in my opinion, spirituality centered around psychedelic substances.

Different faiths, but same idea: I had a Muslim friend once tell me that Mohammed said marijuana was ok in the Quran. I tried to look it up and found people debating it on the internet. The majority opinion (in a totally non-representative sample) was that it would be insulting to God to attempt to commune with him while intoxicated. Whereas spirituality that focuses on hallucinogenic experiences requires substances (or some form of deliberate mind alteration [to differentiate it from the social, passive, "mind altering" in some religious experiences, see faith healing]) to reach the divine.

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Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
We can ofcourse entertain the possibility that it is...true.

Hey, so just out of curiousity, in your opinion would God have a problem with someone who was sincerely praying while intoxicated?

would it matter what substance or anything like that? degree of intoxication?

My God would.

Originally posted by inimalist
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Hey, so just out of curiousity, in your opinion would God have a problem with someone who was sincerely praying while intoxicated?

would it matter what substance or anything like that? degree of intoxication?

Why would being intoxicated matter to God if the prayer was sincere?

Indeed.

Taking that a little further, that leads to..

'Why do people still think they can petition this alleged entity with prayer?'

(When all evidence says it doesnt work anymore than literally just wishing for something whilst blowing out you birthday candles..?)