For me MDMA has been the greatest compound ever to be synthesized.
more blood on the hands of those who think pot is the devil: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html
Looks like yours would be a world without Tobacco, Alcohol, Caffeine and Sugar.
No drug is benign, that's an impossible standard.
Celebrations at the killing of an old man (albeit a really evil one that deserved what he got) seems a bit Romanesque to me.
I just saw a bunch of drunks college kids partying outdoors last night, it didn't look like anybody was exorcising any demons.
I don't think the texts were ever meant to be historical documents, they were written to make theological points, not historical ones.
Isn't the Ramayana also a text that lots of Ancient Astronaut theorists point to as evidence of visitation?
Some already mention the Israelite to Jew course, I also recommend Open Yale's Introduction to the New Testament:...
We need 10 Agudelo/Altidore/Davies/Johnson prospects per year because invariably 90% of prospects like Agudelo don't fulfill their potential.
Interesting that you can so matter of factly say: "so John, who knew Jesus," when you admit that it's all just guess work. You can be so...
So you admit that your opinion is backed by no evidence, good to know.
I'm not speculating, I'm questioning, nice duck. How can you claim that the author knew Jesus when you don't even know who the author was? The...
Nope, we had to stop in the Pleiades on our way to look at the world's biggest rubber band ball, that added a few extra light-years.
Indeed, but because of relativity the closer we get to C the more reasonable the timescales involved for the traveler (not for observers though,...
You can't even (nor can anyone else) say who John and Mark were and you're making the gigantic leap that they actually knew the man?
Unrealistic or improbable? Traveling far distances is merely a matter of energy.
So far as we know, a sufficiently high level of intelligent being needs a way of sensing, and interpreting the environment around it. This means...
SETI listens for extremely narrow band radio signals, ones that wouldn't be produced in nature.
That ain't the Holy Ghost, I've been to enough rock concerts, it looks like a little LSD, Psilocybin, Cannabis, and MDMA thrown in for good measure.
FBI Table 29 Total Arrests in 2009 http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_29.html Total: 13,687,241 #1 Arrest Category, Drug Abuse...
Prisoners sentenced for drug offenses constituted the largest group of Federal inmates (55%) in 2001, down from 60% in...
How much are we wagering? I'll take your money.
I can't honestly believe that someone could hold this view and live in the real world. You're blatantly ignoring all the data available on...
If your god is incapable of an action that is morally wrong, then he isn't a moral being, he's an amoral one.