Eppiphany today

[Buck268]

Well I had an epiphany today... I had come in from the woods after burning down a fat joint (only shwag, but my tolerance has not come back yet after my break). So I come inside, sit down watch some tube... Nothing is on, so I start surfing the channels.

Then I come to chnl 44, the Catholic channel. They are playing some cartoon about Original Sin (Adam, Eve, Tree of Knowledge, apple, you know the bit). Anyways, I figured it out. Cannabis is like the fruit from the tree of knowledge. It allows you to understand things beyond that which humans are intended to understand. Maybe not cannabis, maybe something else, maybe cannabis and something else... I dunno, but I'm very worried. It almost feels like the church was created as a measn to control us, not to save us... Being raised a Catholic, that type of thought scares me...

I dunno, I was absolutely fried, but yeah... Everything clicked and what I saw was the history of the world as it truely is, and that is a fearsome sight :eek: :(

[Thurgood]

i realized that a long time ago, all churches are meant to do is keep people in check, same thing with heaven and hell.

[Epic]

You may just be right, bro.

[Buck268]

I don't like it... This is fucking with me head

[naturalmystic]

religions were created to control the masses. If a ruler wanted to get a group of people to do something, he'd say, "god' would want you to do that. So 'god-fearing' man did what the ruler said.

[ilovelife]

ya i used to be very religious, then i started smokin out now im atheist, i relized everything when im stoned and i often am annoyed when others dont wanna hear it, like my friend, i was tellin how when im stoned i understnad this shit and he just didnt wanna hear it, he literaly was like shut up, religion is just something to be secure about, its like having an invisible friend

[geoffrowley19]

its nothing new, churches have been controlling people since they were first built, churches used to have nearly all power over an empire back in the day and to any political person who went up against the church (even kings and shit) were excommunicated, meaning they werent allowed to stay in that area ne more because they disagreed with the church, i dont know why it is, but weed does make a lot of people realized how bullshit religion is ( no offense)...i was atheist before i started smoking, but afterwards atheism made a hell of a lot more sense

[sugarmagnolia]

if u ever feel like reading a book then I sugest this one: "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov. Religion is used in the extreme way to control people in it. cool book.

[SomeGuy]

acutally if ur gonna read foundation...you shoudl probaly read the rest of the series..Psychohistory is pretty mondblowing...but then you should read "stranger in a strange land" by Robert Heinland....its a comedy...it goes against so many religeon...and the guy in the end dies to become a messiah...then maybe read dune, The same kind of thing happens to Muad'Dib.

BTW...Weed has actually made me a stronger christian, and the church has not always been about controlling people, I mean there are times but the first change occured when Pope Leo X allowed Johann Tetzel to sell the indulgences, and that broke the last straw which helped spark Martin Luthers Protestant Reformation which actually led to more free though, and shared more of the enlightenment ideas.

[adh endo]

cannabis is the tree of life

since starting smoking stuff ive stopped assosiating with church

but i still believe in god, just not the religion.

religion is often "we are right you are wrong"
except buddism

[sugarmagnolia]

everyone gives buddhism such a good name. I am not so fond of buddhism. I would much rather follow a man named Jesus who taught to love one another than some pessimistic fat man. It seems like a false thing to follow. I am not so fond of Buddha's sad look on life. he thinks everything is so sour. and yes Buddhism is controlling. It has set faiths and the set faiths are controlling. It just doesn't have a tainted name like the other faiths. don't allow society to tell u what to think. know what is there, don't know what has been revealed.

[Euphoric]

agreed. religon has been used as a very effective way to supress and control.

[Buck268]

Man, I don't like thi quandry I face. I don't like what my eyes see. Not at all. This is troublesome...

[Epic]

Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx

Hes the creater of Marxism, who would know better about how to control people than him?

[IntrepidS]

If the world unfolded as it should have, religion would not be existing any more. I don't understand why it wasn't abolished once this world got smart enough t orealize that God is not the cause for everything that happens. I guess there were just too many followers at this point. Whatever, I laugh at people who go and waste their time praying, I don't think it's something I'd ever do again. I never really believed in that, and smoking pot has only supported my opinions.

[IntrepidS]

everyone gives buddhism such a good name. I am not so fond of buddhism. I would much rather follow a man named Jesus who taught to love one another than some pessimistic fat man. It seems like a false thing to follow. I am not so fond of Buddha's sad look on life. he thinks everything is so sour. and yes Buddhism is controlling. It has set faiths and the set faiths are controlling. It just doesn't have a tainted name like the other faiths. don't allow society to tell u what to think. know what is there, don't know what has been revealed.

In Buddaism you are encouraged to view the world from your own perspective and do good based on your own wants and abilities. It doesn't have a set list of rules like other religions. Buddaism is the only religion that recognizes the existance of a higher being within oneself, and not as a single existing body/spirit in this world.

[slipnslide087]

ok guys. just imagined that the govt just fucking told everybody. "guys its about time we tell you that we proved god is fake. weve known for like 20 years or so though."

-anarchy. people would go fucking crazy. attitude would be "fuck morality" just do whatever you can to get by at anyones elses cost. it just gives people something to live there life by. people have natural instinct of right and wrong, weed dont need church to decipher that.

[slipnslide087]

i typed "weed" instead of "we" in that last part.

[Buck268]

Why would I be inclined to believe the governemnt? Because they said so? Worst possible reason... That is why this country is going to hell, quick....

[slipnslide087]

just an example man.