Homestead forum diaspora
Subtitle
Forums
| Forum Home > Civilized Discourse > Religion as a Product of Psychotropic Drug Us | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Member Posts: 19 |
"How much of religious history was influenced by mind-altering substances?
RICHARD J. MILLER"
Any thoughts on this? I found it interesting and plausible, probably because I once enjoyed traveling without leaving the farm....8) | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 144 |
I believe that is a distinct possiblity...I also believe schizophrenia had a role as did epilepsy... | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 21 |
Having been no stranger to hallucinogens when younger, and having discovered the profound meaning of life several times (should have written it down), I can understand the need to invent a god. It allows one or many to substitute an explanation for what is unknown, as yet. It also comforts ppl who lose loved ones, and reinforces moral ethics. As there will always be a continually advancing understanding, there will always be new questions; seemingly unanswerable. Ergo, mankind had to invent a god; and would do so again in case of a meltdown that caused cultural memory loss. That ppl flaunt their superstition, and insist that it is the only way to live, is only proof of their ignorance. | |
|
-- "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." ~ Mark Twain.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 144 |
man created god in his own image... | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 20 |
Very possible...someday we may know for sure | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 20 |
Then again, we may already know | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 144 |
Chimpanzees are capable of looking in a mirror and recognizing themselves...many humans look in the mirror and see god. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 23 |
Entirely plausible, IMO. Spirituality has value, but being a blind slave to it is dangerous. It's nice to have spiritual comfort at times. It's warm and fuzzy. Making it into a master to be blindly obeyed, and worse, forced upon other, is nuts, and dangerous. | |
|
-- I'll give up my cast-iron cookware when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Jenny the Bear (grr.)
| ||
|
Member Posts: 20 |
Plenty of evidence that a self-made god worships his maker | |
|
-- If you don't know where you are going.....any road will get you there.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 144 |
Nature provides all the awe I seem to need. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 20 |
Well said | |
|
-- If you don't know where you are going.....any road will get you there.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 103 |
"A song that they sing of their home in the sky, Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep, But singing works just fine for me". James Taylor Sweet Baby James. | |
|
-- If I lost every material possession in my life, the only thing I would miss would be my slippers.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 21 |
"I believe that is a distinct possiblity...I also believe schizophrenia had a role as did epilepsy..."
I don't know about schizophrenia but I can tell you about epilepsy now. With an epileptic seizure: You are sitting there, blink your eyes and it is four hours later, you have injuries you can't explain. Don't think that can help build religous ideas. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 21 |
"The good news is there’s no devil. | |
|
-- "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." ~ Mark Twain.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 144 |
Epileptic seizures present many different things...and there are various types of epilepsy. I was actually thinking of Paul being blinded by the light on the road to Damascus... http://www.epilepsy.com/node/978179 The Bible says that Paul's conversion experience was an encounter with the resurrected Christ. Alternative explanations have been proposed, including sun stroke and seizure. In 1987, D. Landsborough published an article in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry,[10] in which he stated that Paul's conversion experience, with the bright light, loss of normal bodily posture, a message of strong religious content, and his subsequent blindness, suggested "an attack of [temporal lobe epilepsy], perhaps ending in a convulsion ... The blindness which followed may have been post-ictal."[10] | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 21 |
Paul: "Wow, I had better change my ways. I don't want that to happen again." So, he joined the god crowd, turning the unknown into something explainable through superstition. | |
|
-- "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." ~ Mark Twain.
| ||
|
Member Posts: 8 |
I think you can have a transcendent experience without attaching a bunch of hokum about Jesus to it. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 5 |
Not only did "Man create god in his own image." But God must be skitzophrenic or something since he both Loves and Hatesd and Nurtures and Destroys at the same time
| |
| ||
You must login to post.