What Satanus said..... and
First you need a roadmap to find a certain destination (or someone you trust to direct you).
Once it's familiar, you can get to your destination without even consciously thinking.....
do you think a person can use hallucinogens to get enlightened?
did humankind use them in the past with good results, for the benefit of their tribe, or community?
did some preform healings under the influence of them, wasn't this ritualistic use a predate of any organized type of religion.. in fact the way i see it, for government to forbid its use is,, not only a gross infringement of one's civil liberties, but also shows its capitalistic, and feed the factories with productive tax paying workers mentality, which were no doubt the main reason for the government sponsored smear campaign done under the guise of public service announcements for the public's own good along with long prison sentences to reinforce the message.
What Satanus said..... and
First you need a roadmap to find a certain destination (or someone you trust to direct you).
Once it's familiar, you can get to your destination without even consciously thinking.....
do you think a person can use hallucinogens to get enlightened?
did humankind use them in the past with good results, for the benefit of their tribe, or community?
did some preform healings under the influence of them, wasn't this ritualistic use a predate of any organized type of religion.. in fact the way i see it, for government to forbid its use is,, not only a gross infringement of one's civil liberties, but also shows its capitalistic, and feed the factories with productive tax paying workers mentality, which were no doubt the main reason for the government sponsored smear campaign done under the guise of public service announcements for the public's own good along with long prison sentences to reinforce the message.
Certain drugs can take every day mundane situations and give us a completely different realisation.
So it's not so much the drug that is important, it is our realisation that what we perceive as "real and absolute" is not necessarily correct.
Once that has sunk in there is no further need for the drug.
study at john hopkins on magic mushrooms:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcm6ldfecag&feature=related.
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These substances have been used in sacred ceremoney for thousands of years. All the researchers had to do was get out of their labs and talk to indigenous people, rather than play with test tubes and the 60's mentality in the Western world.
tonight is the peak.. get out and watch!
http://www.artuji.com/meteor-shower-august-2009-in-google/668.
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Baba is the kind of person who will be in the real New World...........
tonight is the peak.. get out and watch!
http://www.artuji.com/meteor-shower-august-2009-in-google/668.
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I was in Thailand for that last meteor shower, when was it? About 6 yrs ago?
There was a big trance party on the beach and I expected a few bright lights(LOL). It was truly stunning seeing hundreds of golden strands from horizon to horizon. Maybe it was the condition I was in...
Nah truly nature's power at work
what made me open my eyes after 30 years and smell the coffee?
and why did i accept the red pill, but my parents and everyone else is content with the blue pill?.
has anyone done any research as to what wakes us up?.
Agree with a mix of Hermano Journey on and Baba
Brief enough?
i have struggled with this concept for quite some time.
i feel like the apostle paul in that he wishes to do right by god in controling this issue, but find it to be a law exercising complete control over him.
i find myself wondering what is the use in doing so?
SMOOCH for Baba!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80qjh9yivs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkl7v3tbrze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7kpyxbmyw.
I am too stubborn to learn how to attach U Tube clips but there was a guy (died a few yrs ago) called Billy Thorpe (and the Aztecs) who was the LOUDEST band I have ever heard! He was my idol as a teen, growing my hair long and getting an earring at 15......LOL
Many in the States think he is American, as he was quite popular in the South. He stopped playing a lot of music in the 80's and early 90's, to make millions in America designing and creating children's toys.
He came back here and started playing just as loud as ever.
RIP Billy
i have struggled with this concept for quite some time.
i feel like the apostle paul in that he wishes to do right by god in controling this issue, but find it to be a law exercising complete control over him.
i find myself wondering what is the use in doing so?
I felt exactly the same as you at one point. I believe that I was truly looking for truth, so (tried to)applied what was said by the jw org. This standard is impossible to fulfill.
I asked other witnesses what they thought about this and most just didn't even ponder these types of dilemmas. They just had switched off and obeyed but on the other hand, didn't reflrct on their personal behaviour relating to wt standards unless it was brought to their attention by the elders.
So I came to the conclusion similar to WT Wizard, which ironically puts a lot more onus on the individual than the jws ever did. We need to be responsible global citizens, not mindless clones plugged in to the wts machine.
purps asked the question, at what age are the girls required to wear the full dress.. i recently read an awesome book called "nine parts of desire - the hidden world of islamic women.
" by geraldine brooks.. it gives a great history of islam's start and the whole "chador.
" thing.
There are similar sentiments here in Ausralia, young Muslim women wearing the full outfit as a feminist statement.
But sadly, it's usually the men who make public statements to the press and of course the press run with the outragous.
One old guy said that women not covered completely in public are meat which will attract cats....Which means they deserved to be raped. Didn't go down too well. It's hard to work out where Muslims (of any persuasion) stand on basic human rights....