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“users of psychedelics who believe in all sorts of crackpot theories that they think they have discovered through something that seems akin to divine revelation
by code_duck 8y ago
“users of psychedelics who believe in all sorts of crackpot theories that they think they have discovered through something that seems akin to divine revelation”
You’re aware that psychedelics have been used extensively for millennia by many cultures in religious ceremonies, right?
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- behringer 8y agoYou're reinforcing his statement.
- code_duck 8y agoI felt like the statement was suggesting that it was a modern phenomenon of psychedelic users since the 60s.
- kaffeemitsahne 8y agoIf anything, that supports GP's point.
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- code_duck 8y agoWhat was his point? That he’s an atheist? It seems like it inappropriate place to debate that.
- slfnflctd 8y agoWhich is precisely why we need to gather a whole lot more empirical data about their use in clinical settings, as well as conduct more rigorous analysis of their use outside those settings. They're clearly something our species has an interesting history with, and religious orders aren't always so reliable in the way they document events.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago"Millennia of religious ceremonies" are not a source of scientific truth. Rather the opposite.
- code_duck 8y agoI don’t have a problem with that. I just feel like the comment made it seem like he feels like it’s this crazy new thing that drug users are doing, when it’s related to major religions. As far as whether you believe in spirituality and it’s relation to scientific truth, that’s none of my business.
- ThrowawayR2 8y ago> You’re aware that psychedelics have been used extensively for millennia by many cultures in religious ceremonies, right? So has animal and human sacrifice. What's your point?
- code_duck 8y agoSure, I’d say the same if there was an attitude that human or animal sacrifice was a novel behavior.