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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Subject: Re: Jesus, Drugs, & Me
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.072901.6705@u.washington.edu>
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- References: <1992Oct28.230950.2027@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Oct30.150725.2045@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Nov16.224723.2368@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Nov18.221954.2432@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:29:01 GMT
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- drumm@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Danny) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.224723.2368@cnsvax.uwec.edu>, degroomp@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
- >> No offence to you Dan, but obviously you have never taken LSD... I am speaking
- >> as a recovering drug addict and abuser... It is extremely difficult
- >> to determine Reality from fantasy while the fire hydrant on the
- >> corner turns into a large green and red dragon which begins to
- >> breath fire on you.
-
- No its not. Large green and red dragons are a wonderful indication that
- you're not in the consensus reality.
-
- >> Now that I am sober I find it much easier to beleive
- >> that this dragon was merely a figment of my imagination and NOT
- >> a miracle from God...
-
- Miracle from God? Figment of imagination?
-
- Not either.
-
- The sensory highway of your brain is firing so fast that signals are getting
- crossed. Its most certainly not a miracle, and you're not imagining anything,
- its just that its internal to your mind and not external to you.
-
- >> However, giving you some credit it IS
- >> possible that this dragon was a message from God that I should
- >> have quit drugs and lead a "religiuos" life...
-
- Well, whatever, believe what you want to...
-
- >> However, I realized
- >> how fucked up I was through RATIONALITY... I was broke fixed on
- >> various substances and my life was shit.
-
- Congratulations.
-
- Now realize that others are not broke, not fixed on substances, and can
- use LSD without any problems. Prohibition just throws them in jail becuase
- *you* can't handle a substance that *they* can. It at *least* needs to
- be decriminalized...
-
- >The text above was posted by a student to one of our local newsgroups.
- >
- >Comments anyone?
-
- Yup.
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
-