[FunkBomb]

Ancient Chinese texts called Cannabis the, "liberator of sin" and I think they were onto something very big.

-Funk

[HempKat]

Originally Posted by FunkBomb

Ancient Chinese texts called Cannabis the, "liberator of sin" and I think they were onto something very big.

-Funk

Depends on what they considered sin.

[theclearspot]

HempKat. Excellent idea.
I usually get very creative ideas for future career etc. Problem is when the 'sensible' ego takes over the next day...they are sidelined..

[HempKat]

Originally Posted by theclearspot

HempKat. Excellent idea.
I usually get very creative ideas for future career etc. Problem is when the 'sensible' ego takes over the next day...they are sidelined..

Well sometimes they should be, not all deep stoner thoughts are epiphanies it's just the high makes it seem like they all are. Some times though....

Originally Posted by HempKat

Well it occurs to me that at this point in time we'll soon be seeing a flood of people who grew up in the hippie generation, when everyone was smoking marijuana ...

seems to me our present politicians are in this group. yet there is NO CHANGE!

thus, I 'm wondering if the present restrictions on cannabis are because politicians who once smoked are REALLY FRIGHTENED anyone might find out and it will blow their 'respectable' cover?

and in regard to epiphanies and such ... seems to me cannabis allows a certain silencing of thought ... and that intuition sometimes fills the silence.

I mean, have you noticed that there has to be silence before there is understanding?

or put another way: mental silence is necessary for understanding to blossom ... and cannabis contributes to silencing one's usual train of thoughts ...

anyway, that's how my process seems to work.

cheers ...

[Weird]

ive said it before and ill say it again

the Buddha is the Buddha

[HOPS5K]

The Other Side

You ever wonder what's on the other side of the veil? Paradise, Hell? Do you have to pay for your sins like some think? Maybe reincarnation into another life is possible. The next challenge or whats around the corner, the next life or the next world has always fascinated me.

What if life is like a spiral of sorts. Growing larger and larger while slowing down, the getting tighter and tighter with all sorts of craziness going on?

[mpd]

I've come to the conclusion that God/The Deity/The One is all around us and keeps showing up and we don't notice because God/The Deity/The One is everywhere and in everything. God/The Deity/The One keeps trying to communicate with us and we keep trying to ignore God/The Deity/The One as we go about our busy lives. The message is simple: we live forever and we will never end; this is but one life in the cast of thousands we have already lived (hence the experience of deja vu being triggered by past life experiences being called forth) and the thousands and thousands and millions and millions we have yet to live - for this is an equation with an answer that each of us must solve. We decide when we have "had enough" or "want to rest" or "wish to continue".

World without end. Namaste. Numorea. Amen.

[mpd]

Sorry, double post.

[BlueBlazer]

mpd, I'm in agreement with much of what you said, please don't take this as an attack on you. I just got thinking this way after reading your post.


My thoughts on god and afterlife.

Is there a god? I don't think there is a god in the sense that we have conceived. For my purposes you may as well call the universe god. Everything is part of everything and the true scope of the complexity of the interactions in the universe is presently beyond our reach. That there is an order to everything, I have no doubt. However, that some great intelligence is behind it all, that is aware of me and cares, I completely doubt without some concrete proof (outside of the religious writings of whatever faith you name).

Is there life after death? I cannot say if the entity that is me continues on in some new form or not. Scientists say that matter does not disappear, just transforms. So in that sense "I" will continue on in some other form. Whether I'll be aware of it, who knows? That's the main reason I'm enjoying the ride right now and not looking forward to anything "after".

When I stepped back and pondered that the universe has been going on for mind numbingly longer than homo sapiens, and will be around long after homo sapiens are history, I questioned that we are the center of anything.



Also, if you experience Deja vu you may be a time traveler stuck in a loop.

Of course, I could be wrong . . .