CHATSWORTH, GEORGIA
Didn't make expected progress today since it was raining raindrops a big as robin eggs...grapes...marbles....a really bad hemmrhoid....and millions of them all at one time, one right after another.
Let's hope so.
The only thing I found of interest was this sign..
It tastes just like coon.
Then you have to worry about our motel when they have pre-stashed fencing and barbed wire......for the zombie apocolypse?
Nothing tagged today due to weather.
The only thing I found of interest was this sign..
Then you have to worry about our motel when they have pre-stashed fencing and barbed wire......for the zombie apocolypse?
Nothing tagged today due to weather.
AND NOW THE ANTI-SERMON
I actually believe that religion can "comfort, give strength, and help people carry on". It's called the placebo effect and it's been studied to death. Look it up.
Can you imagine any other organization being allowed to punish it's own members for crimes against children?
Imagine a Boy Scout leader caught raping the troops and the leadership sends him to another troop out of town.
Actually, that's pretty much true...I hope.
Teach them from birth and they will believe anything...
ANYTHING!
1 comment:
"Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real.
Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real."
Consider this from a realist's perspective. If our minds are physical, then our hallucinatory experiences are also physical, and every bit as "real" as our normal waking experiences.
This is why I don't mind words like "spirituality" – because hallucinations can be powerful and worth having, and "spiritual" is a fine word to refer to such experiences. The issue of import is not whether hallucinations are "real" – any honest person knows they're real and furthermore that other people have them. No, the issue is whether hallucinations map in a meaningful enough way to our lives that we should directly factor them into governance. The answer there is also "yes".
We already directly factor hallucinatory experiences into our systems of law and morality. We have written codes about which sorts of drugs are and are not acceptable and we have legalistic bodies setting forth the diagnostic criteria for physical disorders which lead to hallucinations (e.g. schizotypal disorders). On the cultural level, different groups have differing opinions about which experiences/drugs are good and bad (often in bald conflict with their governments, e.g. Washington State legalizing pot despite the Feds still prosecuting its possession).
There's a "scale of utility vs danger" to consider with hallucinatory experiences, as there is with any possible experience (e.g. driving a car, possessing a nuclear warhead or a pistol, supporting the institution of marriage, etc). We say that some forms of mind-alteration (e.g. alcohol & tobacco & caffeine) are acceptable whereas others (crack, peyote, acid) are not and some (pot) are somewhere in between. The thing to note is that culture skews how we think about these things in ways that don't correlate to their real-world utility vs danger – many people think pot is far less of a danger to society than alcohol, for instance, and yet our society largely believes the opposite.
Anyway, that's a long way of saying hallucinations are real and can be meaningful and worth pursuing on both an individual and societal scale. I don't recommend against seeking hallucinatory experiences (done in proper settings, mind) anymore than I recommend against seeking glorious sunrises or the ineffably-enjoyable smiling faces of friends and relatives. All are "real" and all can be "good" or "bad" depending on how individuals arrive at them, what their effects on the broader populace are when considered in aggregate, etc.
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