adam and eve? sounds like BS...

I wasn't meaning mushrooms in particular either. I'm just using them as an example of a way to tap into the human consciousness to understand all that the bible conveys.

Do you honestly think God only sent down one person to pave the path? I highly doubt it. I also highly doubt that people in this modern day don't have the abilities to do what Jesus did, not that they'd care to anyway these days.

Religion is as structured and fake as the Government is, there are far better ways to find God than to spend your time believing in something that is made up, passed on, and exaggerated...especially after ALL these years.

God didn't intend for a book to be passed on to many people throughout time, God also didn't intend for a government to put laws on his own creations, but that happened too.

We need to stop living in the past and find the future for ourselves.

 

Well, an argument against it would be that a shit-ton of floods happened and yet most cultures don't have more than one myth. There's a lot of symbology around water and cleansing in other myths though, which can be seen as stemming from our expulsion from the womb in a wash of amnion perhaps...

The main problem I have with the idea of an actual flood is that it seems a little weird for God to be setting up ten or so different "Noahs", all around the world, and yet not telling any of them about the other nine. I guess He just figured that, if He told the truth, none of them would make the effort.

 

K. I find mind-altering substances tend to impair my reading rather than improve it. Then again, half the people who wrote the thing were either high as kites or monged by sunstroke, so you might be onto something.

Well no, I don't personally believe he sent anyone.

I'd say it's a fair comparison. But I wouldn't be any more down on religion than I would on government because of it. They're both means of wrangling the mindless gibbering public, trying to impart the message that people should be good and leave people alone in terms that they will both understand and accept (i.e. lying to them).

But that's just me, I think anything that says "don't kill people" is at least semi-good.

Marshall McLuhan described Finnegans Wake in rather messianic terms, maybe that'll be the New Bible? I'm pretty sure if you read any book enough times it tells you everything about everything. If anything, religious texts would probably be the exception to this.

I couldn't agree more, which is why I have no interest in finding God.