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In reply to the discussion: Forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve ate possibly identified? Was it marijuana? [View all]Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)53. "I've always really, really sucked at being a Christian. I tried, i tried really, really hard. it
it just never worked.
I know what you mean. When I was real young... 6,7, & 8 years old or so, my mom used to drag me and my older sister to church every Sunday. My dad never went. All I remember about Sunday School is starinng out the window watching the people fishing in the canal behind the church. The church service itself just scared the shit out of me. We had one of those yelling, red-faced fire and brimstone preachers and all I ever remember hearing was how God killed people. I actually ran out of the church a few times and my mom had to come get me off the swings in the playground. We didn't go back much after that happened the 3rd time.
I started going to church again when I was 15 because I was going with my girlfriend and her family. It was a Methodist church and wasn't too bad, but after a few months my mom decided I needed to go to a Baptist church, and started making me and my sister go to one with her. I wasn't too happy about it, either. When I was 17 I was just fed up with it all and decided I was an atheist. I had been baptized and everything, but I just never felt anything inside. The topping on the cake was when I asked the preacher a question that had a real simple answer.. in my mind anyways... and he couldn't answer it.
The story of Cain and Abel says that Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, but he had a mark put on his body so everyone else knew who he was, but they wouldn't harm him. My question to the preacher was "if Adam and Eve were the first people made and put here, where did all these other people come from??" The preacher looked at me like I just asked if I could have a 3 way with his wife and daughter or something! To me, the answer was very simple... "The bible said Adam and Eve were the first, but it didn't say they were the only."
I just decided it was all a myth, just like santa claus, the tooth fairy and the easter bunny. Just another lie told to us by our parents about someone watching us all the time (which was freaky in itself, imho) to make sure we were being good.... and how could ONE GUY be watching EVERYONE at the same time, much less hearing all their prayers and yadda yadda yadda...
Peace,
Ghost
I know what you mean. When I was real young... 6,7, & 8 years old or so, my mom used to drag me and my older sister to church every Sunday. My dad never went. All I remember about Sunday School is starinng out the window watching the people fishing in the canal behind the church. The church service itself just scared the shit out of me. We had one of those yelling, red-faced fire and brimstone preachers and all I ever remember hearing was how God killed people. I actually ran out of the church a few times and my mom had to come get me off the swings in the playground. We didn't go back much after that happened the 3rd time.
I started going to church again when I was 15 because I was going with my girlfriend and her family. It was a Methodist church and wasn't too bad, but after a few months my mom decided I needed to go to a Baptist church, and started making me and my sister go to one with her. I wasn't too happy about it, either. When I was 17 I was just fed up with it all and decided I was an atheist. I had been baptized and everything, but I just never felt anything inside. The topping on the cake was when I asked the preacher a question that had a real simple answer.. in my mind anyways... and he couldn't answer it.
The story of Cain and Abel says that Cain was cast out of the Garden of Eden, but he had a mark put on his body so everyone else knew who he was, but they wouldn't harm him. My question to the preacher was "if Adam and Eve were the first people made and put here, where did all these other people come from??" The preacher looked at me like I just asked if I could have a 3 way with his wife and daughter or something! To me, the answer was very simple... "The bible said Adam and Eve were the first, but it didn't say they were the only."
I just decided it was all a myth, just like santa claus, the tooth fairy and the easter bunny. Just another lie told to us by our parents about someone watching us all the time (which was freaky in itself, imho) to make sure we were being good.... and how could ONE GUY be watching EVERYONE at the same time, much less hearing all their prayers and yadda yadda yadda...
Peace,
Ghost
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Forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve ate possibly identified? Was it marijuana? [View all]
ck4829
May 2014
OP
technically, it's "brussels sprouts". but perhaps in biblical times there was only one brussel.
unblock
May 2014
#10
they would have had to known how make a butter reduction to render the THC from the buds,
dionysus
May 2014
#4
really? i munched a few buds once and didnt notice anything. i thought you needed heat to render the
dionysus
May 2014
#8
i ate about a 2 bowls worth of dank, i didn't notice much, but the rice crispy treats i tried. OMFG!
dionysus
May 2014
#13
The active chemicals in both the dank you ate and the rice crispy treats was identical.
MohRokTah
May 2014
#15
Try it for yourself. Smoke a gram, eat a gram, make a gram into fat based cookies
Taitertots
May 2014
#29
No, precisely ZERO extraction from vegetative material has been done for you.
MohRokTah
May 2014
#40
In 1000 years they will find remains of the apple snow white bit into. n/t
951-Riverside
May 2014
#25
The "Forbidden Fruit" was from the "Tree of Knowledge". Adam and Eve were kept in the "Garden
Ghost in the Machine
May 2014
#46
"I've always really, really sucked at being a Christian. I tried, i tried really, really hard. it
Ghost in the Machine
May 2014
#53
Christianity, aka Paul, turned ancient religion/wisdom on its head, demonizing women and the
WinkyDink
May 2014
#56
Seeing that the story of Adam and Eve is nothing more than a fairy tale the forbidden fruit can be
Exposethefrauds
May 2014
#49
According to the story Adam and Eve did not have kids till they were kicked out
Exposethefrauds
May 2014
#57