That said, I strongly suspect there's something to covert geoengineering/chemtrails.
I wouldn't be surprised by disclosure of D.U.M.B.s, the Mars Base, intelligent E.T.s visiting Earth.
My least believable conspiracy is either that 20 Saudi terrorists pulled off 9/11 without assistance from within the US government OR that Lee Harvey Oswald actually killed Kennedy all on his own.
The whole religion thing isn't very fringe anymore, we all know that it's complete bull shit. In fact at this point in the country less than half of the people in it REALLY believe what any religious text says. They're pretty much all from an older text that was from another older text that was from oral traditions that was all just a way to make sense of the universe. In other words, non-scientific bull shit. The only reason that we subscribe to it now is that it is just easier to teach others with the "Word of God" than it is to really show them the difference between right and wrong.
It is actually way more intereting than that. For one, the acacia wood from which the ark of the covenant was made contains high levels of dimethyltryptamine. Moses' burning bush is widely suspected to have been Syrian rue, which contains potent MAOI inhibitors.
In the gnostic gospels Jesus states repeatedly that god can only be found by looking within yourself. Exactly the opposite of what the catholic church has preached for millennia. I might add there are extensive connections between the catholic church, intelligence agencies, and organized crime.
And then don't get started on the persistence of archetypes throughout religions separated by distamce and time. Buddha and Osiris both had 12 disciples and underwent three trials. The persistence of the food myth. The scientific evidence for global flooding following the vaporization of an ice sheet by an asteroid 30,000 years ago. The flower of life showing up in ruins on every continent (save Antarctica... Yet.)
(I've just realized that you probably mentioned religion because the first thing I said was 'I think belief systems are b. s.'. This actually was a reference to the optimistic skeptic Robert Anton Wilson whom I quote in saying "belief is the death of intelligence," meaning that once something is adopted as a belief you stop seriously considering exceptions that don't align with your belief. TL;dr- that was an aside about OP's phrasing of the question.)
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Dysnomia ago
I think belief systems are b.s.
That said, I strongly suspect there's something to covert geoengineering/chemtrails.
I wouldn't be surprised by disclosure of D.U.M.B.s, the Mars Base, intelligent E.T.s visiting Earth.
My least believable conspiracy is either that 20 Saudi terrorists pulled off 9/11 without assistance from within the US government OR that Lee Harvey Oswald actually killed Kennedy all on his own.
PoorDelphiPrgrmr ago
The whole religion thing isn't very fringe anymore, we all know that it's complete bull shit. In fact at this point in the country less than half of the people in it REALLY believe what any religious text says. They're pretty much all from an older text that was from another older text that was from oral traditions that was all just a way to make sense of the universe. In other words, non-scientific bull shit. The only reason that we subscribe to it now is that it is just easier to teach others with the "Word of God" than it is to really show them the difference between right and wrong.
Dysnomia ago
It is actually way more intereting than that. For one, the acacia wood from which the ark of the covenant was made contains high levels of dimethyltryptamine. Moses' burning bush is widely suspected to have been Syrian rue, which contains potent MAOI inhibitors.
In the gnostic gospels Jesus states repeatedly that god can only be found by looking within yourself. Exactly the opposite of what the catholic church has preached for millennia. I might add there are extensive connections between the catholic church, intelligence agencies, and organized crime.
And then don't get started on the persistence of archetypes throughout religions separated by distamce and time. Buddha and Osiris both had 12 disciples and underwent three trials. The persistence of the food myth. The scientific evidence for global flooding following the vaporization of an ice sheet by an asteroid 30,000 years ago. The flower of life showing up in ruins on every continent (save Antarctica... Yet.)
(I've just realized that you probably mentioned religion because the first thing I said was 'I think belief systems are b. s.'. This actually was a reference to the optimistic skeptic Robert Anton Wilson whom I quote in saying "belief is the death of intelligence," meaning that once something is adopted as a belief you stop seriously considering exceptions that don't align with your belief. TL;dr- that was an aside about OP's phrasing of the question.)