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My drinking days are well back in the rear view mirror. An occasional beer or shot and that it is it. Hangovers are just not worth the pain. Altered states through exercise and the occasional THC is good by me. Was surprised at causal link to cancer but i suppose it is ingesting poison and who knows what long term exposure to poison does?

Whoa is that expensive whiskey!

That aint Jamesons.

Sounds like a cool scene in a movie. I would watch that film.

That is a great pic of the monkey god.

I once met a Hindu guy at his new Indian restaurant. I had been friendly with his wife at one point. Say no more. Anyways he starts telling me about the monkey god. I had to bite my lip so freakin hard to keep from laughing. I caan hepit.

Love it. Reg has the senolytic emetic, emphatic about being socratic. Makes sense.

Robert and Reg i am on board examining religion through prism of evolution and culture. Valid.

But what interests me most is the biology of religious belief. Turns out and i was unaware there is a field known as neurotheology. I would love to see studies relating brain development of babies/kids who are unindoctrinated v indoctrinated. I am…[Read more]

Robert, that explains the emotional attachment but how do you get yourself to ardently wholeheartedly and without a shred of doubt to believe the most transparent crap? We use words like compartmentalize and dichotomize but it is kind of hollow.

I hope some day neurologists explain the ‘mechanics’ of indoctrination and unshakeable belief. And…[Read more]

What would it take? Is there anything or anyone or a composite of the best minds of all time merged with the best LLM that is capable of persuading theists this deluded?

The efforts to reconcile endless tiresome religious manifestations with the failure to appear, the failure to explain away science that contradicts the comic books, the failure to adumbrate future advances that authors would have no way to know, the failure to convince humanity as a block, the failure to engender anything rationally related to…[Read more]

Mam, you are wearing a cross and have a bible in your back seat. Please step out of the car. You are under arrest for gross stupidity detrimental to public safety and the greater culture. You have a right to request counsel. Anything you say is automatically stupid and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand these rights as i…[Read more]

Nothing wakes you up more to how far gone humans are than a person under the influence of religion.