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03-04-2008, 04:11 PM
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Biblical Israelites were stoned
Reuters: High on Mount Sinai?
I can hear Charlton Heston now, "Dudes... who ate my stone tablets? ... Joshua? Dude, I'm [censored]ed!"
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High on Mount Sinai?
Tue Mar 4, 11:06 AM ET
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an "altered state of awareness," Shanon hypothesized.
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03-04-2008, 04:16 PM
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Them Israelites Aye!
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(that's all you need to say)
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03-04-2008, 04:28 PM
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Would explain why the talking bush caught fire... 
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03-04-2008, 04:58 PM
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SMOKE ON THE WATER!!!!!!
DA,DA,DA....DA-DA, DA-DA....DA, DA-DA....... DA-DA  |
03-04-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Buckeyedynasty
SMOKE ON THE WATER!!!!!!
DA,DA,DA....DA-DA, DA-DA....DA, DA-DA....... DA-DA |
And down from the heavens came a great rumbling and a voice did proclaim, "Thou shalt not point thine flare gun at thy neighbor, you knob!"
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03-04-2008, 05:35 PM
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Dude, did you eat all the [censored]ing manna?
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03-04-2008, 05:39 PM
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