I am particularly grateful today after a few months of medicinal marijuana use and a much improved ability to sleep and endure chronic pain and anxiety.
I think everyone should be on cannabis because hey
It makes people nicer.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
THCT... the long version. I haven't heard this in years. A great stroll down memory lane.
My, the worm sure has turned. We, as American, can now vacation freely in Vietnam, and neighboring countries. And "Hanoi Jane"... still hated? Not by me. I accepted Fonda's apologies decades ago.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
RayThom wrote:What has been most destructive over the years?
OR
Or religion?
Religion wins hands down.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Face it, people win hands down--dictators, religion, cults, etc. are just the excuse people use to justify their unjustifiable actions (whether those actions are directly endorsed or contrary to the entities spawning the excuse).
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts