Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Breaking news from 1300 BCE
An Israeli scholar is arguing that Moses was, er, high on Mt. Sinai when he heard the Ten Commandments:
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.
Moses was a founding
9 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Tue Mar 04, 04:59:00 PM:
"Founding profit"?
That's an interesting way to look at religion.
By TigerHawk, at
Tue Mar 04, 05:09:00 PM:
Doh!
You'd never guess I was a financial guy.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Tue Mar 04, 05:13:00 PM:
I make my share of typografikal errers, too.
By 
, at
Tue Mar 04, 05:58:00 PM:
"You'd never guess I was a financial guy."
And, using the crude word "guy", we'd never figure you for a Princeton graduate, either. :)
Did you forget what you said on the 'Policies' page re: typos? That, uh, used to be one of this site's more attractive qualities.
Also:
"Breaking news from 1300 BCE"
If you're going to use the 'E' (for 'Era'), then wouldn't it be the 1300 BCE?
//damn, I'm pedantic
By Pax Federatica, at
Wed Mar 05, 08:26:00 AM:
So does this mean the religious right will soon start calling for an end to the "war on drugs"? Good enough for Moses, good enough for middle America and all that?
By jj mollo, at
Wed Mar 05, 09:18:00 AM:
Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. Blasphemy would be better, but Moses wasn't a god. So let's call it scandal-mongering. It's a good Biblical tradition. They laughed at Noah for excessive use of the wine. I'll bet no one laughed at Moses. "Dude, you're stoned! Oops, I mean what are those stones?"
By , at
Wed Mar 05, 10:35:00 AM:
There are some wackos who claimed that moses was a black guy WHAT A LOAD OF TOMMY ROT and PLEASE QUIT USING THIS SILLY PC CE,BCE poppycock bull kaka
By , at
Wed Mar 05, 10:40:00 AM:
Aaaah, now his "stutter" makes so much more sense.
Moses: "ooohhhh duuuuudeeee...hooooooly shiiiiiiitttt, I'm so fuuuuuuuuuucked up....
ooooh, like, God wants you to let his people go or he'll, like, send a billion frogs and shit"
Pharoah: "Fuck off, stoner"
Moses: "all right duuude...are those doritos?"
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Wed Mar 05, 11:41:00 PM:
Fascinating link. Devoid of evidence, but fascinating. There are many types of acacias; nothing hints at the learned gentleman's claims for use of psychoactives in Palestine. This seems like an excuse to say Dude, did I tell you that I took natural hallucinogens in the Amazon? Yeah, they use 'em for religious ceremonies. And because of the interrelatedness of everything, what Moses did must have been the same thing, right? Whoa.
