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Originally Posted by BigDongedHoe View Post
As I've mentioned previously once you know that you know Christ there isn't really any question anymore. You know that you know that you know and it's very clear that you do know.
This. This is a big problem for me, because it inhibits the search for knowledge in the Universe. It helps people to be satisfied and complacent, assuredly soothed every Sunday that everything is going to be okay, that at the end of this rat race there IS a purpose to life, and you're on the right path. It teaches people to accept statements and proposals as fact without questioning them themselves, because "someone else" is taking care of it. It makes people feel not only comfortable, but justified in inaction. All of this is detrimental to human progress.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.

― Terence McKenna
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