Accoding to this article mushrooms produce a spiritual effect on users that can be compared to the birth of a child or death of a parent. Now I have never had a child nor have either of my parents died, but I have done, errr, know someone who has done mushrooms. My "friend" claims that he too had a spiritual trip. I guess he attempted to discover the meaning of life. "He" went rock climbing and actually did find the meaning before he lost it while coming down. According to the study 2/3 of the respondents said the experience was the five top meaningful experiences of their lives two months after taking the drug.
This is NOT an endorsement of mushrooms, mind you, just passing on some information.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
Plight of the Wiccan
The wife of a Nevadan soldier that died in military service in Afhghanistan is fighting for the government to place a Wiccan emblem on her husbands tombstone at the memorial wall at the Northern Nevada Veterens Memorial Cemetary. full story
The emblem which is an encircled five point star is not on the approved list, which according to different stories is between 35 & 39. Unfortunately I cannot find the list to review accepted symbols. Personally, I think that with 30+ approved symbols there has to be many marginal religions represented. Therefore the state should place the symbol on his marker. To be clear, I do not think that the state should just place any old symbol on any tombstone but I have heard of Wiccan's for at least 15 year, which seems to mean that it cannot be that marginal. But then again I am from California and my view of the world is skewed accordingly.
The emblem which is an encircled five point star is not on the approved list, which according to different stories is between 35 & 39. Unfortunately I cannot find the list to review accepted symbols. Personally, I think that with 30+ approved symbols there has to be many marginal religions represented. Therefore the state should place the symbol on his marker. To be clear, I do not think that the state should just place any old symbol on any tombstone but I have heard of Wiccan's for at least 15 year, which seems to mean that it cannot be that marginal. But then again I am from California and my view of the world is skewed accordingly.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Good Ridance!
While I am not usually one to pile on a dead person, Ken Lay was a scum bag who just got out of the lengthy prison sentance that he rightfully deserved. All of his assets should be siezed and his wife should be forced to start over from scratch.
Criminals like Lay and Skilling effected much more people than any street thug ever has. White collar crimes like these two pulled off are much more harmful to society than street crime. Thankfully the justice department has started handing out harsh sentances to these criminals. (in the interest of full disclosure, I had to pay outrageous energy costs due to Enron scamming California)
Criminals like Lay and Skilling effected much more people than any street thug ever has. White collar crimes like these two pulled off are much more harmful to society than street crime. Thankfully the justice department has started handing out harsh sentances to these criminals. (in the interest of full disclosure, I had to pay outrageous energy costs due to Enron scamming California)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)