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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I may disagree with religion strongly, but I'm into "spirituality", and it feels like religion came out of something genuine, like they were onto something super meaningful and then it got perverted into a 'set of information and rules about how the world operates.'
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And maybe it wasn't much of a perversion always - maybe the information and rules were just "symbolic structures pointing to the Something Genuine" - but human brains don't work like that, and soon down the line you get awful things like "no being gay or God will smite you"
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Tyler Stokes
@Stoked2BeStokes
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@Aella_Girl
Almost everyone I have personally met involved with psychedelics have had similar views to this one. It may just be the people I associate with in general but I do find it interesting that it is such a repeating pattern.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Stoked2BeStokes
I know! It freaks me out! I think it's just, psychedelics throw you into such an altered state and you struggle to find something to explain it and then you just pick a thing and go 'yep those are my beliefs now'. Feels very religious to me.