"Grain avoidance...was the common medical cure for expelling the 'Three Corpses', the malevolent, grain-eating spirits that live in the human body, report their host's sins to heaven every 60 days, and carry out punishments of sickness and early death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigu_(grain_avoidance) …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
> Daoist bigu practices created excuses to quit the agricultural-based Chinese society in which grains were necessary for basic food, ancestral sacrifices, and tax payments. TAX AVOIDANCE taoists invented libertarianism
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Replying to @danlistensto @The_Lagrangian
I mean, one member of the pantheon is Magu, "Auntie Hemp" who was said to heal and remain young by use of cannabis, which sounds pretty libertarian to mepic.twitter.com/MQmihsDfyN
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Replying to @theheathenjohn @The_Lagrangian
麻姑獻壽 (Magu Wishes You a Happy Birthday) image search keyword for the best pro Cannabis propaganda I've ever seen
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