Does Marijuana impact your Soul?

Your pre-defined criteria assuming creation and some phenomenon called a soul precludes rational discussion of Cannabis' psychoactive properties.

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I believe the administration of this web form should decide if they think they need a "Religion and Weed" subforum, where one of the rules states that creationist dogma is accepted as fact and contrary viewpoints are not allowed.

Otherwise, you'll just have to argue with me, and we know how that's going to to end up.

 

I think the herb has a positive impact on the soul for most of us because it usually helps us get a more chilled out and happy/friendly state of mind.

Side note regarding "a 'Religion and Weed' subforum": I think this is in the religion subforum already.

 

Side note regarding full reading comprehension: My statement included a reference to certain rules being required for this discussion.

 

Which rules are you referring to?

J

 

Science is very important and has brought much good to mankind. That said, there is a lot that science doesn't understand and can't prove.

For example, spontaneous combustion (with humans)

We know it happens, just don't know why.

Whether it's God, UFO'S, Bigfoot; most humans think like this:

"If i haven't seen it, than it doesn't exist"

It's cool, I get it. I'm just way too open minded to limit myself; my learning, my experiences that way. Even traditional religion is too limiting to my spiritual awareness. I have achieved spiritual freedom along with my awakening.

But I certainly understand narrow minded people and how they perceive our material world. It's just kind of sad.



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Yes by smoking it you sell your soul to the devil and agree to suck his scaly pecker for all eternity

 

One could say it brings the idea of the soul into view. Not because it can't be experienced without it, but it helps to shift perspective and release what otherwise gets in the way of knowing we are more than a lump of meat.

 

a "soul" is one of the most dead concepts in religious belief. They can't even explain what it is besides "you"

We have studied many many cases of head trauma that has completely changed someone. Some people became religious, some completely lost any religious belief they previously had. Some don't remember who they were at all. Your brain activity is what makes you "you", there is no "soul". Once brain activity is gone, you ceases to be

they have re-created "near death experiences as well with the centrifuge tests. Blood drains from your brain and you black out, people wake up talking about seeing a bright light, walking behind themselves etc etc It wasn't their soul leaving, it was their brain panicking and its activity going crazy, if the blood would have never returned it would have been brain death

 

That's what makes it "the" core component to religion: Can't explain. Magical properties. Just gotta believe. What better way to conceptualize the inextricable, unquestionable tie between religious dogma and practice?

 

Well now. There are very few things we can really say for sure. But one thing that can be said for certain is that you exist. We'll leave aside what this 'you' idea might be for the moment. But you exist. No question. And existence has only one property...to exist. Existence can never become non-existence because non-existence doesn't exist. So if you exist you always will exist. The form existence takes can change of course, but existence exists. Period. Science says energy cannot be created or destroyed, it only changes form, so they are already in this ball park.

It's not necessary to define what existence actually is, only that it is. You are. I am. To decide anything else is just an assumption. So, while ideas of the soul, afterlife, near death experience, are just that for many, unless you experience these things and know for yourself, anything else is just the rest of us attempting to imagine what others have experienced and deciding something about it.

 

Right. There were many things that once seemed magical to man that are now understood and accepted as part of the natural world. So will these things at some point. Quantum theory is revealing much that ties in spirituality's ideas with the real world, but it is still the experience we have that best defines what 'real' actually is. In many ways nothing is real except our experience of it, and it is our experience that changes us, defines us.

people will argue til the cows come home about other people's beliefs. That's fine. Nobody has to convince anyone else about anything.

 

I disagree adamantly. Religion is a scourge that needs to be vanquished from the planet forever. If it happens naturally due to pure common sense over many years to come, that's fine. If it happens more quickly, with the Pope, his minions and leaders of every other sect the world over being denigrated, ostracized and abandoned wholesale, that's good too.

 

Not sure what you're disagreeing with exactly, but in any case, your answer is a little cynical.

I get what you're saying though, as there are many aspects of the way certain religions can be that would perhaps be better if they went. But religion is just a way for people to take a step towards something else, so getting too hung up over its failings just closes things down too much.

We are still quite primitive really, so I have a feeling this kind of religion will evolve into something realer. In many ways it is not religion's fault but man's control of it. Man is the issue. Maybe he needs to go.

 

And you think I am cynical?

 

What Soul?