Jesus was the first Hippy

Originally posted by whodey
Can you be a hippy and not do drugs?

As Wooly Bugger said: no.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,869489,00.html

Originally posted by whodey
Just as a side note, drug use might even help explain atheism.

By that logic all origional drug users were religious!

Originally posted by twhitehead
By that logic all origional drug users were religious!

Well if you look at religion's origins shamanism and paganism, then yes they were....

Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Well if you look at religion's origins shamanism and paganism, then yes they were....

Are you saying that there have been times when there were no athiests? Or that drug use only started when religions did?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Are you saying that there have been times when there were no athiests? Or that drug use only started when religions did?

I believe the sequence was first drugs, then religion, and only after certain religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) developed monotheism (the seeds of all human alienation--see Peter L. Burger, The Sacred Canopy--did atheism develop. Indeed, one reason for refusing the self-label of atheist stems from recognition that its origins are mired in opposition to, and therefore logical dependance upon monotheistic religion.

This look like a hippy to anyone?

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/story.jesushead.cnn.jpg

-JC

Originally posted by Churlant
This look like a hippy to anyone?

The essence of hippie is a matter of behavior and values, not appearance.


See Thread 44385

Originally posted by whodey
No. Just kidding around. What media interests do you have?

Suffice to say that I've done an anti substance-abuse ad for TV, although nothing as romantic as having Ozzy grunting on screen about the perils of too much goodness.

Originally posted by Wulebgr
I believe the sequence was first drugs, then religion, and only after certain religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) developed monotheism (the seeds of all human alienation--see Peter L. Burger, The Sacred Canopy--did atheism develop. Indeed, one reason for refusing the self-label of atheist stems from recognition that its origins are mired in opposition to, and therefore logical dependance upon monotheistic religion.

Actually atheism is not a religion but rather the abscence of religion and cannot 'develop'. Atheism is more a case of not believing in a God than specifically rejecting the belief. Before religion therefore everyone was athiest.