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    American religious nutjobs handling their snakes in church.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post

    American religious nutjobs handling their snakes in church.

    That give me nightmares.. How could people be so stupid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    That give me nightmares.. How could people be so stupid?
    Kentucky.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post
    Kentucky.
    They used to have some snake handlers in Alabama and TN as well..

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    They used to have some snake handlers in Alabama and TN as well..
    Same disease of the mind.
    It's called Pentecostalism.

    The insanity seems to run in families throughout the south.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post
    Same disease of the mind.
    It's called Pentecostalism.

    The insanity seems to run in families throughout the south.
    Well. Its horrible.. Remember the snakes involved in the stories of Moses and the Exodus?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Well. Its horrible.. Remember the snakes involved in the stories of Moses and the Exodus?
    Pentecostals speak in tongues and drink poison during church services too.
    It's a special kind of religious insanity.
    The southern United States is riddled with it.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leonthecat View Post
    Pentecostals speak in tongues and drink poison during church services too.
    It's a special kind of religious insanity.
    The southern United States is riddled with it.
    Its male dominated, isn't it?.... and eat up with incest the way most closed systems are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Its male dominated, isn't it?.... and eat up with incest the way most closed systems are.
    It's all part of the insanity that is religion, that plagues the world.
    We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
    Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
    Ergo, religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    The tobacco is not burnt; it's offered whole.
    That doesn't seem proper to me. What if boyscouts come through, find it, and smoke it? You could be hit with a misdemeanor for buying tobacco for minors. Definitely bad joujou if you don't burn or kill something and there isn't a virgin and a volcano handy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    That doesn't seem proper to me. What if boyscouts come through, find it, and smoke it? You could be hit with a misdemeanor for buying tobacco for minors. Definitely bad joujou if you don't burn or kill something and there isn't a virgin and a volcano handy.
    Well, one of my other instructors brings sunflower seeds and gives those as an offering instead. I don't know if they are salted or not. Don't want to give Ajidamoo (Squirrel) hypertension.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    That give me nightmares.. How could people be so stupid?
    Poor snakes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    What has interested me is the prevalence of preexisting snake cults all over the ME, North Africa and the Indus Valley .. and along come the Hebrews and they cast Satan as a snake.. Its like dueling religions.
    All part of downgrading the other guys' beliefs in preparation for instilling your own. Christianity did the same thing as it spread throughout Europe. Pagans were devil-worshipers and witches; their deities were transformed into evil horned things. But since they (the Xtians) couldn't kill everyone, they incorporated many pagan ceremonies and celebrations into their own in order to convert them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Poor snakes.
    I spent a night with a snake handler at Best Western.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Well, one of my other instructors brings sunflower seeds and gives those as an offering instead. I don't know if they are salted or not. Don't want to give Ajidamoo (Squirrel) hypertension.
    We just had a tornado blow past us so maybe I need to be scattering some tobacco, sunflower seeds, beer, weed, and anything else.

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