Cannabis and religion

Religion and Secularism
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It’s exposing the children, that desensitizes them and confuses them

What are you talking about , there are only two genders, check chromosomes, xx or xy, that’s it, claiming something else is pure ignorance and complacency

 

Being transgender is a mental illness which is now accepted because of how the LGBTQPDFHJKLZXCVNMM So called loving community is pushed down everyone’s throat giving them rights over others they don’t even deserve

 

A teenager can choose to cut off his penis in Canada without his parents consent and they can be taken by the government should the parents refuse, all thanks to weak people like you and their progressive view, I’m sure you are down with abortion too, am I right?

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I might have to stop reading this thread because it will make me cry. I dealt with misunderstandings about sexual identity 40 years ago and then had this naive notion that the rest of the world would learn the same things I did. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like algebra, that thing that the Muslims gave us. The culture that came to dominate the world’s economy did not include people who did not fit into the simple binary system. Other cultures have handled this quite naturally for thousands of years, but never mind, go to sleep, listen to the misogynistic advertisements, “be a man”, don’t question what someone said a thousand years ago because their ancestors gave them all the land and all the good real estate in the cities to build their shiny buildings on. Phil thinks he has found some counter culture with his smoking, but for some, it’s just another way to control people. That’s the sad part. Every generation has to spend some time thinking they know everything before they get wise enough to realize there are many good ideas out there, and the hard work is sorting them out, not just picking one and fighting for it.

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“Sex” and “gender” aren’t the same.

The chromosomes (xx or xy) determine sex. But like a dozen factors determine gender.

Even the chromosome (sex) determination isn’t as simple as you make it. About 1% of people (which is actually lots of people in sheer numbers) are born with physical characteristics (genitalia) that are ambiguous (can’t be clearly defined as male or female).

As recently as a year ago, I didn’t understand transgender myself. Then I read up on it. It is actually possible to change one’s views by learning.

Am I “down with” abortion? Actually, no. But I’m not “down with” banning it in the US, because absolutely every study and example that exists shows banning abortions does not prevent women from seeking them, it only adds to the number of fatalities. I am in favor of programs that help women and families in the hopes that fewer women will seek abortions.

 

BTW, if Jesus Christ is so important to you, why do you not mention your own faith anywhere? Not even among the things you love on your blog … teaching, traveling and above all, weed. Jesus isn’t even in your top 3? If you want to save people from hell, why aren’t you making your blog a vehicle for that AND pot?

 

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@Lausten

Yes, this thread has been disturbing for many reasons. @420SOS is almost such a perfect stereotype, he could be a caricature created by an atheist to show what’s wrong with modern Christianity.

SOS is all about “cheap grace.” In his mind, he is “saved,” Because Jesus … yay! … and he can sin all he wants (he did refer to “being a sinner” when I brought up his obsession with marijuana, so he does connect the two).

Of course, using illegal drugs is something most Christian churches oppose. But he has found his own mental niche, while at the same time he would condemn LGBT Christians as “fake Christians” because of THEIR “sin.” (Which, unlike using pot, is not a choice.)

He admits on his blog and elsewhere he has used pot daily since age 15. His wonderful faith has not, apparently, been enough for him, as he needs to be high, too, literally every day. Weed is literally the most important thing in his life.

But!! Because Jesus (even though he doesn’t comprehend the most basic facts about Christianity) he is going to heaven, while the rest of us are going to hell.

Or, maybe he isn’t going to heaven. He suggests this possibility. But apparently, it isn’t keeping him up at night. I am sure the pot helps.

 

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What a bunch of lies, xx and xy, that’s it, that’s gender anything else is suggested choice or prefernce there can be exceptions but not to the point it is normal and common, you are down with abortion, you just go around it to justify it, that’s the lamest excuse, for that matter pedophilia, cocaine and heroin shouldnt be banned either

I didn’t want to write anything about religion in my blog, why do you care ?for all you know I’m not even a writer, nor a man ? next time I’ll run it by you so you can approve of it pfff what weak pathetic attempts to find something on me

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why do you care ?
For exactly all the things you are opposing in this thread. People have been hurt by religion. I don't mean just their feelings. Look up Stonewall or witch burnings. I care for the same reason I care what opposition political parties are doing. I know they don't think they are harming people with their ideas, but ideas lead to actions.
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Lausten by no means I’m trying to hurt anyone, I understand there can be certain exceptions but that is definitely not the norm, should we accept? Yes but the agenda that’s been pushed so much by your same community which now has to be accepted no matter what and if you dare say something you are mysoginous and discriminating, you say love is love but you don’t mean it, it’s more like Love is Love as long it aligns with your train of thought, true Christians do love everyone, they only want them to repent from their sins. Those who profess to hate them are not Christians, and btw disagreeing with someone does not mean you hate them as most gay people take it.

Sorry if it may have made you uncomfortable

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This is mind-blowing. We have someone here who is so emotionally unstable, he has needed to get high every day for years…and for whom religion is so unimportant, he doesn’t care to mention it at all on his blog.

And yet, he sees himself as good with God, while the people he condemns, LGBT, are bad with God.

The irony and hypocrisy literally burn…which is even more ironic.

Dude: YOUR BELIEFS HURT PEOPLE.

Everything the Nazis did to the Jews, Catholics and LGBT people, they did because of the very same things you believe in.

You are the picture of what’s wrong with Christianity.

 

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That’s very convenient T, you believe some of the things I say but you don’t believe others, that’s convenient

And stop claiming I said stuff I didn’t it’s pathetic, I never said I can sin all I want, what is wrong with you is everything ok at home? I don’t think so though

Lady you confused Christianity with Catholicism how much more lost could you be? I don’t need to make up stuff about you you started making a pathetic case from the moment you started making false claims about me and didn’t even own to it until you found a lame rebuttle

I don’t have to justify to anyone let alone someone with no spine

Do you want my social security number too? ???

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“I’m cannasexual, it’s not a choice, I was born this way and you need to make special bathrooms for me smoke in and implement cannabis harvesting classes in all schools, I believe that and you must accept it”

That’s exactly how you sound

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“I’m cannasexual, it’s not a choice, I was born this way and you need to make special bathrooms for me smoke in and implement cannabis harvesting classes in all schools, I believe that and you must accept it”

That’s exactly how you sound


Besides the other logical fallacies in the post prior, this is not how anyone sounds. You have this simple idea of finding something that’s true and then finding justification for it. It doesn’t work that way. Being born with traits that are traditionally considered male and female is something that actually happens. Since you’ve already stated that you don’t have to justify to anyone, there is no point in discussing how I arrived at my conclusion, but I used agreed upon methods, not the thing you’re doing, whatever it is.

There is no biological need to alter your mind and become less productive and less mentally capable on a daily basis. Yes, we have urges to eat salt and sugar and calm ourselves in various ways, but too much of those things are bad for our health, which is something all of us have to deal with. Again, complicated, don’t expect you to care, because you’ve told us you don’t care. Jesus did not teach you that, by the way. Loving your neighbor means you are aware enough to help them when they need it.

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Oh, dear.

That’s very convenient T, you believe some of the things I say but you don’t believe others, that’s convenient
What I believe has not been "convenient" for me at all. Like many, many former Christians, my loss of faith triggered massive loss and ripped apart my entire life.

That is the irony here … my faith was THE most important thing in my life, for decades. And this seems to be true MUCH of the time … so often, it is the Christians who really cared, who really immersed themselves in the faith, who wind up losing it.

The moral of the story: Don’t think too hard.

 

I never said I can sin all I want
 

Not in so many words. You seemed to suggest, when I brought up the pot thing, that it is a sin.

If you don’t believe that, fine.

If you do, then you are no different from someone who believes promiscuity is a sin but works in the porn industry.

 

Lady you confused Christianity with Catholicism how much more lost could you be?
Anyone who knows anything at all about the history of Christianity and Christian theology knows that the Christian church was one body that divided into Orthodox and Catholic in 1052, and that Protestantism broke off from Catholocism in the 1500s.

Your belief is a fringe belief, taught by a small minority of Christians. It is historically inaccurate and, frankly, ridiculous.

It is like saying the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution weren’t real Anericans.

Do you want my social security number too?
Nope. Anything I would do with it would be illegal, and unlike you I try not to break the law.

Cheap, cheap, cheap grace.

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There is no biological need to alter your mind and become less productive and less mentally capable on a daily basis.
There should not be a spiritual need, either.

He is the guy who said peace can only be found through God. Yet he hasn’t had a day without THC in years … and he doesn’t see the irony.

Wow.

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I'm cannasexual, it's not a choice, I was born this way and you need to make special bathrooms for me smoke in and implement cannabis harvesting classes in all schools, I believe that and you must accept it
Actually, I'm surprised SOS ISN'T saying this! ?
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What on Earth are you talking about? That’s exactly how you guys sound, EXACTLYT

Truth needs to be justified for those incapable of understanding

Tell that to musicians and artists, I’m sure you like some cannabis consumers

And yes, Jesus did teach that, why do you think he’s gonna take all unrepenting sinners to hell? Love your neighbor but if they refuse and blatantly go against scripture what do you think is gonna happen? Acceptance???

Read the whole Bible, not bits taken out of context if you want to talk about what Jesus said

 

 

 

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I guarantee @Lausten and I are more familiar with the Bible than you.

I have asked a couple times, though, and will ask again… Why have you been high every day for years, if you have God?

Sad? Stress? Heartbroken? Depression? Lonely? Anxiety? Or even Ugly? Whatever it is I believe a big joint will always put a smile on your face ?
This is you. This does not sound like someone who has found peace in Jesus.

Why are you afraid to face the world without dope?

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T I learned from watching you guys all over the news and the media, thanks to you now people can believe they are horses haha see how ridiculous you look, I’m just doing what you guys do everywhere

Recreational/medical Cannabis is legal in Canada, where it is also legal to chop off a minors penis ifhe wishes too so you can’t say nothing about it. Chopping off a child’s penis is illegal around here, even if he really really really pretty please wants it so basen on your logic, you support a crime too

 

Again believing conveniently what I say??? this is actually fun thank you for believing so much in me

I think I will make a new post soon, hopefully I’ll be able to add a comment section just for you to validate me

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T Who says I still do those things?d you check the date? But maybe I do, maybe even more, maybe I’m an undercover priest, who cares, you already made your mind up so… I’ll leave it at that, make it more intriguing , you seem to want to know a whole lot about me, lost your chance hope you have fun thinking about me and what I may or may not do and how you could use it against me ???

Hope you turn to Jesus again, unless you were Catholic, then you can really turn to Jesus for the first time and be saved.

Not that I have, or have i?

???

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Ugly! ??? Can’t stop laughing, makes sense but had never seen it so simplistically put and cracked me up!

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LOL, trust me… After this I won’t be looking you up. It’s just this cheap grace thing is a bug up my butt … I’ll admit it.

Not that YOU care, but for anyone who does:

The term “cheap grace” can be traced back to a book written by German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, called The Cost of Discipleship, published in 1937. In that book, Bonhoeffer defined “cheap grace” as “the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.” ... The emphasis is on the benefits of Christianity without the costs involved; hence, the adjective cheap to describe it.

The idea of carnal Christianity essentially teaches that as long as one makes a profession of faith in Christ, he or she is saved (Romans 10:9), even if there is no immediate obedience to the commands of Jesus and the apostles to live a life of holiness. It is the idea that we can have Jesus as Savior, but not necessarily as Lord.

~ S. Michael HoudmannBA, Biblical Studies, Calvary University; M Div, Christian Theology, Calvary Theological Seminary


Nope. I was never Catholic. I told you what I was.

And…

Ugly! Can’t stop laughing, makes sense but had never seen it so simplistically put and cracked me up!
Wait... do you mean this???
Sad? Stress? Heartbroken? Depression? Lonely? Anxiety? Or even Ugly? Whatever it is I believe a big joint will always put a smile on your face ?
 

YOU WROTE THIS.

You posted it on FB fairly recently.

OMG. Your memory. The dope.

Wow.