Re: *Please* keep religous stuff Off-List! (was: Re: TI-H: BillGates is
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Re: *Please* keep religous stuff Off-List! (was: Re: TI-H: BillGates is the ...
that reminds me... did you know Sherlock Holms was an opiumatic? teck
teck... such a bad example
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????: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:01
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> In a message dated 1/9/2000 2:58:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> RoniBarrett@aol.com writes:
>
> << << wasnt the bible written by monks on opium 300 years after jesus
lived
> or
> something?
> >>
> The gospel was written from spoken accounts between 50 and 300 AD, and
the
> rest of the new testament trailed for several hundred more years. I think
it
> was at least 500 or 600 years before the apocalypse was written.
> >>
> But at the time, opium was not in major use in europe. the only widespread
> drug in europe and the holy land then was lotus blossom. (it contains
> niccotine and the stuff in cannabis... i dont remeber what its called...
and
> a few more things, has a horrible stench, and is smoked by burning the
> liquid sqeezed from the blossoms.)
>
> Jeff Barrett
>
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