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Consecration and Shaktipat

ברוך אתה יהוה אלוהינו מלך העולם בורא קנה־בשם העץ חיים

Blessed are you who are God sovereign of the universe who makes cannabis the tree of life

Who is the master who makes the grass green

יהוהשוע

IA HU VE HA SHI VA

I am who is the God within

יהוהשוע

IA HU VE HA SHI VA

I am the eternal One

Before Abraham was, I AM

שכינה שוע

Shekinah Shiva

שכתי שוע

Shakti Shiva

שוע שכתי

Shiva Shakti

אם שנתי שנתי שנתי

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

שלום

Shalom

What does an Anti-Christ sound like?

Marijuana and the Catholic church

According to The Catholic Warrior, this is their position:

First of all, marijuana is a mind altering drug and will put one into intoxication always when using it. That is an important point, because that distinguishes marijuana from something like beer which can be used without becoming intoxicated. Marijuana however you will always become intoxicated from.

As Christians we can find in the Bible in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.” Drunkenness in intoxication can be achieved through alcohol or other drugs. The Bible is saying here that those people who engage in drunkenness will not enter Heaven. This makes a very clear statement that marijuana can not be compatible with a Christian as marijuana can never be used without abuse.

So there you have it. He just defined “drunkards” as people who use cannabis. People who use beer — and get drunk — they are something else.

This is not my church. I do not recognize it.

WWJD?

Judge the tree by the fruit.

Listen.

Cannabis is medicine.

Ecumenical call to end “war on drugs”

h/t Pete Guither.

Eleven score and one year later, in the city of brotherly love

We are all actually

Most Illuminated Being, Saint Robert Anton Wilson

For old lasagna

and for Bob.

Cannablog wins award

Thanks to Monkeyfister for awarding this blog a 2007 Golden Monkeyfist — The Golden Bongload Brotherhood (with blonde hash globules). Please also visit these other fine winners:

• Undeniable Liberal — The Silver Sailor’s Tongue award (with double barb cluster);
• Mahablog — The Eloquent Shiva award;
• Arthur Silber — The Silver Shiv award;
• The Command Post — The Bravo Zulu;
• Down With Tyranny — The Bolivar award (with populist cluster);
• The Newshoggers — The Mighty Quill award;
• Pax Americana — The Mighty Sparrow award;
• Tennessee Guerrilla Women — The Golden Volunteer award (enriched with uteri power);
• Pygalgia — The Amber Brew (with excellent head) award;
• Demeur — The Golden Respirator (with upgraded carbon filters);
• Your Right Hand Thief — The Delta Prime award (with hopeful clusters);
• Whiskey Fire — The Jameson award (with ever-full silver tap);
• Survival Acres — The Unsung award; and
• Blue Girl, Red State — The True Golden Monkeyfist.

For the last several days we have been discussing among ourselves the selection of an Au Peer winner. Monkeyfister should be making an announcement shortly if he has not already.

Update: and the winner of the 2007 Au Peer:

Happy New Year!

Unite or coexist; we are all one consciousness

Merry frakkin’ Christmas

h/t Driftglass and

Nowell.

Nowell

h/t Monkeyfister.

Namasté

Pull the trigger

Then go watch History Repeating.

Posthumous economics

Let’s kick this off right

Saturday, October 27 — End the War

oct27.org

I wonder why your lighter’s not working

How high?

What kind of Christian are you (if you claim to be one)?

Ellroon @ Rants from the Rookery:

Look carefully at what you have become. You are endangering the life of a 12 year old boy.

You say you are good Christians? What Christian would support and encourage torture? What Christian celebrates war? Mocks injured children, soldiers and worse yet, belittles the wounded? What Christian declares intolerance to other beliefs a Christian ideal? What Bible are you reading from? This is not the Christianity I recognize.

And what kind of patriot are you?

You say you are patriots? What patriot hates his fellow citizens and demands the country change to fit his specific ideals? What patriot declares that this nation built on the dreams of immigrants should deny all other immigrants the chance to come here? What patriot states that diversity is a weakness not a strength?

Much more, read on…

A musical offering and other observations

[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/17137793/view]

NTodd is wicked smart.

Give me a sign

(h/t Buck Batard @ Bad Attitudes)

If you don’t know / whose signs these are / You haven’t driven / very far

The incomparable Barbara O’Brien @ The Mahablog:

The Tao Teh Ching says nothing is softer or weaker than water, yet water wears down what is hard and strong. Whatever happens in the next few days, the monks of Burma will, eventually, prevail.

Civilian speaking.

BadTux the Snarky Penguin @ Mockingbird’s Medley compares Adolf Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

Okay, so unlike Hitler, Ahmadinejad hasn’t invaded anybody. Indeed, he *can’t* invade anybody — the Supreme Ruler (Ayatollah Khamanei) is head of the Iranian armed forces and has sole power to declare war, the President of Iran only has power over limited internal affairs. So unlike Hitler he doesn’t have any armies under his control. Ahmadinejad hasn’t exterminated any Jews either, indeed there are Jewish members of the Iranian parliament. And because he has no power to declare war under Iran’s constitution, obviously he hasn’t declared war against anybody. But… but…Ahmadinejad has SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT ISRAEL! And saying bad things about Israel MAKES BABY JESUS CRY! WAHHH!!!! So *obviously* he’s Hitler. Despite having no armies. Despite invading nobody. Despite exterminating nobody. Saying bad things about Israel is WORSE than all that, because saying bad things about Israel, like, HURTS THEIR FEELINGS! SOB!

As an ethnically Jewish American, I want Israel to seek peace. I want America to seek peace. I want all nations to seek peace, and to speak together peacefully.

What Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks about Israeli politics is his opinion. His opinion of America as a bully would not be disabused by invading his country.

There is no casus belli in Iran. It would be a war crime to invade. Now is the time that members of our armed forces must recognize that an invasion of Iran cannot be considered a defensive act, and refuse illegal orders.

Update: Charles @ Mercury Rising has more thoughts worth reading.

Related post:

• I will not go to war with Iran.

Kaneh Bos, Etz Chaim

God has nine million seven billion uncountably many names

Yahweh is an aspect, and Jesus is another. Allah is a name for God.

Namasté.

Baruch Atah Adonai Elohenu Melech Ha-Olam, creator of cannabis, the tree of life.

Sh’ma Yisrael Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echad.

(h/t Phydeaux Speaks for the video)

Mary-Kate Olsen is all grown up

I’m happy.

Related post:

• Because women don’t smoke pot, part 2

We all are saying

Women are not lesser beings to men.

BBC News (hat-tip Lindsay Beyerstein @ Majikthise, via William K. Wolfrum @ Shakesville):

The decision in April by Amnesty’s executive committee to support access to abortion for women in cases of rape, incest or violence, or where the pregnancy jeopardises a mother’s life or health was greeted with an outcry by churches.

Roman Catholic leaders in particular accused Amnesty of betraying its commitment to human rights, and a senior Vatican official called on Catholics to stop funding it.

Related posts:

• Medical procedures save lives.
• a few days late

No real than you are

Reuters has video.

Chickenings writes:

Seems like it is an actual thing:
http://www.egoleonard.com/

And just on the off-chance your Dutch isn’t quite fluent just yet, here’s a bit of what it says…

“My name is Ego Leonard and I greet you from the virtual world. A world which for me stands for luck, solidarity, everything green and blooming, and without rules and restrictions. Recently, my world has been flooded with luck-seekers and those who want power. Many new meetings in my virtual world have left me very curious as to your surroundings. I am here because I thought of your world and wanted to discover and understand it. Show me all of those beautiful things which your world has to offer. Be my friend, and tell me tales, take me on your travels to beautiful landscapes, show me your words and gestures.”

Hat-tip Doug Stych, who is now proud to be called a liberal though I don’t think he’s a parasite.

Exodus

We, the people here, don’t want a war.

Hat-tip Len Hart.

Nuclear weapons should never be used.

Hillary Clinton’s insistence on maintaining official silence might be to impress upon some adversary the fear that we might use them. The truth is, no one knows because the button goes to whomever it goes.

Even if we survive this administration and elect a Democratic candidate, there is no guarantee against a George Bush III in the future. Just as we have been cautioning Republicans that they should not give Bush II powers they wouldn’t want Clinton II to have, we should allow for the possibility, and cease this nonsense.

If America uses a nuclear weapon against anyone ever again, there will cease to be America. We will be torn apart inside and out; there would be no shelter from the storm. We cannot use these things. Let’s turn them to some peaceful purpose.

Update: Sifu Tweety Fish @ The Poor Man Institute has more.

The national motto of the United States of America:

Who did you say was the supreme authority of the Christian faith?

Hat-tip Blue Gal.

There is no time. We are here now.

Moonbat @ The Mahablog:

It’s my belief that out of the ashes of the destruction of the current order, a new human race is being born, one whose level of consciousness will be quite different from what created the current order based on fear, which is the basis for the ego. In another hundred or two hundred years, there are going to be a lot of enlightened people on this planet.

I personally believe George W Bush is unconscious and seriously deluded. He thinks he is doing the will of his Father in Heaven (truly a frightening thought given W’s narcissistic, sociopathic personality). However, consider that perhaps God / the universe / life itself really is using W, by forcing us, in a manner similar to Eckhart Tolle’s pressured awakening, to wake up. Childhood is ending, whether we want it to or not.

To the honorable men and women of the United States armed forces:

Do not follow illegal orders.

Who is like God?

Namasté.

“Your Liberal Breed: Peace Patroller”

“You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.”

What breed of liberal are you?

The one question I had difficulty answering was #7. I tried not answering that one and it asked if I own a Prius. (I don’t.) But the truth is I wouldn’t force anyone, so I figured E. was the most likely group to consent willingly.

Hat-tip Phydeaux.

Show the girl some respect.

Click the pic.

Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful

A moment of Grace.

What if God smoked cannabis?

Related posts:

• Judge the tree by the fruit
• For the want of a reply…

Still the best writer on these internet tubes

driftglass.

One world

Ron Paul for peace

Hat-tip Pam Hartka at PoliticsTV.

Related post:

• Ron Paul for the Republican nomination

Late show

This is a six part series, one episode per day.

Previous episode:

• Episode five.

This is episode six.

Late show

This is a six part series, one episode per day.

Previous episode:

• Episode four.

This is episode five.

San Francisco

Even “reasonable conservatives” forget the first half of the second amendment

Jon Swift has an idea:

It is the Second Amendment that makes our country free. A Global Second Amendment would make the world free. Nuclear proliferation could be the key to making the world safe for democratic proliferation.

We’d have to accept a Nuclear Regulatory Body, being necessary to the security of a free World.

Related posts:

• RKBA:
• Regulate the militia.

Late show

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Previous episode:

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