Day 3 of my infiltration, they've accepted me as one of their own, they're nun the wiser
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Phrasing should be “I don’t think this is my order, much less my species.”
Perfect.
I hate this because "species" is more specific than "order". It should have been, eg, "...not even my phylum!" (Because "class" would be confusing and not funny, and "phylum" is still accurate in all respects while being a funny word.)
Just smile and wave!
Looks like Windows Subsystem for Linux 😅
Meta: I, a Linux using Atheist, sharing this meme with Catholic in-laws as we return from Mass (I go because it's relaxing when high AF)
If it's relaxing, I think you're doing it wrong. Which, more power to you.
I think you’re doing it wrong
When I said high AF I wasn't kidding. I am doing it right because combining that many edibles and just the right amount of shroom is a ficking science
Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I'd think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.
Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.
We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king's epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that... In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.
Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot instead of actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren't like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.
We make medicine on a full moon and basically it's more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It's a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.
Like I said, it's all about the aesthetic, not much else...
Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can't have access to this plant
Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine's knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.
Smokig pot certainly don't substitute an cancer treatment, but is very effective against the secondary effects of the treatment, better as some pharmas which add other negative secondary effects. The Pharma industry often don't do other things as release syntezised components of Plants. Over 3000 years ago, a medicine used by egyptians and other, was an tea made with willow bark and vinager. The active component was acetylsalicylic acid, today known as Aspirin, maybe the oldes known, still used medicine. Plants often contain powerfull substances which can heal but even also kill you. THC is good to soothe pain, eliminate discomfort and vomiting, stimulate appetite, normalise blood pressure and other effects that neutralise the unpleasant side effects of cancer treatments.
Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.
It's not about that plant extract are not effective, the only drawback to use medicine with plants is the dosage which may be very variable, depending on the harvest time. But this is mostly only relevant in very toxic substances. That people live longer as in the past is a myth, because it always depended on the life standart of the person. In feudal times the normal people with a bad alimentation and hard work in dangerous times, naturally didn't get old. But between the elite ages over 80 years are not so strange. Other influence are also the high quote of the death of newborns, also the advances in the medical treatments are important, less the medicines used. Even today eg.miners in coal mines often do not even reach retirement age, also those who live a life of stress and worries, with poor quality food, can have a heart attack at 40. Allergies, diabetes, circulatory problems, morbid obesity, some cancer, are mostly caused by the excess of additives in food, observed especially in the USA, where it is very common for the industry to disguise poor quality and contents with additives and chemicals that are banned in most other countries.
Me every time I go out in public.