When you die...

The atheist can see the psychological, emotional perversion of the religious. The atheist can see the silliness of their minds. The religious want so badly to have a sense of control, a sense of order which makes for a sense of security; so they will make up explanations that contain controlling ideas, comforting ideas, structure and comfort for a bunch of lost sheep. And that is what they are, lost sheep. The feelings of insecurity that we all can feel in this mysterious universe seem to make humans gravitate towards the perceived comfort religion offers. Then people end up in self delusion in order to keep buying into the weird things they are asked to believe by their religion.

It is silly, kind of pathetic.

That is why the above image is nice. It's a funny and cheerful way to look at the dismal reality described above.

If I were going to make up a story and brainwash myself into believing it I would choose the one that simply involves dying and seeing all your old dogs run towards you to say "hi". That is a nice idea.

And it's a hell of a lot nicer than ideas that involve holy wars, slavery, genocide, oppression of women, suppression of certain ethnicities, and really diabolical inventions for human suffering.

Photo from http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Feds to Stop Blowing Money Raiding Cannabis Gardens

Eventually the hemp plant will be restored back to it's respectable natural spot in the world. It won't be feared or hated, or abused forever. Humanity will eventually return to reason and clear thinking on this issue and begin to embrace the plants many wonderful benefits. The hemp plant has been grotesquely abused for a long time, since around the 1930's. But it's not the kind of abuse some might think of. Cannabis has been abused by law makers who have fought the plant out of American society and then consequently by the "bad guys" who manufacture and deal the weed in violent, trouble causing types of ways.

So if hemp is so great then why is it illegal? Why the war on drugs? Money was of course the original motive for the prohibition/abuse of marijuana. William Randolph Hearst (the guy portrayed in "Citizen Cane" was both a politician and a big newspaper, timber and paper industry man). Jack Herer and others believe he intentionally created the marijuana prohibition to better his business. Hemp was about to be a billion dollar plant and would have hurt Hearst's timber, paper and newspaper businesses. Read more in Herer's book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes". Essentially, the corrupt politicians and business men who fallaciously convinced an entire nation of people that the hemp plant is inherently evil and causes murder, rape and psychosis caused the U.S. to lose a resource that could have had amazing positive benefits on our society's social, psychological, economical, environmental health. It is really a shame.

Here's where the story starts to turn around...fast forward to the U.S. in the year 2009...we've just seen a hopeful sign in that direction with the U.S. Government stating that they have stopped all federal drug raids. Cue wild applause. Much credit goes to our President who is a reasonable enough man to make such a decision.

So full on legalization shouldn't be too far behind. Of course it will be a matter of years and will involve some hard work on the part of the activists but I think there are signs that it will happen much sooner than we had been imagining.

There are more and more public figures showing tolerance for, love for or just the occasional appreciation for cannabis.

Last week Martha Stewart did an entire episode on pot. It was their "pot show", complete with brownies, pot plants and lots of jokes and puns made about pot (the weed kind) as well as pots to cook in and plant in. Martha is kind of a cool lady.

I've heard she doesn't care what people think of her and boy am I glad to find out that she is a kindred spirit at least when it comes to the issue of MaryJane. Glad she is using her place to promote the responsible, healthy, adult use of marijuana.