Drugs may bring on Anti-Mormon thought process?

[_sunstoned]

Disagree? Agree? Any Examples?

Just a thought.

I have heard that education also has the same effect.

[_Pollypinks]

How many Mormons out there take anti depressants? How many Mormons out there are hooked on pain killers? How many Mormons are hooked on uppers, or downers? The same statistics apply to Mormons as to other groups, if not more so, because of the stress factor. So yes, drug use is a factor.

[_Tarski]

Disagree? Agree? Any Examples?

Just a thought.

I think you are talking about psychedelic drugs rather than say heroin or crack or something.

In this case I agree that such drugs can cause one to question ones assumptions and seem to mess with one ability to supress doubts about our beliefs and face up to what we are really feeling down deep.

As for an example, when I was only 14 years old I tried a rather large dose (one of many actually) of LSD. One of the first things that happened was that I had a sudden realization that I actually believed in evolution and in fact it seemed undeniable--I had never admitted this to myself up to that point. In this intoxicated state it came to me like a briliant flash and I remember having the whole process play sort of play out in my mind's eye as if I were having some sort of great vision--I could somehow feel it like an immense squirm. For a momment the boundaries between myself and the whole biosphere seemed to disappear. I could feel it as directly as one feels ones guts when overtaken by an intestinal sickness.

It had an effect on my self image (my answer to the question "what am I?"). For the first time my own animal nature was more than an abstract fact but something that I now felt in a viceral way. Humans suddenly really looked like a species of ape to me. There was even a certain alternating sense of hilarity and disgust to the revelation. It was as if I were no longer habituated to being a human and I saw in the human form an odd and highly contingient lump of adaptation to this big "ball of rock, slim and mud" we call our home. The notion that God was a super mammal/primate seemed patently absurd and that feeling has stayed with me over the years during which time I fleshed out in more rational terms what I thought made it absurd.

Needless to say, my testimony took a hit. The simple minded idea that I drove away the spirit just doesn't cut it.

[_Pollypinks]

I only did acid twice in my teens, and had bad experiences both times. Yes yes, I'm a slow learner. But most teens are. Mescaline, peyote, hash, and weed, good experiences. I think really high strung people could benefit of an evening with a little pot.