QUOTE(waterjet @ Dec 15 2004, 02:35 PM)
It amazes me how much is made of the book of Revelations. Could it not simply be the writer was high on ergot ? Smoke some salvia or eat some peyote and you too can see great winged creatures and weird little beasties. I wonder what those that really believe this end times stuff think about other cultures sacred writings. Should they not be given the same level of acceptance ? Why not?
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Before I gave my life fully to Christ I used to be a drug addict. I have done Magic Mushrooms well over 600 times, and LSD at least 150 times. I have smoked so much pot I could even begin to know how much it has been in total. I have had slavia that took me to another dimension. I have tried drugs you probably haven't ever heard of like LSA, 2-cb, 2-ct7, Dextromethorphan, and Dipenhydramine, to name a few. I have abused Codine, Cocaine heavily, Crack, and even smoked heroin a few times. I've stayed up for weeks on Crystal Meth. I've done Ecstacy at least 40 times. I've tried peyote, and the derivative mescalin. I've even huffed gasses. I used to drink a mickey of whiskey a day at least. I did so many drugs I couldn't support myself properly, and often chose food over drugs. And I used to mix them all too. I used to combine them for different effects. It was my hobby. It was my art. It was my science. It was my LIFE. I did so many drugs I'm lucky to still be alive, and I am deadly seriously about this. I ended up in the hospital more than once. And I can assure you, drugs are not the way to God. They are not the path to God. And they will not show you God. Trust me, I thought I saw God on many occasions. I even thought I talked to him. But it was all deceptions.
I couldn't quit. No matter how I tried, I couldn't quit. No matter how I wanted to, and believe me, I wanted to, I couldn't quit. i went to Rehab 3 times. I went to alcoholics anonymous. I tried it all. And the only thing that worked, and I mean the ONLY thing that worked was having God come into my life. Infact, you could say that I would be dead right now if it wasn't for him. Either that, or I would be in jail, or living on the streets. Now I have been blessed with wealth, a house, and everything I need. And none of it could have happened without divine intervetion.
I don't know of you know what it is like to be addicted to drugs. You prbably don't. But lests just say i was to the point of criminal activity, even stealing from my best friends, just so I could get my next hookup. Nothing was going to stop it. I was to the point where I would inject cocaine while I was at WORK!
God, and God alone got me out of it all. Now, tell me that he doesn't exist. I'm living proof.