{"id":956,"date":"2008-03-07T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/this-makes-too-much-sense\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T14:22:25","slug":"this-makes-too-much-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/this-makes-too-much-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"This Makes Too Much Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/mosesbush.jpg\" alt=\"A stoned Moses believes a burning bush is talking to him, and it's not just anyone, it's god talking to him\" \/><br \/><small>Image Credit: LDS Church (Australia)<\/small><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRecently, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, <a href=\"https:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gEOpkeLopJixolK1-9AQ_zNeWe5g\" target=\"_blank\" >advanced a theory that Moses was high<\/a> when he received the 10 commandments from god on Mount Sinai. In fact, I think many of the myths recorded in the bible make much more sense when filtered through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106677\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Dazed and Confused<\/a>. It certainly paints a different picture of ancient life when we actually humanize the characters involved and make them party to the same failings witnessed by society today.<\/p>\n<p>If the human race survives another five thousand years, it will be fascinating to know if some crack-head standing on a street corner in San Francisco could be viewed as a prophet and even messiah in retrospect. Kind of puts all this nonsense in perspective doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit: LDS Church (Australia) Recently, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advanced a theory that Moses was high when he received the 10 commandments from god on Mount Sinai. In fact, I think many of the myths recorded in the bible make much more sense when filtered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}