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One Response to “Stoned Nordic God:”

1. esther
   July 18th, 2005 at 1:41 pm

   

   I sent this link out, my friend bethany responded to me:
   RE:

   i sent that to my brother last week and this was his response:

   first one:
   Not to be didactic, or educated, or even mildly intelligent but Thor would not have had any access to marijuana as it was (like chocolate, coffee, potatoes and tomatoes) a “new world” item. it probably missed him by 1500 years (or more–I’m not sure when God walked on earth in those days).

   next day:
   ok. i take MOST of that back. After some fact-checking, I iscovered that marijuana actually came from India (like uddhism, Hinduism, Yoga, 99% of all Eurasian languages, and delicious curries). The theory is that it was brought from India by the Jews (who used to eat the seeds) and then the Greeks and Romans. Still, its use as a medicinal plant was contained in India and the middle east until the 17th century, when it was being grown (and smoked) in America and the Caribbean, making its way back to Europe via the slave trading routes). In the age of Thor (approx. 500 AD)–while they might have used hemp for sails and clothing (though doubtful)–its use as a psychedelic agent is not indicated. In fact, northern Europeans would not make any significant contributions to technology and thought until many (many, many, many) centuries later. At this point it sufficed them to plan creative ways
   for defiling the women in enemy tribes.

   I wrote back to her: Dude, tell your brother that Thor was/is a GOD. Time and space mean little to him