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originally posted by: Caled
Just a joke to pass the time.
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: Flesh699
We have been warned
We have been prepared
We have launch
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
My candle is in the window for every patriot. The rest can die like dogs for all I care. They don't deserve sh*t, not one single protection provided by the Constitution. If there really was justice everyone who screwed us would be on the street on the 20th, crawling on their bellies like the snakes they are, eating out of dumpsters, sneered at and kicked by the honest.
To the cowards, go F yourselves.
To the Patriots, We the People,
MERRY F'ING CHRISTMAS
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Sabrechucker
Santa Claus wears a red suit, he's a communist.
Has long hair and a beard, must be a pacifist.
And what's in the pipe that he's smoking?
Reindeer are common in Siberia and northern Europe, and seek out these hallucinogenic fungi, as the area's human inhabitants have also been known to do. Donald Pfister, a Harvard University biologist who studies fungi, suggests that Siberian tribesmen who ingested fly agaric may have hallucinated that the grazing reindeer were flying.
"At first glance, one thinks it's ridiculous, but it's not," said Carl Ruck, a professor of classics at Boston University. "Whoever heard of reindeer flying? I think it's becoming general knowledge that Santa is taking a 'trip' with his reindeer."
These shamans "also have a tradition of dressing up like the [mushroom] … they dress up in red suits with white spots," Ruck said
Tree ornaments shaped like Amanita mushrooms and other depictions of the fungi are also prevalent in Christmas decorations throughout the world, particularly in Scandinavia and northern Europe, Pfister pointed out. That said, Pfister made it clear that the connection between modern-day Christmas and the ancestral practice of eating mushrooms is a coincidence, and he doesn't know about any direct link.
Many of the modern details of the modern-day American Santa Claus come from the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). The poem is credited to Clement Clarke Moore, an aristocratic academic who lived in New York City.
The origins of Moore's vision are unclear, although Arthur, Rush and Ruck all think the poet probably drew from northern European motifs that derive from Siberian or Arctic shamanic traditions. At the very least, Arthur wrote, Santa's sleigh and reindeer are probably references to various related northern European mythology. For example, the Norse god Thor (known in German as Donner) flew in a chariot drawn by two goats, which have been replaced in the modern retelling by Santa's reindeer, Arthur wrote.
Reindeer, which aren't usually known to fly.
Reindeer, which aren't usually known to fly. (Image credit: Stockxpert)
Other historians were unaware of a connection between Santa and shamans or magic mushrooms, including Stephen Nissenbaum, who wrote a book about the origins of Christmas traditions, and Penne Restad, of the University of Texas at Austin
Reindeer go to great lengths to seek out the hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) and eating the fungi makes them behave drunkenly, run about aimlessly and make strange noises. Head twitching is also common.
Fly agaric mushrooms have long been used by man for their psychotropic properties but can be toxic. Reindeer can eat them without harm and having observed their effects on their livestock, reindeer herders in Europe and Asia have long collected reindeer urine as a safer way of taking this hallucinogen.
The wider animal world has its junkies too, with horses and other grazing mammals on the prairies of South-West America becoming addicted to hallucinogen-containing plants known generically as locoweed, especially species of Astragalus and Oxytropis. Those that try them come back time and again for a repeat fix and symptoms include altered gait, impaired vision and erratic behaviour.
originally posted by: Guiltyguitarist
a reply to: Trillium
Nitrous oxide doesn’t put you to sleep. The conspiracy is deeper than this guy knows. He just told the world his source is a liar and he didn’t even realize it.