Book of Revlations Explained

[quinn]

Does anyone else find that picture hideously ugly?

It's hard for me to look at those.

[bisonbison]

Does anyone else find that picture hideously ugly?

It's hard for me to look at those.

Paging Dr. Freud. Dr. Freud, please report to this thread.

[Johnny Drama]

[CORed]

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OP,

you sure you ate one of those? arnt those what the vikings ate before they went to raze a town or whatever? i thought they were pretty much deadly.

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Yes, it was one of those (or one that looked just like them). Amanita muscaria is what the Viking berserkers ar supposed to have eaten, but they are not deadly. Amanita phalloides, which is in the same genus, but looks nothing like Amanita muscaria, is deadly. Curiously, the psychoactive agent int Amanita muscaria is mostly passed unchanged by the kidneys. There is a tribe in Siberia that would get high from them and then save their urine so somebody else could drink it and get high. I don't think I would ever want to get high bad enough to try that trick, though.