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Old 11-07-2005, 07:58 PM
imported_luckyme imported_luckyme is offline
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Default belligerent tribal societies

"Why do rain-forest societies tend to be peaceable and polytheistic, while desert dwellers (and their cultural descendants who dominate the planet) are belligerent and believe in one God?"

from a NYTimes review of- 'Monkeyluv': Primates Are People, Too by JAMIE SHREEVE

I hope this book has some good research behind it on this point. I thought many of those tribes had very high murder rates, does anyone know of a reliable data source?

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if I thought I was wrong, I'd change my mind,
... but I'd like a tad of proof first.
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Old 11-07-2005, 08:23 PM
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Default Re: belligerent tribal societies

There are plants with better hallucinogenic properties in the rain forest than in the desert.
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Old 11-07-2005, 08:51 PM
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Yeah, mescaline and hyosciamine-containing plants don't count.

Most naturalistic cultures employed the use of psychoactive substances for entheogenic purposes though not all contained tryptamine, phenethylamine, or other psychedelic/hallucigenic substances.
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Old 11-07-2005, 09:06 PM
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Yeah, mescaline and hyosciamine-containing plants don't count.

Most naturalistic cultures employed the use of psychoactive substances for entheogenic purposes though not all contained tryptamine, phenethylamine, or other psychedelic/hallucigenic substances.

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Gotta love an acid head with a Chem degree. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 11-07-2005, 09:07 PM
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Yep. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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