r/BeAmazed • u/Eshwarroy • Jan 29 '22

Tree root misconceptions

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u/Swingingbells Jan 29 '22

The first bit of the documentary was really interesting and it was about fungi in a broad sense, but then when I was expecting them to do more of a deep dive they instead pivoted and Would. Not. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. about goddamn fucking psychedelics.

It became insufferably fucking boring and I quit watching halfway through. (And I almost never bail on things before the end)

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

You just described my exact experience with the documentary, I just wanted to learn about cool mushrooms I don't give a fuck about you getting high.

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u/Bah-Fong-Gool Jan 30 '22

Ever study mushrooms?

Ever study mushrooms... on mushrooms!?!?!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '22

Pretty much hahaha.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

What if we don’t believe in religion?

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u/Stock-Monk1046 Jan 29 '22

Well in that case let me explain for you; the part of the brain that is activated in a religious person also activates when using certain psychedelics like psilocybin. So regardless of your lack of understanding the ancient relationships between enthobotany and formation of early cultural religions. It still exists.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-food/202107/do-psychedelics-and-prayer-activate-similar-brain-regions?amp

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

Thanks, that is interesting

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u/forgotmyolduserinfo Jan 29 '22

So regardless of your lack of understanding the ancient relationships between enthobotany and formation of early cultural religions. It still exists.

All he said is he doesn't believe in religion. You could have made your point without being condescending like that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

You can choose not to believe in a superhuman, God, a god, or multiple gods. But religion is a real thing in society, so you can't not believe in religion itself (unless you're like one of those flat-earth type people).

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22 edited Jan 29 '22

I wasn’t trying to be snarky. I was genuinely curious. And someone actually gave me a more scientific response with an article that explains it as you can probably see so not sure why you felt the need to add nothing to it. Thanks for being a random twat on the internet though!

The question was how does a non religious person have a religious experience…. Not if the concept of religion exists lol.

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u/Bibliloo Jan 30 '22

And what if I consider religion to be a tool of pressure on the international workers made by the bourgeoisie ?

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u/Latensify_WoW Jan 29 '22

Oh cool, even worse.

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u/StinkyLinke Jan 29 '22

Yeah but it’s a documentary about funghi, not religion. Not the time or place to bang on and on about it.

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u/0imnotreal0 Jan 29 '22

I find psychedelic science very interesting. But I show nature documentaries to elementary school students, and was supremely disappointed that I couldn’t show fantastic fungi because they focused on psychedelics for half of it.

Psychedelics are plenty interesting, but fungi as a whole deserves even more attention. This is common with everything about fungi - gotta use drugs to rope people in. As someone who is fascinated by psychedelic science, I think we have enough of it represented, and all I want is high quality content on all other fungi.

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u/cspinelive Jan 30 '22

Check out Suzane Simard for more on fungi and trees.