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		dyauspitr 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civiliz... So if you take a lot of psychedelics you end up with a civilization that ritually murders 20,000 people every couple of months. Just imagine the power you could wield as a shaman with drugs like DMT and psilocybin it would look like a literal magic
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TFNA 1 day ago | [–]

Are you thinking of the Aztecs or Mayans thousands of kilometers away? Andean human sacrifice involved customs unable to provide that level of throughput.

wartywhoa23 12 hours ago | [–]

What kind of a psychedelic created a civilization that ritually murdered 80,000,000 people over the course of 6 years, or ~ 37,000 a day, in WWII?

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