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To: decimon

The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques, such as dance and music, to remove inhibitions and artificial societal constraints, liberating the individual to return to a more natural and primal state. It also afforded a degree of liberation for the marginals of Greek society: women, slaves and foreigners.


3 posted on 06/22/2010 6:11:40 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques, such as dance and music, to remove inhibitions and artificial societal constraints, liberating the individual to return to a more natural and primal state.

Today that's called 'lobbying.'

4 posted on 06/22/2010 6:18:45 PM PDT by decimon
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Animalizing.

Those restraints against murder and rape and such are definitely artificial in nature.


5 posted on 06/22/2010 6:29:20 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques, such as dance and music, to remove inhibitions and artificial societal constraints


13 posted on 06/22/2010 7:04:57 PM PDT by hellbender
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