Gerin oil

[cerealkiller]

Gerin Oil (or Geriniol, to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug that acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of symptoms, often of an antisocial or self-damaging nature. It can permanently modify the child brain to produce adult disorders, including dangerous delusions that are hard to treat. The four doomed flights of September 11, 2001, were Gerin Oil trips: all nineteen of the hijackers were high on the drug at the time. Historically, Geriniolism was responsible for atrocities such as the Salem witch hunts and the massacres of native South Americans by Conquistadores. Gerin Oil fuelled most of the wars of the European Middle Ages and, in more recent times, the carnage that attended the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent and of Ireland.

Gerin Oil intoxication can drive previously sane individuals to run away from a normally fulfilled human life and retreat to closed communities of confirmed addicts. These communities are usually limited to one sex only, and they vigorously, often obsessively, forbid sexual activity. Indeed, a tendency towards agonized sexual prohibition emerges as a drably recurring theme amid all the colorful variations of Gerin Oil symptomatology. Gerin Oil does not seem to reduce the libido per se, but it frequently leads to a preoccupation with reducing the sexual pleasure of others. A current example is the prurience with which many habitual "Oilers" condemn homosexuality.

As with other drugs, refined Gerin Oil in low doses is largely harmless, and can serve as a lubricant on social occasions such as marriages, funerals, and state ceremonies. Experts differ over whether such social tripping, though harmless in itself, is a risk factor for upgrading to harder and more addictive forms of the drug.

Medium doses of Gerin Oil, though not in themselves dangerous, can distort perceptions of reality. Beliefs that have no basis in fact are immunized, by the drug's direct effects on the nervous system, against evidence from the real world. Oilheads can be heard talking to thin air or muttering to themselves, apparently in the belief that private wishes so expressed will come true, even at the cost of other people's welfare and mild violation of the laws of physics. This autolocutory disorder is often accompanied by weird tics and hand gestures, manic stereoptypies such as rhythmic headnodding toward a wall, or Obsessive Compulsive Orientation Syndrome (OCOS: facing towards the east five times a day).

Gerin Oil in strong doses is hallucinogenic. Hardcore mainliners may hear voices in the head, or experience visual illusions that seem to the sufferers so real that they often succeed in persuading others of their realitiy. An individual who convincingly reports high-grade hallucinations may be venerated, and even followed as some kind of leader, by others who regard themselves as less fortunate. Such follower-pathology can long postdate the original leader's death, and may expand into bizarre psychedelia such as the cannibalistic fantasy of "drinking the blood and eating the flesh" of the leader.

Chronic abuse of Geriniol can lead to "bad trips", in which the user suffers terrifying delusions, including fears of being tortured, not in the real world but in a postmortem fantasy world. Bad trips of this kind are bound up with a morbid punishment-lore that is as characterstic of this drug as the obsessive fear of sexuality already noted. The punishment-culture fostered by Gerin Oil ranges from "smack" through "lash" to getting "stoned" (especiallly adulteresses and rape victims), and "demanifestation" (amputation of one hand), up to the sinister fantasy of allo-punishment or "cross-topping", the execution of one individual for the sins of others.

You might think that such a potentially dangerous and addictive drug would head the list of proscribed intoxicants, with exemplary sentences handed out for pushing it. But no, it is readily obtainable anywhere in the world and you don't even need a prescription. Professional traffickers are numerous, and organized in hierarchical cartels, openly trading on street corners and in purpose-made buildings. Some of these cartels are adept at fleecing poor people desperate to feed their habit. "Godfathers" occupy influential poisitions in high places, and they have the ear of royalty, of presidents and of prime ministers. Governments don't just turn a blind eye to the trade, they grant it tax-exempt status. Worse, they subsidize schools founded with the specific intention of getting children hooked.

I was prompted to write this article by the smiling face of a happy man in Bali. He was ecstatically greeting his death sentence for the brutal murder of large numbers of innocent holiday-makers whom he had never met, and against whom he bore no personal grudge. Some people in the court were shocked at his lack of remorse. Far from remorse, his response was one of obvious exhilaration. He punched the air , delirious with joy that he was to be "martyred", to use the jargon of his group of abusers. Make no mistake about it, this beatific smile, looking forward with unalloyed pleasure to the firming squad, is the smile of a junkie. Here we have the archetypal mainliner, doped up with hard, unrefined,unadulterated, high-octane Gerin Oil.

Whatever your view of the vengeance and deterrence theories of capital punishment, it should be obvious that his case is special. Martydom is a strange revenge against those who crave it, and, far from deterrring, it always recruits more martyrs than it kills. The important point is that the problem would not arise in the first place if children were protected from getting hooked on a drug with such a bad prognosis for their adult minds.

Richard Dawkins

[amomof2dogs]

Such a substance only exists in the mind of the author.
Geriniol is an anagram of the word religion.

When the word religion replaces the word gerinol in the article, it is truly frightening.

[cerealkiller]

That is exactly what the author did. It's a clever spoof on religion.

[zzontar]

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

[AlanH]

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I think it was quite clear on defining the "Drug" use in moderation, and low doses. I believe you are failing to read the finer points made in the text, you may find it is in fact, quite clever.

[zzontar]

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I think it was quite clear on defining the "Drug" use in moderation, and low doses. I believe you are failing to read the finer points made in the text, you may find it is in fact, quite clever.

Then I believe it is extremism to blame, and not religion... extremists of any kind generally do more harm than good for their cause.

[AlanH]

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I think it was quite clear on defining the "Drug" use in moderation, and low doses. I believe you are failing to read the finer points made in the text, you may find it is in fact, quite clever.

Then I believe it is extremism to blame, and not religion... extremists of any kind generally do more harm than good for their cause.

Couldn't agree more.

[ferri]

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I think it was quite clear on defining the "Drug" use in moderation, and low doses. I believe you are failing to read the finer points made in the text, you may find it is in fact, quite clever.

Then I believe it is extremism to blame, and not religion... extremists of any kind generally do more harm than good for their cause.

Couldn't agree more.

now now...you know an angry mob of Amish can be dangerous!

[cerealkiller]

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I am reading Dawkins' article now five times but I don't get that at all. Can you show me the exact quote? All I get from this is that gerinol "can, may, could, some" , etc, nowhere can I find the word "all". Musty be my heretic seer stone...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books ... ref=slogin

[AlanH]

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I am reading Dawkins' article now five times but I don't get that at all. Can you show me the exact quote? All I get from this is that gerinol "can, may, could, some" , etc, nowhere can I find the word "all". Musty be my heretic seer stone...

Are you referring to me? As you are quoting from a comment I made to another poster's comment. I was commenting that there was a lot more to the text, than that one line... Uhhh... Me are confuseded....

I'll try to step you along... here is what I referred to...

Clever? I don't think so... if this was the case, then everyone religious would be a heartless killer... of course, extremists like ck would like to believe that, but in reality if you pick a real drug like crystal meth, you can honestly say it affects all users in a bad way... big difference.

You may need to read it again, if all you drew from that is that "everyone religious would be a heartless killer"

I think it was quite clear on defining the "Drug" use in moderation, and low doses. I believe you are failing to read the finer points made in the text, you may find it is in fact, quite clever.

[Nebula]

Then I believe it is extremism to blame, and not religion... extremists of any kind generally do more harm than good for their cause.

Can't have one without the other.

[katzenjammer]

I don't know about that---I can be extremely annoying and I'm not at all religious.

[ferri]

unless you google someone like ALF and ELF. no religion there.

[damngrumpy]

Its like I have always said I have no problem with the concept of Christ for example I do however have some problems with the people who claim to represent him.
Religion in and of itself has been the root cause for more violence and killing than any other. From every continent we see the ravages of religion, and point to whatever group was responsible. What is rarely considered is that it was the extremest elemet that created the trouble and many followers of the demonination itself were also persecuted for not being exteme. There are so many religions all proclaiming their savior is coming back. The Jews waiting for the chose one who the Christians claim has already come and is preparing for a second visit.
The Arabs are waiting for the hidden Emum to return, every religion has a fire story, a flood story and a destruction of the world as we know it story and the problem is they are all trying like hell to make the mould fit so the chosen ones will return. If they're all right it could get crowded and confusing. We will need a battery of NFL referees to sort out the rules for this one

[cerealkiller]

nathan, I tried to reply to zzontar with your answer I agree with you...
zzontar is heavy on Gerin oil and imagines things and words that aren't there.
"Medium doses of Gerin Oil, though not in themselves dangerous, can distort perceptions of reality. Gerin Oil in strong doses is hallucinogenic. Hardcore mainliners may hear voices in the head, or experience visual illusions that seem to the sufferers so real that they often succeed in persuading others of their reality"

damngrumpy, damn right!