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Fruits that fall off the tree ferment and make alcohol. Monkeys, apes, and other animals eat them for the alcoholic effect.

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God didn’t make those. Wait. Shit.

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They were manufactured by fallen fruit.

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So perfect.

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Yeast is the Devil confirmed.

Bread is the devil’s food

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I thought that was a kind of cake.

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Birds get drunk off fermented berries. And it’s the funniest shit you will ever watch. Well…until you find out that drunk birds crash into windows a lot.

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This is the main reason birds have a hard time getting a driver’s license

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It’s maybe a reason, but I’m sure there are bigger issues considering how much drunk drivers WITH a license there are

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Also, many species of birds don’t live to be 16 (some do, though, but those ones also rarely drive.)

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Bees also get drunk off fermented fruit, and they are mean ass drunks. Source: I grew up on an apple farm.

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OMG my blackberry bushes… those poor drunk idiots…

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So that’s why they crash into windows…

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If anything, God made alcohol incredibly prevalent and easy to discover and produce

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8 points

The apple Eve bit into was fermented for sure

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Can you make alcohol out of figs?

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Apples naturally contain yeast, they’ll literally turn to alcohol on their own if you give them time.

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It makes sense if you believe in science and stuff, but if you were a true Christian you would know that holly sweet Jesus of America turned water into wine, which has nothing to do with alcohol. It is His sacred blood that for some reason also tastes like old grape juice. Don’t judge me and make your own research.

Thoughts and prayers, libtard!

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And that’s not even to mention all the psychoactive plants out there. The Earth makes many a mind-altering substance without the help of man.

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There is an old Disney documentary called “Animals are Beautiful People”. There is a segment of the movie dedicated to showing how monkeys, elephants, giraffes, and other animals can get shitfaced off rotten fruit.

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Some birds also intentionally make fruit ferment and then get shit-faced off of it. Humans are hardly the first species on this planet to make booze.

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Some birds eat spicey chilis because it makes them hallucinate and get high.

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Birds tongues can’t taste capsaicin.

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There’s a type of lemur that gets hammered by stimulating a poisonous millipede and ingesting it’s poison.

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which millipede though, i dont want to spend ages milking a bunch of millipedes

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They also rub it all over their privates first. But it’s for um… medicinal purposes… (?) https://matadornetwork.com/read/animals-hallucinogenic-drugs/

There’s also a kind of sheep that will completely wear it’s front teeth off by scraping hallucinogenic lichen off granite rocks. Everybody likes a party.

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That’s an interesting article, but why include the quotes from some random zookeeper, especially when all of his contributions are basically “i don’t know why” lmao.

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There’s an theory stating that one thing that helped the Wari/Inca stay together were several parties fueled by their beer mixed with hallucinogens

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Like the dolphins do with puffer fish.

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Someone posted that clip before midsummer and I still chuckle at one of the replies. Something like “I’m laughing at the dumb hangover animals even though I know for a fact I’ll be in the same state tomorrow”.

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Used to go sit under the fig tree as a kid and watch hammered parrots fall out of the tree and stagger around.

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Disney documentary

Well there’s your problem, this is clearly woke propaganda!!

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So Jesus is a “fallen man”, ok.

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He also only turned the water into wine because his mother nagged him to do it. Two of the people thought to be the most perfect and infallible in Christian tradition are actually fallen people. I think it’s pretty noble to abstain from alcohol or other addictions but the way this guy does it is so belittling.

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@Spike Just ask Maria Magdalene ;)

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He didn’tmake it, he multiplied it, duh!

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We had a tree with some sort of red berries on it. Every autumn birds would have a bird party getting drunk off the fermented berries. Alcohol appears in nature all the fucking time

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Homebrewer/fermenter checking in. Yeast is everywhere. Its already on everything. To an extent where homebrewing has a special category called wild or spontaneous fermentation specifically for stuff made just by letting wild yeast settle on it and start going to town. Which is to say that if you’re a bit lucky the only thing you need in order for wine to happen is fruit. Do you know how you make a fermented pepper sauce? Kim chi? Sauerkraut? You just need whatever it is you’re trying to ferment, and some salt. That’s it. The fermentation will just happen. Some small amount of alcohol will just happen.

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Also there’s literally a scene in the Bible where god turns water into wine for his disciples. Why would he do that if it was a bad thing?

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Entrapment.

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The explanation that I was told for that as a mormon kid was that what they call wine in the Bible was actually unfermented grape juice. 🤦

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There’s literally a nebula out there that is almost pure ethanol that tastes of raspberry. I’ve no clue how we figured out what it would taste like, but there is literally enough alcohol there to keep the next 500 generations of humans perpetually shit faced even with the population boom that would occur.

I refer to it as “God’s Distillery.”

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Infrared light gets absorbed by organic molecules at specific wavelengths depending on what structure they have. So we can look at IR light that has passed through the nebula to see what molecules are in it. The first article I saw said the cloud has ethyl formate which apparently has a raspberry like flavor.

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Thanks for the easy explanation!

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Obviously someone must have built the smelloscope from Futurama.

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