We tell 4 year-old children to stop talking to their imaginary friends, as it's 'unhealthy'.
Adult Christians, Mormons, Hindus, Muslims and Jewish, not so much.
Yup, pretty much. Religion is like that, it's a control mechanism crossed with brain washing.
Really? So, please explain religious fanaticism to me. It's like being radicalised.
Sacks and the coalman used to deliver it.
Agnostics aren't brian washed or controlled by religion.
What if I choose not to subscribe to any of these sky fairy control mechanisms?
Didn't original Coca-Cola contain actual cocaine?
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Coca-Cola wouldn’t have been amused by Elon Musk’s joke about how, after acquiring Twitter to restore free speech, he was going to buy Coca-Cola and put back cocaine, presumably to restore its authenticity. Coca-Cola acknowledges that its original formulation created by John Pemberton in 1886 had extracts of coca leaf and kola nut — as its name indicates. Even after cocaine became controversial, Coca-Cola felt compelled to retain minute amounts of both for a while because it feared losing control of the name. Pemberton was one of the many 19 the century practitioners of alternate medicine . Often contemptuously called ‘quacks’, a more balanced view suggests that they supplemented the deficit of doctors by experimenting with cures from the natural world.
Creating a new soft drink was easy in the 19th century because American inventors didn’t need to add fizz. That was done at soda fountains, like cafés which dispensed soda water that was flavoured with a syrup of one’s choice. Inventors simply supplied concentrated syrup and could even experiment until they found a taste combination that was a hit with consumers. Pemberton did this at a soda fountain installed inside a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. Coca-Cola’s original medical properties may have helped when, in 1887, Asa Candler, an Atlanta entrepreneur, dropped in at the soda fountain selling Pemberton’s formula while suffering from a bad headache. After soda with Coca- Cola syrup, his headache vanished.
Impressed, Candler decided to buy Coca-Cola from Pemberton. Candler would really drive Coca- Cola’s growth. But first he had to deal with the cocaine issue. By the 1900s, cocaine’s problems were well known, but so was its connection with Coca-Cola. “Soda fountain customers continued to order it by nicknames that gave knowing nods to its Peruvian connection — names like dope, coke, ‘a dose’ or ‘a shot in the arm’,” writes Donovan. Finally, Candler realised that even the trace of cocaine had to go, and by 1903, it was entirely eliminated from Coca-Cola’s formula. What made this possible was the fact that neither coca leaves nor kola nuts contributed much to the actual taste of Pemberton’s final formula. Coca had no strong taste, while kola’s bitterness was the reason so much sugar was added. Even then, kola’s lingering bitterness was unpleasant, so “eventually he cut the kola back to a trace, replacing it with cheaper synthetic caffeine”, writes Donovan.