[Asurai]

Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom

Is it any better to slaughter people by the thousands for entertainment, like the romans did in the Circus Maiximus to the criminals, barbarians, christians (not catholics) than to do it for religious beliefs?

Not particularly, no, and you'll not find me justifying that particular bit of Roman civilization either. (Although sentencing murderers to fight each other to the death is cool.)

where they were light years ahead of the West in biotechnology (shaman or medicine-man's knowledge and use of herbs and infusions and mind-altering substances)

This is true, but it was the Western tradition, not the Indian knowledge of herbs, that gave rise to modern medicine. Most of the Western civilization in, say, 1492 was nothing more than potential, but its potential quickly turned into sciences far more advanced than anything else in the world.

And I'm grateful to the shamans for passing down the uses for, say, water boiled with marigold flowers. (I think that that was them, at least.)
It's cheap and easy, if slightly less effective than its Western equivalents.

I prefer Marijuana, beer, a steak and a blow-job to Ecstasy, Coca-Cola, Big Mac and a porn video. And with that phrase alone, I win and you're all my bitches.

You suck, Mael.

But beer is a Mediterranean thing.