♫ Hallelujah, hallelujah
♫ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♫
- Want me to do it again?
- Yes, please.
One more clap, you guys.
(clapperboard claps)
Perfect.
- Right.
- Reintroduce yourselves.
- My name is Jim Morel, I'm a rabbi.
I'm here to experience one of God's creations.
I have smoked marijuana many years ago,
I haven't done it for a while.
- I'm Chris Schuler, I'm an Episcopal priest.
Never smoked it all that much, probably more in high school.
- My name's Carlos Diller.
I'm a conservative homosexual atheist.
I grew up Southern Baptist,
part of my life in my foster care
and then I grew up part of my life adopted
as like Roman Catholic, so,
this is gonna be really interesting.
- When's the last time you smoked marijuana?
- Maybe like an hour or so.
(laughter)
- What does your religion say about marijuana?
Is it okay to smoke marijuana?
- Yeah, I would say the majority of people
who self-identify as Christians,
they're probably not too down on smoking marijuana.
There's no biblical precedent for this really,
although I have to say I've known thousands of Episcopalians
and plenty of them smoke dope.
- Call it weed now, like,
smoking dope is like smoking, like dope.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- They're smoking dope.
- We're about weed here.
- Okay. Let me change that to weed.
- We cleaned it just for you.
- I'd actually need some coaching, I, I.
- I got you.
- Put some of this in here?
- No, no, no, you just kind of like
wanna crunch that all up.
- If it's like everything else in life
it won't take much for me to be, you know,
stoned out my gourd.
- Hold it?
- Hold it and then you're gonna light it at the same time,
and pull, and...
(laughter)
Oh, this gon be fun.
(coughing)
- Okay, I'm on the coughing break now.
(laughter)
(coughing)
Thank you.
My lungs are not used to smoke.
Now that was impressive.
(clock ticks)
- This kind of cool, I'm smoking with some priests
and a rabbi.
Check off my bucket list.
(clock ticks)
- I definitely feel a little something.
(laughter)
- Like what?
- Just a little slower.
- A little slower, you just get a little bit slower.
- Yeah, I also feel burning right here
where it's so impossible to inhale
'cause I'm really not used to the smoke.
- See, look, I like that. He's not a quitter.
Take one for the team.
(clock ticks)
- You've come through some challenges, right.
Start off as a religious person.
- Oh, yes, really religious. Catholic school.
- So what happened?
- I was 14 years old and my priest denied my confirmation,
he actually said that the diocese excommunicated me
from the church because I openly had
gay sex acts in our school, which I did.
I'm like okay, so I started doing more research
on God and what is God,
and no-one can't deny that someone brilliant did this.
- Who did it?
- But I don't know who did it.
Personally. I can't depend on one person
and that kind of God sounds insane.
(clock ticks)
- The truthfulness, the beauty, and the palpability of God
is actually stronger than anything else in my life.
I mean, it sounds corny but all the stories
say the same thing when you boil all, trim all the fat.
- No, there's no story.
Science outdone all of those stories.
I believe in the original religion,
which was pretty much astrology,
and it was a way of humans of understanding
and that's exactly what you're doing with religion.
You're trying to justify a way to understand.
(clock ticks)
Why would God put me into the life I was in for so long?
(clock ticks)
Why are there 37,000 kids dying every day?
That's not miraculous.
(clock ticks)
I'm really high, sorry.
- Mm.
- That was really strong, I took a really big hit.
- I'm feeling a little something.
- You are not alone.
- I like what you're saying.
But everything that you say about who you are,
what your life is like, what you do, what you think,
to me that speaks about a person of faith
'cause you have a basic faith in the world
and the universe, you do.
And you might not call that God
but there's something inside of you
that really is a spiritual person, I can tell.
I just met you, but I can love you because why?
- We're really happy.
- Because I see you and the bible says
when I see your face I see the face of God.
- I like that.
- Jim, you've been holding that joint for a while.
Do you need a light?
- Yeah, light it up.
(laughter)
- Light.
- That is lit.
(laughter)
(clock ticks)
- Maybe this would work for all of us.
Just think of God as all things true,
knowing that we don't know all things.
- Yeah, that's good.
(clock ticks)
- Do you guys believe in life outside of Earth?
- If you look at the vastness of the universe,
mathematically there's no way that there aren't
other creatures in this universe.
- I agree with you.
- Gotta be. - Gotta be.
Every religion has something coming out of the sky.
Like, what's the obsession with the sky?
(clock ticks)
- I like this guy.
- I like this guy too.
- And Carlos, I like you.
Maybe we'll, maybe this is the beginning of a friendship.
- Yeah, I'll be your friend.
I'm a rabbi's friend.
- Yeah.
(clock ticks)
- Is marijuana mentioned in any holy books?
- The anointing oil as found in the book of Exodus
had some qualities that would elevate the person,
and there is a theory that one of those
was oil from the hemp plant.
Historically, many people have had mystical experiences.
I think it's very likely that they were
under the influence of some mind-altering substance.
- Do you think more people should smoke?
More religious people?
- What I would definitely like to see
are all the weed laws changed to be just about
the same exact thing as what beer and liquor are.
- If it helps you become a better person,
if it lifts you up and gives you something,
a new view of life, it's a very positive thing.
- God made dirt, dope don't hurt.
God made weed, weed don't make you bleed.
(laughter)
(clock ticks)
- Chris, what's today?
- Ash Wednesday.
And the way many practice,
they take ash and put a cross on the forehead.
We were talking about using the ash from the weed.
- I'm okay with it, 'cause, you know, like hey,
I don't care.
- So, Carlos, you are dust and to dust you shall return.
Ooh, look, these ashes, it's like a cool blue.
Come on, look at that, my goodness.
Amen. - Amen.
- That came out alright, didn't it?
- Thanks, Chris.
Okay, you want me to do this?
I don't know any prayers.
- You just say your most loving thing,
that'll be good.
- I just give out good vibes on these to you.
- Amen.
- And to everyone that you love.
(whispering)
- Do you want me to give you a blessing?
- Yes. - Please.
(He blesses him in Hebrew)
- May God bless you and keep you.
(He blesses him in Hebrew)
May God lift up God's spirit to you
and may God always surround you with shalom, with peace.
- Amen.
- I know that maybe for you the word God
doesn't have that much meaning but it has meaning for me,
so if you can accept the blessing from God.
- I sure can.
(He blesses him in Hebrew)
- God bless you and keep you.
(He blesses him in Hebrew)
And may God always surround you and bless you with peace.
Amen.
- Thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate that.
- You know, Jim, when you said the word shalom
you gave me goosebumps, so.
- It's a powerful word.
Shalom is a good word.
I really enjoyed being with you. It was a blessing.
- I had, you guys are really cool.
- The glow is happening.
- Yeah, I'm gonna hit the bong again.
- I'll be the fire.
(inhaling)
That would kill me.
(laughter)
I'd be coughing for the next week.
(laughter)
Feels like a macho thing that I just don't have
when it comes to dope.
- It's not dope!
- I mean weed.
♫ Hallelujah ♫
- Did you guys know about my socks?
- I saw weed on them earlier.
- Come on.
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