Talk:Pharmakos

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This article is total garbage! Whoever wrote this article does not even know enough Greek to pluralize pharmakos to pharmakoi! Pharmakoi are druggies, thus explaining the word "pharmacology" as well as explaining why people put them to death back in the day when people were sane enough to to put druggies to death! The Bible translates the greek "pharmakoi" into the english "sorcerer", meaning poisoner, not prisoner, you Godless drug-addled morons. Gopchristian 14:55, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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This page needs serious work. It doesn't relate any coherent narrative, and lacks an encyclopedic tone (for example, the statement "pharmakoi are druggies" is utterly out of place in an encyclopedia). Mostly it needs much better writing, but it's currently written so poorly that I can't reliably extract the necessary facts to put in a rewrite. --Trovatore 14:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Gopchristian's view is utter nonsense, imposing 20th C. christian morals onto ancient pre-christian greeks. The greeks did not put "druggies" to death. Drugs were an integral part of the mystery rites such as those practiced at Eleusis. --Tchoutoye 00:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

(10/10/2006) I changed "prisoner" to "poisoner" since that is the phrase I saw in a few online lexicons.