Re: No Mainstream, mind...

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_IMW6gvoNE87DCbsOPnMH69LNraADBAPwGR7EG96RCogBjgQ-eryEshQeQGUuB0OW3F1ZvTx>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:09:13 -0800


YGWV Sam Elliot wrote:
>
> > Yeah. When I left the UK, my English started a slow decline :)
>

Where are you?

> > Besides, religion...never understood it really :)
>

It's a symptom of our modern western culture. Most of what we are told is religion is hokum, so it is easy to not understand or believe what we are told.
>
>
> > p.s. Apropos of nothing, if you want to find a suitable partner
> here, you
> can get a figurine of a saint (I forget which one) and put him head
> down in
> a glass of water until he cooperates and finds you someone. That's not
> mainstream, mind.
>

I had a friend who was in the peace corps in Taiwan. After a good harvest the village had a feast and set a place for the village god, as represented by his idol, got drunk, toasting the god and being happy. After a bad harvest the village had a meal and set a place for the village god, as represented by his idol, got drunk, and afterwards dragged the idol out into the fields and beat it with sticks to do better next time.
i know such things occur in Glorantha.

--Greg

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