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Pray-o-Tron 3000
Jun. 8th, 2007 02:12 pmA device to recite blessings. Actually, on reading the ad a bit more closely, it seems to be intended as a sort of audible prayer book, to remind people of the correct wording of the blessings. That seems a bit more sane to me.
Buddhist prayer wheels have always struck me as humourous in much the same way that a machine to recite blessings would be. The idea of mechanizing prayer just seems alien to me. The Buddhist concept of prayer is pretty obviously much different than ours, if you can build a mechanical device to pray on your behalf.
It's interesting to me that Buddhism, which at least in the West seems to be very focussed on the individual nature of enlightenment, takes such a mechanistic attitude toward prayer. There's something I'm missing, because these don't seem to go together at all.
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The woman who invented Captain Crunch (a perennially popular breakfast cereal, fur youse Brits) has gone to Davey Jones' locker. Unexpectedly, it turns out that she was from Westerville, where I live.
One of the better prizes I ever got in cereal came in Captain Crunch. It was a small plastic model of an aircraft carrier (the Enterprise, IIRC) that launched planes using a rubberband powered catapult.
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The idea of an amnesty for illegal aliens seems to be safely sunk for this year. I'd much rather see the issue debated publicly during the Presidential campaign than dealt with in backrooms by Congress.
It annoys me how slavishly the news media describe Bush's scheme as 'reform'.
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We were going to paint more this weekend, but may put it off for a week now.
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I think they should execute Paris Hilton. It could be a TV special, with celebrities and a diamond-encrusted electric chair. That would be cool!
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Patch Bunny, you were wondering some time back if there'd ever been any great black race drivers. You prolly oughta watch the Canadian GP this weekend if the topic still interests you. I'm guessing Lewis Hamilton's going to be putting in a pretty ferocious performance.
Buddhist prayer wheels have always struck me as humourous in much the same way that a machine to recite blessings would be. The idea of mechanizing prayer just seems alien to me. The Buddhist concept of prayer is pretty obviously much different than ours, if you can build a mechanical device to pray on your behalf.
It's interesting to me that Buddhism, which at least in the West seems to be very focussed on the individual nature of enlightenment, takes such a mechanistic attitude toward prayer. There's something I'm missing, because these don't seem to go together at all.
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The woman who invented Captain Crunch (a perennially popular breakfast cereal, fur youse Brits) has gone to Davey Jones' locker. Unexpectedly, it turns out that she was from Westerville, where I live.
One of the better prizes I ever got in cereal came in Captain Crunch. It was a small plastic model of an aircraft carrier (the Enterprise, IIRC) that launched planes using a rubberband powered catapult.
*****
The idea of an amnesty for illegal aliens seems to be safely sunk for this year. I'd much rather see the issue debated publicly during the Presidential campaign than dealt with in backrooms by Congress.
It annoys me how slavishly the news media describe Bush's scheme as 'reform'.
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We were going to paint more this weekend, but may put it off for a week now.
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I think they should execute Paris Hilton. It could be a TV special, with celebrities and a diamond-encrusted electric chair. That would be cool!
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Patch Bunny, you were wondering some time back if there'd ever been any great black race drivers. You prolly oughta watch the Canadian GP this weekend if the topic still interests you. I'm guessing Lewis Hamilton's going to be putting in a pretty ferocious performance.
