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Many Turn To Higher Power For Home Sales
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| 9-19-2006
Posted on 09/19/2006 8:04:31 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; martin_fierro
Well, according to Martin's link in post #3, St. Anthony is the Patron Saint of Butchers and Gravediggers. Did you sell your home to either profession?
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:19:44 AM PDT
by
Cagey
To: the invisib1e hand; AppyPappy
From a Catholic perspective, this practice is an act of superstition, idolatry, and sacrilege.
YMMV
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:19:49 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: AppyPappy
I'll take my house off the market before I engage in voodoo.
No doubt. It simply amazes me. I wonder how God feels about this. I can imagine the conversation....
"Hey God, can you take a moment and send a buyer to this house? They took the time to bury a piece of plastic in my image in their front yard, face down. I know, it wasn't an image of you, but I'm the home sales guy they turn to. With faith like that, you just gatta help them out. Thanks, I knew I could count on ya."
sigh
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:19:53 AM PDT
by
MadeInAmerica
(- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
To: Deguello
I guess those bathtub shrines in the front yards weren't doing the trick? That only works if you put Christmas lights on 'em.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:20:18 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(Don't look at me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: PandaRosaMishima
Heck, why not? If we're going to engage in idolatry - in for a penny, in for a pound.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:20:25 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I get homesick when I look up in the skies and see my home planet.)
To: AppyPappy
It just takes a little common sense. My friend "stages" houses. Meaning she goes into a home, rearranges the furniture that's there and, for a minimal amount of money, makes your house look better. Her last house was on the market for 13 months. She staged it and it sold 8 days later.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:20:55 AM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Cagey
Like all things religious...impossible to prove, but if it makes one feel better, then OK with me.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:21:11 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Cagey
I am a practicing, believing Catholic. I teach catholic Sunday School (Catechist). I have never heard of this before and consider it both silly (why on Earth would a Saint desire this--burying their image upside down--in order to intercede?) and blasphemous (it's just not something to bug God about). I could see praying to sell a home in order to ensure one's material survival, but beyond that, it's like praying to win the lottery.
Saints should be honored for the sacrifice they gave God, not for their ability to give us material things. It's not proper.
To: PandaRosaMishima; BipolarBob
Can I use the Necronomicon too? Only if yer nekkid when ya read it!
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:23:32 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(Don't look at me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: linda_22003
Huh. New to me I guess. Still, doesn't change my opinion.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:23:55 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Obadiah
I buried St. Joseph upside down, in my front yard and sold all three of my houses..
So it was an act of faith, not voo-doo..and it worked.
I used St. Joseph from my Christmas Nativity set..:)
sw
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:24:00 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: Cagey
It worked for me. Had my condo on the market and not a nibble. Put the statue in the ground, and two weeks later had an offer and I sold.
To: Gay State Conservative
If I'm looking to sell to a muslim,do I bury a picture of that mohammed clown and his nine year old wife? There are some key differences, starting with the fact that St. Joseph is actually a saint . . .
You can't argue with results. Jewish real-estate firms in New York have been giving them away for decades.
To: Alas Babylon!
I have never heard of this before ...This practice was very popular, at least in the Northeast, during the last real estate slowdown.
Saints should be honored for the sacrifice they gave God, not for their ability to give us material things.
I agree and this really does seem silly.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:26:55 AM PDT
by
Cagey
To: martin_fierro
Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, patron saint of nuclear long-distance bombers.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:27:03 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: martin_fierro
Patron Saints index
ROFL, they have an index? I just looked it up and that's just too funny. I'm Protestant so excuse my position, but allow me to indulge in folly for a moment.
Bwahahahahahaha
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:27:07 AM PDT
by
MadeInAmerica
(- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
To: martin_fierro
Bogus list...St. Barbara is the Patron Saint of Artillerymen.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:29:29 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
To: SamuraiScot
There are some key differences, starting with the fact that St. Joseph is actually a saint . . . Last time I looked, I was too .. by faith, through grace.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:31:39 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(The people who work for me wear the dog collars. It's good to be king. - ccmay)
To: Obadiah
I agree about it being a silly thing to do, but it's not new at all. It may be a regional thing, I don't know (certainly I haven't run into it here in the Washington area).
Now, "staging" houses, that does work. People can't look at their own houses objectively; they don't see the clutter and they don't smell the smells. An objective eye is necessary - and so is getting rid of a lot of crap. :)
To: tx_eggman
Sorta dissapointing to not see your name on the list, isn't it? I wonder if their list matches Gods?
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:34:04 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I get homesick when I look up in the skies and see my home planet.)
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