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Thousands pay respects to dead whale in Vietnam - These People Get It
04/05/2004
| NewHampster (1000+ posts)
Posted on 04/05/2004 10:58:05 AM PDT by reluctantwarrior
These villagers know how to respect a great animal. Let it decompose then build a temple in its honor from the bones.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/04/05/bc.deadwhaleworship.ap/index....
CNN.com
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Thousands of Vietnamese are making pilgrimages to a beach in southern Vietnam to worship a dead whale.
More than a thousand people -- many from hundreds of miles distant -- have journeyed to burn incense near the whale carcass discovered on the beach Friday, said a police officer in the Thanh Phu District of Ben Tre province.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/04/05/bc.deadwhaleworship.ap/index....
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalworship
If I die and people travel from all over to pay homage to my rotting corpse does that make me a venerated totem of ghia??????
To: reluctantwarrior
I forgot to mention that this is from DU.
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04/05/2004 10:58:51 AM PDT
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posted on
04/05/2004 11:00:22 AM PDT
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To: reluctantwarrior
I would rather blow it up.
More spectacular and awe inspiring.
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posted on
04/05/2004 11:17:19 AM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(I think I will stay single. Getting married is just so 'gay'.)
To: reluctantwarrior
in Oregon they'd have the highway department blow it up.
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posted on
04/05/2004 11:33:31 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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posted on
04/05/2004 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Fingers of Fury™)
To: reluctantwarrior
You're right, that is a really cool way to honor the whale, but ....
where are the protesters and whiners? Is PETA flying people in to show them the error of their ways?
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posted on
04/05/2004 1:53:23 PM PDT
by
mean lunch lady
("I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize" - Steven Wright)
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