Examples of 'odd' beliefs

[bilby]

It had to be buried in the yard of the house that is for sale.

And yes, it did eventually sell but I am not convinced it was because of the statue.

I don't know if she ever went and recovered the statue or if it's still there. Will have to inquire one day.

I would leave it for some future digger, a water works guy or something, to find and freak out.

What I want to know is that if it's still there, does the magic still work when the new owners want to sell their house or is it only a one off spell and they'd need to bury their own statue?

Perhaps they can just dig up the old statue and re-bury it.

What I am wondering is, if the new owners don't know the statue's there, how do they stop an endless stream of people from banging on their front door, and offering to buy their house?

 

[Politesse]

What I want to know is that if it's still there, does the magic still work when the new owners want to sell their house or is it only a one off spell and they'd need to bury their own statue?

Perhaps they can just dig up the old statue and re-bury it.

What I am wondering is, if the new owners don't know the statue's there, how do they stop an endless stream of people from banging on their front door, and offering to buy their house?

Presumably the Saint in question understands the purpose of the request, and would not send an endless stream of querents once the original goal has been obtained.

 

[4321lynx]

What I want to know is that if it's still there, does the magic still work when the new owners want to sell their house or is it only a one off spell and they'd need to bury their own statue?

Perhaps they can just dig up the old statue and re-bury it.

What I am wondering is, if the new owners don't know the statue's there, how do they stop an endless stream of people from banging on their front door, and offering to buy their house?

Presumably the Saint in question understands the purpose of the request, and would not send an endless stream of querents once the original goal has been obtained.

Great. Someone start a thread on this in the Religion thread. Title it "What the Saint Knew."

 

[Politesse]

Presumably the Saint in question understands the purpose of the request, and would not send an endless stream of querents once the original goal has been obtained.

Great. Someone start a thread on this in the Religion thread. Title it "What the Saint Knew."

That sounds like a good title for a literary essay collection.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Sounds like fairly straightforward porn...

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

My favourite is still the Eucharist. I recall visiting my ex-girlfriend's catholic church and witnessing the preacher lovingly sing to a cracker, and then promptly eat it. What a display.

My understanding is that when the Lord Jesus was put up on the cross he said the holy words while gazing at the mob lovingly "Bite me!".

Transsubstantiation

Catholics are supposed to believe that the wafer is literally changing in meat and the wine literally in blood.
Which is raising the question : can a vegan be catholic

That is one of the oddest beliefs I've ever encountered. Funniy is that I was raised to believe that it is real so the absurdity and bizzarro factor didn't become apparent until later in life. The members of my family who still go to mass find scientology and mormonism truly weird but not their own belief that bread and grape juice turn into a god on command, and that they then eat the god. Truly belongs in Tales of the Strange.

I maintain that much of religion is a bipolar hangover from an earlier time.