Re: OT: Prayer, ritual and magic // was conlang website
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 23:01 |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, M.S. Soderquist wrote:
> An addendum to my previous post...
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> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > <nod> Is it silly to pray for people after they're deceased...?
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> Also, of course, if you believe that the deceased may be trapped in
> purgatory, you can always pray to speed up their release to the better
> parts of the afterlife. :)
Alas, or not--no. I've never understood purgatory. I seem to pray for
people who are now deceased mainly out of habit...and there are a couple
who, unfortunately, I don't know if they're alive or dead.
(Whoops...attempted an anaphora? that doesn't work in English, but
hopefully the meaning is clear.) I suspect it doesn't *hurt,* though.
YHL