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Tatiana and I were recently shown, by a fellow hatracker, a site advertising the sale of Holy Bottled Water. The three of us thaught it might have been mentioned already here, but i couldn't find it, so I'm starting a thread for it.
I especially liked the Frequently asked queastions. I'm just waiting for them to combine this with the Dante's inferno quiz to determine how many bottles you need to drink.
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If you buy two cases, you get a free bottle of "wash your sins away" hand soap! It's proven effective against all seven deadly sins.
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I'm not sure... but I've seen them sell dark bottles labelled "Darkness from Egypt" so they must have some way of doing that. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Also I am Catholic, where whine becomes the blood of God, I have seen holiness bottled for years.
Really the holiness that is part of any number of tangible objects seems to be a large part of the Catholic faith, and other faiths as well I'm sure.
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I think the bottled holiness in this country is targeted mainly towards tourists (mostly Americans), but I guess it could target on a religious basis as well.
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Actually, it's quite easy to make your own Holy Water (if you are Pagan). Put a bit of salt in a bowl, and mix it with water. Leave the water out in the night sometime under a full moon, to make Moon Water. Leave it out in the sun, to make Sun Water. Leave it out under a rainbow to make the most magical water of all! Oh, and it helps to put nice-smelling essential oils in it.
Then you put it in a spray bottle and spritz it where needed. Good for cleansing, banishing evil, and generally lifting your spirits!
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Oh, and bottling darkness is pretty easy, too. All you need is a well stoppered opaque bottle. Go into a dark room, open the bottle, it will fill with darkness. Recap the bottle and the darkness will remain inside until the cap is removed.
You have to take all this on faith, though, because if you remove the cap to check the contents, the darkness will evaporate immediately.
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*shakes head* It doesn't evaporate, exactly. But Me'at or docheh harbeh choshech -- "a little bit of light pushes away much darkness." Darkness flees light.
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I wonder if a bottle of Darkness could be as effective, in an opposite fashion, as Galadriel's bottled starlight in LOTR.
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Even if there is one born every minute, there is still a finite number of suckers. And there are so many ventures to be suckered into I'm sure the pool of Bottled Darkness purchasers is fairly small.
Also, the pool of purchasers of "Bottled Darkness of Detroit" is probably even smaller.
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That site reminds me of a time several years ago when I walked into my little sister's room and saw her and her friend sprinkling water on their beanie babies. I asked what they were doing, and they said they were baptizing them with Holy Water. Posts: 1947 | Registered: Aug 2002
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<sniffs> I hardly think it's respectful of those of us who believe in the baptism of beanie babies (after they reach the age of accountability, of course) to roll on the floor laughing about it. I suppose you let your beanie babies die all unshriven? That's so sad!
And how sad, too, for all beanies that they can only be sprinkled! But what can we do? The manufacturer's tag forbids immersion!
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If you want to check to see if you really have bought bottled Darkness, you need only go in a totally dark room to check. However, if it's Egyptian Darkness, be warned that some mixing may occur between the domestic and imported Darkness.
quote:Also I am Catholic, where whine becomes the blood of God,
Why is my daughter not covered in blood?
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