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Signage

This was the second best sign that we saw on the trip. You may need to click to get the full size to read it....seems like something that should just stay clean.

This was the best one.



You do have to look close, but if you do, you can see the icon for a penguin that you ran over...

How loud do you have to pray so that god hears you?

So I was in the middle of this 18 hour flight, with my earplugs in, dozing. There were only two things I could hear. An unhappy baby, who can blame him.... and this guy....

Well not this guy specifically, but I guy dressed just like this. He was praying. He would mutter to himself for several minutes and then call loudly some phrase, then mutter. It took me over a half an hour to isolate the practitioner. He didn't do it for the whole 18 hours, just periodically, when he was awake.

I had a lot of time to ponder this. When in an enclosed place for 18 hours where people are sleeping, you don't make noise. It's rude, and I think there's something in every religion that says something like, "thou shall not be rude". On a side note, if god can hear you muttering, then there's no need to call out, stifle yourself because you're basically yelling at him... and you wouldn't want to make him angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.