Search for the Gods
For whatever reason, over the past week, it seems like the topic of religion has popped up whether at work, home, a party, or with strangers on the subway, and not by my prompting I might add which is why I've been finding the frequencey of this subject odd. It did get me to thinking though, where most religious beliefs are based on faith, including those touting themselves as Pastafarians , that some of the religions based on a pantheon of gods ought to be easy enough to prove, if they are real.
This is my plan. Given such pantheons as the Greek Gods, where each god was in charge of some aspect of existence, whether grand or mundane, and given that such gods and goddesses had the habit of bopping around the mortal world whether in the form of human or an animal, or even such odd things as showers of gold (a whole other topic), it is my intention to figure out who is the god of hiccups. At the very least we might figure out the form they tend to like to take.
All that is required is that for the next two weeks, every time you get a case of the hiccups take note of the following: Who was around you (especially but not limited to strangers), what animals, if any were around you, or, of course, any unusual apparitions such as showers of gold, confetti, clouds of smoke, pink fog, swarms of floating ipods, that sort of stuff. Then post your observations here. I figure if we get a good cross section of postings we should be able to get a pretty clear picture of who the god or goddess of hiccups is or at least guises under which they typically move around. Or it will all just be a random mess of people, critters, and bubble storms, in which case the existance of a hiccup god will remain questionable.
This is my plan. Given such pantheons as the Greek Gods, where each god was in charge of some aspect of existence, whether grand or mundane, and given that such gods and goddesses had the habit of bopping around the mortal world whether in the form of human or an animal, or even such odd things as showers of gold (a whole other topic), it is my intention to figure out who is the god of hiccups. At the very least we might figure out the form they tend to like to take.
All that is required is that for the next two weeks, every time you get a case of the hiccups take note of the following: Who was around you (especially but not limited to strangers), what animals, if any were around you, or, of course, any unusual apparitions such as showers of gold, confetti, clouds of smoke, pink fog, swarms of floating ipods, that sort of stuff. Then post your observations here. I figure if we get a good cross section of postings we should be able to get a pretty clear picture of who the god or goddess of hiccups is or at least guises under which they typically move around. Or it will all just be a random mess of people, critters, and bubble storms, in which case the existance of a hiccup god will remain questionable.
posted by Linton at 12:40 PM
4 Comments:
Pastafarians is odd but fun
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All I ever notice when I have the hiccups is that having the hiccups is really annoying. Especially if you really have to talk. Like you've been on hold with your cable/phone/internet/alloftheabove provider for 25 minutes and finally have some one to talk to who won't forward you to another dept./ext. (if you are actually lucky that they don't disconnect you instead of putting you on hold) and then you get the worst case of the hiccups and have to try and have a conversation while your diaphram spasms uncontrolably.
Which is actually more annoying for the person on the other end of the phone than me I find... In which case the god may be LOKI or Wi'iskajak (AKA Whiskey Jack) or a close relation.
Loki is one of my favourite dieties - He's like the devil but with no real sense of good or evil and with a better sense of humour.
I'd like to know if any society ever had a god of flatulence.
Well, on Wikipedi.com there's a submission stating that there may have been a Greek God of flatulence named Crepitus, but I suspect this entry may be a little bogus. But thank you, pal-o-mine, for the assistance in finding the god of hiccups. I suspect that the great spaghetti monster has extended one of his noodly arms to foil my attempts at proving or disproving the existence of gods, there-by, ironicly, proving his own existence, except not, really. Its all so confusing. Catch up with you soon dude!
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