Monday, July 14, 2008

Unsung discovery

This weekend, the America Online website ' AIM chat' feature was accessed and sign-on made to the 'Beliefs' chat room, hoping to discuss the origins of rosary beads.

First, one chatter directed me to http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ -- predictable. I then described my discovery of a waxy bead artifact that holds someone's memories and utterances, and the possibility that such an artifact in some way has inspired the mass-produced rosary beads and ritual methods. Somehow, allusion to scarab beetles was made with the need to have a special jar maybe the size of a jigger, and then a perfectly respectable chat attempt degenerated into a reference to "anal beads".

Honestly, it's a wonder that humanity progresses intellectually at all.

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