That reminds me of the Gary Larson panel entitled "Applicane Healers"
which has a US pentecostal holding a vacuum cleaner before a wide eyed
congregation shouting "AND IN THE LORDS NAME I COMMAND THE FOUL DEMONS
THAT HAVE CLOGGED THIS VACUUM CLEANER, OUT!!!"
Animism taken in interesting directions.
Cheers
David
Mary Christine Erikson wrote:
> Uh, does this mean he thinks we should exorcize demons from the
> dysfunctional photocopier, or command and adjure it to work, or
> exorcize the premises of the photocopier by throwing it out the
> window?
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> Mary Christine
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> In a message dated 2/16/2008 7:45:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> and one of his more recent books (his Little Book of Demons) is
> all about the personification of material objects (like
> photocopiers which refuse to work etc) and treating many
> other in-life transaction behaviors as demons; giving them an
> identity, and thus (in his view) making them more in line with
> most human behaviour, or at least the human behaviour which we are
> best at , which is interpersonal
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