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They aren't. Matzu was a real woman.

She lived, and she prayed that her family would survive and they did.

So we pray to her in hopes that she will say prayers on our behalf.

I know that one because I'm a sailor.

In the interest of conversation and education. Are you Chinese or Taiwanese?

I'm not, I'm Irish / Italian American, my wife is Taiwanese. And it took me a long time to figure this stuff out and learn all this stuff.

I believe it was Christian priests trying to convince Asians that they were pagans so they could convert them to Christianity.

Also, my wife and I were married properly in Taipei according to her family's traditions and religion. But we were also married here in the US. I'm Roman Catholic and spent 12 years in Catholic School.

So I spent a lot of time talking to the priest about this. And he was a pretty senior priest getting promoted.

And ours was the last wedding he performed because then he was put in charge of all the weddings in the state and training other priests how do weddings.

He was no joke. He knew his stuff. He actually yelled at my entire family during the rehearsal ceremony. He yelled at 30 people. When I say Irish Catholic, that is my direct family. No cousins in that count. Just Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters and their children.

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This reads like an advertisement. Chick fil a is famous for its religiousity and forcing employees to obey their reigious rules as much as law allows.

I donate platelets every month and I heal between donations, but I have small dark scars in the crooks of both arms. It’s especially bad right after I donate because it’s a double needle procedure and I’ll be rocking bruises and marks on both arms for a couple of days. The American Red Cross allows platelet donations every seven days, but that’s too much for my body.

In stadiums I've been, if you buy a bottle they take the lid as it makes it harder to throw an open bottle as a projectile onto the field

Not necessarily, but most “tests” keep this fact in mind and trace amounts of morphine are seen as normal.

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What is left untold is that a removable cap and a bottle are two distinct pieces of packaging when you have to pay the EU tax... The new caps allow to pay half as much.

Cool. So what happens if we all believe in each other?

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…unfortunately, you also have osteoporosis.

My health teacher told us it was blue until it hit the air. I don't think her degree was in a science, haha.

or Vulcan...

That's right. White Lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.

Eh, the intermediary deities to the heavenly bureaucracy like the Kitchen God are still full-on deities in their own right.

Others, like Guan Yu(Guandi) and Matzu, are much more directly gods, especially in California.

The distinction between a saint and a God may matter in Christianity but it doesn’t necessarily matter in other religions.

My first reaction was, "Which way is Mecca? Down!" I'm kind of relieved that turns out to be the correct answer.

I hate to tell you this but...

I am pretty sure that they can't recycle black plastic unless it is attached to something else recyclable.

I believe it's something to do with the scanners have difficulty spotting black plastic and sorting it correctly.

You’re using a lot of Christian language here to describe a non-Christian tradition, which makes it tricky to really understand what’s going on here. Yes, these aspects of Chinese Folk Tradition may LOOK like aspects of Catholicism and may even function similarly in the wider society, but to use such uniquely Christian terminology muddies the water by assuming that Chinese religion or even society functions in any way like western society.

Terminology either means something or it doesn’t.

In what way could companies take the responsibility themselves?

Who said anything about buried lede? They're mining gold.

Still common in Cristianity throughout its history, all the people who got annointed as Saints for varies works, basically became demi-gods.

Patron Saint of.... is basically the same as God of...

What a name and what a woman

It was part of the paperwork during my last drug test.

That'd be difficult to drink and less convenient. I feel that normally people keep the cap with the bottle, and if the cap is litered it's usually screwed onto the bottle still