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Elderly Chinese Woman Prays to Garen Statue
SBFord
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Elderly Chinese Woman Prays to Garen Statue
Alert gamers in China have snapped several photos of an elder woman kneeling before and praying to a League of Legends statue outside a local internet cafe. The statue portrays LOL's Garen, though it is assumed that the woman mistook him for Lord Guan, a Chinese general during the Three Kingdoms period.
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I'm going with this interpretation.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
This book is a work of fiction to me, yet I make some effort to live up to its example of right and wrong. "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." I may have interpreted this situation wrong, and she is just observing her religious beliefs by praying. But if she was turning to the universe and asking for help from a higher power, I would hope that those around might answer. And in some mysterious way, act to help her.
She looks too young to remember the religious traditions prior to the revolution. Maybe in her ignorance she is reinterpreting those old traditions as best she can.
Boy: Why can't I talk to Him?
Mom: We don't talk to Priests.
As if it could exist, without being payed for.
F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
It costs money to play. Therefore P2W.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Few modern statues of any saint or similar looks anything like they actually looked IRL anyways, it is the thought that counts and it is easier to focus once mind when you have something to focus on. Jesus did hardly look like the modern picture of him with white skin, beard and long hair (the earlier depictions looks very different and even they are made 100 years or more after his death based on guesses).
Laughing at someone who prays is not a nice thing to do, someone else will think the same thing about you.
And it could be worse, she could be praying to lord British....
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Mastering Garen is somehow sillier than praying to his statue in my book.
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I find her public prayer to be inspiring to be honest.
Of course, knowing the ChiCom government, they'll probably find out who she is and take her into custody as a political prisoner and harvest her organs, just like they do with thousands of Falun Gong practitioners. Well, probably not. She's a bit old for that, and I'm sure they've got bigger fish to fry, like their crumbling economy.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
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