Comments on: Cell Phones Sleeping with the Fishes http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/ Integrating the Arts and Science Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-553 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:32:53 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-553 Ah! Thanks, Katha! My mind wasn’t able to figure it out that day! SMILE!

]]> By: Kathakali Chatterjee http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-552 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:31:44 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-552 Sorry for the typo David, I meant “ablaze”.

]]> By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-551 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:28 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-551 What is “ablzed,” Katha?

]]> By: Kathakali Chatterjee http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-550 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:37:18 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-550 Interesting custom.
We have a ritual to say the last “goodbuy” by offering everything the person used to use/ like which gets ablzed along with. Resembles the same – I guess.

]]> By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-549 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:30:27 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-549 Right, Gordon! There for protection of the dead, though, instead of for communicating with the outside world.

]]> By: Gordon Davidescu http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-548 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:09 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-548 http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/
Little mobile phone soldiers? :)

]]> By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-547 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:22:26 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-547 It’s so crazy, Gordon! I guess cellphones and television sets will be the trinkets we take with us into the afterlife just like the Egyptians took with them their jewels and gemstones.

]]> By: Gordon Davidescu http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-546 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:37:13 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/cellphones-sleeping-with-the-fishes/#comment-546 I hope never.
So ridiculous. Makes the saying about our possessions not coming with us to the world to come seem all the more relevant.

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