Schneier vs. Brin
Doug Pensinger
brighto at zo.com
Mon Mar 10 17:37:36 PDT 2008
Alberto wrote:
>
> Ronn! asked:
> >
> > There's a religion that believes in wearing holey underwear?
> >
> I guess this was a rhetorical question, but the surprising answer
> is a qualified "yes".
>
> Afro-brazilian religion Umbanda (which is a mix-up of European
> Roman Catholicism, French philosopher Allan Kardec's Spiritism,
> African Candomble and Tupi native religions) preach that people
> should celebrate New Year with white clothes, but that the
> colour of the underwear will bring what you want for the next year -
> so, for example, you should wear yellow to get money, or red to
> get a new love (or some other colour code).
8^)
But I think we were talking about holy underwear with holes in it (holey).
As in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
but I see from the article that they don't really have holes in them
anymore.
Doug
Wholly Sh*t maru
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