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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   At the end of the CTV news (not the CTV National News but   
   the CTV News Overnight half hour edition that starts on   
   the half hour in most time zones and on the hour here in   
   Newfoundland) tonight they showed a traditional Chinese   
   river lantern festival. (CTV is a Canadian TV network.)   
      
   From google:   
      
   Lantern Festival, holiday celebrated in China and other Asian countries that   
   honours deceased ancestors on the 15th day of the first month (Yuan) of the   
   lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace,   
   and forgiveness.   
      
   However it must be that it is celebrated on the 15th of this lunar   
   month in some part of China, not just in the first lunar month of   
   the Chinese year.   
      
   Anyway, by viewing it I considered that I was participating in the   
   ritual, and added it to a.s.c. (6), which will be applied to all   
   1.55 million human assisted shaktipat recipients globally.   
   But unlike the four Catholic sacraments which I included,   
   the river lantern festival ritual did not need to be funnelled;   
   it was entirely positive.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the   
   hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)