LaTigresse
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I am trying to remember the details, but I believe it is regularly practiced by several religiouns. I am almost positive I have read about monks that do it en mass on a specific date. In addition, I saw something, perhaps on the travel channel where there were young men walking through the street as part of a religious ceremony, flogging themselves. It was someplace more remote in either China, Tibet, Vietnam.....something. And then there is the device that some devout used to place around their thigh I believe, that dug in quite painfully. For some reason I just remembered the old story about the hair shirt.
< Message edited by LaTigresse -- 1/26/2010 11:04:15 AM >
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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