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July 02, 2008 |
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Make Your Choices Wisely
FOUND by S. Lee
in Flushing, New York
I found this in a room at the Marriot hotel. Usually there is a Gideon's bible in the drawers of most motels and hotel rooms, so I decided to look for it.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Wow. I am the first to comment on this.
You shall reap what you sar.
Cool.
I've sarn it all.
Who writes in all capitals through an entire handwritten note?
I like how the letters get closer together in the words as the note progresses.
Gee, someone doesn't care for the Book of Mormon, or maybe it was the Book of Norman.
Whatever - it looks like a dig at Bill Marriott's religious practices. My, heavens - can I say that?
The hay bible? Hmmmm
Yeah, Marriott hotels have a book of mormon instead.
mmm.
yes.
uh huh.
okay then.
gotcha.
mmmhmmm.
bye now...
(don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out...)
thanks.
buh-bye now.
no, really, thanks for stoppin' by.
oh, you're gonna pray for me?
well isn't that... sweet.
buh-bye now.
no, really.
mmmhmmm.
buh-bye.
buh-bye now.
The Buddha inclines me toward compassion, even for small-minded, exclusive, religious bigots like this writer.
Isn't hay for horses?
play my new game:
Other Possible Titles in the Hotel Drawer
Helter Skelter
next...?
This is what happens when you hit the mini-bar too hard.
Can we say...bigot?? All together now!! B-I-G-O-T-!!!!
Make your choices wisely.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah; blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Amen
OOps. They forgot to do their fancy cool person "A" in the word "hay." Didn't one of yesterday's finds (or the day before? it's all just one big blur) have those fancy cool person As, too?
Puckhog, straw's cheaper (grass is free. Buy a farm and get all three.. hyuk hyuk.)
I prefer to comb thrift stores for what I consider THE two things all thrift stores should have: any Herb Alpert record (preferably a Christmas version) and a copy of Lee Iacocca's biography. You'll be amazed at how many meet these qualifications.
And remember, you reap what you saw.
I stay with Marriott at least 4 to 6 times a year and I've never noticed a Book of Mormon. Maybe I didn't reap it and that's why I never saw it.
Full service Marriott hotels also have a copy of the JW Marriott book "The Spirit to Serve: Marriott's Way" in the nightstand of every room. Perhaps our guest sar this as a the second coming of L. Ron.
Lars, have to have Kama Sutra.
Freonz, I'm on the same page with you. I was thinking about the Joy of Sex.
WTF? I wonder if the writer does this often: leaves notes on things that starts off with "This _________ is not of Christianity" (fills
in the blank for whatever is being addressed).
"This t.v. is not of Christianity"
"This lamp is not of Christianity"
and so on...
"Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible.
Rocky had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival.
Ya gotta have a copy of the bible in every hotel room, for the blank page in front, just in case you forgot your rolling papers.
Everyone is entitled to express their own religious viewpoint as long as they don't scratch it into the bedside table with scissors.
Well, pondering the possibility that, just as there's a Gutenberg Bible, a King James version, a Good News! Bible.. I thought that perhaps I was missing something, and there's such a thing as The Hay Bible.
Google asked me, "did you mean holy bible?"
Oh. Uh. Duh. I guess I did. Thanks for clearing that up.
The writer of this note is evidence of why we need the "separation of church and State" in America!!
Now to play lar's game. Another possible title for the book this note was found in:
"Harry Potter"
or
"Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakaur
One of my best friends is Mormon, and she either dated or was good friends with the heir to the Marriott. Anyway, so it wouldn't surprise me that they would only have Mormon bibles in their rooms.
I find it really funny how so many Americans are so pushy about their religion, how America is a "Christian country" when it was in fact founded to escape religious persecution and does not have an official religion... Weee history
The first (maybe only) time I stayed in a Mariott (20+ years ago) I stole the Book of Mormon. They also had Mr Mariott's autobiography in the drawer. I left that.
Still haven't read the B of M, but figure it could be handy as some sort of reference.
I handwrite in all caps. Any other way is illegigle for the most part. Guess I'm too lazy to write properly.
Geee, Josie, I thought our great country was founded to avoid taxation without representation. Look how long that lasted. . .
p.s. @Sue
You can't steal a Book of Mormon.
Luckily for Josie, the United States failed in its attempt to usurp Canada during the war of 1812.
Religion is fairy tales for grownups (and grownups should know better).
Maybe the Hay bible is the pantheist holy text?
Or if the writer did mean "holy Bible", that'd explain why it says "is the word of J+E, Lord God"; it's the word of jokers and extortionists, Lord God!
I Warship Satin!
American Apparel reaps what it sews.
@ giggles....warship, as in a Star Trek type of war ship ? And satin, as in sheets? Not 800 tread count cotton, but satin?
OHHH, now I get it. You were being facetious !
As an ex Mormon atheist I'd just like to say that the Mormon bible is the King James version. The Book of Mormon is just a continuation. It's more like the new new testament.
"I Warship Satin" is from Find 2673.
You know, I've stayed in hotels in Israel, and none of them had the Hebrew Scriptures in the bedside drawer that I recall. But in a business hotel in Tokyo last year, I found a bilingual copy of "The Teachings of Buddha." My friend, an atheist, was able to flip it open to a section that dictated that wives should obey their husbands silently and wash their feet, which he read pointedly in my direction. Now you tell me, if there is no god, what mysterious spirit pointed its finger at that passage for him? Must be the kami of the nightstand.
Imagine God wearing a plaid sports coat. God says, "Listen, you have a choice, here we have three doors. Behind one door is your seat in Heaven next to The Almighty, behind another door is eternal damnation and gnashing of teeth--suffering for all time at the hand of Satan, and behind the last door is something else (probably a donkey). You can choose one of those doors or you can take this $1000. If you choose the $1000 dollars you can trade with the Scientologist for the box in his hands. You can keep what's in the box or give it to a Buddhist for enlightenment, you can keep the enlightenment or trade it with a Hindu for reincarnation. You can keep the reincarnation or give it to me and choose one of the doors. You can choose one of those doors or you can take this $1000..."
Choose wisely.
Hey, Terrie: Very clever and good all around advice. Maybe I'll adopt that as my new motto.
Nah, I better not. I'm not good at making choices.
Thanks, Midlife.. I had no idea what Find comments it came from! SO Nice to see you today!
Actually, you CAN steal Book of Mormons. They are free, yes free. Have as many as you want. Build a house out of them! Go to mormon.org and reap what you saw.
Whenever I'm in a hotel with a Gideon Bible I leave the bookmark in the Song of Songs just in case it brightens someone's day.
I found out my brother does the same thing.