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wow..captions for pic from Chinatimes.com 千年雕像 抹油儀式 (2006/02/09) 印度南部班格洛市西邊160公里處，8日為一座已有1800年歷史的巨型雕像，舉行12年一次的頭頂塗油膏的儀式，吸引約300萬的教徒參與.

What caught my attention the most? Two things...one this statue has been around for 1800 years. Two, the phallus! Think about showing a penis or breast on statues in public arenas today in America, and you'd get all sorts of complaints about sexual inappropriateness blah blah. Being sensitive is one thing, and I know I have some work to do there, but oversensitive? Bad too.

Recently there's been some troubling tension between the West and Muslim nations. Dialogue is necesary, but I think both sides need to learn to see from each other's point of view. More on this in a later post..

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