Before paddling out yesterday afternoon, I was approached by a group of older folks who told me they needed sea water as medicine for a sick friend, and that the water could not be collected from the shoreline. Based on my very limited understanding, it seemed like a Santeria thing. They asked if I could swim out and fill two gallon jugs, and I did. One woman tried to pay me a few dollars, but I declined. This past summer I encountered a Hindu group having a service on the beach. It was a relatively large group, and they had a small fire. They all were facing the rising sun (which rises over land that time of year), with the exception of a few individuals who walked off and seemed to be contemplating the ocean. If you surf Rockaway, I'm sure you've come across the various offerings left at the water's edge. It's usually fruit, but sometimes it's flowers, and one time early in the morning I came across a line of candles right below the high tide line. Once while launching a kayak in the Bronx I found a bag containing a dead rooster, rice, beans and a necklace, but I haven't seen anything like that at the beach yet. It's interesting to come across people who relate to the water in a kind of similar but very different way from the way I do. Has anyone else come across people practicing their religion at the beach?
Every session is like making out with Jesus, not in a gay way, but in a way that brings him into my heart and molests my soul. You should come to my church, InsideMeMinistries.cock, or send your kids to my camp, InsideYourKids.lil.cock and I can teach them why wearing a wetsuite is prohibitive to being touched. Amen brother. Also, good work getting the jugs for the people.
Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. sbx, what da puck do you think christians have been doing for centuries with water and "baptism"?? This is new ???
I gave an old lady a salt water baptism during the Cristobal swell, U2B can verify. I'll elaborate later if necessary, must work now. But this was the day...
I've seen some new age stuff that claimed water as the most receptive element and even stated that it responded to different emotions. It then went so far as to say different emotions/blessings changed the molecular structure of water. It was interesting and I could believe some of it on certain levels seeing as how we're about 60% ( I think) water ourselves, then some of it was a little too out there for me. Regardless, water is a damn important thing spiritually or thirstilly. I heard the sh*ts even in beer. Amen.
Walk on water?? Turn water to wine?? H2O has been a religious experience for millennia--especially in waterless areas such as the middle east. Nowadays, of course, there is "oil"!!
I'm still not sure what point you're making, I didn't mean to imply that the practices I mentioned were new, although collecting water for someone else's spiritual practice was certainly new to me.
I imagine most Swellinfo members live in areas where Christianity is by far the dominant religion. Do churches that practice full immersion baptism ever do it in the ocean? One thing I always liked about Catholicism is how beach towns always seem to have a St. Mary Star of the Sea or Stella Maris church or chapel or some such.
And you did do a good deed!! Never mind my point, did not really have one, actually. Please write me off as a useless geezer, frozen way up north.
The last line saved your post. Other than that it was all garbage. Just got done looking at the periodic table and didn't see water anywhere. What are you thoughts on crystals and their powers? You're out of your element. And kinda into this kind.
This might fit better on this thread...Time to go surf now catch you guys later... http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...yne+the+insane
^^^ duuuuuude.... I'm sure you were feeling "saved" as well. y'all know that feeling, when you and your buoys have already gotten a good one. and y'all trade eye contact right quick with a head nod or a hoot. my friends are the only ones who know my friends are the only ones who need to know what's cool is that even though I've never surfed with any of you, if you have truly surfed, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
See groups often here in Galveston. Marriages, prayer groups, orange robe clubs, etc. Not too much in winter though. They'd need to be penguins or somethin today. 41F, strong N wind, and rainin. Maybe not that cold for y'all yankees up yonder, but that's f***in nutball cold for us way down here. I think the seashore is a pleasant place to find ur inner peace, however you choose to do that.
