Altar
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| - | [[AA'ers]] are known to collect small artifacts and curios of some personal significance or interest, often with a comical aspect, and to display them in a quasi-reverent fashion within a frame or on a shelf, resembling an altar. Objects are often presented ironically, but rarely without at least a sprinkling of earnest admiration. | + | [[AA'ers]] are known to collect small artifacts and curios of some personal significance or interest-- often with a comical aspect--and to display them in a quasi-reverent fashion within a frame or on a shelf. Objects are sometimes presented ironically, but rarely without at least a sprinkling of earnest admiration and devotion. Sometimes incense is burned and bits of fruit and/or small shot glasses of alcohol left as offerings. Often a symbol of something feared or despised is placed upon these altars in the hopes that the altar's power will somehow lead to its destruction or defeat. |
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Altar(s) .nplssd. 1. Geomantic loci wheron Gods can be the object of direct human communication; the one way post-stop of Hope, Faith and Interlocution. 2. Any man-made object, or space, which seemingly produces praeterhuman phenomena. 3. The stage for a ritual sacrifice; a crematory. [edit] ExtrapolationAA'ers are known to collect small artifacts and curios of some personal significance or interest-- often with a comical aspect--and to display them in a quasi-reverent fashion within a frame or on a shelf. Objects are sometimes presented ironically, but rarely without at least a sprinkling of earnest admiration and devotion. Sometimes incense is burned and bits of fruit and/or small shot glasses of alcohol left as offerings. Often a symbol of something feared or despised is placed upon these altars in the hopes that the altar's power will somehow lead to its destruction or defeat. [edit] See Also |
 [edit] DesiderataIn Corinthians, St. Paul refers to pagan altars as the "table of devils." Dr. Peter Von Fondle was quite fond of altar boys. |
