Symbols and Silliness

[baavgai]

I'd meant to mention this, forgot, then ultimately used it on a friend's blog.

Did you know that Arlington National Cemetery has standard list of Authorized Emblems for the head stones? The graphics on the page are rather shabby, aren't they? I have a few observations:

A wiccan pentacle was recently added, in spite of objections.

The atheist symbol makes me think of buzz cuts, taped together eyeglasses, and grainy filmstrips from science class.

I'm amused by the "not shown because of copyright" symbols. "Hello, we're to spread our universal truth. No, wait! You can't carve that without a licensing fee." Now that's a modern religion!

And, best of all, ECK! One of the flakiest humans I've ever known in my life was into this. While I generally accept everyone's belief, this one is a pretty classic cult. Perhaps, in time, Paul Twitchell will catch up to Joseph Smith in respectably?. Surely stranger things have happened in the history of religion.

Comments

[edelweiss68.livejournal.com]

Hey, what about we Quakers??

Oh, wait... we don't have a symbol.

...And we wouldn't be buried in Arlington for an obvious reason anyway.

Nevermind...

;)

[handymonkey]

You'd consciously object to being buried there...

[edelweiss68.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! :D

[handymonkey]

Gods, I haven't even heard of 1/3 of those religions. Yet "paganism" is new? Huh.

[edelweiss68.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad to see Baha'i on there, actually. That was one of the few I expected NOT to see on the list.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Now it's time to get the FSM on the list.