MEDICINE MAN (a real one, before a sweat lodge ceremony in Patagonia, AZ, ca 1999): What is a prayer?
HOLISTIC VEGETARIAN PERSON, CRASHING SWEAT LODGE: An entreaty to a higher power?
MEDICINE MAN: A prayer is something you say to yourself. Do you say things to yourself, think things?
HOLISTIC BULLSHIT PERSON: Yes...
MEDICINE MAN: Those are your prayers. Whatever you're saying, if it's generous, or if it's petty, no matter, what you say to yourself, that's your prayer.
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(possibly irrelevant YouTube segue):
Say you remember a song, say a song called "Amy" (you think; and you remember the lyrics "Amy, what you want to do...")
Try it at YouTube, and you'll find autocompletions that bring up, for example:
"amy what you wanna do i think i could stay with you"
You'd think, "yes, that's it exactly, that's what I want, that song in the autocompletion." But, if you click through on one of those, you won't find what you're looking for (you'll find Amy Winehouse videos, instead). What you really want is a song not about an "Amy", but really an "Amie", a song by Pure Prairie League (as I discovered after many iterations of trying it)
So, what we have here is the disconnect between the associate prayer and search algorithm autocompletion.
Maybe I'm a little too-obsessed by autocompletion?
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