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[jberryhill]

8. I've never heard of a god that didn't want money

That goes for Jehovah, Krishna (and all his woodland friends) and Buddha too.

My second favorite Buddha so far was the Big Buddha in Phuket. They built this Big Buddha up on a hill that you could see from some of the beaches, way up on the top of the highest hill you can see:



Well, I was out swimming and looking up and I didn’t even know they had a Big Buddha. He was just looking out to sea like that, and I thought we just had to go see what things looked like from where he was.

So we drove up there along a windy hillside road - you just follow the signs from anywhere that say “Big Buddha” and have an arrow - and this was a little while before he was completely finished. So they also had a big reclining Buddha in a tent and there were something like 20 collection plates around him, and it was apparently really good luck and many blessings if you put a coin in each one. And they had monks that would give you a bag of 5 baht coins for a 100 baht note - although they had higher denominations which I gathered would get you even more luck. But, I figured that I’d try the entry level, and if I ended up getting lucky, I’d cut him in on a share of the proceeds. Sort of a win-win, Karma-wise.

I guess the luck has been okay so far. I’d give it another go. Especially now they he’s done...




But, anyways, like all gods, he likes money too.