Randomness from the comments at Fred Clark’s Slacktivist blog…

"But then the sailors knelt and prayed, not all together but five or six at a time. Side by side they knelt down together . . . but there only prayed at the same time men of different faiths so that no god should hear two men praying to him at once. As soon as any one should finish his prayer, another of the same faith would take his place . . ."

"And I too felt I should pray, yet I liked not to pray to a jealous god there where the frail affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long since deserted, who is now unworhsipped and alone; and to him I prayed."

"Idle Days on the Yann"
Lord Dunsany

The student asked the rabbi, "What is Hell like?"

"Hell," the rabbi says, "is just like Heaven. It is a glorious banquet table spread with the finest foods. But the people in Hell are starving because they have no elbows and they cannot feed themselves."

"I see," the student says, "but in Heaven the people do have elbows?"

"No," the rabbi says, "the people in Heaven don’t have elbows either. But in Heaven, they feed each other."

Fred has a delightfully snarky photograph to go along with this blog post, titled, The Lost Tomb.  It’s a tad hard to read the inscription, but the name is J. Cameron…