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nigelswift
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Re: Votive offerings
Sep 01, 2009, 15:42
"there's got to a be a compromise"

Not sure I altogether understand why there has to be a compromise any more than there should be a compromise with someone who has a deep need to paint a moustache on the Mona Lisa, but leaving that aside your Japanese solution is as close to equitable as anyone is likely to get I reckon. Not the idea of burning stuff but the concept that your "ownership" of the monument lasts for as long as your visit and no longer. (I think I suggested it myself at one point the last time we had this issue). You go for half an hour and if you think a place where ancient people deposited dismembered stiffs is a good place for you to hang up a plastic model of Bambi you do so - but then you clear up and sod off, leaving it tidy for the next person....
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