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Mord wrote:It's a physical contact thing. Transubstantiation is a touch-range Transmutation spell that requires ritual casting. Holy water blessing is also touch-range but can be done as a full-round action.
I was still a practicing Catholic when I heard somebody tell a joke about blessing the entire ocean. I asked my youth group advisor, my priest, and his backup priest, and was surprised to hear them all give me the same answer as the joke: yes, you CAN turn the entire ocean into holy water with a single ceremony, but then millions of people and fish would be committing sacrilege by swimming in it (the backup priest needed some prompting on this last point, but he agreed).
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Zaranthan wrote:
Mord wrote:It's a physical contact thing. Transubstantiation is a touch-range Transmutation spell that requires ritual casting. Holy water blessing is also touch-range but can be done as a full-round action.
I was still a practicing Catholic when I heard somebody tell a joke about blessing the entire ocean. I asked my youth group advisor, my priest, and his backup priest, and was surprised to hear them all give me the same answer as the joke: yes, you CAN turn the entire ocean into holy water with a single ceremony, but then millions of people and fish would be committing sacrilege by swimming in it (the backup priest needed some prompting on this last point, but he agreed).
I think that last point would be somewhat contentious. Some people consume blessed water and some others regard these people as pious.
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If you were in a plane, could you turn a raincloud into holy water? Or fog?

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If you turn fog into holy water, and then people cough in the fog, do those people go to hell?
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Is there a limit to how much you can turn into holy water?
I am now imagining trying to lure vampires into a backyard with a prepared swimming pool or to a fountain or something . .
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Or, blessing the water reservoir of a bar's sprinkler system.

Hey, it worked in Constantine with demons.
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Foxwarrior wrote:If you turn fog into holy water, and then people cough in the fog, do those people go to hell?
They go to Ravenloft.
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Stahlseele wrote:Is there a limit to how much you can turn into holy water?
I am now imagining trying to lure vampires into a backyard with a prepared swimming pool or to a fountain or something . .
And eh, if all else fails, there's always Water-Balloons, breakable bottles and super soakers ._.
No, go away, screw your emo vampire cool shit, i wanna burn faces with bright neon coloured weaponry and swimming pools!
It appears to be one full "thing" of water, if oceans are reasonable. SO I guess you could define it as "everything."
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Maybe someone did that. Might explain why we don't hear about vampires so much these days.
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I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.
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Orca wrote:I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.
Bless water, which evaporates and enters the water cycle. Therefore, I suppose one could do that as a(n indirect) way to bless the rains down in Africa.
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So...at my workplace, they are going to make about 10% of us redundant next week due to covid. Now, they are going to look at stats and numbers and things first, and while it'd be bragging to say I was the best, it'd not be bragging to say I'm not in the worst 10%, so my job should be safe, but still...
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They cut 10% of my company, too.
It was not an evenly distributed 10% where each office decimated themselves, though. That probably would have been preferable. They're more likely to just shut down an entire branch site, if your workplace is big enough.
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Meikle641 wrote:
Orca wrote:I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.
Bless water, which evaporates and enters the water cycle. Therefore, I suppose one could do that as a(n indirect) way to bless the rains down in Africa.
Catholic holy water is pure water, ritual, and addition of ingredients. Water and salt for blessings, water and oil for baptisms, and water and ashes for consecrating churches.

So no, you can't bless the water cycle. Probably not the ocean either, because of fish piss.
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It's next week, and I wasn't one of the people made redundant, so there's that.
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It looks like the Canadian/US border closure has been extended another month. While it’s sad that I’ll have less time to visit my relatives, I honestly have to say I feel safer up here.
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I guess I can take the cardboard to the dump later...

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That . . does not look like a legit dumping ground to me . .
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I feel much safer up here // pictures of wild bears.

That's got to say something
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Krusk wrote:I feel much safer up here // pictures of wild bears.

That's got to say something
Honestly, I feel safer up here. Once you get out of the big cities, the pandemic has barely spread up here. There have been less than a dozen cases in the "nearby" town in the past three months. Apart from maybe two new cases that might have happened recently, they've all been resolved.

That, and the PM isn't threatening to turn the military on its citizens.
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How's the food
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i get you. I've got bears near me too. And the military marching around cities and a lunatic with nukes in a pandemic hotspot.

So just bears sounds real nice right now
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OgreBattle wrote:How's the food
Not bad. I've been becoming a better cook since we moved up here in 2018.

The food is a bit more expensive because of how remote the town is. That, and currently, we're not even driving to town (normally 2 1/2 hours each way), so we're having groceries flown up. On the plus side, since the pandemic started, the band has been covering costs for the charter to fly up the groceries. On the downside, I can't easily get booze shipped up here. I think the road to town is currently open, but I don't really feel like a five-hour round trip and making my family self-isolate for 14 days just to get some beer.
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RobbyPants wrote:I think the road to town is currently open, but I don't really feel like a five-hour round trip and making my family self-isolate for 14 days just to get some beer.
You can brew your own. I'm sure a Mister Beer kit or similar is available where you are. It takes up some space, and brewing smells like yeast, so there are reasons you might not want to go that route.

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