Alicorn comments on Designing Ritual - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Raemon 11 January 2012 01:52AM

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Comment author: Kevin 11 January 2012 02:53:20AM *  2 points [-]

Thanks, this is helpful. I do need to design a ritual for this year's Burning Man camp.

The theme is the "Temple of Salt" and I'd like to invite the public to come to the "Salt Ritual". So far I plan on having a pink rock salt statue of Lot's Wife for people to lick but the ritual needs a bit more to it and I'm very open to ideas.

Comment author: Alicorn 11 January 2012 03:13:26AM 8 points [-]

Several people are going to share a salt lick? That doesn't sound sanitary.

Comment author: Kevin 11 January 2012 05:17:55AM *  1 point [-]

Typically yes, but Burning Man is a uniquely desolate environment where germs are unable to live on surfaces and germs can never live inside of a pure salt lick.

Comment author: wedrifid 11 January 2012 05:23:37AM 6 points [-]

Or, at least, Burning Man is an environment in which licking the salt lick is probably not the most unsanitary thing most people are going to do that day.