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I knew, of course, of the practice of opening up a holy book and reading a random snippet, but I didn't know that one could just ask a child what verse comes to mind. It seems that asking a child does increase the odds you'll get a verse from the beginning or end of the book, and also dramatically decrease the odds that you'll get one about somebody begetting somebody else, which is 99.999% of the time amazingly unhelpful and, the rest of the time, helpful in all the wrong ways. Well, depends on who begat whom, I guess, and what you were asking about....
But what happens if the child mangles the scripture, or happens to say something that isn't (your) scripture at all?
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But what happens if the child mangles the scripture, or happens to say something that isn't (your) scripture at all?
The Coffee Pouring Puzzle That’s Messing With People’s Minds
Moderate alcohol consumption improves foreign language skills
How Birdwatching Made Japanese Designers Design A Better Train (Video)
The Sneakerheads Racing to Save Their Kicks From Decay
Letter from Africa: Ghana's Street lawyers dispense instant justice
Candid Portraits Smuggled From Behind the Iron Curtain
Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media
“Spiritual but not religious”: inside America's rapidly growing faith group
'Annotated African American Folktales' Reclaims Stories Passed Down From Slavery
Why Are Parents Afraid of Later School Start Times? (Why are comments to articles on this subject always so stupid? 1,000 variations on "Who cares about science!?")
The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches
The Forgotten Women Scientists Who Fled the Holocaust for the United States
To save a young woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer virus
A Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing
More Jurisdictions To Provide Legal Defense For Immigrants At Risk Of Deportation
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs
Ex-members say church uses power, lies to keep grip on kids
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning (At least it isn't self-driving trucks yet)
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Why Niger and Mali's cattle herders turned to jihad
The children trapped by Albania's blood feuds
How a Rohingya massacre unfolded at Tula Toli
