Interfaith Relations
So I entered the Peace Park. I went first to my left to visit the mosque. A board on the outside gave me some links to information about Islam and asked me to remove my shoes before entering. A challenge for a noob, but I went into my inventory, found my shoes, right-clicked and selected "remove." Voila. No shoes. Nobody was around to see if I kept them on, but I like to respect the various customs.
It was a small little chapel with an information board inside about various customs and tenets of Islam. When you click on those things you get a notecard with a copy of the information that you can either delete or keep. I got the notecard. Then I noticed a green ball floating in mid-air that said "pray." I clicked on it, but nothing happened. I went back out, put on my shoes and walked over to the Christian chapel.
The sign didn't ask me to remove my shoes, but it gave me lots and lots of links to various Christian sites on the web. I went in. More green balls that said "praying." I remembered something from Help Island that talked about posing balls and figured that's what these were. I right-clicked this time and selected the option to sit down. Here's what Voces did.
That's a King James Bible you see on the lectern. Click on it and you get links to sites where you can read the KJV. The little white floating cross is what you click on to get specific information about Christianity. There were definitions for terms from Adam and Eve to Jesus, but didn't go further down the alphabet. The note said that the card was incomplete. I couldn't quite tell if Voces was kneeling down since I couldn't back up in my view any further without going through the back wall. When an avatar is using a posing ball, you can move around without the avatar moving.
I stood her up and we went back out into the Peace Park. A board advertised "The Essential Dalai Lama." It was a slide show. The first slide said "The most rapid and direct means to eternal bliss." Ironically it took some time to load!
Next to that was an open-air altar for Hinduism. Here it is:
When you right click on the fruit basket you can get a peeled banana which you then "wear" to have it show on your avatar. I wore a banana once in real life when I forgot it was in the pocket of the jacket I was wearing tied around my waist on a hike. It was an unpleasant experience. From the appearance of the altar, it seems that some left their gift bananas behind. Mine is back in my inventory.
Beside that was an apple tree. Fortunately it did not allow you to eat the apples or perhaps I would have found myself booted out of the garden! I did sit under the tree, however.
Yes, the hair is different from the photos from the Big Hair posts. As I noted back there, I forgot to save the new hair, so this is other hair that I edited. I liked the other better and will get back to it if I can. Behind Voces is a Buddhist shrine, and I went there next. There were the usual cards with links and information, and more posing balls. These said "meditation" and it struck me that I might get a different pose. Sure enough:
It was nice that I could just click "stand up" and up she came. If I assumed that pose for any length of time in real life, I would need to call 911.
It was a small little chapel with an information board inside about various customs and tenets of Islam. When you click on those things you get a notecard with a copy of the information that you can either delete or keep. I got the notecard. Then I noticed a green ball floating in mid-air that said "pray." I clicked on it, but nothing happened. I went back out, put on my shoes and walked over to the Christian chapel.
The sign didn't ask me to remove my shoes, but it gave me lots and lots of links to various Christian sites on the web. I went in. More green balls that said "praying." I remembered something from Help Island that talked about posing balls and figured that's what these were. I right-clicked this time and selected the option to sit down. Here's what Voces did.
That's a King James Bible you see on the lectern. Click on it and you get links to sites where you can read the KJV. The little white floating cross is what you click on to get specific information about Christianity. There were definitions for terms from Adam and Eve to Jesus, but didn't go further down the alphabet. The note said that the card was incomplete. I couldn't quite tell if Voces was kneeling down since I couldn't back up in my view any further without going through the back wall. When an avatar is using a posing ball, you can move around without the avatar moving.I stood her up and we went back out into the Peace Park. A board advertised "The Essential Dalai Lama." It was a slide show. The first slide said "The most rapid and direct means to eternal bliss." Ironically it took some time to load!
Next to that was an open-air altar for Hinduism. Here it is:
When you right click on the fruit basket you can get a peeled banana which you then "wear" to have it show on your avatar. I wore a banana once in real life when I forgot it was in the pocket of the jacket I was wearing tied around my waist on a hike. It was an unpleasant experience. From the appearance of the altar, it seems that some left their gift bananas behind. Mine is back in my inventory.
Beside that was an apple tree. Fortunately it did not allow you to eat the apples or perhaps I would have found myself booted out of the garden! I did sit under the tree, however.
Yes, the hair is different from the photos from the Big Hair posts. As I noted back there, I forgot to save the new hair, so this is other hair that I edited. I liked the other better and will get back to it if I can. Behind Voces is a Buddhist shrine, and I went there next. There were the usual cards with links and information, and more posing balls. These said "meditation" and it struck me that I might get a different pose. Sure enough: It was nice that I could just click "stand up" and up she came. If I assumed that pose for any length of time in real life, I would need to call 911.I was quite struck with the artwork in this shrine. Here's a picture of the wall opposite the one you can see above.
There was also a Jewish synagogue with a Torah Scroll and then a garden in the center with a card for everything else from Atheism to Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism. The latter was set up as a link and the Druid in me needed to click on it. I got a message saying that I wasn't allowed to see that information. So much for interfaith relations!
As a side note, I got that blue streak on the back of my arm when I told the "editing appearance" guide to give me longer sleeves. I got the same short sleeves with blue marks on my arm. Clearly I have more to learn about fashion.
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