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So, after a long day of sightseeing, rain dodging and chow eating, fellow artist Ian Song and I wander up to the Goddess of Mercy shrine on Ko Loy, a tiny island linked to Siracha (home of the sauce!) by a causeway, and we see a fellow standing in front of the above, and there’s a recorded voice blessing him. There’s a whole row of like two dozen of these, all waiting for the monetary attentions of the faithful public.

So the object above is a coin operated blessing robot, something that I had no idea existed until earlier today. I’m not a particularly religious man, but do robot blessings count? I’d love to hear the theological reasoning behind this. Not because I’m critical, but because it’s probably an interesting bit of reasoning.

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