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Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2015, 03:57 PM Nov 2015

Lamb sacrifice performed for man days before he was ejected onto freeway sign


The family of a man whose body landed on a freeway sign during a car crash says they performed a lamb sacrifice for him days earlier for protection from harm.

Richard Pananian, 20, of Burbank had been battling serious health issues but overcame them, said his cousin, Armen Kardashian. He would not say what the health issues were.

This time, his family wasn’t taking any chances and was determined to protect him, so they performed a matagh, or offering, on Oct. 25. Matagh is a tradition of the Armenian Church and often used to show appreciation to God for saving a life, asking for good health or for peace for deceased loved ones.

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He was driving on southbound on the 5 Freeway just north of California 134 when his Ford Fiesta rear-ended a pickup truck and overturned, said Officer Edgar Figueroa, a California Highway Patrol spokesman. The CHP said Pananian was not wearing a seat belt.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-family-burbank-man-launched-onto-freeway-sign-20151102-story.html

Honestly the lamb part is the least unusual aspect of the story.
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Lamb sacrifice performed for man days before he was ejected onto freeway sign (Original Post) Lordquinton Nov 2015 OP
Doing an animal sacifice Turbineguy Nov 2015 #1
If I told him once COLGATE4 Nov 2015 #2
Some people just won't listen Yorktown Nov 2015 #5
Seat belt trumps lamb sacrifice packman Nov 2015 #3
That's how wrong you are Yorktown Nov 2015 #6
Sad for the lamb and sad for the man struggle4progress Nov 2015 #4
At first the absurd was overwhelming the story Lordquinton Nov 2015 #10
I am convinced. Can you provide a lamb sacrifice checklist? Yorktown Nov 2015 #7
SEAT BELT! SEAT BELT! SEAT BELT! Iggo Nov 2015 #8
Psychology? Self fulfilling prophesy? Brettongarcia Nov 2015 #9
The symbolism is too thick here Lordquinton Nov 2015 #11
Primitive religion believes symbols effect. ... Brettongarcia Nov 2015 #13
Guess God doesn't like mutton. n/t backscatter712 Nov 2015 #12
 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
6. That's how wrong you are
Wed Nov 4, 2015, 10:07 PM
Nov 2015

Lamb sacrifice -> mentioned in the Bible -> works -> OK

Seat belt -> NOT mentioned in the Bible -> can't possibly work -> don't

Hope this clarifies the issue.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
10. At first the absurd was overwhelming the story
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 10:21 PM
Nov 2015

But as I read on and was posting it just seemed more strange, something didn't add up there. Wonder how the investigation will turn out?

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
7. I am convinced. Can you provide a lamb sacrifice checklist?
Wed Nov 4, 2015, 10:09 PM
Nov 2015

Sex
Age
Weight
fur color
etc

I mean, there must be guidelines, right?

Brettongarcia

(2,262 posts)
9. Psychology? Self fulfilling prophesy?
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 01:55 PM
Nov 2015

Religious guy with interest in racing, on his way racing to a job in a collision center, has a collusion. And is vaulted up into the heavens. Becoming the goat.

Maybe his religious obsession with symbols got him. Mistaking icons for things that make things happen, is a common problem in old country religion.

Brettongarcia

(2,262 posts)
13. Primitive religion believes symbols effect. ...
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 02:10 PM
Nov 2015

... the things they look like. And sometimes the people that use them. Eg voodoo dolls, luck charms, etc. Often bringing to the owner the things pictured.

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