BPO is passe… Here comes RPO!

Too busy to pray? Let modern technology do it for you! Information Age Prayer at your service!

“Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.

We use state of the art text to speech synthesizers to voice each prayer at a volume and speed equivalent to typical person praying. Each prayer is voiced individually, with the name of the subscriber displayed on screen.”

Their FAQs section has some priceless gems!

Are the prayers meaningless, will subscribing really make a difference?

As with all prayer, the final results are up to God as everything follows His will. We make no claims regarding the efficacy of the service, however it is our opinion that the omniscient God hears the prayers when they are voiced, as He hears everything on this Earth. The omniscient God knows exactly who has subscribed and who each prayer is from when their name is displayed on screen and their prayer voiced. He is also aware of all donations to charity from each subscriber and we can surely make a difference in these charities supported.”

If you think this must be a humour site, one of my favourite blogs, Pharyngula by PZ Myers, who is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, points out,

“…the buttons to bill your credit card actually work, and go through paypal.”

Reminds me of something closer to home. This website is hopping on to the Indian BPO industry bandwagon in a completely novel and laughable way! They perform yagnas for you for a fee! They used to go under another name, “puja.by-choice.com” and were covered by the BBC then. Now they call themselves ”vedic.by-choice.com”.

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Their target clients seem to be the completely irrational and gullible, as is evident by this brilliant line on their website:

“What makes Yagnas so easily accessible to you, is that you do not even need to understand them or to attend in person to benefit from them.”

In other words, trust us blindly! You give us some money and we do some hocus pocus, which you have no clue about and which you do not need to personally attend (and thus save us the trouble of actually doing it?) and your life will change for the better or your such-and-such problems will be solved! And do we guarantee results? Are you kidding me?! 

“So although most people will feel Yagnas, some people may not perceive anything, or may not acknowledge the transformation, or may not attribute their life changes to Yagnas. So this being quite a subjective service, we can never promise any results.”

Go figure!

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