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Abdul Alhazred
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 08/31/2007 : 20:38:58
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Did I say irregular splotch?
I meant the Holy Mother of God.
Short video from news report ==> http://liveleak.com/view?i=450_1188520073
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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/31/2007 : 21:15:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Abdul Alhazred
Did I say irregular splotch? |
I think you meant "reflection of the Sun off the windows on the opposite side of the street."
Even in that video clip, you can see people's heads and hands creating shadow puppets. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/31/2007 : 23:20:25 [Permalink]
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I know that some may say, "these people need that kind of comfort." No. They may want it, but credulous people don't need their credulism tuned up.
A: Why did not the TV newspeople turn their camera on the reflecting window?
Q:Because they are cynically pandering to morons.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 23:58:53 [Permalink]
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Is this a harmless belief?
How much fuel is being wasted by people driving and flying to the site?
How much productivity is being lost by people taking off work?
How many of the people who visit will be suckered by hucksters who will see obvious marks (celebrating their credulity for the cameras) and also flock to the site? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2007 : 02:50:01 [Permalink]
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Out of curosity, and as I kind'a/sort'a collect Mary sightings, I opened the video. Pathetic, even for Mary. The stale cheese sandwich image was much better. I was, however, quite impressed by the size of the crowd, in both senses of the word.
Must have been a slow news day, to send a reporter to cover such silliness. Or maybe not.....
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2007 : 03:18:15 [Permalink]
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This one's really ridiculous. You can see people's shadows in the "Mary" light, and it's even mentioned that the "image" appears around 6 PM every day. Duh!
I find it amazing that nobody being taped seems to even look around to squint back toward the window from which the sun's light is clearly being reflected.
Nor is there anything like a representation of Mary, or any human figure, just a vague, unfocused, oval spot of light. Even that obvious fact doesn't seem to be of concern to credulous fools.
One can see here a vivid example of how powerful can be the will, especially amplified by a crowd, to "see" and believe things that either aren't there, or are being outrageously misinterpreted. This crowd is carefully self-screened to include mainly the credulous. As though listening to to Lot, nobody turns around to look back. They want to think they've witnessed a miracle, and they are not going to spoil it all with a skeptical glance. My respect for human witnesses just dropped to an even lower level.
The Our Lady of Fatima "miracle" bullshit must have been something very like this.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/01/2007 : 03:26:30 [Permalink]
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Well, the world wobbles along on it's axis as it scurries around the Sun. In a couple of weeks time, give or take, "Mary" will disappear as mysteriously as she arrived, only to return, briefly, next August. If it's an uncloudy day.
One hopes that, with a year to think about it, someone will have figgered it out.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED
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Posted - 09/01/2007 : 05:03:08 [Permalink]
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I never understood how GOD could have a mother in the first place. Religion teaches people to be followers, this allows the elite easier control of the masses. Much in the same way the idea of GOD having a mother, I find the idea that man is the cause of global warming and not the sun another control tool.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/01/2007 : 06:47:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
I never understood how GOD could have a mother in the first place. Religion teaches people to be followers, this allows the elite easier control of the masses. Much in the same way the idea of GOD having a mother, I find the idea that man is the cause of global warming and not the sun another control tool.
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"All religions are confusing; it's what keeps priests in business. ~~ The Last Tomb, forgotten the author.
Jerome, nobody said that man was the cause of global warming, merely a contributer, albeit a large one.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2007 : 13:13:54 [Permalink]
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| I find the idea that man is the cause of global warming and not the sun another control tool. |
Do you have any idea how stupid you appear when you say shit like this?
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If I knew then what I know now then I would know more now than I know. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 00:56:10 [Permalink]
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My favotite "mary" image was a local one down here in pinellas county FL. A building with glass mirrored exterior just "magically" turned up one day (after a couple of trees were cut down) to have the outline of her head on the side.
Turns out that a couple of years ealier her image was painted on as a chistmas decoration. The paint left a permanent mark on the glass, so instead of getting new glass the building owner planted some palm trees outside to cover it up!
The catholics bought the building, set up some goofy little shrine. People came from all over, it was a ridiculous traffic jamming media spectacle. Knowing that the image was a paint remnant, they still bought the building and encouraged people to come look at it.
I recall one local news reporter asking a "man on the street" if they knew it was a paint remnant, the person said no and refused to be swayed by the account of why the outline of a 3 story virgin mary head was on the side of a building. The reporter even had a picture of the christms decoration.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 03:47:14 [Permalink]
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It's all another piece of supporting evidence for a strong hypotheses of mine: Homo s. sapiens is much too stupid to have any long-term, evolutionary survival prospects.
If we keep going as we are, and we will, that Hypotheses will become a Theory and a horrible Fact will finally dawn upon the last of us: It took a dreadful comet from the vast reaches of the solar system to do unto the dinosaurs what Homo the Sap did unto himself.
But no matter, Jesus cares and provides us with images of his adulterous trollop of a mother in various & sundry places, and often has her speak to the psychologically anointed, provide comfort to the blindly faithful, and opens the door to black humor for such as myself.
More and more, it looks like the End Times whiners are correct in their drooling prophecies, although they have not really thought it, nor much of anything, really, through. There will be no Rapture, just a confused scramble for the evolutionary exit, stage left.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 06:31:32 [Permalink]
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Looks like they emptied the local bingo hall to get that crowd, man, what a collection of fuglies. I laughed so hard I think there's an irregular splotch in my underwear.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 12:28:21 [Permalink]
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Maybe so, Dave. For maximum effect, try nailing the undies up on a cross planted in your front yard. Starch the hell out of them and tack 'em about half way up the cross.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 15:59:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
Maybe so, Dave. For maximum effect, try nailing the undies up on a cross planted in your front yard. Starch the hell out of them and tack 'em about half way up the cross.
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You forgot the most important part - the collection box!
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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Original_Intent
SFN Regular
USA
609 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 15:08:55 [Permalink]
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Irregular splotch sighted in Pennsylvania.
