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| Author | Topic: Underpass stains, burnt toast & the pervasiveness of the Cult of the Virgin Mary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Indeed.
The ability helps us a great deal (pattern recognition is what allows us to read, to perceive images on a screen, is instrumental in problem solving, etc), but all it takes is a slightly overactive imagination and a lapse in skepticism to make us see, as Phat says in someone's signature, "monsters where others see only windmills." There is a rock down the shore from my parents that neighborhood folklore says looks like (a) a lion head, (b) a crouching frog or (c) with two other rocks, a sea turtle poking head and flippers out of the water. And yes, one can pick out these patterns in this one rock. Man in the Moon - Wikipedia
quote: But I think there is something else going on with the Mary\etc images. In these cases we have people that believe (a) Mary\etc is an angel\god - a powerful spirit, (b) that miracles happen, and these appearances are such, and (c) that their god\etc is communication by such images to those of the faith (see John 10:10 for this kind of thinking). In other words, sever confirmation bias: it's a miracle because they want a miracle and it looks enough like Mary\etc to be like a miraculous vision, so it's a miracle. There likely is also cognitive dissonance: tell a believer that it looks like something else, and they'll probably deny it (like John 10:10 saying that you need to look with faith to see the evidence that justifies faith). So we should start believing because of the evidence before our eyes, evidence that you need faith to see, but evidence you will see once you have faith. So pass the mochi and believe in the Great Rabbit. Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : ... by our ability to understand Rebel American Zen Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. • • • Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click) • • •
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
NOOO that can't be right ...
You mean a picture like this:
If this what Jesus looked like (based on physical anthropology, forensic anthropology, human osteology and other related anthropological and biological evidence as shown here: Real Face Of Jesus)than his mother Mary also had brown eyes, brown skin, kinky type hair ... That's the portrait of a terrorist!!! Enjoy. by our ability to understand Rebel American Zen Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. • • • Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click) • • •
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