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Christmas Miracles
Posted: 29 December 2011 02:53 PM   [ Ignore ]
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God sure is quirky, isn’t he?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8978914/Woman-sees-face-of-Jesus-in-sock.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=5

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=6

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=9

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8982533/Images-of-Jesus-Christ-and-other-religious-figures-seen-in-everyday-objects.html?image=11

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Posted: 29 December 2011 05:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Right on. Meanwhile earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, destruction, disease, evil ~ atheism (same thing - almost?), death and damnation, as well as the pictures of Jesus in toast and cereal and socks and, and, and . . .

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Posted: 29 December 2011 05:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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My personal favorite is Jesus on the drain pipe and the woman’s comment… “God only knows why he chose my drainpipe to appear on, but I hope this means I won’t have floods of pilgrims flocking to my house after this”

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Posted: 29 December 2011 06:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a collection of more blatant cases of misidentification than these!

The last one is obviously George Washington (I guess I can understand why a Limey wouldn’t spot that though). On the drain pipe is an image of Scratchy at the end of an Itchy and Scratchy bit blatantly ripped right out of a second season Simpsons episode (no idea where the believer even managed to get a human out of that one). The chicken has a clear image of Viggo Mortensen on it (a bit of Hollywood worship there—always a little strange). The candy bar is Treebeard, from The Lord of the Rings (LotR fan theme going on here?). The frying pan is obviously intentional, but the guy screwed up and did Gregg Allman rather than Jesus (Gregg Allman is the celebrity whose image is the most often mistaken for Jesus by far, accounting for 87% of images mistaken for Jesus). The pizza is a rare manifestation of C3PO, and finally, on the sock we have a bunch of personalities. It’s primarily a portrait of Rutger Hauer, but there’s also a Romulan from Star Trek in the top of the mural, Boba Fet from Star Wars in the bottom left, and the SoBe lizard and an Amazonian Tree Frog cruising up the sock in-between the Romulan and Rutger Hauer. So thereyago ... all easily debunked.

I’m always amazed at how believers make such blatant identification errors in the obvious desperation to see Jesus and affirm their personal biases.

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Posted: 29 December 2011 09:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Why search for Jesus when, with a little money, you may have him or his mother grace your breakfast every day?

http://www.burntimpressions.com/

I wonder if the jokers who make these rosters have the guts to make a Mohammed toaster?

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Posted: 30 December 2011 01:49 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Skipshot - 29 December 2011 09:44 PM

Why search for Jesus when, with a little money, you may have him or his mother grace your breakfast every day?

His mother was Mary, not Grace.  Geez grin

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Posted: 30 December 2011 02:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Have you seen this one, bit tasteless I guess…

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Posted: 30 December 2011 03:46 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Martin: Have you seen this one, bit tasteless I guess?

That is the best I have ever seen!

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Posted: 30 December 2011 08:54 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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How do we know his mother was Mary and not Grace Bruce? Is there a DNA test available? Who was his father anyway? I’d really like to see the X chromosome on that.

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‘In the name of intellectual honesty we should say we don’t know when we don’t know instead of making things up that fit just to give us comfort that we think we know’

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Posted: 30 December 2011 08:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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saralynn - 29 December 2011 05:21 PM

My personal favorite is Jesus on the drain pipe and the woman’s comment… “God only knows why he chose my drainpipe to appear on, but I hope this means I won’t have floods of pilgrims flocking to my house after this”

If the drain pipe springs a leak (and where would that appear?) there will be floods of some sort.

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Posted: 30 December 2011 09:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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But flood is subjective. Could just be a large puddle depending on the volume of water in the pipe.

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‘In the name of intellectual honesty we should say we don’t know when we don’t know instead of making things up that fit just to give us comfort that we think we know’

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Posted: 31 December 2011 01:30 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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saralynn - 30 December 2011 03:46 PM

Martin: Have you seen this one, bit tasteless I guess?

That is the best I have ever seen!

The piety of his stance is quite moving don’t you think…. tongue rolleye
Touched me in any case.

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When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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Posted: 01 January 2012 02:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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I saw a mother wolverine trot up to a pack of wolves, put a serious beat-down on them, chase them off with their tails between their legs, and then drag their kill back to fed her children. Does that count as christmas miracle? smile

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Posted: 01 January 2012 02:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Veronica:  saw a mother wolverine trot up to a pack of wolves, put a serious beat-down on them, chase them off with their tails between their legs, and then drag their kill back to fed her children. Does that count as christmas miracle?

No.  If the mother were a poodle…..yes.

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Posted: 01 January 2012 03:11 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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saralynn - 01 January 2012 02:55 PM

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Veronica:  saw a mother wolverine trot up to a pack of wolves, put a serious beat-down on them, chase them off with their tails between their legs, and then drag their kill back to fed her children. Does that count as christmas miracle?

No.  If the mother were a poodle…..yes.


HA!....... LOL

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When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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Posted: 01 January 2012 03:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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saralynn - 01 January 2012 02:55 PM

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Veronica:  saw a mother wolverine trot up to a pack of wolves, put a serious beat-down on them, chase them off with their tails between their legs, and then drag their kill back to fed her children. Does that count as christmas miracle?

No.  If the mother were a poodle…..yes.

Now, that would be impressive. smile

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