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Let’s start looking for images of the FSM everywhere. You know you’ll find it.
If you can picture it in your head, your mind will find the pattern to match it elsewhere. Simple human psychology.
I found it’s called “pereidolia”.
Penn and Teller mock Pereidolia
And here is what you have asked for, A SIGN:
1991: Jesus shows up in… SPAGHETTI!
Surely Jesus was pointing us to the noodly TRUE WAY.
Daniel,
That teensy, tiny, eeentsy smiley face at the very bottom of the frame cracks me up at least once a week.
I couldn’t watch it entirely. My head was about to explode…
Even with our pareidolia ready brains some of these people had to go explain where they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. If you have to explain the image then is definitely not amazing!
Not that more “obvious” ones are that amazing either.
I just bought a scarlet letter “A” pin from Richard Dawkins’ site today. It tickles me on so many levels!
This is so good:
<a href=”http://free-stainedglasspatterns.com/2flyingspaghettimonsterfish.html” Stained Glass FSM
Stained Glass FSM
The phone rang while I was typing!
Flying Spaghetti Angels
Why do these people always jump to the conclusion that the picture of a bearded man is jesus?
I’m telling you they are images of my uncle Daniel.
AAARGGH! What about the three marks on a cocoanut? Spare me, oh Great FSM!
Ok…so, big deal, it looks like Jesus, Mary and/or Joseph…which, really, can look like any terrorist’s mug shot…
I think where it gets strange is when people start saying that the image healed their bunions….
Again, without superstitions you wouldn’t have this strange behavior.
…I’m sure I’m just talking out of my immoral behind. Which, strangely looks like Zeus….
Finding the image of Jesus or the FSG is rare.
But you can find images of the Invisible Pink Unicorn everywhere!
What do you mean you can’t see it. That just prove’s that it’s there!
I just wanna know where I can get some of that Jesus-on-a-stick they mentioned. Mmmmmmm – everything’s better when it’s on a stick!
Let’s start a website for pattern-evidence for the existence of FSM. This clip is hilarious!
I’ve got a plate of angel hair spaghetti that looks just like him – where do I submit it? :-)
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I wonder… how do we know what Jesus looked like in the first place? These people are seeing the image of Jesus (and Mary etc) as pictured by painters who had never met him nor had any information about his appearance.
And it has always confused me how very westernly Jesus looks in most of the images of him…
Apparently I suck because I saw a face in like 5% of those things.
Hey, how come Jesus never showed up on my cat?!?
I swear the one was The Dude!
I use the argument from pareidolia as follows: whilst we see patterns, theists add on to them their preconception that behind Nature is a caring, super mind as one sees Yeshua in a tortilla. Also, Christians use pareidolia in seeing him as to whom prophecies in the Tanakh refers.And those prophecies are lackluster anyway as they did not come true, too general or written after the fact.
From there they beg the question of teleology in their teleological argument: they presume that we were in the mind of that mind.
And the atelic [ a- without; telic- teleology] argument argues that as the weight of evidence shows no cosmic teleology, one errs in positing God as the designer when unplanning natural selection, the anti-chance of Nature does the pattering.And to add teleological God to selection, contradicts it!
And Hume’s dysteleological [ bad teleology] adumbrates why the imperfections tell against omnipotent God. Also, we should require theists to answer why those imperfections without trying to answer the problem of evil!
Thus theistic evolution is an oxymoron as Jerry Coyne adumbrates in his article ‘”Seeing and Believing’ in the New Republic. Google his name to find the article on-line.
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Seriously, maybe it’s Darwin, or James Randi.
If Jesus can appear to people today in a water stain on an underpass, or a burn mark on a cheese toasty, clearly he also appeared to those medieval painters. That’s why apparitions of Jesus look so much like his paintings. Not because people are primed to think of him that way, oh no.