I see you even made a new category for these!

Yeah, I figured it was about time. Eventually I’ll go through the archives and move the other entries to this category as well.

Whenever I see these claims of seeing Jesus’ face, or the “virgin Mary” in trees, donuts, tocos, mashed potatoes...I always ask myself this question and wonder WHY do these people not ask themselves the same question.

Since we have no original photograph of what Jesus actually looked like, unless the tree is autographed by his holiness himself, how do they know that’s Jesus’ face to begin with?  We have no original pictures of “The Virgin Mary” either.  How do they know that’s actually Mary’s mug in the mound of mashed potatoes?

Things that make (me at least) you go...hmmmmmmm.

Just look quizzical and say ‘Looks more like Karl Marx to me’

Exhibit B…

I don’t know if I’m seeing the same face as they are, but what I see looks like the french fry character on Aquateen Hunger Force to me, and not the big J.

Spocko, found the folks selling the “Jesus Christ Crucifixion Fish” on eBay, eh?

Tim, that was actually my first impression as well, but I wasn’t sure how many people would know who the hell I was talking about so I went with Van Peebles.

*sigh*

This one is so halfassed, I’m not even sure where the face is supposed to be.  Is it the Big One in the middle, with His Left Eye bisected by a Branch, or the Smaller One at the top, smiling Benignly off towards the left?  But what do I know about Scripture- maybe it’s both, and the Smaller One is a Jesus BrainSlug on the Bigger One.  Can anyone help me out here?

...and Spocko- love that jesus hairdo… of course, if I suddenly found myself part of a fish skull, my hair would probably stand on end too…

That pitcure isn’t the exact one they were showing on TV a few days ago here, but I agree, it’s pretty weak. 

Just for morbid curiosity, here’s the location of the tv news story: http://www.wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=20513&r=l

and the original story:
http://www.wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=20499

(Sorry about the links if they aren’t live, haven’t figured out how this works yet - Do I use HTML tags or is there some other trick?)

The tv station seems pretty proud that they “broke” this story.  I haven’t had the chance (or desire) to see the tree myself, but it’s pretty sad when this sort of thing happens.  Especially in an area like Clinton Ave (right across from a Pawn Shop - Jesus needed some cash apparently and decided to leave his mark) where crime is pretty bad (as somebody in the story said.

And Spocko, isn’t that a mammal skull of some sort?  Looks like a deer to me.

Face? There’s a face in that picture?

Ok, scratch that deer skull comment, I didn’t realize it was linked to a story.

Well, there’s never actually a good, clear face in any of these “manifestations” or whatever the holycrapjesusjusttouchedmeinabadplace crowd call it.

What’s worse, there was some dumbass trying to sell a picture of this crap on ebay right after the “news” story broke.  I saw it but I didn’t think to bookmark it and now it’s either gone (or my ebay search skills are a little rusty). 

They had 0 bids when I saw it a few days ago, so they might have withdrawn it. I hope nobody actually bought it.

Well, Buzz, the Grilled Cheese Virgin Mary did sell for $28,000, so who knows?  Of course, the fish looks to be already eaten, and only one bite was taken out of the Blessed Virgin, so that would affect the relative value…

Yeah, the fishbone will probably sell quite well.  The Picture of the Jesus Tree though appears to have been pulled from ebay.

I think the most ironic part of all this is that true believers are the first to tell us that we have to have faith and don’t need signs, but then when this crap comes along, they eat it up (no pun intended).

Zilch, I still can’t see the JesusBrainSlug you mentioned, just the big one in the middle that looks like Frylock from the aforementioned Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Buzz, you can use HTML in your comments if you want to. Or the equivalent PMCode (which is like BBCode in most message boards). The button strip above the entry box should prove helpful. Most links will be auto-linked if you just type them in, though.

Elwed, yeah, there’s a face of sorts in that pic. In the same overly vague what that the yellow smiley face is a face.

Nope, still looks like Marx on the tree.  And Casper on the skull.

I think I can make out what they refer to as a beard, but I got nothing beyond that.

I see a crucified ET on Spocko’s pic.

The first thing I saw on the tree was a cyclops.  I didn’t know Jesus was a cyclops…

O Les of little faith- the JesusBrainSlug is at the very top of the pic.  Its (slugs are hermaphrodites, after all) Beard starts just above that Branch (Its Arm- so It’s a Wierd Slug) jutting out to the left.  It’s looking calmly off to Its right, Blissed out on Its Fix of JesusBrainJuice.

I hope, when the Tree is ebayed, the Slug can be carefully detached, and docked somewhere where It won’t impair anyone’s brain- say, on Dub…

Since we have no original photograph of what Jesus actually looked like, unless the tree is autographed by his holiness himself, how do they know that’s Jesus’ face to begin with?

Yeah, these people are latching onto any face with long hair and a beard and saying it’s Jesus.  Does it actually say in the Bible (I don’t know) that Jesus had a long hair and a beard?  Even if that’s how men looked back then, for all we know, Jesus was a skinhead, or morbidly obese (that poor donkey)!  Heaven help Chris Robinson if he ever goes to Rochester ... they’ll be chasing him down the street crying out “The Messiah has returned!!”

Yeah, the bible is pretty sparse on the physical descriptions of Jesus.  I think there is some mention of his beard and hair when he was getting flogged and beaten (before the big finish), but nothing else.

Somebody told me this was on purpose, but they didn’t have a reply when I said that made it sound like the whole thing was made up.

I don’t see it…

What kind of drugs do you need to take to see something other than a tree?

I think Les is actually doing his own version of ink blot tests on his readers.

So… At best, and with some struggle, I can make out one of those faces people paint from their chest to their gut.