I wish to retract- More like Viggo Mortensen as Aragon…  Hold on.  Both big books, both the baddy is one of the fair who is fallen into evil… big end of the world battle after which the good survive… hmmm lets start a religeon! We actually know more about Gandalf than we do Jesus, therefore it must be true.

Matthew writes: I don’t see it…

I took the liberty of enhancing the brightness and contrast of this picture, in a completely bipartisan, scientific effort to bring out the details of the face . . . as well as what appears to be a veiny penis inserting itself into the eyesocket.  You can just about make it out in the tree bark.

View the unretouched enhanced image here.

Fascinating!

It starts to look more and more obvious they feed hallucinogens to people in oblation.

Hmmm… I’m seeing Jimmy Hendrix…

Dammit, that’s not Jesus, that’s Frylock!

http://www.animemaster.net/ATHF/Picutre/Frylock.jpg

Coincidence? I think not.

WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE ON THIS SITE SO QUICK TO SAY IT ISNT….I BET IF U WERE AROUND WHEN JC MADE THE BLIND MAN SEE OR RAISE LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD…YOU WOULD DENY THAT HAPPENED TOO…I GUESS YOU WOULD RATHER TALK ABOUT THE BS IN WASHINGTON…OR SOMEONES FUNERAL…..WELL SOMEDAY WE WILL FIND OUT IF THERE IS ..ONE GOD…I HOPE BY THEN YOU PEOPLE HAVE STARTED TO BELIEVE   STRANGE THINGS DO HAPPEN IN THIS FU WORLD…COME TO ROCHESTER AND LOOK YOURSELF….OR MAYBE YOU MIGHT BE AFFRAID YOU ARE WRONG….JH

It’s not the weird things that scare me, JH, it’s the poor spelling.

Gives me the heebie jeebies just seeing it.

I BET IF U WERE AROUND WHEN JC MADE THE BLIND MAN SEE OR RAISE LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD…YOU WOULD DENY THAT HAPPENED TOO

Yup!  Cause I’ve learned magic and parlor tricks as well.  If you watched “Leap of Faith”, you would see deception and redirection as well.

Btw, please don’t YELL LIKE THIS.  It hurts my sensitive ears. 

Did the devil make your Caps Lock key stick?

Did the devil make your Caps Lock key stick?

LOL ...   nice

http://www.hostdub.com/albums/SLCorrado/capslock.gif

But seriously, I still don’t see Jesus in the tree.

Even if it was the embodiment of your Lord and savior, etc, what good does it do you? It’s a tree. What are you going to do, ask it the meaning of life?

Here’s a better angle on the tree…

Looks like a dead Bluto to me…

Praise Bluto!

The only thing that scares me is idiots that actually believe that a tree embodies what I believe is a fictional character, despite how dear said character may be to said people.

Van Peebles… Huh.

Could it be that mere coincidence strikes again?

Or could it be time for the paths of twine to cross again?

Go on, I’ll let you be the judge.

So you’re saying that Mario Van Peebles is God? Or what?

James you convinced me, I’ll take a drive up to North Clinton tommorrow and see it first hand. Report to follow. (heh, easy to challenge people that live in other parts of the country to come see your tree isn’t it?)

JAMES HOLTZ bellowed:  WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE ON THIS SITE SO QUICK TO SAY IT ISNT….

Well, if you happen to have any REAL pictures of Jesus that we could compare to the tree, I’d be eternally grateful.

JAMES:  I BET IF U WERE AROUND WHEN JC MADE THE BLIND MAN SEE OR RAISE LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD…YOU WOULD DENY THAT HAPPENED TOO…

Probably. 

I saw David Blaine perform some tricks on TV, and despite some members of my family praising him and declaring him some kind of demigod, I kinda realized he was just a mediocre entertainer (with a video editing crew working the *real* magic) pulling off a mediocre street shtick. Ho-hum.

Jesus is just an allegory for the sun and it’s travels through the constellations, as are most of the stories contained in the bible.  You’re a sun worshipper, and you’re too ignorant to realize it. But I’m guessing you’d deny *that* fact as well, preferring to believe JUST ONE of the many ancient fantasies involving a mythical being who purportedly had great power over this mortal flesh.  Ho-hum.

(snippage)

JAMES:  COME TO ROCHESTER AND LOOK YOURSELF….OR MAYBE YOU MIGHT BE AFFRAID YOU ARE WRONG….JH

Breathe, James . . . breathe . . .

The only thing I fear is what I might do to that tree in front of all those fawning Jesus freaks . . . perhaps I’d hack that tree down with an axe and chop it up into little 18” lengths of wood . . . then I’d throw gasoline on it and burn it . . . then I’d piss on it for good measure, writing my name all over the charred wood - in CURSIVE . . . and if those two Taco Bell chalupas I ate a few hours before decide to cooperate, I’d squat over that fake smoldering face and grunt out a fat, knobby grogan all over it.

If the tree is truly blessed, I should be struck dead immediately following the passing of the knobby grogan.  Or my hemmorhoids will be cured.  One or the other.

But first - I need some hemmorhoids!

THEN we’ll TRULY see, James!!

Spocko, I’m not seeing Bluto, I’m seeing Mr T!

I pity the fool!

The only thing I fear is what I might do to that tree in front of all those fawning Jesus freaks . . . perhaps I’d hack that tree down with an axe and chop it up into little 18�? lengths of wood . . . then I’d throw gasoline on it and burn it . . .[etc.]

Now now Mr. Tochs- the poor tree can’t help how it looks.  You don’t want to behave as pissily as Jesus did, do you now?

Mark 11:13-  And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not [yet].
Mark 11:14-  And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard [it].
[...]
Mar 11:20-  And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

zilch writes: Now now Mr. Tochs- the poor tree can’t help how it looks.  You don’t want to behave as pissily as Jesus did, do you now?

Can’t help it, zilch . . . I’ve got 32 years of stultifyingly stupid Christian indoctrination to purge, and I’ve only been venting for 13 years!

(grits teeth) Sometimes it just SURGES outta me, ya know?

Jesus not giving a fig (groan!) about a tree is a good story . . . but I like the story about God’s Golden Hemorrhoids the best!  (1 Samuel 5:6-12, etc etc)

I have nothing against you folks, but I am a straight Catholic. I know that I have done a ton of sins, yet I still pray for forgiveness. I just hope you do the same. Or if you can’t go on with your ways, but live a peaceful and happy life.

Why would an atheist pray for forgiveness from a deity he doesn’t believe exists? As for you, I hope you continue to pray as well. Anything that helps keep you off the streets is a good thing.

Woke up to these headlines this morning.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Carrying rosary beads and cameras, the faithful have been coming in a steady stream to a church on the outskirts of Sacramento for a glimpse of what some are calling a miracle: A statue of the Virgin Mary they say has begun crying a substance that looks like blood.

It was first noticed more than a week ago, when a priest at the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church spotted a stain on the statue’s face and wiped it away. Before Mass on Nov. 20, people again noticed a reddish substance near the eyes of the white concrete statue outside the small church, said Ky Truong, 56, a parishioner.

Since then, Truong said he has been at the church day and night, so emotional he can’t even work. He believes the tears are a sign.

“There’s a big event in the future - earthquake, flood, a disease,“ Truong said. “We’re very sad.“

There’s more but you get the picture (or not) since I wouldn’t know how to insert a picture here if my life depended on it.

I was particularly impressed with Truong’s prediction of future events of earthquake, flood, a disease.  What are the freakin’ odds?! 

Link if you’re interested:  http://home.bellsouth.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=940&eeid=4766794&_sitecat=1522&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=0&ck=&ch=ne&s=na

For the reality-challenged (probably no one here):  Statues made of porous materials (concrete, plaster, etc) can be quite easily made to “weep blood”.  All one needs to do is chip off a piece, or drill a hole, soak it in red ink, and glue it back together.  Voilà!  Instant miracle!