I am a live-let live kinda person. Even if I didn’t agree with them, it would never OCCUR to me to mock anyone’s religious beliefs. So if anybody takes offense at this…I’ll blame it on my fever. Yeah. That’s it… :thumbsup:

Today, yet another ‘image’ of the ‘Virgin Mary’ was discovered–this one in a log of wood.
It’ll be going up for sale on E-Bay shortly.

Don’t get me wrong. Of course the Holy Mother can certainly appear anywhere she darn well pleases. And I am certainly a believer in miracles.
But I think we can agree that, when folks are finding these images in fortune cookies, concrete, muffins, wood grain, trash can lids—and people are actually PAYING for them—we’ve gone a bit beyond the ridiculous, yes?? :yesyesyes:

And I always wonder…what makes everybody so sure it’s the Virgin Mary?? The last grilled cheese sandwich I saw advertised as ‘an image of Mary’ looked remarkably like Mary Pickford, I thought. Why couldn’t it have been Mary Pickford?Maybe she wanted to come back, check out an old film, visit for a while? :waving:

Or maybe the image in the wood was my Aunt Ruth? She was a very sociable lady. Liked people, enjoyed popping up in the strangest places, and…what? Say what? So what if it doesn’t look like my Aunt Ruth! How does anybody know these things look like the Virgin Mary??! :shock:

Maybe they’re natural phenomena. Maybe they’re wood sprites. Maybe the Druids are planning a comeback. :razz: Maybe they’re female demons, sent to delude us. Maybe they’re messages from the little gray aliens. Maybe it’s a government conspiracy to keep our minds off the war.
Preposterous? And finding a holy image in the breakfast bagel you just bought is not??!

And if they WERE really holy images…if you actually believed that, would you be selling it on E-Bay???? If I received a sign from God, I’d consider it something pretty special–not wonder how much I could get for it. :nonono:
I suppose soon we’ll have the Shroud of Turin as an E-Bay special–maybe on the same page as Monica L’s dress–stain and all.

But hey—what do I know. Maybe E-Bay is the current market for miracles. :poof:

And if I hold my fever thermometer at just the right angle to distort the LED reading somewhat, the numbers DO seem to form the image of…