Tree Stump Virgin Mary Draws Faithful

[Blondin]

Idolatry! Wasn't that supposed to be what p!ssed off Charlton Heston, oops I mean Moses, and made him fling the tablets he'd just been given on Sinai at the people and... and... all that?

Tree Stump Virgin Mary Draws Faithful (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=6&u=/nm/20031023/od_nm/odd_virgin_dc)

"Where it's located, it's a bad area around here," she said. "It's a sign."

So if Moses were to appear and throw something at the idolators today it would probably just be mistaken for a drive-by of some kind.

[zakur]

Here's a pic. I'll see if I can find a better one:

[zakur]

Here are a couple more:

http://images.news12.com/uploads/images/webMedia/88505.jpg

http://images.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_sizedimage_294133557/xl

[uneasy]

Looks like she should be saying, "Hidee ho!"
:D

[BTox]

This is in my state - to be honest, it looks more like Gandalf to me.

[Beleth]

What are the qualifications, exactly, for something to look like Mary?

Seems to me that it's a large oval with a smaller oval, offset and tilted, on top. And that's about it.

I think I could draw Mary in maybe 8 lines of Postscript.

[geni]

I think you have explained why Mary is seen far more often than other holy figers

[arcticpenguin]

It is so obvious that someone was compelled to place pictures of the virgin Mary next to it, in case you didn't 'get it'.

[Cindy Windy]

I can't explain this fascination with the Virgin Mary log.
I'm still mystified by the miracle of chainsaw art. (http://www.jerryward.com/Chainsaw_Art/chainsaw_art.html)

[HelloCruelWorld]

Oh boy...a miracle in my own state! How convienant! Everyone gather before the sacred tree stump!


This stuff just cracks me up.

[WildCat]

Originally posted by uneasy
Looks like she should be saying, "Hidee ho!"
:D

[Ratman_tf]

F**k. Stuff like this makes me upset.
The Virgin Mary appearing in a rotten tree stump or tortilla ain't no miracle, and if it was, it's a pissy miracle.

I'd trade in all the oily window Mary appearances if god would cure one child of lukemia. Maybe feed a starving family for a day? I guess they're out of luck. :mad:

[Abdul Alhazred]

Some random patterns look sort of like a face.

If the sort of face has a beard, it's Jesus.

If the sort of face doesn't have a beard, it's Mary.

Case closed.

[Marc]

They need a wiccan or druid to come by and bow down to it saying "Praise Oberon" (or whatever tree spirit/godess/fairy king they like) Helps if they have artwork to back it up.:rr:

[zakur]

I think it's clear what God is telling us through this miracle:

Cut Down More Trees!

[Starrman]

'Jesus, I don't know how to tell you this, but your mom was a bowling pin.'

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by zakur
I think it's clear what God is telling us through this miracle:

Cut Down More Trees!

:wink8: :big:

[Craig]

Doesn't an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent being have anything better to do than make vague shapes in dead trees and Mexican food products?

[canadarocks]

Why haven't people figured out that no one really knows what the characters in the bible really looked like? The pictures of "Jesus" and "Mary" are an artists conception drawn several centuries after these people lived. I don't know how fundies and other get around this obvious problem when they "see" Jesus and Mary in objects. I haven't seen this idea in these threads yet, but I am pretty new.......

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Craig
Doesn't an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent being have anything better to do than make vague shapes in dead trees and Mexican food products?

Why assume He has no sense of humor?

If it were me who was omniscient, etc, I sure as Hell would do stuff like this just to keep you folks hopping! :p

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by canadarocks
Why haven't people figured out that no one really knows what the characters in the bible really looked like? The pictures of "Jesus" and "Mary" are an artists conception drawn several centuries after these people lived. I don't know how fundies and other get around this obvious problem when they "see" Jesus and Mary in objects. I haven't seen this idea in these threads yet, but I am pretty new.......

So Jesus didnt have white skin, brown hair, blue eyes, or a goatee?... Damn!

:D

[LawnOven]

That bowling pin stump looks as though it's been there for quite a while. Why was it just noticed now? :confused:

[zakur]

Originally posted by LawnOven
That bowling pin stump looks as though it's been there for quite a while. Why was it just noticed now? :confused: The tree had been there for a while, but it had only been cut down (turned into a stump) relatively recently. From this article (http://www.wnbc.com/news/2571894/detail.html):Residents said a cluster of trees had been recently cleared away, but it was not known who did the work until Ronald Rosario, 17, came forward Tuesday and said he and a co-worker had done the job last month. They were among several teens hired by the Downtown Merchants Corporation to clear dead trees and brush in the area, which residents said had become a hang out for drug users.

The image was first noticed Saturday night by Nilma Ruiz as she drove by the site with her daughter. Ruiz initially thought someone had left a ceramic statue at the site, but she saw the image after they stopped to take a closer look.So apparently the stump was there for about a month before someone noticed it and likened it to the vague outline of the Virgin Mary.

Also, note the discoverer's name. I'm curious to know how many of these miraculous images—be they on stumps, fence posts, windows, tortillas, or whatever—are originally discovered by Hispanics.