God orders woman to violate city signage codes.

[Piscivore]

A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house.
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/08/BAG1SNF7PV5.DTL)

[This Guy]

It's true!

The Lord works in mysterious ways!



:covereyes

[Malachi151]

Ouch, that's got to hurt resale values in the neighborhood...

Irony of the day:

"Now I pray for her, and I hope she gets help,'' Jackson said. "It's an unbelievable situation.''

[Irony]

You would think an all-powerful deity type would choose to have his message delivered to the world by someone with better penmanship, or at least by someone who doesn't replace "are" with "R".

[Dark Jaguar]

It may her HER resale value, but here's what I don't get. What's the big deal if someone makes THEIR OWN house look terrible? Personally I'd love to buy the ONLY mansion in a slum :D. I mean if the idea is to look better than other people, then use relativity to your advantage to look a LOT better than other people. Just remember to get a security system.

[Meadmaker]

As a friend of mine, who worked as a nurse in psych ward once said to a patient, "If you'd take your medication, Jesus wouldn't tell you those things."

[Kopji]

I hope one of the messages says: 'Mental health care in this city is total crap'.

[KingMerv00]

Maybe those ARE messages from God but the Alimighty is schizophrenic.

Timecube!

[CFLarsen]

The messages are a barely intelligible garble involving cloning, abuse, rape, the Mafia, Castro, Hitler, the Constitution, hurricane Katrina, Watergate and President Bush.

She needs help. A lot of help.

[tkingdoll]

The journalism in that article is interesting, specifically this:

Last month, she had two large pins inserted through her lips, to keep her from eating as part of a religious fast. God told her to do that, too.

In the UK, that would have to read "She claims God told her to do that, too."

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but I find that interesting.

[Piscivore]

The journalism in that article is interesting, specifically this:



In the UK, that would have to read "She claims God told her to do that, too."

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but I find that interesting.

No, you're not- the journalistic detatchment seems a bit weak in this article.

What I am curious about is who "the Miami teen" is she refers to several times.

[c4ts]

Are these messages from god, or from Pat Robertson?

[Beerina]

You would think an all-powerful deity type would choose to have his message delivered to the world by someone with better penmanship, or at least by someone who doesn't replace "are" with "R".

You'd also think wanna-be all-powerful politician types would have something better to do with their time than put a boot in the face of this woman.

[JoeTheJuggler]

Any time I hear a story like this, where believers of conventional religious claims scoff at someone making a novel religious claim (e.g. God told me to write on these signs), I'm always curious: once you've accepted as true any outrageous claim without any realistic evidence, how can you filter out any other claim as being bunk?

Surely this woman's behavior is no more bizarre than that of a dozen or more biblical characters. And her claims are certainly no more outrageous than the core beliefs of most Xians (that Jesus rose from the dead and physically ascended into heaven, for example).

What's the difference? In the one case, blind acceptance is considered good and pious (remember the story of Doubting Thomas). Again, how can blind acceptance be good sometimes, but not always and for every claim?

[strathmeyer]

You would think an all-powerful deity type would choose to have his message delivered to the world by someone with better penmanship, or at least by someone who doesn't replace "are" with "R".

Maybe God was sending her text messages?

[CFLarsen]

Any time I hear a story like this, where believers of conventional religious claims scoff at someone making a novel religious claim (e.g. God told me to write on these signs), I'm always curious: once you've accepted as true any outrageous claim without any realistic evidence, how can you filter out any other claim as being bunk?

Surely this woman's behavior is no more bizarre than that of a dozen or more biblical characters. And her claims are certainly no more outrageous than the core beliefs of most Xians (that Jesus rose from the dead and physically ascended into heaven, for example).

What's the difference? In the one case, blind acceptance is considered good and pious (remember the story of Doubting Thomas). Again, how can blind acceptance be good sometimes, but not always and for every claim?

Very simple.

If you can use the novel religious claim to prove that your religion is the true one, it is genuine.

If you find the claim obnoxious or if it clashes with your own beliefs, it's the work of the devil.

Very, very simple.

If you scratch the surface of people's religious beliefs, you will find that quite a lot of the beliefs are home-spun prejudices, camouflaged as The God-given Truth.

[Temporal Renegade]

Her quote: "The signs at Costco are a lot bigger than the ones on my roof."

Well, that settles it. God loves Costco more than her.

[hgc]

It may her HER resale value, but here's what I don't get. What's the big deal if someone makes THEIR OWN house look terrible? Personally I'd love to buy the ONLY mansion in a slum :D. I mean if the idea is to look better than other people, then use relativity to your advantage to look a LOT better than other people. Just remember to get a security system.
1st Rule of Real Estate: Location if Everything.

[Tricky]

It may her HER resale value, but here's what I don't get. What's the big deal if someone makes THEIR OWN house look terrible? Personally I'd love to buy the ONLY mansion in a slum :D. I mean if the idea is to look better than other people, then use relativity to your advantage to look a LOT better than other people. Just remember to get a security system.
Any real estate person will tell you that one of the first things people look at when shopping for a house is the other houses in the neighborhood. A junky house or a house that looks abandoned or a house where a crazy person obviously resides will drop the property values of all houses in the vicinity.

And I don't really think you have thought out about living in "the only mansion in a slum" business. Do you think your envious neighbors might want to "bring you back to their level?" And if there was a burgler in the neighborhood, which house do you think he'd case first?

[shemp]

The world needs more people like her. They make me look sane by comparison.

[Upchurch]

The journalism in that article is interesting, specifically this:

Last month, she had two large pins inserted through her lips, to keep her from eating as part of a religious fast. God told her to do that, too.

In the UK, that would have to read "She claims God told her to do that, too."

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but I find that interesting.
(My emphasis)

You read that quote and the thing that jumped out to you was how God was referred to?!? The woman basically stapled her mouth shut! :jaw-dropp

[Mosquito]

(My emphasis)

You read that quote and the thing that jumped out to you was how God was referred to?!? The woman basically stapled her mouth shut! :jaw-dropp

You're obviously not a dieting woman. There is nothing irrational about doing that which is needed to loose weight. Merely stapling one's mouth shut isn't really all that drastic. People have been known to have their jaws welded shut. Or to be put in a condition of "as near death as some stranger is willing to put them" in order to have some other stranger remove body tissues by the kilograms.


Mosquito - mmmf mmmmf mmf

[Moon-Spinner]

It’s the first verified case of someone writing in tongues!!!

[hgc]

It’s the first verified case of someone writing in tongues!!!
I'd like to see all that written in the glossolalian alphabet.

[Irony]

You read that quote and the thing that jumped out to you was how God was referred to?!? The woman basically stapled her mouth shut! :jaw-dropp

How exactly is this God fellow so persuasive? The last time I suggested to a woman that she staple her mouth shut, she just glared at me.

[c4ts]

I'd like to see all that written in the glossolalian alphabet.

You couldn't read it without pareidolia.

[Miss Anthrope]

It is times like these when my sig quote is most wonderfully demonstrated....