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EvilSmurf
31st March 2007, 03:20 PM
Apparently there's some house in Sydney, Australia that has oil (rose-scented, as seems to be the case normally, one would think G-d would have more creativity).

Also, don't you just love the fawning coverage these types receive from the media?
Link (http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/38725/lifestyle/house-miracles)

The Skeptic gets what? 2 lines?
sophia8
31st March 2007, 03:45 PM
The Skeptic gets what? 2 lines?But at leat they didn't insult him:
They just don't care.

Being a professional sceptic is like paying for a ticket to the wrestling only to go around telling everyone that it's rigged.

The smugness of sceptics, their certainty in their own rightness, more closely resembles the religious fanaticism they claim to despise than the "concern'' for the community they espouse.
See this thread on the same case (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=78172).
Kilgore Trout
1st April 2007, 11:47 AM
I once saw oil weeping from an icon of Christ in Michigan. Correction. I saw drips of something on an icon of Christ. A picture of it hangs on the wall of my parent's house.

It wasn't the first time I had doubts about religion (I think my first was being terribly confused by the story of Cain and Abel.. I digress..) but I certainly felt that if it were real I should know by an emotion feeling. And while I still wondered why God would need to do such a thing as weep oil from an icon, I sort of wanted to believe it was real. I didn't get that loving feeling. But others in my family either did, or were too afraid to say they didn't. I also thought it strange it was a denomination other than Catholic, which is how I was brought up.

Anyway. I guess I just wanted to say that not all cases of miracles are bad things. In my case it just furthered the idea that something was terribly amiss. :p

(PS, I am probably wrong about it being in Michigan; it might have been this (http://ffrf.org/fttoday/1995/december95/taubert.html) in Michigan City, IN but I could have sworn it was a much longer trip. The description is spot on. And thinking about it, the trip probably just seemed to last an eternity.)