Vandals have torn down a fence post in Australia's largest city, Sydney, which devoted Catholics had begun to flock to because they believed it projected an image of the Virgin Mary. This combination picture shows a woman reaching to touch the fence post (image on right). The picture on the left was deliberately shot out of focus to show how it resembles the Virgin Mary from a distance. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
For more than a week devoted Sydney Catholics have been flocking to a vantage point about 300 metres (1,000 feet) from the small wooden fence which, when viewed at certain times each afternoon through squinted eyes is believed to be a likeness of the Virgin Mary.
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I only have two thing to say. One is "That girl has a nice looking bum".
The other is, how amasing the power of belief is.
We have people accepting as some miracle a chance slight semblance of an outline from a set point, when ten paces to the left or right it looks like a fence post. It didn't say "And when Moses looked at the bush, like so *mimes looking slantwise with screwed up eyes, therefore making self look like on toilet, all whilst hopping up and down on one leg*, lo!, it looked like a burning bush.
How desperate do you have to be to believe this stuff? Fine, if you do, great, you're not hurting anyone accept perhaps on some levels yourself and any you pass your infection on to, but...
ARGH!!!
I find this level of vacuous stupidity very frustrating.
'Mysteries', miracles and stuff that only can be supported by anecdotal evidence normally turn out to be hogswash. See the pattern?
Edited by - Abaddon on 12 February 2003 8:47:28