It seems like just a few weeks ago (maybe because it was just a few weeks ago) we brought you the stupidity of the South Carolina couple who saw angels in the clouds. Not that this kind of thing is so uncommon. People have a tendency to organize their sense data into patterns and those patterns clearly have a learned and cultural component. What was so stupid was the local news station reporting this as "news." If the couple had seen a giant scrotum and penis in the sky, would the TV station have reported a Big Prick in the Sky? The willingness of the mainstream news media to broadcast this crapola is one of the reasons we have a religion-addled, delusional and mystified population, ready-made for the George Bushs and Karl Roves to peddle even more idiotic ideas larded with religious allusions and delusions. Once you believe reports of sky angels in the clouds, validated by the use of commercially valuable airtime, what wouldn't you believe?
Not that you needed it, here is another case in point:
Boothwyn, Delaware County [Pennsylvania] resident Felicia Teske was preparing fried eggplant for dinner on August 12, 2007. Upon slicing the eggplant she noticed that the seeds contained within one slice appeared to spell out the word "GOD". Her husband Paul looked at the sliced eggplant and couldn't believe it either, calling Action News. Felicia told Action News that she recently had family members pass away and it is comforting that "GOD" appeared.Felicia says she bought the eggplant at a roadside produce stand a while back, and also says the discovery has really given her food for thought. Felicia told Action News that she recently had family members pass away and it is comforting that "GOD" appeared.
Felicia Teske and her husband put aside that slice of eggplant. But with the rest of it they had for dinner, which they say was simply divine.
The Teskes are now considering selling the eggplant on ebay. (ABC-TV local outlet)
Here's the visual evidence:
I don't know about you, but it seems to me that if it spells out anything, it's GID, the extension for files in Microsoft Windows general Help System.
Just more proof that Bill Gates really does run the world.
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PLEASE Put on your glasses!
It is plain as day that it is spelled GAIA ! Just the first A AND I are a little close to each other.
LOGIC. Above all LOGIC!
Pish tosh, it's not GOD or GAIA; you're viewing it upside down. It's clearly oog!
All sing:
Oogum, Oogum, Boogum, Boogum, Boogum
Now baby you're casting your spell on me
Ah, I say Oogum, Oogum, Boogum, Boogum, Boogum
Now baby you're casting your spell on me
So ... I presume that I should read your posts with extreme skepticsm, since I assume that you are a part of that "religion-addled, delusional and mystified population."
I do wish that people would try to moderate the unqualified and broad-brush statements. You're far from the only offender, of course.
This approach accomplishes nothing but weakening your arguments ...
Scott, how are any arguments weakened? Anyone who believes eggplant is spelling god is seriously deluded.
Render under Caesar what is Caesar's.
And render into a moussaka an eggplant.
Clearly it says GOD, but which GOD? Allah, Jehovah, Zeus, Jehovah + Jesus + the Holy Ghost? How is a simple human to figure out which God to worship?
What they didn't tell us is that the next slice said "EGGPLANT" and the one after that said "AGAIN?"
Looks like GO with a penguin in the middle. But I'm a bird nut....
GOD has spoken to the Teskes through the almighty fruit stand. And what did they get from the message? Make money by selling it on eBay. /sigh
I see GIP, which all know, is Reagan channeling himself from the grave.
Or maybe GcD, which we all means greatest common denominator, which of course is not god, but carbon.
"You can fool some of the people all of time, You can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" - PT Barnum. Of course, the rates of some vary depending on mainstream media.
Darin: That quote has also been attributed to Lincoln. Sources differ on whether either one actually said it.
In any case, here's a more recent variant:
I'd send Mr. God back to penmanship class.
And you should see the responses they gave when they saw the inkblots for the shrink.
Is that an umlaut over the middle letter? It could be channeling a German message and not mean God at all.
I'm going to buy up large quantities of eggplant and slice them open in search of the one specimen that says "EAT ME".
But see, it's a help system file extension, and God is a help system! He's working through Windows! That is so deep, man.
Was she preparing eggplant pasta? Perhaps it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster, channeling with its Noodly Appendage. I see the eggplant spelling 'fsm'!
To me it's clear that this eggplant was GOD. I'm not sure if It will appreciate being sold on eBay.
It is perfectly clear to me that the word is DOG - the picture is upside down.
Hey. This is very common in India. We see pictures of not just egg plants, but pumpkins, mangoes, squash and what not appearing mostly as, Ganesha, the elephant god. Shall I say Indian vegetables are better visualizers than say American eggplant, which just has some letters?
"If the couple had seen a giant scrotum and penis in the sky, would the TV station have reported a Big Prick in the Sky?"
They wouldhave reported verified sightings of the ghost of Strom Thurmond, not content with having stained the earth for 150 years in corporeal form and paying all of us a visit from downtown Hell.
Also, don't mind Scott Belyea. His only purpose at ScienceBlogs is to indignantly stagger around telling the undeluded to stop being so damned emphatic about their posts, because it isn't nice. A drive-by douchebag, he generally splatters a given post with a shit comment once and once only before moving on to the next trolling point, meaning that he doesn't care to discuss anything, he only wants to cry.