So the bun shaped like Mother Teresa was stolen. I'm wondering how the police report this kind of thing—misdemeanor, felony, major heist? It's an old piece of stale bread that would, in a rational world, be tossed out in the trash. Do t…

But alas. I utterly fail to see any face at all, let alone that of Mother Teresa. Unless, perhaps, they mean Mother Teresa AFTER she had spent two millennia in a peat bog, or something?

Most peculiar. This is just like those astronomers who tell us the constellation of Pegasus looks like a flying horse. Well, it does, if a square looks like a horse to you. Which it might if you have smoked the right things. Alas, I am still waiting for my little pot plants to mature…

To each his own I suppose

Not to be rude, but it’s my blog, and I can write about what I want. I follow some self-imposed rules, but I can also choose to stray from them and write off-topic posts if I want. This entry, however, is definitely in the realm of uncritical thinking, so it is just as definitely on-topic for my blog. If you don’t like it, well, I can’t help it if every entry doesn’t please every person.

But just as a hint– if you leave a comment on someone’s blog, it’s a good idea not to be rude. If you want to leave a negative comment, try to do it politely. If you can’t, then maybe I’m not the one who should be silent.

I think that it was Carl Sagan in Cosmos describing the happy face on Mars
(http://www.msss.com/education/happy_face/happy_face.html), saying that from birth, we’re ALL indoctrinated into recognizing faces — we need our parents for our survival, relatives keep making faces at us, etc. — so we learn to especially recognize the sight of a face.

And religion being what it is, the art of the ages is highly biased towards religious images and themes, even though we have NO idea what these people originally looked like (and, in some cases, we don’t even know that they really existed!). So, of course, people will think they see things that are familiar to them.

What’s fascinating about it — and what I always wonder about — is whether people are seeing the things they WANT to see because of some glaring need in their lives. People who see Jesus WANT to see him because they feel that they need his guidance in their lives.

(It came up in Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Tholian Web”, when Kirk is trapped in “interphase” between two Universes, and Uhura has a vision that she’s seen him — McCoy wonders if she wanted to see Kirk because she’s lost confidence in Spock’s leadership. See, for example: http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/TheTholianWeb.html

If more people lose confidence in Bush’s leadership, I wonder what they’ll start seeing? Anyway . . .)

Of course, that doesn’t always explain why we see elephants in clouds or evanescent swirls of cream that look like something in morning coffee. We are beings who depend on pattern recognition for our survival: sort of the “Blink” decision-making which could be right OR wrong.

— Steve >>>>

Marge: “Homer, NO, that’s a holy relic”
Homer: “Mmmmm….Cinnamon Bunnnn!”

Better to have skipped this one and been silent that day.

James

Clearly.

-Rob

“They went right for the bun,” – No wonder, I would have done the same

Anyway, it always amazes me the imagination of some people. Pitty that sometimes it is not used for better things. But at least this one made me laugh.

Rob

I have a lot of problems to start up my usually very good “pareidolia power”…Is it failing?? Eek!

People see what they want to see. The three stars “3 sisters of Orion” at least remain lined up throughout time.

How far are those 3 stars from each other?