ALL PIECES CHURCH

… let’s bend and pick up the wreckage, on Lewis street, Minersville, PA, (near-by rear “All Pieces Church”…)

… let’s gather together these pieces, so as to build anew…(all the wretched, church squatters, taggers, street sleepers first concerned ?)

…and … let’s open up this “garage” door… For once, let’s start for a “merry” ride in a New Church …

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francisbatt

If you tell me that you honestly believe the earth is flat, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that you honestly believe the earth is a cube that rotates four times in a day, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that I better not pout, cry, or shout because you honestly believe some invisible, intangible superman watches me when I am sleeping and when I’m awake and knows if I’ve been bad or good, and will give me presents if he likes what he sees but will barbecue me forever if he doesn’t like what he sees, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that you honestly believe Jesus came to you in the potato salad in your refrigerator, I will not only mock your silly, irrational idea, I will suggest you seek professional medical help.

The real issue is that the irrational ideas of the benighted are simply not respectable and should not be respected. It’s not just a matter of shouting down those who would restrict freedoms based on those ideas. And the mocking DOES work… if it didn’t, I don’t think you’d see so much pressure to suppress the mocking. What the benighted want is for everyone else to shut up and go away. That’s their vision of “respect”.

I used to amuse myself with our cats and the reflection of light from my watch face. Cats are convinced that anything small that moves away from them is prey. Some people are convinced that anything that looks vaguely like a religious icon is a miraculous sign.

You could probably make a lot of money sorting broken rocks for suitably “iconic” shapes. Write up a shape recognition program and scan the waste flow from a mining operation, perhaps? This would provide a revenue stream and also, eventually, people will come to realise that this stuff isn’t particularly miraculous.

Okay, with that definition of dark ages, I can see the claim that it was bad for science.

But that’s only in Europe.

In answer to A Question: I too have no patience with these people. Ignorance is a fact of life, and can be corrected. As such it is to be deplored. *Willful* ignorance, such as is being displayed here is insane and a primary sign of a gene pool with pond scum. All gene pools have pond scum, but evidence is mounting that the human gene pool has more scum than water.

I suggest that these are the first of the Eloi…

Or is your reaction a response to something other than somebody being less intelligent, knowledgeable, or wise than yourself?

I second John Kennell’s response regarding self preservation. These are the kind of people who make a theocracy a possibility. And theocracys tend to have severe punishments for atheists & skeptics.

Just to be a bit picky here, but Fibonacci was Middle Ages (13th century or thereabouts?) and Tartaglia was, i think, 16th century and so Renaissance.

The Dark Ages generally cover the 5th to somewhere around the 9th/10th century? Something along those lines anyway. Generally covering a period with fewer written records than the earlier Roman period or the later Middle Ages.

I think the shape of the reflection is due to stresses in the window glass. See M.G.J. Minnaert’s excellent Light and Color in the Outdoors, chapter 12, “Freak Reflections”.

On a slightly connected note, have you been following Mother Goose and Grimm, the comic strip by Mike Peters?

Last week and this, the dog Grimm has been dealing with a friend’s holy relic: The outiline of Lassie on a piece of toast.

Check it out!

http://www.grimmy.com/

Does anyone know if the image lasted until Sept. 8th as they were predicting? Using the solar calendar we should be able to predict when the image will reappear. If it first appeared on August 15th like they claim, then that would be roughly 36 days before the autumnal equinox. Lets say it did last until Sept. 8 then that would be only 12 days before the autumnal equinox. Therefore, it would reappear 12 days AFTER the vernal equinox, or roughly April 2nd?

I’m hoping the image lasted until the equinox, because that would make it all set to return on GOOD FRIDAY!! (March 21st) Hehe…

Hmm… perhaps the statue of Mary right next to the window has something to do with the reflection?

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Researchers in the paranormal reveal that cell-phone traffic in the vicinity of an apparition mysteriously peaks during such occasions. If you look closely at the image, you can see the Virgin Mary herself wielding a Blackberry.

http://anothermonkey.blogspot.com/2007/08/mary-of-minersville.html
(Warning: Some harsh language included in linked post.)

This wasn’t just a case of gullible “believers” worshiping a reflection – it was also a case of actual mystery-mongering by local news anchors.