Comments on: PareERdolia

By: Sam David

Sam David — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:36:03 +0000

I have a really cool discussion on http://www.iidb.org on an image like this..

I dont know how to post it here, but the link might work..

http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=241635&page=2

By: JT

JT — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:19:15 +0000

“An official said as long as the image makes people feel good, that is all that matters”

Why can’t more of us have that attitude?

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:11 +0000

Hey! Is that a picture of Kris Kristofferson?

By: JerWah

JerWah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:59:26 +0000

Why all this discussion of what is clearly a picture of Fidel Castro?

By: Boba Fett

Boba Fett — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:42:03 +0000

looks like my ass when I xeroxed it.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:34:09 +0000

I don’t like to make people look stoopid for seeing things like this (even if I think it is) because that will turn them away from seeing the use of this ability. Just look how Kekulé “discovered’ the shape of benzene. He was day dreaming about a snake biting its own tail. Yeah, I know he didn’t see it on a piece of toast but his imagination helped to figure it out.

By: Sue Mitchell

Sue Mitchell — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:30:07 +0000

Nope! You’re all wrong. It’s Greg House having a larf…
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By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:45:22 +0000

……which, I suppose, begs the question:

What Would Jeeebus Smoke?

(sorry, hit the wrong button back there……)

By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:07 +0000

All these people seeing Jesus, Mary, angels, etc. everywhere……..it’s PAREIDOLATRY, I tell you!

“the guy on the package of Zig Zag cigarette paper”

=LOL= The first time I saw the picture of the guy on the Zig Zag wrapper, it was without the rest of the label, and I thought it was a picture of the Big JC! But what did I know, I was a sweet little innocent Baptist Preacher’s Kid™ college freshman away from home for the first time……….

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:42:24 +0000

I see a Zombie…

Or Jesus. I’m not sure. I heard he’s a zombie too.

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Ahhh, what a cute puppy!

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:48:41 +0000

I see a cheeseburger!

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:30:12 +0000

Quiet_Desperation, I like the way you think!! I’ll shield you from the angry mob with someone else’s body.

By: Nic

Nic — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:12:06 +0000

Looks like an overly distorted jpg imo.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:10:04 +0000

I, for one welcome our new weirdly semi-transparent fenestral overlords.

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:11:03 +0000

I saw a much sharper version of it yesterday, and it was no hard trick to make a different figure appear: a blank-faced figure in a white jacket, black shirt, and white tie. What fun.

(Actually, both figures are easier to see on the linked site. Forehed=>Face, Nose=>Tie, Cheek=>Jacket shoulder.)

By: Sili

Sili — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:12:27 +0000

I can’t make sense of your picture, but the one in the article is actually pretty good.

By: Wildride

Wildride — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:46:31 +0000

Did they have to go through the great energy barrier at the centre of the galaxy to find said ER?

By: One Eyed Jack

One Eyed Jack — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:55 +0000

Nonsense. It’s very obvious that’s Davey Jones.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/i_wanna_grow_up_to_be_just_lik.php

By: Mikel

Mikel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:20:30 +0000

That is clearly Zur, head of the Kodan armada.

(with apologies to The Last Starfighter)

By: DB

DB — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:13:55 +0000

When I look at the small blurry picture you have posted here, I’m seeing Cthulhu.

I’d worry more about my ‘soul’ if I saw Cthulhu then I would if I saw a Jesus.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:34:44 +0000

I always wanted to go to one of these, quickly wash the stain off, turn to the crowd and shout, “Where’s your God now! Ha ha haaaaa!”

And then I would run like the wind lest I be burned at a stake or stoned to death or something.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:11:31 +0000

On first blush, it looked to me like the guy on the package of Zig Zag cigarette paper. Does this mean that the J-man smokes a blunt now and then or am I reading a little too much into the image?

By: BoC

BoC — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:05:24 +0000

Or Sig.

(My kingdom for an edit button.)

By: BoC

BoC — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:03:59 +0000

Phil, did you catch the Discovery Channel’s new episodes of Deadliest Catch? Not only was there a lot of coverage of sea-going superstitions, there was an instance of pareidolia, when one crewman – possibly with tongue planted firmly in cheek – claimed to see Jesus in what appeared to be a stain of some sort on a post.

Howard

I came in here to say just this. What was even funnier is when, 4 hours later, their ship was pounded by very rough waves and (I think) the number of crab they caught dropped.

(Lest anybody think I’m being mean, I’m not. That ship was the Northwestern, piloted by Sid Hanson; they are my favorites on that show and I’m glad nobody got hurt. They will probably, once again, bring in the most crab when all is said and done.)