Comments on: Paneidolia

By: Some Random Stuff « Blogging with Badger

Some Random Stuff « Blogging with Badger — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:05:17 +0000

[...] For those who think they see Jesus or Mary in everything from a grilled cheese sandwhich to a Lava Lamp, I direct you to this article. [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:45:36 +0000

It’s all a matter of perspective, if look at this thing and stand on your head, it looks like a Volkswagen that lost its wheels.

By: icemith

icemith — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:43:23 +0000

@ Sticks…. (re Photo – yeah, it did work.)

But before it disappears, (just in case), what the dickens is that big black thing purporting to be a nose? Is (was) it badly burnt? Maybe a rissole, or a flapjack?

Phil, what else have you in your pantry? And does Mrs BA know you are messing with her utensils?

Ivan.

By: Scott Smith

Scott Smith — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:34:45 +0000

If the critics see this blog post they are gonna pan it for sure.

and to whomever mentioned crossing the stream: “I thought you said crossing the streams was bad?!?”

By: beche-la-mer

beche-la-mer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:05:38 +0000

I saw two paintings from Dale Frank’s Stephen Hawking series in the art gallery last week — they are just black canvases with random pools of lacquer on them, but I swear I saw Stephen Hawking’s head in one of them…

By: hale_bopp

hale_bopp — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:35:33 +0000

Just turn your cover of Death From the Skies upside down…I think you will see the pattern!

By: InfamousQBert

InfamousQBert — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:01:48 +0000

my mother once saw abraham lincoln in a dried spill on the kitchen counter. now THERE’s some symbolosity goodness for you.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:40:39 +0000

The BA made Baby Jesus smile! Yayz!

By: Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:36:51 +0000

from “Red Dwarf” comes this exchange:

Kryten: “Surely you believe that God is in all things. Aren’t you a Pantheist?”

Lister: “Well, yeah, but I just don’t think it applies to kitchen utensils. I’m not a Frying Pantheist!”

Cheers

By: drksky

drksky — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:16:19 +0000

@Scared NJ: I can't tell if you're joking, a troll, or genuinely believe that garbage. To put your mind at ease, I suggest you go to this Universe Today page and read their many 2012 doomsday debunking articles.

By: RL

RL — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:15:47 +0000

I see Obama.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:29:55 +0000

Who you gonna call?

Well, depending on what you use the pan for…

Toastbusters,
Roastbusters,
BA-blog-postbusters

etc.

Sorry.

By: doug

doug — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:29:23 +0000

Try this next time you are plastering, or are near a freshly plastered wall.

Seems to work best with the pinkish plaster in my experience.

When the plaster is drying out, it tends to dry out unevenly. This leaves dark areas of water, and lighter areas of pink. The most fantastic images appear (at least to me). Old women, lions, bent old men etc.

Maybe the variety of images seen = imagination x medium used.

I also tend to agree with quasidogs points. I’m sure most of us could see stay puft man in the picture (the clue helped to steer us into the conclusion). Looked more like a yahoo smiley to me.

We see the image not because we are devout followers of stay puft. Rather we have a cultural reference point image, which random forms in nature may be analogous to. I dont believe in Jesus, but if i saw an image in a shower curtain which roughly matched the form and proportion of Jesus, I’m sure i would say “Oh that looks like Jesus”. The conclusion of that event, needed no belief or devout following.

I would say that the “significance” of the event would be determined by the beliefs held, but not the seeing in the first place.

Just my two pence worth.

Cheers.

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:37:13 +0000

Phil, you should sell it on eBay

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:31:55 +0000

If there's something strange
(dun DUN dun)
In your frying pan
(dun DUN dun)
Who ya gonna call?
BAD SKEPTIC!

By: Sticks

Sticks — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:49:20 +0000

Note to moderator Am testing if something works, if this is just a bunch of control codes. just delete this paticular message Here goes

By: Sticks

Sticks — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:47:04 +0000

Does this count
http://stickings90.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album27&id=Breakfast_face

Mind you it was deliberate.

I have this great idea for a product, you have some kind of say metal sleeve that you put a slice of bread into, and then you put it in a toaster. or perhaps this could be a toaster attachment so you make portraits of religious figures appear on your toast – then you can sell to the gullible on E-Bay

By: quasidog

quasidog — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:19:17 +0000

@Phil .. you said … “Religiously devout people see Mary and Jesus and Mohammed. What do I see?”

I think it’s only a few mate. You forgot to put.. ‘Some’.. at the beginning of the sentence. It is a minority. As an analogy : some mental patients see lots of weird stuff too, but it would be wrong to say, “Mental patients see weird things.”… as some mental patients do not see weird things at all. They can be mental patients for a completely different reason. However .. “Some mental patients see weird things.” … is a accurate statement. Big difference.

Being religiously devout does not mean one sees the faces of a deity in random images. That sort of thing is solely for a minority.

You can’t just group everyone together like that. It is incorrect.

By: Mchl

Mchl — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:04:59 +0000

Ok… all this needs is a CAPSHUN and it’s ready for I CAN HAZ CHEESBURGER

By: Dean Baird

Dean Baird — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:28:16 +0000

…Little Astronomer adds to her burgeoning file of psychoanalysis fodder. And sighs…

By: Levi in NY

Levi in NY — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:27:32 +0000

Clearly Jesus’ random-object self-portrait skills are deteriorating by the day.

By: The Many Faces of Jesus « Skepacabra

The Many Faces of Jesus « Skepacabra — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:41:30 +0000

[...] The Many Faces of Jesus Man insists he has a magical wax figure of the Virgin Mary and baby in his lava lamp – Now this isn’t even a good example of pareidolia as I know what I’m supposed to see and I still don’t really see it. It’s not nearly as good as the Jesus on a potato chip or on a pierogi or the flamin’ pope or the famous Jesus toast. And here’s an intentionally funny one. [...]

By: Sundance

Sundance — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:13:31 +0000

The Staypuft Marshmallow Man was also the first thing I thought of when I saw it!

Actually a few years back I cut open a tomato and found the face of Fat Freddy from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers staring back at me! Surely a sign of the second coming of Fat Freddy’s Cat.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:53:50 +0000

@Scared NJ:
Short answer: No, long answer: No!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:35:14 +0000

That is the most adorable pan EVAR!

Darn, Corey beat me to the joke I was gunna make

Scared in NJ…. first of all, you’ve survived living in Jersey this long, you’ll be fine. Also, in addition to the previously mentioned resources, I really enjoyed the 2012 articles over at Universe Today, like http://www.universetoday.com/2008/10/03/2012-no-geomagnetic-reversal/