The Virgin, Or Knot?
– – We’ve posted before on how people have seen both religious and secular notables in mundane objects, including visions of Jesus, Mary, and Elvis on interior and exterior walls and even food substances, including burnt bacon and a cheese sandwich.- -Well, in one of the latest sightings, a gnarl in the bark of a tree in West New York has been found to resemble the Virgin Mary.
The tree has attracted hundred of visitors since its discovery on July 10th, so many in fact that the police have found it necessary to section off the tree with barricades. The site has become a shrine with the tree surrounded by flowers and burning candles.
There is that tendency in the human mind to seek meaningful patterns in randomness or ambiguous stimuli, in the same manner that faces and objects may be seen in passing clouds. The phenomenon is of course natural, but belief and culture are what gives a perceived symbol meaning…
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July 16, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Good move on the cops’ part. If some overzealous sports fan is willing to poison a tree over (what should be) a purely good-natured college football rivalry, what would right-wing religious fanatics not be willing to stoop to?
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July 17, 2012 at 1:40 am
“Woodsman, spare that tree/Touch not a single bough/In youth it sheltered me/And I’ll protect it now!” (best read in Bullwinkle Moose’s voice)
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July 17, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I remember the Woody Woodpecker version, where Woody dressed up in drag, complete with star-topped wand. And, then, used the wand to put a lump atop lumberjack Buzz Buzzard’s head!
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July 18, 2012 at 1:59 am
A number of the great comic characters…Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny, among others…have been known to appear in drag, using such to disarm, humiliate, or devastate opponents!
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