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Savannahmann

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2. One thing that has always bothered me.

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 12:22 PM

May 2013

Those who see such information or images are always claiming it proves the existence of that which we can not explain. Those who don't believe always say that it is irrelevant to the non existence of a spiritual being or force.

Whatever I believe, or do not believe, is nobody's business but my own. If my faith was so weak as to need some inexplicable photograph to shore it up, then my faith in whatever I purportedly believe in is pretty weak.

So photographs or stories like this do nothing to shore up any faith I have, and the absence of such photographs would do nothing to diminish any faith I may have.

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Do You Believe? Holy image appears behind child battling leukemia [View all] The Straight Story May 2013 OP

That holy image yellerpup May 2013 #1

Exactly GoneOffShore May 2013 #3

I seek to deprive no one of their comfort. n/t yellerpup May 2013 #12

I don't seek to deprive comfort either defacto7 May 2013 #25

Worthy quests. yellerpup May 2013 #32

One thing that has always bothered me. Savannahmann May 2013 #2

I kinda feel the same way about your reply The Straight Story May 2013 #4

Pareidolia X_Digger May 2013 #5

The paranormal community also refers to this as "matrixing." Dash87 May 2013 #11

your signature drives me nuts. But in a good way. KittyWampus May 2013 #17

:D Dash87 May 2013 #19

Your signature drives me nuts too! LOLOL! Jazzgirl May 2013 #44

It's all part of my evil plan Dash87 May 2013 #45

You know, there's something worse than defacto7 May 2013 #6

You had that reaction too? nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #10

It's not just you. n/t LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #31

No translucent child? LondonReign2 May 2013 #35

Yup! Piety justifies bearing false witness. longship May 2013 #49

Pareidolia. Apophis May 2013 #7

So Mary has the power to appear and "watch over" this child Arugula Latte May 2013 #8

If any of those are true, why call this deity god? Apophis May 2013 #15

"Deity" is not that which causes or prevents anything. It's the Universal Consciousness that experie KittyWampus May 2013 #18

Thank you, Oh Enlightened One. Arugula Latte May 2013 #23

You make such proclamations with a certainty that rivals the most extreme fundamentalists. trotsky May 2013 #28

Yeah, I think you made that up. Marr May 2013 #34

"Universal Consciousness" snooper2 May 2013 #38

Resistance is futile! nt longship May 2013 #50

Shutter speed issue with the camera. Dash87 May 2013 #9

yes, a picture of all persons attending would no doubt reveal a young woman siligut May 2013 #24

I'm not horribly convinced that's a picture of anyone. Dash87 May 2013 #30

Wow! Complete nonsense. bowens43 May 2013 #13

Isn't it amazing that the Virgin Mary never appears to Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists...? brooklynite May 2013 #14

They most certainly do, when one meditates. KittyWampus May 2013 #20

It is true defacto7 May 2013 #22

I am glad sarisataka May 2013 #16

I believe these people are dumb as shit. bunnies May 2013 #21

it'd be way cooler if mary was jumping in the air like david lee roth d_b May 2013 #26

I have no idea, but tend not to knock people for what brings them comfort Xyzse May 2013 #27

It looks to me like a blurry picture of a woman wearing a pink sari.... A HERETIC I AM May 2013 #29

Looks like Obi-Wan Kenobi in Return of the Jedi cbdo2007 May 2013 #33

Double exposure. You can see the girl pnwest May 2013 #36

You know what bothers me about this sort of thing? Marr May 2013 #37

Holy? No HockeyMom May 2013 #39

I hope the young girl has long, healthy, and happy life. cordelia May 2013 #40

LOL...no. Iggo May 2013 #41

I wanted to read the local comments from the channels' website Quantess May 2013 #42

i see carrie, not mary.. frylock May 2013 #43

That women in the picture is wearing glasses. Auntie Bush May 2013 #46

Doesn't the Virgin Mary always wear blue? n/t SoCalDem May 2013 #47

A trick of the light and exposure at night. Rex May 2013 #48

Are you always this impressed with obvious, badly done fraud? Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #51

Is that the cover of Sabbath's Paranoid album? Tom Ripley May 2013 #52

The family may take comfort madamesilverspurs May 2013 #53

Looks like a blob of random colors to me. NYC Liberal May 2013 #54

Looks like the Devil, come to take the cancer kid to Hell...nt SidDithers May 2013 #55