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sweetmiracle
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 03/09/2005 : 17:14:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
I don't see it???
Is everyone here blind or what!
Well, on second thought, it'd pass for a fair likeness of
Einstein's mother.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2005 : 06:57:36 [Permalink]
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It seems that Miss Mary has now turned up on a pretzel. And the poor lass has been pimped out for cash, and her kid along with her.
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Internet casino buys Virgin Mary pretzel for $10,600
BY ERIC OLSON / The Associated Press
An Antigua-based Internet casino that previously bought a partially eaten grilled cheese sandwich has won in the bidding for an intact pretzel that the St. Paul sellers believe is shaped like the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.
Golden Palace Casino swooped in about 30 seconds before bidding closed Wednesday evening on the Internet auction site eBay.
The winning bid: $10,600.
"What it says to me is that this pretzel is so much more than an edible item. We only paid $3.29 for the whole bag," said Machelle Naylor, whose daughter, Crysta, found the honey mustard-flavored pretzel in a bag of Rold Gold.
The likeness of the Virgin Mary also was seen in the grilled cheese sandwich for which the Golden Palace paid $28,000 to a Florida woman last November.
Golden Palace spokesman Jon Wolf said the casino acquires such items for a variety of reasons.
"We think the notoriety is worth it," Wolf said. "We bought the Virgin Mary grilled cheese, and we found that a lot of people are interested in seeing it for themselves to see if it (the Virgin Mary) is really there. We've taken the grilled cheese around the country, and we hope to do the same with the pretzel."
The pretzel drew 56 bids. The second-highest was $10,500.
I just can't win. The other day, I saw a Choir of Angels in the big chunk of suet on one of the bird feeders, but by the time I got around to bringing it in, the godless, little woodpeckers had desecrated it. Phooey!
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sweetmiracle
Skeptic Friend
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2005 : 08:31:25 [Permalink]
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Hey! I have a great idea about how to pay for my kids' college....
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2005 : 08:34:33 [Permalink]
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| Surely people realise what fools they make out of themselves by going public with claims such as this? Or, she did it as a joke. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 03/11/2005 : 17:56:07 [Permalink]
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| I'm wondering when the ceiling tile (and the door) are going to wind up on Ebay, to be purchased by Golden Palace. I believe they also purchased the haunted cane, right? |
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Evidently, I rock!
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NGR
New Member
Australia
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Posted - 03/11/2005 : 17:57:29 [Permalink]
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Surely people realise what fools they make out of themselves by going public with claims such as this? Or, she did it as a joke.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2005 : 20:36:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by NGR
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Surely people realise what fools they make out of themselves by going public with claims such as this? Or, she did it as a joke.
I think you underestimate the power of self delusion.
You ain't just a'woofin' there! We all do it all the time, but all too large of a percentage of us believe only that which they want to believe -- they take their fantasies of Nirvana seriously.
Yeah, I did read that they also bought the cane. I wonder; are they trying to base their gambling business on the supernatural? There are a lot of believers who might think that all this would bring them luck. Then suddenly the cost of these, for lack of a better word: artifacts is not so outrageous. So again we would have shrewd operators milking the gullible like an eight-titted cow.
On the other hand, if they actually subscribe to this nonsense, they have thrown their money away.
And on the gripping hand, any way you cut it, it's idiotcy on someone's part.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2005 : 21:38:10 [Permalink]
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Landover Baptist Church (satire site, for the uninitiated) is even reporting Virgin Mary sightings.
See the "Our Christian World" middle of the page, right side.
Warning, bathroom humor....
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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walt fristoe
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2005 : 13:33:38 [Permalink]
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It's a MIRACLE!!!
I've just finished reading Judith Hayes' Happy Heretic current monthly column (March), in which she discusses the absurdity (and arrogance) of believeing in "miracles".
It used to take something really remarkable (like raising the dead) to be called a miracle; nowadays any sufficently unusual event is so described (as in "I got an A in math!? IT'S A MIRACLE!!!)
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2005 : 14:06:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by walt fristoe
It's a MIRACLE!!!
I've just finished reading Judith Hayes' Happy Heretic current monthly column (March), in which she discusses the absurdity (and arrogance) of believeing in "miracles".
It used to take something really remarkable (like raising the dead) to be called a miracle; nowadays any sufficently unusual event is so described (as in "I got an A in math!? IT'S A MIRACLE!!!)
The lady minces no words. I like that.
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You are God. I don't care which God. Pick a God. Any God. And you're it. You created the entire universe and all that is in it. The billions of billions of galaxies, the individual stars in those galaxies, the clouds, gases, liquids and solids on all the planets orbiting those stars—all of it. You created all of it. You are eternal, all-powerful and all-knowing. No one and nothing can understand you. But right now you must take a moment to help Goober Dimwiddle sink a putt on the 18th hole of Taylor Junction's one and only golf course. After all, he asked you real nice, and there's ten bucks riding on this putt. So you guide the golf ball gently into the cup and Presto! A miracle has been born. Goober says thanks.
Miracles have always been fodder for the religion-peddlers, and like all fads, they come and go, injecting themselves into the public consciousness with varying degrees of intensity. Today they are all the rage again, rivaling perhaps the 15th century, when Europe literally ran amok with them. Cow has twins? It's a miracle! Clouds look like a donkey? It's a miracle! An angel visits a shepherd girl and tells her that the weather is going to change, on and off, for a long, long time? It's a miracle! Bird droppings on the well bucket look like two minstrels juggling ears of corn while standing on their heads? It's a miracle! Yeah, the 1400s were big on miracles.
Well, the miracles are back and they're bigger than ever. After a decent interval during which the world mourned the quarter million people in Southeast Asia killed by a tsunami, the ones who survived are now crawling out of the woodwork to tell the stories of their own, personal miracles. God saved them, you see (the hell with the rest of those now-dead losers) and it's time to party! God saved me! Aren't I wonderful?! Damn straights, you lucky dogs. The arrogance in such thinking is breathtaking. I cannot think of anything more egocentric, vain, self-centered, smug or pompous than to believe oneself to be worthy of God's miracles while the rest of the world is not! Breathtaking.
And it get's even better. This essay should be required reading in every philosophy class in the civilized world.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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wiccan_freak_2008
New Member
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2005 : 12:52:11 [Permalink]
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Well me neither it's like he wasn't there man that woman must have been on something
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