A Gynecological Apparition
Forgive me for being insensitive to other religions here, but the people who worship various stains, bits of food, or other random occurrences that sorta, kinda, not really look like Jesus or the Virgin Mary are complete morons. Here’s Mary’s latest guest starring role, this time as a stain on a highway underpass :
To the true believers out there, this might seem like a profound act of piety. When I look at it, however, I just see a bunch of fools worshiping a giant vagina.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s noticed this….
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You’re not. these people are, in fact, every person on earth who believes this nonsense, are fucking morons.
Comment by Ross A Lincoln — April 20, 2005 @ 4:56 pm
Heh. It DOES look like a vagina.
Comment by tomboyms — April 20, 2005 @ 5:16 pm
That vagina looks a little runny.
Comment by Kam — April 20, 2005 @ 5:20 pm
You weren’t the only one to notice.
Now I’m wondering how much the cult of the madonna is driven by pareidolia and an infatuation with matters gynecological.
Comment by PZ Myers — April 20, 2005 @ 5:29 pm
Amanda of Pandagon noticed, too.
Yo, PZ, at least they’re worshipping something worthy.
Comment by Lauren — April 20, 2005 @ 5:37 pm
You should look at it a little more metaphorically.
Attaturk calls it “the baby-Jesus escape hatch“.
Now that’s sensitivity.
Comment by errant — April 20, 2005 @ 6:51 pm
Let’s put it this way— I’ve seen a hell of a lot of Georgia O’Keefe paintings in the last few days in connection with this miraculous (defined as a small subset of gullible idiots find temporary meaning in life) event.
Comment by norbizness — April 20, 2005 @ 8:57 pm
I dunno… it kinda looks like Perry Farrell…
Comment by Roddy McCorley — April 20, 2005 @ 9:48 pm
it is surprising how much a stain on a highway underpass looks exactly like what you would expect to see on a highway underpass.
some of you may say i lack imagination. to them i say, its gonna take a PILE of the greatest LSD in this damned world before i think the holy mother is showing up in hobo toilets, bitchez!
p.s: it does look like a vagina, especially when that woman in blue is “pointing at” it.
Comment by almostinfamous — April 21, 2005 @ 12:29 am
and not only that, she looks kinda bored at having to give the apparating vagina some finger fun. to each their own apparently
Comment by almostinfamous — April 21, 2005 @ 12:31 am
Is it just me, or is that a vulva and not a vagina?
Comment by stickler — April 21, 2005 @ 7:36 am
When I commented to my husband my dismay at people seeing a religious icon in the water stained Chicago underpass wall, he quickly retorted, “Well, its just like you seeing a weasel everytime Bush appears on TV.”
Comment by BL — April 21, 2005 @ 7:56 am
Mulva?
Comment by Becky — April 21, 2005 @ 8:17 am
Tbogg also.
Comment by TJon — April 21, 2005 @ 8:27 am
Nope, you sure aren’t. I said the same thing on Tuesday here.
Rational minds think alike.
Comment by Guav — April 21, 2005 @ 8:51 am
Now that one doesn’t surprise me at all. If anyone else would have noticed, it would have been him.
Comment by greg — April 21, 2005 @ 8:56 am
I am an italian living in Switzerland and I am roman catholic (to a certain level).
Just to let you know, in case you wonder,
not one christian I know would be so dumb to worship this stain. Same story with the sandwich. Only in a third world country and in the US an overhelming majority of christians is so “out of touch with reality” to be willing to believe BS like that.
In the US, because they have been brainwashed by some “spiritual (self-serving) leader”
and in the third world country because of hunger and desperation to believe in something
and both because they’re afraid to be punished by the “upper force”.
I know that worshipping a statue who’s teardrops are of blood could seem the same as worshipping this stain (I don’t worship it and I don’t think it’s the same), but hey! how desperate can someone be to “see” a Madonna on this wall????? This stain is a stain and that burned sandwich is just a burned sandwich!!!
What I want to say is; this is NOT a religious problem, this is a phsychic problem. I think, if someone in the US would find a stain that looks like Jennifer Lopez, fairly the same amount of people would be driving 100miles to see it, just out of curiosity. In south america they wouldn’t, cause they’re not afraid to loose their crop-field by the almighty powers of J.Lo
Justice and luck may be blind, faith is not.
Sorry for my poor english.
Comment by Fab — April 21, 2005 @ 8:56 am
Justice and luck may be blind, faith is not.
Fab, my friend, English like that is the opposite of poor. I wish more of my countrymen had your grasp of both English and faith.
Comment by Roddy McCorley — April 21, 2005 @ 9:14 am
It does seem odd to me that a religious sect with so many beautiful carvings and sculptures of their religious figures are so easily transfixed by something that sort of looks like Jesus or Mary appearing on something ugly.
Comment by Dr. Pants — April 21, 2005 @ 9:52 am
It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise sane people believe this apparition nonsense. I don’t think JC or god would approve of such idolatry…
Comment by Nigel Pond — April 21, 2005 @ 10:18 am
just ask yourself.. if you were the ONLY person who believed in the jesus…
what would that make you?
Comment by el serracho — April 21, 2005 @ 11:07 am
The other reaction I have to this “apparition” is: “Funny– she doesn’t look Jewish…”
Comment by Roddy McCorley — April 21, 2005 @ 11:58 am
just ask yourself.. if you were the ONLY person who believed in the jesus…
what would that make you?
Very lonely when you got to heaven?
Comment by Geoduck — April 21, 2005 @ 12:41 pm
Funny–to me, it looks like a big penis with a seriously varicose vein.
No foreskin, so it might be Jewish.
Comment by Ereshkigal — April 21, 2005 @ 2:23 pm
“See class, this part here is what we call the clitoris.”
Comment by Samir — April 22, 2005 @ 1:13 am