Christian 'Sightings.' -Are they real?

[MinaTheRomanticNeko]

I dont know if any of you have heard of these strange religious 'sightings', but a few of them have occured. I first thought about this when my VERY christian mother showed me a photograph that her friend took. He was outside of a nursing home, and saw a very, very, eerily realistic figure of the virgin mary in the window. I'm not talking about some pattern looking like an outline, I mean...very realistic. It looked like a detailed painting, but it was made up of very tiny water droplets...

I looked this kind of thing up online, and found out that there were a few more instances. Here are a couple pictures of these instances.


This is supposed to be a window with frost or something on it, depicting the virgin mary.

This statue is 'weeping'.

My topic of discussion:
Simply..what do you think about these instances?
Coincidence?
Conspirecy?
More?


If you have any articles, links, or pics relating to this subject, post 'em!  

[Syrenka]

I don't think these sightings have much behind them. In that first photo, without someone holding up a statue or saying "HOMG, it's the Virgin Mary!", I wouldn't have been able to tell what that was. Besides, reported sightings in clouds and such are simply coincidences. Hell, if I worshipped a cat and saw one in the sky, that'd be a religious experience, too, ne?  

[Sanguvixen]

Weeping statues....as far as that goes, many church leaders have been found guilty of faking those "Sightings" in order to up attendance to thier church.

Secondly...that picture...the thing on the window doesn't look anything concrete. That is the same as clouds. Ten people can look at a cloud in the sky, 4 might say it looks like a dragon, 1 might say it looks like a angel, and all the rest could come up with different things.

Many of those sightings are hoaxes intended to sway the uniformed.

 

[Lesilrok]

Well for christian sightings I think it is all Bulls*** and any other sightings as well. That reminds me of my all time favorite show Bulls*** here are some clips and some of them do with christian sightings. if you guys have cable you can watch the show on showtime

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics_all.do

check out the fung shui, and the shorts. I love his response with the pope mrgreen

enjoy  

[iviary]

Has anyone read "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett? In his book, they used the Weeping Madonna ploy back in the middle ages. =D  

[GEt CrUnK iTs BiLlY!]

Well, since in school we are studying world religions ( I porpusfully start laughing really hard when they mention some really b.s. christian thing) we watched this show that was like Myth Busters and they were trying to figure out if Noah's Ark was possible, and strangely enough there has been wood from about 5,000 years ago found high in the mountain that the Bible says that he ended up. I did second guess myself for a second but then I realized that if it were 5,000 years ago the structure of the world may have been much different and that there might be much more water so that could have been from anything.  

[DivideByZero14]

OK, the only thing I see in that window is Fidel Castro's beard.  

[iviary]

Thatisonesexypanda!

Well, since in school we are studying world religions ( I porpusfully start laughing really hard when they mention some really b.s. christian thing) we watched this show that was like Myth Busters and they were trying to figure out if Noah's Ark was possible, and strangely enough there has been wood from about 5,000 years ago found high in the mountain that the Bible says that he ended up. I did second guess myself for a second but then I realized that if it were 5,000 years ago the structure of the world may have been much different and that there might be much more water so that could have been from anything.

Even if there was a great flood that some fellow named Noah happened to survive with a bunch of animals, that wouldn't necessarily prove that a God exists. It would just prove that the Bible got something mostly historically accurate.  

[Southwest]

In the frosty window, I see more of a Che Guevera/Maddox/cloaked, hooded figure/Virgin Mary. It really is a coincidence-- just depends on what you want to see.

As for the weeping statues-- it could be, as Wikipedia says scientists suggest, condensation on microscopic cracks in the statue. Or a hoax. Certainly not indicative of anything in my book.  

[caustic 0_0]

They're real physical occurrences, but other than that any significance they have is given by the viewer.
And if something could physically happen to make that statue appear to weep, then the same thing could happen to any similar statue. However, I doubt many people would attach significance to a weeping garden gnome.  

[Orson Welles]

Probably not. The first picture looks doctored and I don't see the statue "weeping". sweatdrop  

[Dathu]

I think they're rigged by the churches.

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[Pistil]

They're all equivalent to roshach tests (sp?), or ink blot tests.

No two people tend to see the same thing.

It's all on perception.

So of course a religious person may be swayed to see a religious figure.

That first pic I could see two people in the frost, neither looked like Mary.

And anyway, photoshop is very popular nowadays.  

[Taylr752]

It's pssible, but alot of the time they actually believe they saw these things, because they so badly want to believe their god is real, when there is no factual evidence.  

[TofuDreamer]

Meh, it's not as bad when your friends talk about demon attacks right next to you in Biology.