#107804 by rodney on 10/17 at 12:28 pm
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“and after drinking a twelve pack of beer I looked at the moon and saw the face of Christ looking back.”

Wow, that’s cool. I had to drop acid before I could see Jesus on the inside of my eyelids.

Only the image of the pope in the bonfire?

Damn.

If you believe that then I have 2 dozen spears of destiny and 100 bone fingers of our Savior to sell you.
Oh yeah, I also have shrunken, dried teat of Saint Agatha. It looks like a huge dried out plum. I want to get rid of it bad. It smells!

#107548 by Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD on 10/16 at 2:43 pm: “...I don’t think JP was a half-bad guy and I nave no time for religion....”

He has a kind face. There are people like that but they are sadly not wanted in politics and especially if they are men. Perhaps Hillary has a chance - only a woman can get past the boys’ club mess now.

I think he found that the Vatican was too much for one man to handle with its cesspit of political intrigues over dead dogma and mind control of a billion lost souls. Changing such a dinosaur is not an easy task.

Getting positive change against a tide of fools living in the past can be impossible except over time. Each person only has so much time to give. Forcing one who becomes pope to stay in office until they die is cruelly inhuman, too.

The Catholic church has too much invested in their Mary cult and influence through fear and ignorance to want to change. The problem is that there is no spirituality in most of those at the top anyway who are basically business administrators in a profession of management.

If any of you believe in this apparition, then see it as an indication that John Paul is not pleased with the way things are turning out under a non-spiritual German pope. They are now already willing to embrace any fake science or politics to support their positions of power.

This picture will surely make lots of fortunes !

Like my father used to say before he bought the farm: You like it, you eat it. I always liked that. I don’t think JP was a half-bad guy and I nave no time for religion.

The picture is a fire. Like the flame on a candle, it’s flickering and moving.

Had it been an apparition, it would have been seen by the multitude when it occurred.

But, the picture will become the evidence for folks that live by a shaky faith that needs to be proven.
They will embrace it, as some sort of message.

Repent or burn in Hell?
Yeh, that’s a good one.

What a waste of a good fire; not one weanie or marshmellow in sight. What’s happened to Poland lately?

Hey, Weather, I think this picture could be saying a lot about the great JP2.  Given that he’s appearing in fire, which is of course symbolic of the christian hell, it must mean that he is there.  After all, JP2 condemned millions to a terrible death and tens of millions of kids have had to grow up without parents because of lies JP2 perpetrated and endorsed about condom use.  And of course, he did cover up child rape and refuse to cooperate with investigations.  Speaking of a world full of shit, if I believed in hell, that’s where that little piece of shit would be. 

And about kissing the hand of the man who shot to kill him.  What if that was a just a great PR stunt?  After being shot, JP2 had bullet proof glass installed in his Popemobiles.  To me, that shows that the man who was supposed to be the worlds’ #1 believer didn’t trust his own god.

What kind of books were they burning?

my dog took a shit in my yard today. i swear it looked just like jesus christ. then she stepped in her own shit and spoiled the effect.

That’s not the pope.  That’s Mika Brzezinski.

Finda da Pope inna da pizza!

-Father Guido Sarducci

#107320 by weather on 10/15 at 3:50 pm: “...my hero. The answer is, there is none...”

Thanks, ‘weather’. Maybe if I’d got my spellcheck working (apparitions, uhh) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparitional_experience

You’re right about “This simple man was great for all the things he was not....”, though. Humility is all the greater quality in one who is most accomplished.

But, in my experience, very few photographs show a genuine apparition - most are the work of the person producing the print!

Mr. Chalmer’s you’re my hero. The answer is, there is none.

Lets just look at the simple Man, who became a Pope. What does it say about a man who kissed the hand of the very man who shot to kill him?

In a World deeply full of Shit, we’ve had some very authentic examples of greatness. This simple man was great for all the things he was not.

#107309 by RAE on 10/15 at 3:25 pm: “Anyone who believes this “flame” picture is anything more than a random configuration amongst an unlimited number of possibles...”

Leaving all the Catholic church’s negativities aside, RAE, why not? As it is, we all merely exist as some kind of “random configuration” of the Universe’s making - and can equally easily be dispelled.

To some, a painting is just paint daubed onto a canvas. To others, they see the life of the painter, his/her intentions and some inspirational message. Such fleeting appartions can be viewd similarly.....

“Believers” is just a synonym for “gullible” or “sucker” or “mentally abused or defective"… right?

Anyone who believes this “flame” picture is anything more than a random configuration amongst an unlimited number of possibles, is simply NUTS.

Religion can sure screw up the minds of millions. It’s a bloody wonder how these people make it through life at all! I guess if it weren’t for the church telling them what to do and when to do it, they’d all have expired long ago. That’s what you get for interfering in the natural development of the gene pool!