4/19/2005: Virgin Mary appears in salt in freeway underpass

IotD will continue to document absurd Mary findings. Previously on IotD she has been seen in a tree stump and in a fence. In this case she is seen in the road salt that has dripped down onto the wall in that spot and then dried.

It's really all about the human ability to connect and see patterns and to convince themselves of what they want to see...

I think it looks more like Madonna, the singer, you know, "Like a Virgin," not actually one.

Since when do the Blessed Virgin's elbows touch the ground. Her arms would have to be around nine feet long to pull that off.

Besides, that's not Mary. I asked her about it when I talked with her this morning and she just sighed, rolled her eyes and said: "Its freakin' salt, dude."

Why would Mary be trying to lure people to their deaths?

I think it's ridiculous when a potato that looks like the Virgin Mary sells on ebay for more than the what I payed for my car, but I have to say, that's a remarkable image. *Especially* because it's created by random road salt. Usually, I think it's absurd people give so much significance to these things, but this one is remarkably detailed and close to the actual image of a praying, veiled Mary. I can understand this one. The only problem I have is that it's a man, baby.

I think it looks like a vagina.

whew, i'm not the only one who saw that before mary...

ditto.

quadritto. So a more ancient form of female diety worship.

ok, i cannot see mary in here anywhere. the vagina does jump right though.

Maybe if you look close enough, you can tell it's the virgin
Mary.

Ha!

Stoopid fucking lemmings...

What we really need is an IOTD category of images of things that form in window glass, trees, food, etc that *aren't* Mary, but look like, perhaps, Joe DiMaggio or Bette Davis.

What we need is for peepul to get their heads out of their asses and look for meaning and pattern inside, instead of outside.

I remember (fuzzily) an old Cheers episode where Cliff has a potato that looks like Nixon. I think the punchline is something like "Big deal, find one that doesnt".

Bah. What would we make fun of then???

people who live in Iowa. oh wait, i do that now.

The one and only time i tried tye dying, one of the shirts I rolled came out with a HUGE purple vagina going up the back. I couldn't have drawn one better, it was amazing. No, I don't still have it unfortunately. I wish I had taken a picture.

Now i look again it doesn't look very virginal either.

Good thing not many people saw you wearing it, they'd have erected a shrine on your ass. Wait. Are we talking about vaginas that look like Marys or vice versa?

nevermind

I see a penis with a fright wig. Does that mean I'm queer?

You're the one who said I had a nice box.

SALTY VAGINA

.......definitely LABIA LAND.
I certainly wouldn't say virgin, though.
I wouldn't be surprised if some graffitti artist hasn't "touched it up"......
I dated a girl once who......... 10-22

I heard this story on the local radio. It's in Chicago on the Fullerton Avenue underpass for the Kennedy Expressway.

It still looks like a salt stain to me.

Doesn't the bible outright say that anything that appears prior to God appearing in the sky is a false a vision and shouldn't be trusted?

I think it looks like a vagina.

it says to beware of people who give signs and say this n that, because there will be many false prophets, and when the time comes, the sign will be clear to everyone, etc. etc.

I don't think this is it. I think it's a buhgina. I can see the dick with a wig, too. But hey, if it comforts someone, good for them.

We had these fake wood grain doors and a couple of them had demon faces in them. Big ones, too. And I saw a skull in the pattern of the carpet at school. All this started happening after our psychology class in which we learned about subliminal advertising. I can spot a dick in a tumbler of whiskey from a mile off.

That would be a good sig line

"Kiss the vagina, Timmy."

Didn't anyone see The Daily Show, uh, Monday night I think? Where some Aussie pissed the bed and said it looked like Jesus? I think that one wins for most ludicrous pseudo-religious sighting thus far, even past the cheese sammich on eBay.

my gosh... sigh... I find these things so sad... is this why you guys think we Cath'licks are wackos? Seriously, I think it's just people whose pattern-recognition skills have gone a little haywire... sadly, that seems to happen a lot in our church... I guess it shows that we really are a church made out of human beings.

Re: the kid

<troll>
Why are atheists typically so damn smug? It seems to me that to be sure there is no God is as much a matter of faith as to actively believe in one (or many). The only truly rational position is to be agnostic, which is to admit that it is unknowable.

In other words, why are you so quick to dismiss this as nothing more than an accident? Is it threatening to your worldview, perhaps, that someone might find meaning where you do not?
</troll>

I think we need more image goodness!

heh. nice try. Start a miracle thread if you like, this is the vagina picture thread.

Actually, a vagina magically appearing on a wall is pretty miraculous.

Sorry, the effort had to be made.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled vagina bashing.

There is no way I can comment on that TS without it being as easy in interpret as minsinterpret.

One does try.

Good show Jag.
I wonder in one of those online florists would deliver to the salt stain in the underpass? Maybe a mylar balloon too.

fishy

seems kinda fishy to me...

who wants to lick Lot's wife?

Now that I think about it....It looks like HER vagina.........

Hell I saw my x wife in Hardes's today. She should be a piss stain on a wall somewhere. !st sighing in 35 years.OMG

You see Mike's what, in your brats?!?

OMG! The casting that I poster in DoDads has a Baby Jesus foot print on back side. See!

It's Ditka again.

Image of Mary defaced

Story from CNN.com here

I once had an image of Mary appear to me in a bagel, but hunger won out over greed and I ate it! YUM!

Brian

It's funny how he got arrested, but the monkeys creating the road hazard got left alone.

Those damn athiests just couldn't leave us alone and let us have our miracle. Damn them to Hell for all eternity! They are just jealous. At least we have the pictures of the vagina to remember it.

here's a link from the chicago tribune, why is the girl in image #7 not arrested for the same thing as the other guy?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...ws-hed&index=7

oh and I forgot the second commandment:

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin
of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me

-Exodus 20:2-17

Isn't this an idol, sure man didn't DIRECTLY make it, but man's creations made it.

Catholics don't have that commandment. They split another one into two (I forget which one) to keep the integrity of the "Ten" Commandments.

Wow, here i was raised catholic and I *thought* I remember that one

Thanks for enlightening my (obviously going to hell) self!

I swear they taught us that graven images thing.

I never knew there were 3 version of the 10 commandments - one jewish one catholic and one protestant

I have found some sites that dispute your claim that catholics 'dropped' the graven images commandment, many say that it is impied in the 'short hand' version of the 2nd - Thou shall have no gods before me

Sorta of a crib notes for the commandments I guess. You'r supposed to look them up in exodus

I coulda sworn they taught me the graven images thing too ... but graven images are big business for the Catholic Church ... I got my St. Dymphna medal and picture right here ... (Her feast day is May 15, don't miss it!!)

I know I always get mixed up about #5 ... I know it's about the not killin', which is apparently #6 for the Jews and the Prods?

Welcome, Johne

I thought being allowed to have graven images is what makes a Catholic a Catholic. It's fun to have idols!!

Do I need to post the link to the Reverend Geno vs. the Virgin Mary again?

Hello wolf, and thanks,

So CAN I worship my American Idol or not???

I guess it doesn't matter cause I can always repent at the last minute and still get in. I love that get out of jail free card!

And I still can't figure out why it's ok to vandalize a message to grandpa, but not to the world?

Must be a dead vs alive thing. Us catholics have always had more respect for dead people.

There's a lot of Irish and Polish Catholics in Chicago. That may explain a lot of the ire toward the Godless defacer.

One polish catholic (long since converted to my own spirituality) right here !

You are too right, irish, polish, and latino population massive here. Second largest community of polish outside poland is in Chicago - my home town!

For the most part, we put the graven in the graven image. Can't swing a cat by the tail in most pagan households without knocking over a dozen assorted goddess statues and annoying the cat.

I'm not truly a "pagan" (yet? - still learning/investigating/considering), but definitely a poly, so I have my fair share of idols (Norse, Celtic, etc.), and a couple of cats for swinging. But none made from salt stains or grilled cheese. Mine were created intentionally, blatantly; not miraculously discovered under a stinky underpass.

Wouldn't it be hysterical if the roadsalt Mary actually *was* a divine miracle? Boy, wouldn't that fanatic that painted it over feel dumb...

God: "So, what do you have to say for yourself?"

Fanatic: "I...um...well...You see...Youdamnit, it says right there in the Bible that..."

God: "Don't tell me what it says in the Bible! Don't you think *I* know what it says?! You morons fucked it completely up! What it says is bullshit! Don't you people know allegory and metaphor when you read it?"

I don't know about your god, but mine wouldn't waste its time creating a stain for people to question whether it was a miracle - my gods would slap yo in the face with lightning bolt, or something equally obvious. Maybe my kind are a bit thicker headed and need a stronger "sign" than a questionable stain under a freeway, or a possible profile on a potato chip.

I dunno. These little indications of diety in everyday things may be a way of impressing upon us that everything has it's part in the dance of the sacred which we call "life."

You're right - I guess I just see them in things other than salt stains. (Flowers and sunsets come to mind.)

I'm a big fan of waking up in the morning, seeing stars at night, and a good chicken salad club sandwich ...

And thus is demonstrated the intrinsic, constantly capitalized upon and excuse-ridden, need of humans to see patterns or reasons where there are no indications of either.

OH man this is crazier than ever,

From todays tribune -

some ladies cleaned off the paint over the salt, in the process obviously removing some of the salt.

SO is it now a TRULY graven image - since man has altered it?

And the trib goes on to say that the reason the man [that defaced the salt stain] was arrested and the other weren't was because people saw him.

Well I've got a pic of some Jessica Navarrete writing ont the wall.

Whatever!

It's what we do.

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter And thus is demonstrated the intrinsic, constantly capitalized upon and excuse-ridden, need of humans to see patterns or reasons where there are no indications of either.

It's just a salt stain.....for chrissake..............