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Here is proof for Gord: he is broad-shouldered and appears to be naked (at least, to the waist); he wears a turban; he may have a moustache (or is just grinning hugely - he loves to kick up the dust!); and he has either spit out a cigar butt…or just spit.
And does it look like Gord has a “familiar” on his left shoulder? Is it a peccary or a large black cat (look for “Sooty”, the last image on the post), facing away from its stogie-spitting owner?
I was unable, no matter how hard I squinted, to see a woman. Dang! I wanted so badly for Gord to be a female - mostly because it would piss off most of the religionists; Gord forbid they would accept a female “Creator”…
No, Ron, I haven’t returned to “belief”, or “gone fundie again”; I wasn’t even fundie, back in the day. My mind just gathered random shapes and colors together and “recognized” a human form in a Hubble image. According to Carl Sagan,
…human beings are, as a survival technique, “hard-wired” from birth to identify the human face. This allows people to use only minimal details to recognize faces from a distance and in poor visibility, but can also lead them to interpret random images or patterns of light and shade as being faces.
And, no, there was no photoshop involved (although I did use Picasa to crop the image). If you don’t believe me, please use either opening link.
It’s just an amazing Hubble image, as most of them have been. I would much rather have my tax dollars spent on Science!
(Watch out for this: it could go “viral”. Time will tell… And it should be interesting if fundies get hold of it!)
I just looked again and remembered what movie it reminded me of - something with Ali Baba or like Thief of Baghdad. I googled but nothing with either Fairbanks (pere OR fils) or Errol Flynn came up. Even that Tony Curtis “stinker”, Son of Ali Baba, came up without him in a turban…
Maybe Gawd doesn’t want my athiest mind to view his majesty because it just looks like a nebula to me
Damn it, I meant atheist.
Frank Zappa?
Yeah! Zappa is god! “…movin’ to Montana soon / gonna be a dental floss tycoon…”
To me god looks kinda like a gorilla… HHHMMM…
I never get this stuff. Man, I reckon I’ve thrown away or eaten highly valuable garlic bread bearing the likeness of the virgin mary because i just can’t see.
dang these scales!
It’s not God, it’s Voldemort!
Yeah! Voldemort!
It’s easy to see anything in there, isn’t it?
Except a woman, dang it!
No, wait! I can see her small right breast! And she’s broad-shouldered because…she’s wearing football shoulderpads. Well, she’d something to protect her skin, if she insists on give a collared-peccary a ride…
Why would anyone use this to prove God….that would be a sheer act of idiocy
I see Josh the xian is still lurking around. We will make an atheist of him yet.
Sorry, Naomi, I don’t see it either. I’m glad you are having fun with it, though.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but all I see is Ghost Rider.
My pareidolia abilities must be really weak; I don’t see it either.
If, however, most people see him wearing a turban, why, that would mean that the Muslims are right and Islam is the True Religion ™!
It’s not God, it’s the Joker. He seems to have some sort of glowy sword in his left hand. That can’t be good.
Well, I don’t know what you’re looking at Naomi because I definitely see a woman — a crone to be exact. See those two darker pendulous areas beneath each shoulder area? Those are most certainly breasts, and her face is kind of wrinkled and that is an unmistakable black cat on her shoulder. Gordina is a wise old crone.
Yep. I had to revisit the image, but I see what Naomi sees. The key is the dark spot shaped like a very shallow “U.” It’s about two-thirds of the way up and slightly left of center. Once you nail that the rest falls into place.
Funny thing Eve, comic writer Paul Jenkins seems to be an atheist. At a Christmas party he had with other writers, they played a game called True Religion darts, in which the winner was the true religion.
Turns out Klingon is the true religion! Who’da thought that a COMIC BOOK WRITER would reveal the truth?
I see the evil clown from It.
The whole picture looks like a close-up shot of the mole on my chin. I really should get it checked.
I see an alien and a giant evil spitting space clown. And possibly a flying spaghetti monster.
I see Thor reaching out with one hand to brace himself as he thrusts forward with the sword which is held in his right hand.
Thor also looks like he needs a facelift.
I dunno…it really reminds me of what I saw (back in my binge drinking days) whilst hanging over the toilet, waiting for the next wave of, stomach wrenching, barf.
Yeah…after WAY too much vodka, and…
some really, short lived, but tasty…”Deep Dish” sausage/pepperoni pizza!
Hmmm…tune title variation:
“Barf on the Water”?
I’ve had this image as my screensaver for a month, but I never saw something until I was forced to–even then it’s a stretch from this:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/hst_hourglass.gif
Cay enns, at least I can prove I didn’t photoshop my image…
I see an intergalactic space pirate, with a kiwi bird on his shoulder, spitting over the side of his intergalactic piratical spaceship.
looks like its time to clean the lens on the hubble
Damnit! Now look what you’ve done. Now I can’t see anything else! It was such a cool picture before…
I don’t see anything; I guess Gawd has closed my mind.
Nicodraxus: that’s just your brain providing “order to chaos”. It’s the same reason your mind provides missing letters (think: Wheel of Fortune, and Hangman…). And why, as Sagan says, you recognize a particular person, well before you can see him/her clearly.
Religious pareidolia seems to fulfill some need in them - to ascribe the vague image to a manifestation of Gord. They need to see Gord everywhere, because they’re brainwashed into believing he IS everywhere at all times.
Atheists can look at the above image and say, “Cool! Looks like Ali Baba in a dust cloud…” and go on with our lives, no deeper impacted than having experienced a Magic-Eye 3D pic.
I hope no one believed for one nanosecond that I really saw the fundie’s creator! Or that my mind is still looking for evidence of one!
Once a genuine atheist, always an atheist. KA’s ex-atheist from a few days is most likely a “propagandizing mole”…
WoW amazing Hubble pictures and we’re looking for something as mundane as a human image in all this beauty? Good Gosh.
It’s bad enough that the Christians took the beautiful sun and turned it into a human being to worship. Science is truly more amazing than our imagination.
AUM, gawd works in mysterious ways, even through comic writers…
And now I see an evil clown! Curse you, brodie and Our Lady of Perpetual Motion!
Wow, that’s lovely. And to think it all happened within the past 6,000 years. Yeah, baby.
Don’t tell me that nobody has noticed the deer head… makes me wanna blast some deer with my .44
Um…lotsa cool colors, a couple of what could be partial faces, a kitty cat made of sea coral, some soft-set jello, but nope, I see no gods. Oh well.
I dunno, I see G.I.R. from Invader Zim…sort of; and even that’s a stretch.
The Horse-Head nebula is a lot more impressive and easy to “see”. The Crab Nebula is rather abstract, though…I get why they call it that, but again, kind of a stretch.
All I can say about the Greeks & Romans and their star Constellations in the sky is–they were sure a lot more imaginative people than I am! Orion’s belt, you say? Ok, if you say so…it all looks like variations of “the big dipper” to me…
The supreme being has nice panties, if I am forming an image from the same portion of this amazing display as others. (Based on the “white hair” at the top right).