I just checked Phil's blog, and he has not caught up with this piece of hokum reported on Sky News

I just thought I would report it and get the jump on Phil and his ever exploding irony gland

BTW also reported in the Daily Mail

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Looks more like Liberty spilled torch fluid on herself and it caught.

I don't mind people having faith in seeing icons in this way. After all, isn't that part of faith? But, for the media to cover it? No.

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I think it looks more like the Heisman pose. Probably the ghost of a former U of M, or USC winner who's upset at their team's embarassing losses.

But I watch a lot of football (americana) so that's probably why I think it looks more like that. Pareidolia.

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i'd be impressed if it wasn't just a single frame, and an actual movie of an actual column of fire that stood there like that for a while and maybe walked around and blessed people or something..

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<Lays his hand on a persons forehead, "Bless you my son..."
The man gives a wail and runs in circles screaming with his head on fire...
Fire Pope: "Oops! I didn't think of that! Holy water! Holy Water!"

Cardinal throws a bucket of holy water at them. Fire Pope hisses into steam.
ooh Great! now you went and commited a cardinal sin.>

Looks more like Johnny Storm to me.

If I ever saw this for real, I'd believe there was something to Pareidolia:
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Fire Pope.. good one..
i wonder if he gets to hang out with the Super Best Friends- Buddha, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Lao Zi, Moses, Muhammad, and Aquaman.

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Apparently he and Aquaman had a bit of a spat and are not on speaking terms.

I have no idea what it could have been about...

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Probably some petty drama...

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I saw the movie

She IS attractive

Seaman.

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Or maybe he's trying to thumb a ride with Ghost Rider.

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oh, yeah.. duh..
i knew that..
Jesus just wouldn't leave the poor guy alone about his name..

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Uhh, I'm a good sport and all but...

Let's tread lightly. No mocking Jesus.

Seconded.
No matter what name you call him by, God is God.

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who was mocking Jesus? i was just relating what i saw on tv.. even Buddha and Joseph Smith got in on it, so you know it was all in fun.

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Yeah...
Less defensive please.
It's just that...
Some things can just get sensitive.
I wouldn't laugh at Buddha or Gandhi either.

Joseph Smith, however, is fair game

i laugh at everything- in my world, there are no sacred cows.
if God didn't want us to laugh at everything, then why did he make so many ridiculous things?

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In the picture it looks like the Fonz giving a thumbs up to me.

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Ok, here we go...Not just your normal pareidolia. This one actually relates to astronomy.

Man sees Jesus in meteorite
As I ask with many stories...If this happened almost a year ago... then why is it a story now?

It means there are rocks in the skies.

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Because when reporters and editors get bored, they start going through the old piles of unread slush to find something with novelty value and/or controversy.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I guess it's my problem that I keep thinking the word "news" actually comes from the word "new".

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The article mentions that offers have been made to buy the meteorite. They don't say that it's because it's a meteorite, which is worth big bucks whether or not there's divine intervention involved.

It stands for Need Expensive Wares, Sell!

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort