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Are religious people more gullible than the non-religious? Or is it just American religious people?
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Pareidolia and apophenia are part of the human condition ...
10:23 Fri 06th Sep 2013
Yes, of course they are. Otherwise why would they have such an irrational belief in illogical circumstances ?
But what we see here is the willingness of American TV stations to give airtime to such nonsense. Its doubtful whether the BBC would give even a tiny proportion of its airtime to publicise drivel like this.
Its times like these that I am glad I live on this side of the pond.
But what we see here is the willingness of American TV stations to give airtime to such nonsense. Its doubtful whether the BBC would give even a tiny proportion of its airtime to publicise drivel like this.
Its times like these that I am glad I live on this side of the pond.
I didn’t watch that right through (my eyes began to glaze over after 2 minutes) but our media often reports such things too, and like some of that, it’s usually pretty much tongue in cheek. People who think they’re seeing some sort of miraculous image in a slice of toast will believe it whatever their nationality.
I'm not sure people actually believe its Jesus - maybe they do, but who cares. Do you say the same of people who snigger and declare the life of their rude vegetables?
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It's just pattern recognition, happens all the time. Since no-one really knows what Jesus looked like, it's recognising just a breaded man's face -- and humans are very good at seeing faces even in things that don't have faces. Something that looks vaguely like eyes, mouth, nose perhaps, and we make a face out of it. It's not the only time and place where people who know what something looks like sees things that aren't there, and the phenomenon is similar to such effects as the "Electric Voice Phenomenon", hearing voices in White Noise, or more generally apophenia, "seeing connections in the unconnected". Such phenomena probably also explain a whole host of other stories of the paranormal. The "face of Jesus" is yet another manifestation of how bad humans are at recognising their own flaws.
Many years ago I spotted the most amazing face of Jesus on our big bin at school.....
The children were thrilled and delighted.....because playtime accidentally ran over by ten minutes while staff who could see it argued with staff who couldn't.
I do have an over active imagination though....which had gone into overdrive imagining Jim's breaded man....☻...x
The children were thrilled and delighted.....because playtime accidentally ran over by ten minutes while staff who could see it argued with staff who couldn't.
I do have an over active imagination though....which had gone into overdrive imagining Jim's breaded man....☻...x
Jim. The "face of Jesus" is yet another manifestation of how stupid some Americans are. The American media is full of this sort of thing. In Britain, its pretty well confined to the Daily Express banging on about Diana and The Secret Plot to Kill Her. But in the States they have a much more gullible public and the media companies know that and make money thereof.
It is estimated that over a third of American adults believe in the literal truth of the Bible. That's millions of people ! About the same amount as think that there really have been alien abductions up into outer space.
I came across this on the 'net early this morning :::
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These millions of people actually believe that the planet is only 6000 years old and that ancient man chased dinosaurs for his breakfast ! Some of them may be teachers and other people in authority. Idiot beliefs like this are growing in the UK as well, so we should be wary of the future.
If its wasn't so serious, it would be tragic.
It is estimated that over a third of American adults believe in the literal truth of the Bible. That's millions of people ! About the same amount as think that there really have been alien abductions up into outer space.
I came across this on the 'net early this morning :::
http://
These millions of people actually believe that the planet is only 6000 years old and that ancient man chased dinosaurs for his breakfast ! Some of them may be teachers and other people in authority. Idiot beliefs like this are growing in the UK as well, so we should be wary of the future.
If its wasn't so serious, it would be tragic.
Well perhaps different nationalities see different specific things, but that they see anything at all that isn't there is the main point. The Americans may have their face of Jesus, we have our own nonsense, the French theirs, and so on. But the origins are the same: human pattern recognition, even when it's just coincidence. And as a result, all sorts of ideas get far more air time than they deserve...
