A few weeks ago I posted several devil-based illusion. Here are various faces of Christ that have turned up recently (via @nedatutu). First, there was the image from Google Earth (farmland near Puspokladany in Hungary)….
Then there was the burnt food in the saucepan…..
And finally the rusty drain pipe…..
UPDATE (via @JackieKane and @DiBroon)….Jesus in a Kit Kat
Find them convincing? Which is your favourite?
I like the Cheetos(tm) Prophets the best – Cheese-is-Christ!!
Are you sure that’s not Elvis?
Looks like Che Guavara to me! Maybe there’s a message there!
My favourite bit of Jesus pareidolia is still this: http://nynerd.com/can-you-see-jesus/
Classic!
I like the farm one. The drain pipe one doesn’t really look like much to me. I can see what they are saying but you have to want to believe you see it, the fry pan one is obviously deliberately done but the farmland one is obviously the result of either a whole lot of work or one awesome coincidence. Either way I think it’s cool.
The one in the farmland is a woman, or at least some who appears to be effeminate; and the drain pipe is a stretch. As for the pattern in the saucepan, I can’t help but think it was semi-creatively designed.
Yeah, the frypan totally appears like an intentional work of mankind.
I like this one:
Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6-iVz1R0o (play at 480 pixels)
ROFLAO on the last one!!
the frying pan image is fakery imho.
I concur with you an Navneeth, the frying pan image was almost certainly created intentionally one way or another.
I like the one where burnt food was methodically arranged to form a — oh lord, is that Jesus?!
They didn’t even bother to clean the telltale smears…
How else did they get the food out? Leaving it there would have given JC an impressive mullet.
I’ve always been tempted to fake a few of these just to see how ridiculous you could go before somebody noticed. Jesus’s image appears in alphabety spagetti!
Does the farmland one look like Jesus is smoking a blunt… or it is just me?
Really not seeing the drainpipe one at all. I see a vertical squashed rat (very squashed) – hope that doesn’t reveal anything too disturbing like an ink blot test. Also, rusty? Looks more like blood/paint on a plastic pipe? I’m only looking on a phone screen so could be mistaken.
oh the ink blots…. dr says….and this one?…..pt says …..people having sex…..dr says…..and this one?…..pt says…people having sex…..dr says…..AND this one?……pt says…..people having sex…..dr. says …..I know what your problems is….you are a pervert! …… pt says….well you are the one showing pictures of people having sex NOT me!
you mean those ink blots? …….he he he
I hope nobody’s been wasting their time worshipping the first one, it’s *actually* Frank Zappa. You can usually tell the difference by the nose.
the top one is Zappa you can also tell because of the kitten trying to climb up on his left shoulder!
I have a serious question to the academics: do you know what are the minimal number of elements and shapes in a drawing to recognize there Christ’s face? We keep finding patterns in nature that one way or the other, looks like what we think he would be (is this time to remember that Christ was not always represented by a bearded man?), even if sometimes in a very stressed way. But considering the generosity with which we appreciate them, and the multitude of phenomena in the world producing the most various random effects, is case to think if we shouldn’t be find a lot more “Christ faces” than what is being reported…
The frying pan…..the crown is all wrong and the pipe looks like a sail rat…..you know road kill that has become so flat and dry that you can throw it like a frisbee and it will sail through the air……
The update added Kit Kat……don’t mess with the chocolate somethings are sacred….oh right….so it must be real!
You’re not fooling me: those are all pictures of Mohammed!
IS now you’ve done it! Why must someone always have to die? lol
c’mon, have a break,
That’s crazy! How do they “know” it’s Jesus? It could be a manifestation of Frank Zappa (at least we know what Frank Zappa looked like)
Oh oops just realised someone else has posted to the same effect. Yeah! Let’s form the Church of Zappa. It would be cool.
I had a potato once that looked like a Neolithic goddess – but I ate it.
Interesting how our brains are wired to perceive faces even where there aren’t any. This also gives rise to the phenomenon of seeing the “Green Man” in tree roots and stuff – but just lightly enjoying the fact that it looks like a face, not banging on about it being a miracle.
I think the Kit-Kat is fake – it’s too specifically like the Shroud of Turin (itself a fake)
The pan-Jebus too (too clean on the left, for example).
If you believe that’s real, does that make you a pan-theist?
The recently-reborn (and uniformly excellent) Cectic.com ‘s most recent cartoon strip has a rough ‘n’ ready guide to pareidolia:
http://cectic.com/188
Why do people assume that this is Christ anyway. Did the real Christ (if he existed as more than a man in the first place) look like the Western image of him as portrayed here anyway?
Could just as easily be a random likeness of Galileo or in one case Fidel Castro.
I concurr. It would have been interesting to have this post without the christ caption, to see what people would come up with.
Btw, the pipe is too the left.
Just goes to show what an overactive imagination and too much time on your hands can do.
Sorry, what do we mean by convincing here? That they’re not photoshopped? I don’t think they’re photoshopped. That they’re the evidence for god? Fucking hell no!
They definitely *are* evidence. Evidence that some religious people have a surprisingly low opinion of how a supposedly all-powerful being spends its infinite time. Perhaps blasphemously low; can you imagine:
“Let’s see . . . what to do today . . . Hmmmm. Should cure the sick or help the poor? Na. Should I take care of that nasty oil spill that is befouling my creation? I got it! I’m going to fingerpaint my picture on to the bottom of a pipe!”
IS I had to sneak into the closet and LOL!
the one in candy bar looks like shroud of turin image which is under debate about it’s authenticity.
I like the kit kat pic. And what’s with the pipe? I just don’t see it. Anyways, the pan was quite cool too.
I roared onto here to say “LOL THE KIT KAT IS SHOPPED” but I’m glad folks were on top of that. Dog butt Jesus is still my favorite. If you crop it right it looks like a fuzzy Jesus in some sort of radiant glory. Then you zoom out for the groan-inducing reveal.
Miracle image in Guatemala was…..Willie Nelson:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nfJPdScNqJsC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=new+scientist+willie+nelson&source=bl&ots=bDB0NcERFR&sig=FhOf9mU35adgXVTKOOmP1DMj1To&hl=en&ei=-WMzTMqeNMWOjAem_92WBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAg
completely makes me want a kit-kat
I like the Kit Kat one best!!
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i can’t see the last two
Kit Kat is most fun. The face looks like a Zen brush painting of a samurai.
Oh Christ, I really want a chunky kit-kat now.
The 4th one of the kit-kat is “photoshoppery”. They used an image of the turin shroud negative and overlayed it on the kit-kat. I believe it was featured in The Sun a while back. You can see the image used, if you use google image search “turin shroud”
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