by Druegan on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:13 pm
To be honest, there probably *was* something that looked like a face in the smoke from the burning school... It just didn't have 10 million cameras pointed at it like the WTC did, nor millions of sets of eyes staring at all those pictures over and over again..
As a mystic, I see sh*t that "isn't there" all the time.. it's like the old notion of "augury"... where the priest "reads" the entrails of a sacrificial animal to divine the future/mood of the gods/etc.. "The Virgin Mary" appears as an image on somebody's toast, and he sells it for $50,000 on Ebay.. I may personally think it's just a fluke where the Maillard Reaction produced a darker splotch that slightly looks like a human figure, but to somebody else, it's a religious icon.
And I stare up at clouds, and see all sorts of stuff in em.. or into the dancing flames of a campfire.. or in the tea leaves in the bottom of a cup.. Heck, I've even seen figures in the sweat stains on the armpits of people's shirts.. Not necessarily a miracle, or a message, or anything supernatural. The real trick to things like "omens".. or divination.. is picking out what things have meaning and what are just random associations of the brain. Tends to be why it's so hit or miss.. lol
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