The Dog Butt Jesus
With all the fuss going on about seeing the Virgin Mary in a pebble (though I still think it looks like a toilet), I thought I'd share one of my favourite sites, Madonna of the Toast.
It's a great place to see the Virgin Mary on turtle, Jesus on a water-damaged wall, the pope in a bonfire, Elvis on a piece of toast, and...something in a watermelon.
And Jesus on a dog's butt. See the image to the right.
The pebble from New Zealand is now up there too.
It all seems a bit silly to me. People will see patterns in all sorts of stuff. It's like our brain has been shaped by evolution to be a pattern recognition machine, which kind of makes sense.
But good for a laugh, definitely. More after the jump.
The word "God" in a slice of cucumber.
Pope John Paul II in a bonfire. Uh, sort of.
Elvis on a rock. Get it? Nah, me neither.
Jesus's face in a doggy door. Yeah, seriously.
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The dog's butt photo is probably the best of the lot. I'm more disgusted at the fact that people are willing to pay upwards of $30,000 for a beach pebble. I can only hope that the stupid schmuck who does buy it is financially crippled by the purchase.
Buzz Poole here, author of Madonna of the Toast, the book and the blog. Thanks for the shout-out, Reuben! This pebble is really getting some media momentum, amazing. That's what fascinates me about all of these phenomena: they cause people to react in all sorts of ways. I'll be sure to track how this auction pans out . . .
Technically the human brain has evolved to see patterns in things. It's a tendency called pareodelia. Assuming I've spelled it correctly.
Pareidolia is the term used to describe this phenomenon.
My favourite is the pope one - why would he be on fire? ;)
This is just absolutely disgusting, what would Jesus do?
I thought the Pope in the fire looked like John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever ...
Oh very good, Reuben.
Doug - if anyone is offended by someone who sees an image of Jesus in a dog's bum (why someone is checking it out to begin with is a bit disturbing), because it is sacrilegious, I really do hope they feel just as offended as the anglicised, whitened version of Jesus we always seem to see in religious imagery.
He was a Nazarene. So all these modern "whitened" images of the man are surely just as offensive.
Now there is some bait for an argument. Many many apologies Reuben. I just couldn't help myself.
The fire looks more like a monk about to karate chop something.
Haha, nice one, makes ya think about how silly it is to buy or sell a pebble or what all the fuss is about really...
Btw its obviously an eggplant, not a cucumber you kumara!
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Although I can also have fun laughing at people that see Jesus and Mary everywhere, I am actually quite disgusted that you would actually show the "dog's butt" photo. That takes things a little too far.