Jesus on the Half Shell

whats with people seeing god in food items??? these people must go to restrants and freak out as they see the main course contains three avatars of christ...

maybe jesus is just upping his advertising campaign... "i cant belive its not salvation"

The people who see relegious figures in food have a few screws missing.

It looks like my Uncle Harvey after his stroke...wait...doesn't that mean my Uncle Harvey is the Second Coming?
Harvey Christ?

You people are being duped! It's obviously Stan Laurel!

People are seeing $$$$$ signs, and jokes about it, not Christ. It's just funny (not really for much longer) to post, Do you see Jesus? objects ant see who bites (into the grill cheese that is).

I'm with you about Poseidon. Maybe Poseiden is calling for new worshippers.

Oh yeah, and I have the real 'True Piece of the Cross', entrusted to my great X 7 grandfather by the Knights Templar. Anyone for a Crusade? Who the f**k do these people think they are, anyway? Oh, and now we have a "true Catholic" charlatan. Hope you enjoy the profits of your soiled deed, buddy. I wonder if "true believers" in Switzerland believe in purgatory?

Dany said:

"The people who see religious figures in food have a few screws missing."

You're assuming that they HAVE screws in the first place or that they aren't just BS artists trying to make a fast buck.

I feel that I should note here that a lot of these "apparitions" are not really hoaxes, because many of the people who "see" things in food, stains on the wall, etc. aren't consciously lying. A lot of them really *believe* this nonsense.

A hoax is a deliberate act of deception. "Seeing" Jesus in your soup isn't necessarily an attempt to fool others; it may just be the result of religiously-induced fantasy. I suspect the latter is often the case with these silly things.

However, it is safe to assume that the possessor of the Jesus Food in question IS a lying huckster and not an earnest believer if he is trying to make a buck out of it.

After all, it's pretty reasonable to think that if a person really believed he had found evidence of a divine manifestation in his life, he wouldn't sell it. He'd put it in a little shrine and venerate it.

It's just like how you can tell the real, faithful preachers from the phoney-baloney con-men--real preachers don't try to scam you for cash.

You may well have a point there, Barghest.

Money money money. It's all about the money. Hey if people are stupid enough to buy pet rocks, (remember them) they'll buy anything. All this stuff is nothing more than pictures in a cloud.
Now on a more serious note, Jesus was a 1st century jew. He most likely looked nothing at all like the view people have of him. He was probably olive skin colored with black hair.

And in this case, presented on a bed of sea salt with a lemon garnish, John L.

It doesn't really look like Jesus, or even a face, but it DOES bear an uncanny resemblance to an oyster shell (or rather to half an oyster shell).

"Jesus was a 1st century jew. He most likely looked nothing at all like the view people have of him. He was probably olive skin colored with black hair."
That IS the view I have of him.
But of course, it could be wrong. None of the surviving accounts of Jesus say anything at all about his physical appearance, except that he was a man.

Right with you guys, there, but Gary - oysters only HAVE one shell; they're not bi-valved like clams. They spend their whole little oyster lives, after disbursement following birth, anchored to a rock, or other such object, desparately HOPING that something else won't EAT them!! At least they would, if they had any brains.

Oops - meant to say, 'if any of them HAD a brain, which they don't. Tasty little suckers, too!

If God or the Virgin Mary or Elvis or John Lennon or whoever want to appear why don't they just do it in Central Park or on the Jay Leno show.
This stuff about Mary on a pane of glass or a grilled cheese sandwich or Jesus on peanut butter is asisine. Like all those preachers say, God loves you, send me money. I agree that it's all about money, money, and more money. I think I'll go send some money to TBN, yeah right.

stork, oysters are bivalves. Or as one beginning biology text puts it: "Bivalve Mollusks: Shellfish with two opposing shells that are hinged at one end with an elastic byssal material and brought together with attached muscles." A quick Google came up with 37,000 references to oysters being bivalves, i.e. having two opposing shells etc. But if that's too much trouble, try going to any oyster bar and asking to watch the staff prepare oysters on the half shell (notice they aren't oysters on the "full shell"), and you'll see that the two shells have to be pried apart with a knife or other implement before you can scoop out the edible part.
Indeed, though, they don't have brains, which is probably an advantage for them.

I was looking to see if anyone else had made the logical connection between christ and poseidon (neptune). Other than being water gods and having the number 777, they have somewhat more than this in common....

This is the poem: Gods of the Sea

http://www.software-multimedia.com/fractal-backgrounds/faster-than-light/free-background-6.htm

*sarcastic mode ON*Yeah, and your salvation comes from an oyster shell.*sarcastic mode OFF*
Geez, people will do anything for money.... even call an oyster as "GOD".

Yes, sometime it is very shocking to see these kind of pictures, signs and other that tend to be a resemblances of god. I have no idea to accept it or to tell it is just a fake or shell design... Anyway thanks for the article.