(June 30, 2017 at 7:07 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:(June 29, 2017 at 7:47 pm)Astonished Wrote: I can only assume the reason I've never heard this is because it's too big of a load of shit to even make fun of (or I'd have at least heard something about it on youtube by now). Anyone want to go into any details on this? I tried looking through here and didn't find anything I found clear or consistent on what this is all about.
Basically a young, imaginative, reasonably intelligent, fame hungry and very manipulative young girl was bored one day and she convinced her two cousins that she could see the virgin Mary. Eventually the whole thing spiralled out of control and about eight months later about fifty thousand people found themselves in a field listening to this young girl. About five thousand of the most stupid did what she said and stared at the sun until they suffered permanent retina damage, causing them to think it danced in the sky and that they themselves saw visions of Mary (the minimally intelligent people knew staring at the sun was a bad idea and hence didn't see a thing out of the ordinary). The church jumped on this "vision" as the rcc does.
About forty years later the young girl, by now a middle aged nun, dictated three "prophesies" to a literate nun, as she was again feeling unappreciated. The first two predicted events that she already knew happened a) that her two cousins would die of the flu pandemic along with loads more people, and b) that Germany and Russia would go to war (because of Russian "errors"; incidentally her prophesy at the time could possibly have meant that she thought Hitler was the good guy) and the third was an incoherent mess, something similar to John of Patmos' bad shroom trip at the end of the bible (which the church decided "predicted" the Turkish guy shooting Wotyjla).
I was going to ask in what year this was but it probably doesn't matter. It sounds to me like the same circumstance that led people to blow up the entire Roswell mythos.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.