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Apparitions from heaven???
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 7:54 pm
(November 2, 2016 at 7:18 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(November 2, 2016 at 7:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm trying to compare your picture to that one and it just isn't working for me.

It's because I'm way prettier.   Big Grin

Possible.... it's also true that I have a piss poor image of nuns to begin with...

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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 7:56 pm
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 7:58 pm
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#154
RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:03 pm
Bahahahaha! Abaris, you're always making fart jokes lol. Do you fart a lot in real life?
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#155
RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:06 pm
(November 2, 2016 at 8:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Bahahahaha! Abaris, you're always making fart jokes lol. Do you fart a lot in real life?

One thing I love is people misbehaving in a not hurtful way. I love to encourage them to do that, but don't do it a lot myself. Watching is much more fun.
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#156
RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:13 pm
(November 2, 2016 at 1:38 pm)Emjay Wrote: I have to say, it is curious that the kids did specify that time and place, if you're saying poca that it was a natural place for something like that to happen... whether they'd seen similar effects there before, or there was otherwise more to this than meets the eye... almost like PR stunt Big Grin .  It makes me think of the scene in Apocalypto where the Mayan high priest cashes in on an eclipse to wow the ignorant gathered crowd into thinking that the god they're sacrificing to is appeased.

It was Lucia who specified the date & place, but not, apparently, the time.  She was also the one who started screaming, "Look at the Sun, look at the Sun!"
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:18 pm
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:20 pm
(November 2, 2016 at 2:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: the fact that it started and ended at the same time for everyone who saw it....

This is just false...some reported a "miracle" lasting a few seconds, others upwards of 10 minutes.
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:23 pm
(November 2, 2016 at 3:24 pm)pocaracas Wrote: It wouldn't take much to make those kids believe in what they were being told... Rural Portugal was pretty much pastoral - no sophistication of any kind... Very religious to begin with, so, by default, gullible.
Curiously, on the day the sun was seen to wobble, there was no apparition... no lady, no angel... just the sun. It's as if it would be impossible to pull such a trick in front of all those people.

Correction -- Lucia, on that day, claimed to have seen Mary, the Infant Jesus, Joseph, and other angels, et al.  No one else, of course, saw these "apparitions".
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RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 2, 2016 at 8:26 pm
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