The Ground of Being (GOB) is notoriously shy to show Him/Her/Itself to his/her/its worshipers—indeed, since he’s nothing like a human, we might not even recognize him were he to show up. After all, he could look like a painting by Rembrandt, a spring daffodil, and, verily, even our own minds when we do a bit of algebra.
That’s probably why The GOB had to send us Jesus, who, although part of God, had a recognizably human form. But Jesus came back only once, about 2000 years ago. Since then, for reasons known best to The GOB, he’s returned only back as various patterns on tree trunks, on tortilla, and now, just last Friday, on a pancake!
CBS2 in Los Angeles has the story, plus a great video that I can’t embed, so go see it. The story:
Karen Hendrickson, the owner of Cowgirl Café, said a server initially noticed the biblical figure show up in the breakfast favorite on Good Friday.
“He’s got a mustache and a beard, and it looks like he’s got a receding hairline here,” she said.
Hendrickson said the night before the pancake showed up on the grill, she asked God for something.
“I said, ‘Dear God, please just continue to look over the Cowgirl Café,’” she said.
Employee Edgar Ceja also sees the image of Jesus.
“I did see the face. To me, it’s impressive because it was on Good Friday, and I don’t really see that very often,” he said.
While some people see Jesus, others think the face resembles other figures.
“Some people can see Jesus. Some people are saying it looks like Abraham Lincoln or a hillbilly. Some people are even saying it looks like Charles Manson,” Hendrickson said.
Regardless, the pancake is being saved in the freezer.
“He’s still on the same plate he was when he was put up on the window,” Hendrickson said. “I plan on keeping Jesus on this plate and preserving him so I can share him with everybody.”
By “share,” I presume they don’t mean “douse with maple syrup and tuck into him,” even though Catholics do something similar every Sunday. And they really shouldn’t keep the pancake in the store, for it could be stolen. Remember that Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich fetched $20,000 on eBay! (See below.)
Actually, he looks a lot like Charles Manson to me:
Here’s a short video of religious historian Lisa Bitel showing other examples of Jesus and his family on food items. Note that there’s another Jesus-in-a-flapjack. It’s replicated, so it must be real.
the end is near.
“A 21-year-old tourist has died after being crushed to death by a 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II after it collapsed during a ceremony in the lead up to his canonization.
“The 100ft high wooden cross, supporting a 90 stone statue of Jesus, created when John Paul II visited the area in 1998, fell suddenly following a few crunches.
“Marco Gusmini, who was on a church trip to the Alpine village, was unable to get out of the way in time and was killed instantly, Italian media reported.”
A man standing next to Marco Gusmini, who was narrowly spared, proclaimed his escape a miracle due to the intercession of John Paul II.
Beauty, eh
So many miracles – the case for canonisation is overwhelming! 🙂
Manson is what I see, too!
Helter-skelter, me too!
Yep, when the caption was still off-screen I thought Manson immediately.
Rasputin, surely?
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Awww, Ant beat me to it!
Yeah definitely Rasputin!
I see Michele Bachmann.
Most people seem to think it’s either Charles Manson or Frank Zappa. Personally, I think it looks more like Karl Marx.
Yeah, or Jimmy Gerante in profile leaning against a slightly distorted mirror.
Solution to dilemma: Charlie Manson is Jesus!
The 2nd coming!
Jerry,
I should have filed for a trademark on my reference to the God Ground of Being as GOB. What kind of fool am I?
Jesus in a flap-jack? At the Cow Girl Cafe?
Shouldn’t this be in a John Prine song?
Got Them Old Jebus Cow Pie Blues Again.
I kinda like the appearance of the Big Bang in the piece of toast myself.
http://www.satireandcomment.com/0208toast.html
Charles Manson has claimed to be Jesus. Quote near the bottom of this page.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/150550.Charles_Manson
After all, Jesus was the Son of Man, and CM’s last name is Manson. Coincidence??
that doesn’t hold a candle to this one.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/have-you-seen-the-dogs-butt-that-looks-exactly-like-jesus-ye
probably tastes better than those stick on the roof of your mouth wafers !!!!!!
perhaps the cowgirl cafe could sell them to the local diocese as a more palatable alternative to “the body of christ”.
if she is correct she only need to pray over a stack of pancakes to get miraculous results.
My favorite part was this:
“I did see the face. To me, it’s impressive because it was on Good Friday, and I don’t really see that very often,” he said.
Sure, he sees Jesus in a pancake lots on other days, Tuesdays, Christmas even, but on Good Friday? That just doesn’t happen that often.
Edgar Allan Poe
I was gonna go with Sandor Clegane, but now that you mention it, it’s definitely Poe!
(Or were you just kidding about the Poe?)
I never joke about Poe. 😉
One of my first atheist thoughts as a kid was to ask myself why people assumed that the Shroud of Turin showed the image of Jesus as opposed to some other random bearded man from the past. It made me question other strongly held beliefs.
The first one looks like a squirrel monkey to me. Just saw a doc about them.
And these people vote.
Excellent.
Can’t see it, just looks like a slightly burned pancake.
There’s also a tiny Jesus face profile to the right of the main face.
That must be his Mini-Me!
Nah, that’s one of the baddies from Inspector Gadget.
And if Inspector Gadget has taught us anything, it is that the people behind the scenes do a lot of the work, so …
Before I scrolled down to the Charles Manson photo I was thinking “Gee, that Jesus sure looks like Charles Manson.” That would explain the obsession with death cults.
Saddam Hussein, fresh from his “spider hole”
Other sources mention that the pancake itself was shaped like a Mickey Mouse head, so we have to wonder who has the priority in communicating by image.
Mickey Mouse is the Second Coming!
Is it fair to assume that most of us have seen this Jesus?
http://tinyurl.com/apa8pcj
Whoops ascanius #6 got there first.
You can’t beat the watermelon miracle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-8WJxA-cI
+1
It looks like Charles Manson (on the right -in profile and looking to the left) with his nose up against a distorted mirror image (on the left).
(I once met a pretty young girl at a party who mesmerised me. I asked for her name and she replied, with a friendly smile, “Charley Manson”. That reply hung in the air between us for quite some time. Apparently she had no idea)
http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gods-power.jpg
I get the impression they don’t like to be hot-linked to like that.
The face looks like Osama bin Laden to me.
Now that I think about it, perhaps Harold Camping was right after all and the rapture happened a few days before his prediction – how significant is an error of a couple of weeks compared to the 6000 years of the universe?
The thing is, only a few real believers were raptured and most of them happened to be in Afghanistan or places like that. Perhaps bin Laden was the new coming of Jesus. He did allegedly die on May 2nd, 2011, a few days before Harold Camping’s predicted date and nobody saw the body.
Reblogged this on The Road.
That list of places where Jeebus has been spotted was lacking one of my all time favorites. I wouldn’t want you to miss it. Google. Jesus in your buttcrack Enjoy.
I’m more impressed by the discovery of GOB. Long may He reign!
If you turn it upside down, you got a map of Texas… or Quebec (the province).
Have faith in Pareidolia, the ultimate Goddess.
Desnes Diev
Yea, behold GOB! Sublime, Hidden In the Ether.
The bottom one is clearly the Millennium Falcon.
Oh it get’s better. There is a family who believes their dog’s anus looks like Jesus and the surrounding fur, his white robe.
The photo has made the rounds through Facebook. The resemblance is uncanny – at least as far as traditional depictions go. When I saw the photo I laughed so hard I had to leave the coffee house in which I found myself.
Anyone interested in seeing it can feel free to email me. It’s a tad offensive.
vinoverita@hotmail.com
– James
I see George Carlin.