Two cloud pictures, both authentic as far as I can see
From the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Facebook page:
But God is a jester, so we get this one, too (From PuffHo via photographer Jamie O’Connell)
h/t: Hempenstein
Pareiodolia
August 24, 2014 • 3:57 am
The first picture is obviously the Incredible Hulk.
I was going to say Ron Jeremy. (I think I need to look into modifying the content of my media intake.)
ANY of the Transformers, with their tiny heads.
I thought it was one of the TMNT (Teenage Mutant…).
“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”
I think it looks like Thing.
Exterminate!
And why is God carrying a rifle?
What makes you think this particular phallic substitute is really a substitute?
b&
I immediately thought the same thing, but it escaped me how to clean it up enough to post. Good job!
You’re saying He might just be happy to see us? Well He promised no more Great Floods but he never said anything about gunfights.
Looks like he’s having a bit of trouble…er…raising it to full firing position, so we’re likely spared more flooding.
b&
LOL! I’m saving these for the next time someone posts a pic of Jesus on a cracker.
I’m sorry, but this is the hand of a ‘Daubentonia madagascariensis’!
Using my new-found skills to save everyone else the research:
http://sites.psu.edu/rclseils/wp-content/uploads/sites/5107/2013/10/aye-aye.jpg
Aye-aye!
Recently saw a nature doc on this. Amazing tapping tool, that elongated finger.
In the second photo, god obviously got up on the wrong side of the cloud.
…or maybe it got tired of airplanes buzzing around so it expressed in its own inimitable way the gist of the Rolling Stones’ song, Hey you, get off of my cloud!
God up in the clouds? Mere transitory phenomena! For a permanent call to piety and prayer, go to
http://wwws2.eea.europa.eu/publications/report_2002_0524_154909/regional-seas-around-europe/balticsea_overview.jpg
There you will find the image in the form of a a hanging schoolroom poster map that I have meditated or fantasized over countless times. It is a robed monk, kneeling and holding out his hands toward the east in prayer and supplication. I never tried to ignore what was hanging out from the front of his robe.
I’m pretty sure that is Keith Richards. Get off my glacier!
Squirrel with a deformed nose heading towards the North Sea.
I only see Casper, the friendly ghost
The Baltic Sea looks like a baby alligator to me.
An alien sitting down and relaxing after killing another crew?
Me too.
I thought alligator too, with a twisty tail.
You’ve been reading too much Oglaf again? Or is that just not possible?
The first one is Optimus Prime.
If you see a cloud that looks like a truck, that’s him too.
Kevin, that made me literally laugh out loud.
The first cloud shape suggests a Marvel comics type superhero rather than deity.
That clinches it. I’m renting a stack of G-rated videos and taking a hiatus from the STD journals.
It’s Thing.
It’s Clobberin’ Time
Is the second one an example of god inadvertently expressing his Pinocchio genes while reading the bible?
I finally saw this on a full sized screen- l interpreted it very differently than I did as a small pic on my phone this morning. And that in itself adds questions on perception…
We can fantasize about clouds forming into any fictional character.
I see Heracles in the first one, but then again I’m not ready to give up the old gods yet.
The second one, as more cleverly implied by another commenter, looks like a Dalek.
Anybody else see the winged being kneeling, lower right of photo? 🙂
Nice cloud formations.
That is an angel, playing a flute, and it’s not kneeling, it’s dancing. Look again. 🙂
Well, I’ll be damned! You’re right! I see the flute (or cigar), and the skirt being kicked up…..
It’s Jesus lighting a cigarette.
No, man, it’s a joi- cigarette! Yeah, it’s a cigarette….
Does there not appear to be a small and very cruciform tree just below and to the left of the giant hand and middle finger?
Nope: I ‘see’ now that it’s a power line pole.Irony holds, however.
Whoa! That’s, like, spooky, man!
The is clearly a Halo trooper ready to pop the head of Rodin’s thinker to the right.
The second one looks like a guy with a big nose to me.
Reblogged this on Norbert Haupt and commented:
God is a Jester!
I think I see “photoshopping” in the second photograph. We don’t have the entire photograph, but there are elements of the background clouds which appear as fingers and thumb. For some reason it reminds me of the famous/notorious picture of a cloud-Jesus embracing a flight of WW II bombers ca. 1943-44, way back in the pre-photoshopping days
Pre-photoshopping? Sorry, but people have ben manipulating photos for a lot longer than PhotoShop has existed. I’ve been manipulating photos for a lot longer (a decade or so) than PhotoShop has existed.