Virgin Mary weeping tears of blood at church in California

[Windy]

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_326014939.html

Just something I find fascinating... no bashing please.

[sniffa]

1. no bashing here

but i am experiencing stigmata.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Weirdo .......

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Cool!

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[CatBoreal]

4. This does not bode well...

...wonder what The Lady is crying over.

Hope there isn't an earthquake. *knocks on wood*

[LeftyMom]

7. Sacramento isn't over a fault line

:shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

5. Obviously a prank

Probably red syrup. Not hard to do, just get an eye dropper.

[UTUSN]

6. Why? Because the Pope Is Wearing Gucci/Armani/Whatever? n/t

[WCGreen]

8. Just makin' bloody mary's for the holiday hangover....

[sniffa]

9. *rim shot*

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

12. Thank you... Thank you....

[hickman1937]

10. Can you blame her?

She needs to get angry and start smiting.

[Windy]

11. Found another one....

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=47819

I was just curious, so I thought I'd search around the web.

[tjdee]

13. I love their reasoning why it can't be pranksters:

"Parishoners first noticed the tears of blood on Wednesday. But fearing they were put there by pranksters, a priest here wiped the statue clean, only to have those tears return over the weekend."

Because pranksters don't work on Friday nights and Saturdays. :silly:

I never know how to take these things. I believe in miracles but I mean....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. The Universe is miraculous enough

without tales like this one.

Snake oil salesmen abound in every religion. Some people will stoop to anything if it means more parishioner $ in the till.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. How to make a weeping statue...

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_stat.htm

How to make a weeping statue:
In his book "The Unexplained," Doctor Karl P.N. Shuker, mentions a paper by Dr. Luigi Garlaschelli from Pavia University published in Chemistry in Britain. It describes how to make a statue weep.

An except from the book is: "What is needed is a hollow statue made of a porous material such as plaster or ceramic. The icon must be glazed or painted with some sort of impermeable coating. If the statue is then filled up with a liquid (surreptitiously, through a tiny hole in the head, for example), the porous material will absorb it, but the glazing will stop it from flowing out. If the glazing, however, is imperceptibly scratched away on or around the eyes, tear-like drops will leak out, as if materialising from thin air. If the cavity behind the eyes is small enough, once all the liquid has dripped out there are virtually no traces left in the icon. When I put it to the test, this trick proved to be very satisfactory, baffling all onlookers."

[bmbmd]

16. Beautiful people.

I wish them well.

[begin_within]

17. If I was a 2000-year-old virgin I'd be weeping too.

[PittPoliSci]

18. i don't remember being in CA last weekend...

but when you did as much crystal meth and ketamine as i did, just about anything's possible...

[sniffa]

19. mmmm, ketamine

*drooL*

[RedCloud]

20. Skeptics take note: She truly is the Virgin Mary!

I was strutting my stuff with some of the other brothers when we chanced to encounter this alleged "statue".

I says, "Hi ya toots, what's happening?"

She glanced at us and chimed back, "Hi men!"

That type of greeting from our pal is an obvious reference to her present day virginal state!

In my next adventure I shall encounter her son to find out how she can still be a virgin. :shrug: