We're not "made" to see them. We evolved to detect people and animals that might pose threats, even in random data. Overdetection was a survival mechanism.
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Thank you for trying. The video was posted so we got to see it.
First of all, it appears that you were seeking confirmation of your faith and there in the clouds you saw Mary? Since Mary is only really important in the Catholic faith, is that significant? I mean, if you were not raised to see Mary as "the mother of God" then would the image you saw in the clouds be seen as someone else?
If it was an angel, then do we assume that angels are also feminine looking creatures as depicted in Catholic art? A couple of your screenshots are very obscure, so I don't know what you are seeing in them.Two of them look like the 'Grinch' out of Dr Seuss.
Since many Catholic people seem attracted to images of various sorts and we have seen many queuing to see images in strange places all over the world....weeping statues.....and other supposedly 'miraculous' phenomena, perhaps it's time to see what the Bible says about images and their place in worship. (Exodus 20: 4) I believe God said not to even "make" them.
The image in the clouds would have been seen by anyone else as something other than what you saw. God does not reveal himself to people with cloud pictures....he reveals himself to those who show that they willingly obey his laws, but he does not reveal himself physically. In no way does the Catholic Church obey God or his Christ IMO....it never has. If you had never seen images of Mary (and who knows what she looked like?) in your upbringing, what else would the cloud images depict, I wonder. Anyone can see all kinds of things in the clouds, but it's not something God needs to do to prove his existence. Don't forget that the devil is out to deceive people who have weak faith. I had a Catholic lady show me a picture of the Virgin Mary in the clouds once......but someone had superimposed a picture of a statue in the clouds. She was convinced that it was a miracle.....but when I asked why Mary would appear as a statue instead of in person, she looked bewildered. Catholic people are so used to images that it seems as if they start to see them as real people.
I can see by the comments here that you will not get many positive responses due to the fact that your 'miracle' was yours alone apparently. The apostle Paul said...."for we are walking by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7)...meaning that if we need visual things like this, our faith is wrongly motivated.....easily led....and easily sabotaged.
Study the Bible....not religion's version of it. OK?
QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
Clearly you're not very good at guessing. Just like you're not very good at recognizing that human beings are very good at finding images in randomness like clouds and that it's not in any way shape or form evidence of a miracle that you happened to find what you wanted to find in the clouds that day. .
PruePhillip
Well-Known Member
I see clouds too.
If the poster is thinking of biblical angels then I doubt they would
appear like this. The ones in the bible came as people and had
things to say.
If I have a photo of, say, the sea (or the sky, the jungle, a citiscape) ...
and if I select certain dots and join them so they sort of resemble a human face ...
and if I say I'm a big fan of Andie MacDowell ...
and I add that the face reminds me of Andie MacDowell ...
at what point have we crossed into miracle country?
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Gonna call troll on this one.
charlie sc
Well-Known Member
I saw a face and bellow was a.. p... an erect phallic.
I saw two animal heads and a turtle before I noticed the human female head.
The human capacity for detecting meaningful patterns in random data knows no bounds.
Upon closer examinination of the images in post 7 of this thread, I will admit that in the top two left pictures I do vaguely see a woman's face, but in looking at the clouds in the top right picture, I think it's undeniable that they look like the Virgin Mary and a child. It's an uncanny resemblance.
Don't you think it looks more like Aksenia Fajmut from Kočevje, Slovenia?