Michael Jackson is visiting us, telling us to believe in his Resurrection! Yes, my friends, believe in the man in the tree stump!
I like woman who says, “Michael Jackson meant more to us than maybe Jesus [does] to some people, I think they’re both about even, they’re both icons.”
Wow.
This really isn’t all that different from religious fundamentalism.
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I don’t see it.
Michael jackson and religious fundamentalists, god’s gift to young boys.
I think reducing Michael Jackson’s weirdness to mere pedophilia is a gross misunderstanding. He was much more deranged than that. I suppose most people can’t imagine a grown man wanting to sleep in the same bed with a little boy and not have sex with him. As far as I can tell he just wanted to cuddle; which is totally inappropriate, but it’s not common sexual predation. MJ was Peter Pan.
rodney, I totally agree. I don’t think MJ was a (mere) pedophile; I think he was something altogether different, but still deranged and creepy.
Did you hear his daughter’s comments, though? It caused me to have some serious second doubts.
Which comments? Could only find her short memorial service speech, which may not be what you’re referencing.
I think we’re talking about the same thing. She was talking about her dad as the best dad ever, and I saw those comments when they were re-played during a replaying of an old interview with his ex-wife.
Rambling way of saying, I don’t think he was a pedophile. But certainly deranged in some way.
He was a big child, I have not seen any evidence or real pedophilia in him.
But people tried to suck him dry by getting him to trial.
I read somewhere (uh oh, bad citation) that the mother of the boy who accused him of pedophilia never agreed with the charges and denied more than once that anything unseemly happened.
Methinks he just never grew up. He was funny in the head, certainly, more than a little creepy, but criminal? I don’t think so.
Oh, I’m pretty sure that’s criminal, just not the same kind :)
… somewhere… :p
Smooth criminal, by any chance??? :P
at least with the cheese toast I could see what they thought was the image of a woman…any woman in my opinion, but I honestly can’t see anything in this
*rolling eyes*
You know what, I admit it, I have shed some tears for the loss of MJ. I thoroughly enjoy his music and dancing talent and feel sick about what he did to himself over the last 20 years, HOWEVER, these people in the video have lost their minds. Plain and simple.
I don’t even think MJ would have wanted people to get nutty about it and start imagining his image appearing in odd places. He would simply want, what he always wanted, and that is for us all to take care of each other.
Pathetic.
I don’t even think MJ would have wanted people to get nutty about it and start imagining his image appearing in odd places. He would simply want, what he always wanted, and that is for us all to take care of each other.
That’s exactly how I feel when I see people who think they’ve found Jesus in a Cheet-oh.
Well, the tree is mostly white in color. Thats the only similarity I can see.
You stole my line! I thought the same thing.
Well, it is as silly as someone thinking they saw the virgin mary in a stump…….oh wait, too late;
http://www.dailypress.com/news/national/sns-ap-eu-ireland-holy-stump,0,3888969.story
It’s pretty much the same as “Elvis worship”, which was much bigger in the 80s than it is now and I assume that it will continue to taper off into the distance as we get further and further from the date of his death. But people still make pilgrimages to Graceland and occasionally people see images of The King in their grilled cheese sandwiches and Idaho potatoes.
I won’t be surprised to see Jackson take the same trajectory – a few decades of loonies worshiping him and making pilgrimages to Neverland and having it gradually tapering off as the loonies die or get distracted by something newer and shinier. Jackson was in some ways even more “larger than life” than Elvis was, though, so I’m not sure how that will impact his worshipers.
(Another parallel to Elvis – the “he’s not really dead” rumors started pretty much instantly with his death. We may have a few decades of “Michael Jackson” sightings in local convenience stores and fast food restaurants to look forward to.)
I suppose MJ is hiding in the same place Elvis is… it’s a conspiracy!
just have to check, this is the onion, news, isn’t it?
Praise Jackson! He has returned to us! We can all rejoice in His glory and be forever saved!
Seriously, what is wrong with people? It a damn tree. Know what it looks like? Wood. It looks exactly like wood.
XD !!!
“Michael Jackson meant more to us than maybe Jesus [does] to some people, I think they’re both about even, they’re both icons.”
Didn’t John Lennon get in trouble for making some similar comment with respect to the Beatles? I seem to remember something about Beatles albums being burned in outrage….
In an interview, John Lennon said “we’re more popular than Jesus”, which upset many people in the southern and midwest US.
I just peed a little.
Jeez people are dumb! I cracked up at the comparison to scarecrow.
me too! It certainly looked MORE like the Scarecrow to me. Perhpas its a secret message to these people to “get a brain”
You peed, or cracked up? :-\
Idiots.
The press are bigger idiots for covering this.
And even bigger idiots for making it seem like the story had any credibility. oh yes MJ totally appeared in a tree, cause MJ was weird right? So maybe he did. It would be irresponsible to say that he didn’t show up in the tree. I mean what does science really know, except that he didn’t appear there, and that the human mind is hard wired to find these sorts of things all the time.
Oh, don’t worry; my comment of “Idiots” was a general comment–for the idiots who think they saw Michael Freakin’ Jackson in a freakin’ tree stump, and the idiots in the so-called media who think that this is freakin’ newsworthy. Idiots, all around.
I see… dumb people.
Goodness gracious! What’s the world coming to?
The same foolishness the world came to ~2000 years ago.
I find it comforting that the reporter seemed to find the whole thing ridiculous. “[They] see what *they* want to see too…” No one would have noticed anything if Michael had not just died and been on people’s minds (and WAY too many of their TV channels, simultaneously!!) more than usual. I had trouble even finding Jesus!
Ah yes but if Jackson hadn’t died he wouldn’t have been able to appear in a tree stump would he?
For Americans who wonder why the rest of the world pigeon-holes you all into the “Complete Retard” box – TAHDAH!
Seriously, I know you’re not *all* retards, but the ratio of retards to non-retards is so high in your country, it’s very sad. Apparently “No Child Left Behind” meant that the bright ones had to have lobotomies to slow them down, rather than helping the stupid ones to keep up…
That’s it — I need have a special focus on European stoopid one of these weeks…
You could start with the Irish virgin mary treestump (pz has posted about it). http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/shes_gotten_a_little_chunky_ov.php
…and I see the post right below references the same story.
Come on, you can’t include Ireland! That’s like calling all Americans racist based solely on Alabama!
The Irish blasphemy laws would seem to be a good start …
Actually I was reading somewhere that an Irish atheist organisation is planning a “mass blaspheme” against all three Abrahamic religions as a protest against the new anti-blasphemy laws. They’re on about charging twenty thousand Euros for blasphemy, apparently.
I’ve heard about it before but just didn’t think they would be stupid enough to actually put it into practice. I wonder if they are going to update their immigraton questions to ask “Have you ever taken any of the major faiths god’s name in vain?”
Perfect example of EU stupid… fears about “frankenfoods”. ‘Nuff said.
Yeah, European people don’t do stupid things. Like the Polish lady who’s suing the Egyptian hotel because its swimming pool got her daughter pregnant. That’s not at all stupid. :-P http://bit.ly/C59O4
East Europe doesn’t count, when we talk about Europe that obvioulsy means just the Western part — think of it as the same rules as when someone says America … ;-)
Hope that helps …
I think I had this same conversation in the Giant in the Playground forums the other day. LOL.
The US doesn’t seem to do anything unless it can be seen as the best (sports springs to mind) and this goes for intelligence. Not satisfied with having some of the brightest people on the planet it also wants to have some of the stupidest. Of course this is all based on my extensive research …
Nah, stupid is universal. Our stupid is just louder than everybody else’s stupid because they have all the guns.
Just a little help from your friends
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Virgin-Mary-Tree-Stump-Depiction-Found-In-Rathkeale-Ireland/Article/200907215334913?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15334913_Virgin_Mary_Tree_Stump_Depiction_Found_In_Rathkeale%2C_Ireland_
Can’t see that shit either. They just want to see the image in there so they could be on TV after a week or two, when he died. Very pathetic and sad, because he died on my 18th birthday and I don’t appreciate idiotic women like that thinking they see a screwed-up image of Michael on the tree’s branch stump.
3 words for the news: Get a life.
It’s stuff like this why I don’t watch the news anymore. Unless something really tragic happened, or it’s an election or something, the news is always trawling up this type of dreck, human interest stories. I could have gotten through the day without knowing this, so it’s not news. You want to be warm and friendly, dress in bear costumes instead of getting your hair did and affecting the har-har and the banter, and if you don’t have enough program to fill the time slot, you’re done, go home. I’d watch the news if they put some good cartoons in the last ten minutes instead of this. Local, national, sports, weather, dressed in bear costumes, and cartoons would be ok. Haven’t seen Bugs Bunny in, like, forever. Let’s not drive a van full of equipment and crew out to report on a tree sighting unless that tree is singing.