sigh. What saddens me is not that the mother believed it was an angel (I think it's stupid, but that's a different point)....people can believe what they want (just as I can believe that this is the product of an incredibly uneducated, dogmatic, superstitious and above all, desperate mind).
But this news story quickly became about whether or not angels exist. This was a NEWS story! What the crazy is wrong with the media that they treat this like news???
The mother said in the video "either this is an angel here to take my daughter to heaven, or it's here to heal her". Yeah....those are the only two options. God forbid (so to speak) that maybe it's NOT an angel, but a trick of the light.
The skeptic in me also would like to point out that we're only treated to a single frame of the offending video, not the whole video itself. I know a thing or two about cameras and I know how poor their lenses are compared to our eyes, and how easily they can malfunction and create images that aren't there (need proof of this? take a photo of someone pointing a lit flashlight at the camera), and I guess what I'm trying to say is how important it is for people to smarten the crap up and think for 5 fucking seconds.
Oh, and stop equating the word "skeptic" with "cynic". That trick is old and meaningless.
Way better than that bunch of hippies who did something similar a while back, but sounded terribly atonal, and with way too much in the way of "drums".
But this news story quickly became about whether or not angels exist. This was a NEWS story! What the crazy is wrong with the media that they treat this like news???
The mother said in the video "either this is an angel here to take my daughter to heaven, or it's here to heal her". Yeah....those are the only two options. God forbid (so to speak) that maybe it's NOT an angel, but a trick of the light.
The skeptic in me also would like to point out that we're only treated to a single frame of the offending video, not the whole video itself. I know a thing or two about cameras and I know how poor their lenses are compared to our eyes, and how easily they can malfunction and create images that aren't there (need proof of this? take a photo of someone pointing a lit flashlight at the camera), and I guess what I'm trying to say is how important it is for people to smarten the crap up and think for 5 fucking seconds.
Oh, and stop equating the word "skeptic" with "cynic". That trick is old and meaningless.
Just saying.
This is a real musician.
I had a delicious childhood.
Ahhhh, that's good old fashioned racism.
It took us years just to look beyond the "Kitty-cat dance, and I dance-dance-dance and I dance-dance-dance" video.