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http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/people-worship-weeping-tree-in-california-tears-are-actuallySnips:
"A growing number of Catholics in Fresno, California believe that a tree outside St. John's Cathedral is weeping God's tears."
"Fresno arborist Jon Reelhorn told KGPE-TV that there's a scientific explanation for the falling liquid... the excrement of insects known as aphides or tree lice."
"Despite the explanation, some parishioners remain convinced that there is something more to the tree. "They can say it's this theory, that theory, the tree does this every year, it's odd when it happens when there is bunch of people praying."
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope nobodies mouth was open.
COLGATE4
(14,855 posts)of the blind will restore their sight. Really. (Do not try this at home).
Rex
(65,616 posts)Even if you tell and show people, it does not matter. Insect pee, miracle.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I wonder if in 200 years when 8.2% of the population is "religious" will they just keep it all to themselves for fear of massive ridicule?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)And the scientific proof of bug by-products is dismissed as "theory". Sigh.
Solly Mack
(93,861 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)intended.
Nature is sacred.
My definition of god is vast and transcends the silly anthropomorphized coffin we tend to put god into.
Rex
(65,616 posts)with the tree right? Nothing wrong with God being the bug pee, but I don't want to taste it on a burger later on.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)and their detritus than perhaps other non-gardeners and urbanites might be
Here's an old joke from my Grandmother;
What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?
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Finding HALF a worm in your apple!
Eww.
npk
(3,701 posts)I think, but dunno.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)And it's not just a theory. It's actually bug shit.
riqster
(13,986 posts)0rganism
(24,859 posts)Who but God could have conceived the brilliant idea of crying through the asses of aphids?
Arkansas Granny
(31,918 posts)People who want to believe in miracles will usually find one even if it defies logic and scientific explanations.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)there will either be a bunch of people with a crisis of faith or waiting for a miracle for it to rise again. Really, people can be so myopic.