Those church folks are at it again! Virgin Mary spotted in a tree stump!

[radwriter0555]

Tree Stump Virgin Mary Draws Faithful
Thu Oct 23,10:15 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

PASSAIC, N.J. (Reuters) - Believers are flocking to a rundown street in New Jersey to see a tree stump they say has the form of the Virgin Mary and is a divine sign of hope for the impoverished neighborhood.

"Miracle on Madison Street, that's what I would have called it," said Hector Cruz, who visited the roughly two-foot-high (0.6 meter) stump on Wednesday in Passaic, New Jersey, a largely Hispanic city about 15 miles west of New York.

The piece of wood, whose shape believers say resembles a veiled Virgin Mary with a bowed head, was noticed by passers-by over the weekend on state-owned land alongside a street that residents say is a hangout for illegal drug users.

Since then, a steady stream of visitors have left candles, flowers and handwritten notes and prayers at the site. "It has her form, definitely," said Jackie Cohrs. "It looks like her."

"Where it's located, it's a bad area around here," she said. "It's a sign."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20031023/od_nm/odd_virgin_dc

[qb]

1. For a hilarious take on this phenomenon, read

Carl Hiaasen's novel, "Lucky Me". His others are also great.

[Peachhead22]

18. Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

also listen to "Butt for the Grace" by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz.

[StopTheMorans]

2. "Those church folks are at it again"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:) All I have to say about people who think that their God(s) is trying to contact them through a rotten tree stump is this:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[radwriter0555]

4. Not that there's anything wrong with it!

:)

[Maple]

3. Mary sure

gets around!

[zbdent]

5. Is she telling them that her God is bigger than their god?

and is she whispering "Vote Republican"?

[number six]

6. well...what else could it be?

[Robb]

7. This is absurd

There's no way the Virgin Mary could appear in a tree stump in New Jersey, because I happen to know she is, right now, appearing in the green mold around an open jar of salsa in my fridge.

[TopesJunkie]

8. Hey, is this a plant to support David Guterson's "Our Lady of the Forest"?

Great book, by the way.

[KC21304]

9. This is as sick as the crowd drawn

to the old barn down in Texas. Someone swore they saw Jesus on the old painted barn and of course miracles followed. That is until a good hard rain revealed an old Willy Nelson concert poster.

[Bossy Monkey]

10. Passaic: Come for the visitation, stay for the crank! n/t

[jonnyblitz]

11. wasnt she spotted in a bagel or muffin one time a few years ago?

I know I heard this somewhere awhile back.

[frylock]

24. tortilla, actually.

[izzie]

12. Please no more.

And tomorrow is the day, right?

[bif]

13. No photos?

Why do they run articles like this without a bloody photograph?

[underpants]

14. I looked but couldn't find any

Now where did I leave that chainsaw?

[absyntheNsugar]

15. Hope you don't mind

New user, testing my avatar and signature.

Feel free to delete this since in all honesty it is off topic...

[underpants]

17. Oh My God I think I see the Virgin Mary in your sig line!!!!!!!!

Welcome to DU :hi:

[absyntheNsugar]

27. Thanks :)

I'm a refugee from the Michael Moore board, which died and never came back. (And I haven't had time to find a new home)

In all honesty, I kinda prefer this being a moderated board - MM's was good but unmoderated and had a lot of racist disruptors.

[StopTheMorans]

23. Hey! My housemate just came back from Germany with

a bottle of Absinthe in tow for the rest of the housemates (namely, ME:) I can't say that it will be my first time trying it (friend brought some back from Spain last year), I do love the stuff:) have you ever had it?

[absyntheNsugar]

26. Have I had it????

I LOVE the stuff! There is nothing in the world quite like the feeling of a good Wormwood buzz.

I have to get mine over the internet :(

Funny thing...it's legal to own, it's legal to buy, just illegal to sell in the US.

[StopTheMorans]

28. can you PM me any links?

seriously? I've only had it when my friends have brought it back from overseas. Thanks in advance if you can do it:)

[absyntheNsugar]

29. Don't have enough posts to do a PM :(

But google absynthe...that's what I did and found lots of UK companies happy to take my money :-D

[underpants]

16. Any Jersey DU'ers have a chainsaw I can borrow for a few minutes?

There was a fence post in Australia right before the Iraq "war" started too. The corwd was aobut the same.

[BiggJawn]

19. That's not the freakiest thing I've seen in a tree...

Went to the "Royal Tit-watching Society" page (www.nice-tits.org) and found THIS shot from one of their "field trips"...
I don't know if this is for real or photoshopped...

[underpants]

20. Paul Bunyon's sex toy?

LOL BiggJawn

[bif]

21. Photos

From a while back of similar "visions"

[HEyHEY]

22. the right top corner of that looks spooky

More like death if you as me

[frylock]

25. nice techno-color mary!!