Pixel42
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We see what we've been seeing all along - textbook examples of pareidolia.
It beggars belief that you still haven't grasped what pareidolia is after all this time.
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It beggars belief that you still haven't grasped what pareidolia is after all this time.
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flaccon, the human brain has evolved to see faces, patterns and shapes in odd places, and all of us see them. It's not evidence that supernatural powers are making the patterns, faces or shapes.
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flaccon, the human brain has evolved to see faces, patterns and shapes in odd places, and all of us see them. It's not evidence that supernatural powers are making the patterns, faces or shapes.
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No, I don't. Nothing at all that I could identify.
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During the recession, Squid Fishing Monthly has been hit by a reduction in advertising revenues. Things are starting to pick up now.
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I see no images whatsoever, let alone portraits.
I suggest you take your diamonds to a gemologist and wait upon the ASKE test.
There's no shame in being stuck with reality, flaccon.
Pixel42
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There is nothing odd about imagining you see images in stains, as has been explained to you over and over and over again.
There is nothing odd about imagining you hear words in noise, as has been explained to you over and over and over again.
Pareidolia is, and always has been, the explanation of your imagined images and voices.
The fact you need to mark what it looks like is proof in itself that it doesn't really look like that except in a pattern-seeking (one might say pareidolic) way.
In one I sort of see a very vague image of a horseman, but only from the top of the horse's back on up, and as if the horse is rearing, but I can also see it as grotesquely misshapen rabbit.
But there aren't. There are a few small stains in which you are able to perceive images that are not actually there.
And yet you did not share any of those five, nor describe "accurate". And sadly, yes, you are stuck with pareidolia. Important note: Even if you prove irrefutably that spirits are internally smashing diamonds or altering files, you will still be stuck with pareidolia for the images. One thing does not prove the other.
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Time for another go on the merry-go-round then:
How shall we OBJECTIVELY test this claim that there are "accurate images of 5 family members"?
Could you post a photo of the family member you claim the stain looks like, and a photo of the relevant stain so I can overlay the two to see if there is any measurable correlation?
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The first one looks kind of like someone's smudged Da Vinci's self-portrait.
The second one is three smudges in a triangle. Could be a face, could be Mickey Mouse. Could be an aerial shot of a penguin conspiracy meeting.
The third one I can squint into the semblance of a primate brow and eyes.
...and none of that means anything. That's what my brain does; it sees faces. That's what your brain does too. And everyone else's brains see faces.
That's what pareidolia is.
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If flaccon finds that idea acceptable, I'd look forward to seeing a comparison of the photos and images as flaccon perceives them.
Mine doesn't. Mine sees breasts.
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Fair to say, but perhaps when there's a nose between...
No...no that doesn't work.
Yeah. OK. Breasts. Have you investigated that phenomenon paranormalogically?
Naaah, I don't want to burst my own bubble. I prefer to see breasts than flaccon's dead relative's faces.
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boobiedolia?
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Even with that pariedolia will still come into play.
What flaccon needs to do is to show the images to people who know the family members without telling them who or what they are supposed to be seeing and asking them what they see.
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Flaccon, here's another thread about the same thing:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197989
Folks may remember Punshhh's fairy-photographing ability. Flaccon, do you think those are real photographs of fairies, in the same way you think that those are real faces and other things in your images?
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197989
Folks may remember Punshhh's fairy-photographing ability. Flaccon, do you think those are real photographs of fairies, in the same way you think that those are real faces and other things in your images?
This could get very involved, but then there would also have to be a photo line-up including pictures of the relatives that flaccon says the images are similar to along with pictures of other relatives that flaccon says the images are not similar to.
Or maybe picture of non-relatives and all judged by people who don't know anyone involved.
How come no one has made science easy yet?
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Actually, my suggestion wouldn't even rule out pareidolia, since things that look a bit like something, er, look a bit like something.
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