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2009-12-02 06:41:20 PM
These people don't need our protection.
I truly don't have an objection
If EVERY one fries
Their dumb Christian eyes.
We'll just call it "natch'ral selection."
 
2009-12-02 06:55:12 PM
It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.
 
2009-12-02 06:55:18 PM
staring at a virgin?
 
2009-12-02 06:55:46 PM
Being a virgin can also cause blindness, I hear.

/Fap fap fap
 
2009-12-02 06:55:56 PM
jimi32: staring at a virgin?

/fap, fap, fap
 
2009-12-02 06:57:48 PM
...thousands of people at the Knock shrine in Ireland who stared at the Sun because they thought they were seeing visions of the Virgin Mary

"Knock, Knock."
"Who's there?"
"Mary."
"Mary who?"
"Merry Christmas, you blind fark."
 
2009-12-02 06:57:56 PM
She's not a virgin.

/I've seen the audition tape!
 
2009-12-02 06:58:19 PM
Trifecta in play
 
2009-12-02 06:58:42 PM
People looking for the Virgin Mary go blind?

/if only she knew someone who could help
 
2009-12-02 06:59:07 PM
Gaylord Fister: It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

We fark a lot.
 
2009-12-02 06:59:53 PM
Gaylord Fister: It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

I suppose if fundies are looking for an argument against evolution, Ireland is pretty compelling.
 
2009-12-02 07:01:08 PM
Rage, there's a potato famine in Ireland, you gotta go down there!
 
2009-12-02 07:01:20 PM
<Insert "blind faith" joke here>

/Christian
//not that stupid
 
2009-12-02 07:01:37 PM
I stare at my bellybutton. What will become of me?!
 
2009-12-02 07:02:42 PM
and makes you grow hail mary psalms, too.
 
2009-12-02 07:03:17 PM
Third In Line:
I stare at my bellybutton. What will become of me?!

Navel exercises.
 
2009-12-02 07:04:02 PM
JonnyBGoode: <Insert "blind faith" joke here>

/Christian
//not that stupid



NSFW
Link (new window)
 
2009-12-02 07:04:57 PM
phlegmmo: Third In Line:
I stare at my bellybutton. What will become of me?!

Navel exercises.


That would involve seamen, right?
 
2009-12-02 07:05:11 PM
"9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache."
 
2009-12-02 07:05:14 PM
I've always said religion blinds people, but this is ridiculous!
 
2009-12-02 07:07:27 PM
MY EYES THEY BURN!!!

/not really, lolz.
 
2009-12-02 07:10:07 PM
Don't Knock it 'til you've tried it!

/ugh
 
2009-12-02 07:11:11 PM
GIS for "Hot Virgin Pics":
For the guys, the original:
api.ning.com
and, for the ladies, some gay guy wearing tights:
s2.buzzfeed.com

\Hot
 
2009-12-02 07:12:12 PM
mooseyfate: mother told me not to stare into the sun.

but mama, that's where the fun is
 
2009-12-02 07:12:35 PM
GIS for "staring at virgins":

www.motifake.com

/wtf?
 
2009-12-02 07:13:57 PM
The opposite occurs in some countries. In Dubai in 1999, there was an 89% eclipse of the sun (totality was in Iran, making it tantalisingly impossible for me to travel a few hundred miles to see it.)

The usual warnings about not looking directly at the sun without protection became distorted into a general fear of the "harmful rays" of the eclipse. The President of the United Arab Emirates issued a warning to pregnant women to stay indoors to avoid damage to their unborn children. The entire city of Dubai shut down: people stayed home from work. The normally busy roads were deserted. The hysteria was not surprising, but it was amusing. Less disturbing than people stupid enough to damage their eyes, but only just.
 
2009-12-02 07:14:22 PM
Won't Jesus just miraculously grow them new retinas?

That happens right? Every now and then a new limb is grown back or something? No? Huh, you'd think that would happen once in a while...odd
 
2009-12-02 07:16:45 PM
Staring at a virgin will make you go blind

So, Fark and Slashdot can never offer videochat.
 
2009-12-02 07:18:04 PM
That's ok. God will heal those that are deemed worthy.
 
2009-12-02 07:21:12 PM
upload.wikimedia.org

Approves.
 
2009-12-02 07:23:24 PM
justinbazan.files.wordpress.com
 
2009-12-02 07:25:43 PM
Domestica: Third In Line: Navel exercises.

That would involve seamen, right?

A couple pirates and some booty too?


Arrr
 
2009-12-02 07:25:58 PM
cross the street from your storefront cemetary
hear me hailing from inside and realize

i am the conscience clear
in pain or ecstacy
and we were all weaned my dear
upon the same fatigue

staring at the sun
oh my own voice
cannot save me now
standing in the sea
it's just
one more breath
and then
down i go

your mouth is open wide
the lover is inside
and all the tumults done
collided with the sign
you're staring at the sun
you're standing in the sea
your body's over me

note the trees because
the dirt is temporary
more to mine than fact face
name and monetary

be what you will
and then thrown down your life
oh it's a damned fine game
and we can play all night

beat the skins and let the
loose lips kiss you clean
quietly pour out like light
like light, like answering the sun

you're staring at the sun
you're standing in the sea
your mouth is open wide
you're trying hard to breathe
the water's at your neck
there's lightning in your teeth
your body's over me
 
2009-12-02 07:28:22 PM
iollow: Gaylord Fister: It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

We fark a lot.

This.
Raises wine glass to you, crosses herself and stirs potatos - counter clockwise.
Fantasizes about stomping GF's xenophobic ass into a bloody pulp.
 
2009-12-02 07:31:57 PM
Let them do it. That just makes it easier to spot the fanatics.
 
2009-12-02 07:32:49 PM
"You say she's a virgin? Well I'm gonna be the first in
Her fella's gonna kill me? ohhhh F***ing will he?!?"


/+1 bonus point to the farker who guesses correctly what this lyric is from.
 
2009-12-02 07:33:59 PM
JonnyBGoode: <Insert "blind faith" joke here>

/Christian
//not that stupid


I was just about to make a blind faith joke then I noticed this.
 
2009-12-02 07:35:33 PM
I've seen this happen.

I spent a little time near the Catholic shrine in Medjugorje, during the siege of Sarejevo. Pilgrims would occasionally see "the miracle of the sun", where you're drawn (or compelled) to look directly at the sun, and at the same time, protected from it.

It's a fairly well-known phenomena, so as with any public spectacle, you get wannabes in the crowd. I remember seeing one mid-30's blond, kneeling outdoors, hands clasped, staring at the sun, eyes clinched, tears streaming down her face. Compare that to someone who's actually experiencing the "miracle"; they are wide-eyed, no pain, no squint.

I have no doubt that she burned up her eyes trying to impress her bus-tour-pilgrim friends.

Now the confession: even though I'm not a fundie and tend to be pretty skeptical, I've seen the 'miracle' - and started at the sun - myself. Quite an odd (but enjoyable) experience, and no damage whatsoever... not even the black spot you get from looking at a light bulb.
 
2009-12-02 07:35:36 PM
My mom says she is a virgin.

Wait...what?
 
2009-12-02 07:36:17 PM
i224.photobucket.com
 
2009-12-02 07:37:11 PM
Third_Uncle_Eno:

Why, that would be some Quadrophenia.

Now gimme that +1; I hunger.
 
2009-12-02 07:38:47 PM
nugatory2: My mom says she is a virgin.

Wait...what?


My son, I hate to break it to you...
 
2009-12-02 07:44:02 PM
Step 1: Be an ophthalmologist
Step 2: Have 24-hour office hours
Step 3: Have said office near Fark Party locale
Step 4: Profit

Step 5: Get to punchline faster...
 
2009-12-02 07:44:51 PM
Re: the article - any argument involving "but what about the children?" is immediately void, in my eyes.

/my eyes have no void
//might as well be staring at the sun
 
2009-12-02 07:47:15 PM
Dubai Vol: The opposite occurs in some countries. In Dubai in 1999, there was an 89% eclipse of the sun (totality was in Iran, making it tantalisingly impossible for me to travel a few hundred miles to see it.)

The usual warnings about not looking directly at the sun without protection became distorted into a general fear of the "harmful rays" of the eclipse. The President of the United Arab Emirates issued a warning to pregnant women to stay indoors to avoid damage to their unborn children. The entire city of Dubai shut down: people stayed home from work. The normally busy roads were deserted. The hysteria was not surprising, but it was amusing. Less disturbing than people stupid enough to damage their eyes, but only just.


cdn.buzznet.com

Yeah, you gotta be careful, those "eclipse rays" can really be a problem.
 
2009-12-02 08:13:53 PM
It's funny how people use the phrase, "blind faith", as if there's any other kind.
 
2009-12-02 08:16:51 PM
I thought that was supposed to work the other way around...

Let's go stare at the sun, it'll be fun!

Piss off, I'm gonna get drunk.
 
2009-12-02 08:18:24 PM
Had nothing to do with religion, the Irish simply aren't use to seeing the sun. Even the dogs were barking at this stranger in town.
 
2009-12-02 08:26:55 PM
I will try to use my new-found powers for good, and not for evil.
 
2009-12-02 08:43:21 PM
I once stared at a virgin so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies..

/she was hott.
//she's now my wifey
 
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