« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Somebody needs to explain this to me  (Read 1603 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rumborak

  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 26664
Somebody needs to explain this to me
« on: December 27, 2014, 10:47:41 PM »
I'm right now in Mexico City, on vacation, and today I walked by these Jesus statues:



Can someone explain to me what is growing out of Jesus' head? Like, it looks like he got impaled through the head!
Logged
"I liked when Myung looked like a women's figure skating champion."

Offline Zook

  • Evil Incarnate
  • DTF.org Alumni
  • ****
  • Posts: 14164
  • Gender: Male
  • Take My Hand
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2014, 11:47:56 PM »
He asked for a lump in his tea.
Logged

Online lonestar

  • DTF Executive Chef
  • Official DTF Tour Guide
  • ****
  • Posts: 30212
  • Gender: Male
  • Silly Hatted Knife Chucker
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2014, 11:56:36 PM »
Logged

Offline Dark Castle

  • DTF.org Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6532
  • Gender: Female
  • SmegmaPrincessX
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2014, 11:58:28 PM »
Probably the flame of the Holy Spirit or some other kreay shit.
Logged

Offline MetalJunkie

  • EZBoard Elder
  • *****
  • Posts: 6971
  • Gender: Male
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2014, 12:00:53 AM »
Looks like a chili to me. Which makes no sense whatsoever.
Logged
Listen! Do you smell something?

Offline El Barto

  • Rascal Atheistic Pig
  • DTF.org Alumni
  • ****
  • Posts: 30826
  • Bad Craziness
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2014, 12:10:26 AM »
Genuflect Jesus seems to have a similar deformity, as well.
Logged
Argument, the presentation of reasonable views, never makes headway against conviction, and conviction takes no part in argument because it knows.
E.F. Benson

Offline Bolsters

  • Lost Boy
  • DTF.org Member
  • *
  • Posts: 5491
  • Gender: Male
  • What a hell of a day to embrace disorder
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2014, 12:13:52 AM »
I suppose it could be a flame. No ideas regarding its significance though.
Logged

Offline Fluffy Lothario

  • Posts: 4778
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2014, 12:32:20 AM »
It's a Jesusolope.
Logged

Offline King Postwhore

  • Couch Potato
  • DTF.org Alumni
  • ****
  • Posts: 59618
  • Gender: Male
  • Take that Beethoven, you deaf bastard!!
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2014, 04:39:58 AM »
Jesus doubles as a red marker?
Logged
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
So wait, we're spelling it wrong and king is spelling it right? What is going on here? :lol -- BlobVanDam
"Oh, I am definitely a jackass!" - TAC

Offline hefdaddy42

  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Posts: 53517
  • Gender: Male
  • Postwhore Emeritus
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2014, 05:21:23 AM »
Ask a Mexican.
Logged
Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 09:19:46 PM
Hef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

Offline ThatOneGuy2112

  • Posts: 2227
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2014, 09:29:08 AM »
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 28, 2014, 05:21:23 AM
Ask a Mexican.

Sorry. Even I haven't a clue.
Logged

Offline bout to crash

  • Admiral Jackbar
  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 9053
  • Gender: Female
  • Instant Erection!
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2014, 03:24:07 PM »
It's not Jesus; it's Saint Jude:



The flame is supposed to represent him receiving the holy spirit or something.


edit: Damn, he's way hotter than Jesus.
Logged
Quote from: Sigz on July 06, 2011, 06:58:52 PM
Oh Jackie, always jumping to the most homoerotic possibility.

Offline Dark Castle

  • DTF.org Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6532
  • Gender: Female
  • SmegmaPrincessX
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2014, 03:25:47 PM »
So I was sorta right  :hat
Logged

Offline rumborak

  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 26664
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2014, 04:44:48 PM »
Seriously, the Catholic Church needs to put out visual guidelines to distinguish saints and stuff. That guy totally looks like Jesus.
Logged
"I liked when Myung looked like a women's figure skating champion."

Offline jammindude

  • Posts: 15393
  • Gender: Male
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2014, 05:54:38 PM »
I dont want to go all P/R, but for God's sake...PLEASE tell me that most people know that Jesus didn't look ANYTHING like that.    (i.e.  I'm assuming most people know that he was not a long-haired white guy....that image wasn't even *invented* until a thousand years after his death.   Jesus was a middle eastern with "hair like lambs wool")
Logged
"Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world.
Than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled." - Neil Peart

The Jammin Dude Show - https://www.youtube.com/user/jammindude

Offline Dark Castle

  • DTF.org Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6532
  • Gender: Female
  • SmegmaPrincessX
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2014, 05:55:45 PM »
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH HE WAS A DAINTY WHITE FLOWER AND YOU KNOW IT.
Logged

Offline jammindude

  • Posts: 15393
  • Gender: Male
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2014, 06:13:56 PM »
 :rollin :rollin :rollin

Logged
"Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world.
Than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled." - Neil Peart

The Jammin Dude Show - https://www.youtube.com/user/jammindude

Offline rumborak

  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 26664
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2014, 06:22:55 PM »
Quote from: jammindude on December 28, 2014, 05:54:38 PM
I dont want to go all P/R, but for God's sake...PLEASE tell me that most people know that Jesus didn't look ANYTHING like that.    (i.e.  I'm assuming most people know that he was not a long-haired white guy....that image wasn't even *invented* until a thousand years after his death.   Jesus was a middle eastern with "hair like lambs wool")

I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston the other day, and they had some old painting of an American painter. It portrayed the Three Magi, but whether through ignorance of what the Middle East flaura looks like, or by active choice, the scenery the Magi were in was a Rhode Island waterfront.

I guess painters tried to make the subject matter familiar to the audience. That said, or rather because of it, I'm surprised Mexicans simply took over the European "white boy Jesus".

EDIT: I think some cultures, especially the one colonized by Westerners, specifically stick to WBJ since it emphasizes the otherworldliness.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2014, 06:30:56 PM by rumborak »
Logged
"I liked when Myung looked like a women's figure skating champion."

Offline jammindude

  • Posts: 15393
  • Gender: Male
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2014, 06:31:41 PM »
I blame the Inquisition for that...   ::)
Logged
"Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world.
Than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled." - Neil Peart

The Jammin Dude Show - https://www.youtube.com/user/jammindude

Offline bout to crash

  • Admiral Jackbar
  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 9053
  • Gender: Female
  • Instant Erection!
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2014, 06:32:59 PM »
I think the history of Mexico provides enough explanation for that  :mehlin
Logged
Quote from: Sigz on July 06, 2011, 06:58:52 PM
Oh Jackie, always jumping to the most homoerotic possibility.

Offline bout to crash

  • Admiral Jackbar
  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 9053
  • Gender: Female
  • Instant Erection!
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2014, 06:33:11 PM »
Quote from: jammindude on December 28, 2014, 06:31:41 PM
I blame the Inquisition for that...   ::)

Yeah, that.
Logged
Quote from: Sigz on July 06, 2011, 06:58:52 PM
Oh Jackie, always jumping to the most homoerotic possibility.

Offline rumborak

  • DT.net Veteran
  • ****
  • Posts: 26664
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2014, 06:39:48 PM »
This one is still the best.
Logged
"I liked when Myung looked like a women's figure skating champion."

Offline King Postwhore

  • Couch Potato
  • DTF.org Alumni
  • ****
  • Posts: 59618
  • Gender: Male
  • Take that Beethoven, you deaf bastard!!
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2014, 07:24:53 PM »
Somebody go around the world with a suitcase of "Hello my name is" stickers and problem solved for Rumbo.
Logged
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
So wait, we're spelling it wrong and king is spelling it right? What is going on here? :lol -- BlobVanDam
"Oh, I am definitely a jackass!" - TAC

Offline ozzy554

  • Posts: 1459
  • Gender: Male
Re: Somebody needs to explain this to me
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2014, 08:29:46 AM »
Quote from: rumborak on December 28, 2014, 06:39:48 PM
This one is still the best.

starring Robert Z'Dar as jesus
Logged
Do you read Sutter Cane?
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »