My pareidolia knows no bounds.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Marsevidence01</i>
<br />It does seem to me that this contentious issue of the use on Pareidolia (any) and its socially perceived umbrella of negative "mental illness" has been bantered about this site and the internet so as to deliberately dis-credit researchersMalcolm Scott
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Just a teeny little problem with this theory:

You're the only one who thinks it has something to do with "mental illness".

Either you're not reading the messages on this thread, or your deliberately trying to confuse the reader into believing pareidolia (modern/ressler) has something to do with mental illness.

It doesn't. It's wholesome, healthy, cutting-edge, mysterious, exhilarating and wonderful.

rd

<b>What Will It Be Like to Live in a Dome for 8 Months, Pretending It's Mars?</b>

<i>Martha Lenio, first woman to command a Mars simulation, describes the dome that will be her team's home as NASA studies the psychology of long-term missions.</i>

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Mars in our lifetime?

rd

rd- As far as i'm concerned use the new definition. I like definitions that morph as time morphs. Everything except preidolia may be mental illness. LOLish.

Definition #2 Revised:

<b>* 2 ****************************************************

Reference:

Fred Ressler: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pareidolia

Definition:</b>

Pareidolia is the phenomena of seeing faces/figures/forms in patterns; as opposed to where one normally sees faces/figures/forms (on animals including people/landscapes etc.)

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of viewing a non-homogeneous material surfaces such as clouds, wood grain, marble, smoke, shadows, fire etc. and interpreting a pattern seen by the viewer. (Most often faces, figures and forms commonly seen in the everyday material world. [rev: 10/15/14])

[Replaced by above paragraph, 10/15/14]:<i> Pareidolia is seeing what appears to the individual to be a representation of a face, figure, or form in the clouds, wood grain, marble, smoke, shadows, or any non-homogeneous area. It can also be an auditory phenomenon as in hearing white noise or a record played backward that sounds to the individual like words or a melody that isn't actually there.</i>

Name: Ressler


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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pareidoliac</i>
<br />rd- As far as i'm concerned use the new definition. I like definitions that morph as time morphs. Everything except preidolia may be mental illness. LOLish.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Hey, remember the theory that was going around back in the late 60s, early 70s, that the insane guy on the streets of NYC (or other) walking around saying things that nobody could understand <b>was really the sane one, and every one else was insane?</b>

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />I did not intend to be personal. Sorry.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Larry, I've given this a lot of thought both here and elsewhere. Mostly because of this website's propensity to keep a lid on personal attacks.

What I've realized is it's a very fine line between "being personal" and "having to state the obvious". It also matters if the person is a friend. For instance, remember when we were younger and a friend of yours would come up with some cockamamie idea or something? We used to accuse my sister of coming up with "hair-brained schemes" so often that when someone else did it, we might say, "your starting to sound like hair-brained Phyl."

Or maybe a friend or acquaintance of yours tells you about his idea for the perfect pyramid scheme, and you reply, "you're freakin' nuts" or some such thing. "Are you crazy!?"

Is that really being personal in that context? I don't think it is, and I frequently stumble over such feelings here, where the temptation is to get cold-bloodily precise about what you think about something.

The problem with the written word though, is that the person on the receiving end can't see your face, so they take it in the worst possible way, instead of in the best possible way, the way someone you grew up with might. So, I decided it's probably better to tread lightly, even though I don't think half of these things are really personal attacks.

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