Posted on 02/12/2013 5:22:27 PM PST by PJ-Comix
I agree. It’s a stunning photo. On the other hand, I doubt God would need the accompanying thunder storm to launch it.
Yes, although I’m not saying the photographer sat on the photo.
However, if he had, the photo would have gone from an interesting photo, worth a few bucks, to a very interesting photo worth a lot of bucks.
It’s all about timing.
I'm so relieved.
Lightning is actually pretty easy to capture. I’ve got a couple on my profile page that I took once I learned the ancient chinese secret.
And everything known to mankind since the beginning of history is already catalogued on Google? Besides, not even Google can prove a negative.
There has been a fair amount of wind and rain in Rome in the last few days (I happen to have been checking the weather there because I was planning a trip to Rome, by coincidence, in the next few weeks).
So I’d say it’s probably real.
When I was at World Youth Day in Madrid two years ago, a horrible wind and rain storm broke out and lightning was slamming down all around us. The Pope sat there, eyes closed, praying, and this was the only thing that calmed down the nearly 1 million people who were there and let us last out the storm.
At the time, it seemed to me that the Devil was striking at the Pope and this is how it seems to me in this photo, too.
So to me, that means that the Pope is doing the right thing by resigning, and something really bad must be brewing - but he has averted it for now and Satan is angry.
I saw it on the internets - so yeah - it happened.
I don’t for a moment doubt it happened. My sister was over there and saw it (or at least what we’re now seeing) on RAI, but I had to wait for the photo to see it. I just don’t get the overawe and concern.
I’d say it’s a photoshop job...
Some signs are too ambivalent to have meaning. I have more faith in the Pope’s infallibility ex cathedra than I have in any signs.
Some lightning bolts do not come from the clouds down, they jump from the ground up.
Second-worst troll of the week.
I read, somewhere, that is is not uncommon for lightening to strike the dome of St Peters. There is a lightening rod up there, as you would expect.
Love taking pics of lightning, and yeap it’s pretty easy once you get it down. There’s a program called Imagestacker that’s great for repetative frames with same background. Can stack lots of bolts for a major cool pic!!!
Love taking pics of lightning, and yeap it’s pretty easy once you get it down. There’s a program called Imagestacker that’s great for repetative frames with same background. Can stack lots of bolts for a major cool pic!!!
Wow, you guys never quit. Ever. If anyone disagrees with what you perceive to be the truth, they are "trolls", "anti-catholic basher" or worse. It never ends.
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