Visual Clues Contest
From time to time, as I go about my daily life or watch the news, I will come upon scenes or situations that reaffirm the nonexistence of god. These little clues will jump out at me and remind me why I’m an atheist. I imagine many of you go through the same thing, so I thought it could make for an interesting contest.
By the end of July 23 (plenty of time), sumbit pictures that you feel are clues that there’s no god. You can take them yourself, find them on the web and/or manipulate them in any way you want. They can be serious, profound or funny. Submissions must be under 300K, and can be in GIF, JPG or PNG format. If you’re using a picture found on the web, or you can host your picture on your own server, just link to it in a comment on this post. If you prefer, email your submissions to me, and I will put them up on the “Visual Clues Contest Submissions” page, which has a link on the sidebar. Winners (chosen by me) will be posted on the Contest Winners page in perpetuity. As usual, if you really like someone else’s submission, say so, and I’ll take that into account when judging. No nudity, please. This is a family show. Also, provide the source for any “borrowed” material.
Here are some pictures of very different types to get you started.
Cardinal Ratzinger in his Youth
I’m going to get a LOT of hate mail for that one. I know it’s horrible. You don’t have to email me to tell me so. I did this with Fireworks. [source image]
Banda Aceh - Before and After the Tsunami
I found these pictures and turned them into an animated gif. I feel bad putting something so serious between these other two, but it fits the description of the contest. For a higher res version, and a number of similar images, follow the link to the source. [source images]
Michael and Britney
I didn’t have to do anything to this one. It’s horrifying enough on its own. [source]
~I AM~
July 6th, 2005 at at 11:00 pm
This picture is clean, but the rest of the site is VERY graphic in nature so please be forewarned. http://poetry.rotten.com/stained-glass/
July 6th, 2005 at at 11:12 pm
July 6th, 2005 at at 11:15 pm
Well, that doesn’t seem to have worked, so let’s abandon my quest for slightly complex HTML skills and just link to the picture and hope that does work.
July 7th, 2005 at at 12:23 am
LOL boywonder!
July 7th, 2005 at at 2:17 am
Well, I could just send a link to a gallery of Ann Coulter pictures, but that would just be cheeky.
Great idea, I Am.
Gotta love those parasitic wasps:
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/images/hrnwrm6.jpg
July 7th, 2005 at at 2:28 am
This is also of interest:
http://www.stranypotapecske.cz/biologie/pic/sacucar1.jpg
Not much if you don’t know what it is, but that’s a crab infested with a Succulina parasitic barnacle. http://www.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por23/23-invertebrates.htm
Really, an animal that grows up to be a tumor? It was good, indeed.
July 7th, 2005 at at 2:29 am
Haha, nice boywonder. If I get some time over the next week I’d like to make an entry or so in this!
July 7th, 2005 at at 4:25 am
*sigh* I strongly suspect that these picture jokes would be funnier if I were on a faster connection. As it is, I feel like someone just took ten minutes to tell me a knock, knock joke.
Pity the dial-up denizens… we need it.
And for that very reason, I strongly suspect I’ll not be able to enter this contest..
July 7th, 2005 at at 8:18 am
What is this “dial-up” of which you speak? I think I heard my grandmother talk about that once.
Actually, I should know better than to use images of that size. My 4.5Mbps connection has made me complacent. I’ve changed the images to much lighter versions. Sorry for any inconvenience to those in the internet’s third world.
July 7th, 2005 at at 8:56 am
I think dial-up is strong evidence for the non-existence of God. I mean, how could an all-loving being allow a person to live with a slow internet connection??
July 7th, 2005 at at 12:06 pm
LOL I think I AM already posted the best three possible pics for the contest. Way to set the bar, I AM!
I do have one pic to enter right now, with possibly more to enter later.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/blueshuttle/priests-salute.jpg
July 7th, 2005 at at 3:42 pm
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41279000/jpg/_41279593_bus_top.jpg
July 7th, 2005 at at 3:54 pm
“Some, I know, have questioned the global appeal of liberty.”
– G.W. Bush, 01-20-2005
July 7th, 2005 at at 4:49 pm
This one is tough to look at but makes the case. It’s a picture of an Armenian child who was starved to death during the Armenian genoicide. Some things never change.
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/photos/youngArmenianBoystarved.jpg
July 7th, 2005 at at 5:17 pm
In an effort to keep this lighthearted, he posted this link.
July 7th, 2005 at at 6:56 pm
I’ve just wasted about two hours of my life googling for great pictures of Jesus and the dinosaurs. I’ve never actually tried looking at creationist sites and christian sites, but this stuff is rediculous. I now see why any normal christian has NO chance of finding real answers to their questions if they keep looking at sites like these. For christ’s sake, they can’t even agree on whether or not dinos are mentioned in the bible. Then right next to those sites, there’s an apologist site saying we don’t even need to worry about dinosaurs since they existed before man. What the F—?!
July 7th, 2005 at at 8:50 pm
I emailed my submission and I AM just wrote back to say it’s up! I figured Madonna should suffice as proof there is no god (sort of ironic, huh?)!
It’s really all about the children’s books and the sculpture for me!
July 7th, 2005 at at 8:53 pm
http://www.illinoisleader.com/content/img/f7171/church_fire_ftn101b.jpg
July 7th, 2005 at at 9:03 pm
I liked addict_no_more’s madonna pics. What is up with her? She fell head first into that kaballah crap. Now you can buy kaballah water to heal yourself too. She started that whole trend with Hollywood and the kaballah. Should it now be referred to as Holywood?
July 8th, 2005 at at 1:13 am
Speaking of “Holywood” (good one, boywonder), here are a couple more:
http://z.about.com/d/dating/1/5/H/tomkat6.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/dating/1/0/I/tomkat5.jpg
http://www.gawker.com/news/tc2.jpg
http://www.gawker.com/news/tc7.jpg
July 8th, 2005 at at 11:32 am
I AMs church-burning pic is another premium grab. I AM keeps posting hte best pics!
July 8th, 2005 at at 4:56 pm
http://www.mrcophth.com/hands/polydactyly.jpg
http://alumnimagazine.uconn.edu/smmr2004/images/coloncancer.jpg
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Images/Murphy/ebola.jpg
July 8th, 2005 at at 5:05 pm
Technically, not a picture, but if this doesn’t prove God’s nonexistence, I don’t know what does. The quality isn’t that great, but the idiocy still shines through: http://gorillamask.net/triumphjacko.shtml
(A courtesy warning to those on dial-up - the file’s 25 MB, so click with caution.)
Alternately, The Santa Barbara News-Press has some great stills in their “Court of Public Opinion” section at http://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/publicopinion/publicopinion.htm.
My personal favorite: http://www.newspress.com/mjacksonupdate/images/lc_babyfan_061005.jpg
Scary.
July 9th, 2005 at at 12:04 am
Uberkuh, ya stole my idea
- I was going to go for the cancer cell last night and forgot.
These are heavy pics… but I can’t think of better proof as a NYer. A benevolent, loving god doesn’t do shit like this.
Unless he’s a dick, I suppose.
http://www.terrorism-victims.org/terrorists/wtc-pentagon/1wtc-plane.jpg
http://www.equipped.com/GRAPHICS/wtc_fireball.jpg
July 9th, 2005 at at 12:12 am
I actually saw one of these “pro-life truth trucks” driving around Times Square… so hung up on their agenda they can’t imagine what they’re doing to the children who are forced to see these images!
http://tinyurl.com/bolso
July 9th, 2005 at at 12:46 am
This is going better than I’d hoped. Nice choices, everyone. I was tempted to make a 7/8 post, but I don’t want to draw attention away from this yet. I’ll put something up 7/9.
July 9th, 2005 at at 6:30 am
Various tests
http://www.azfoto.com/kiribati/photos/blast.jpg
http://newartsweb.com/atomicartist/blast1.jpg
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/drobny/images/AtomicBombBlast.jpg
http://www.foxvalleyhistory.org/mccarthy/images/atomic.gif
And finally actual use
Atomic blast in Hiroshima
http://homepage.eircom.net/~finnegam/war/images/atomic_blast_in_hiroshima_b.jpg
July 9th, 2005 at at 7:06 am
Hurricane Andrew
http://www.gesource.ac.uk/satellite/1432.jpg
July 9th, 2005 at at 7:14 am
Pol Pot Killing Fields
http://www.tropicalisland.de/PNH_Phnom_Penh_Killing_Fields_of_Choeung_Ek.jpg
July 9th, 2005 at at 9:10 am
http://tinyurl.com/bhs4g
http://www.branchfloridians.org/images/koresh_mullet.gif
http://crimemagazine.com/images/charles-manson-mug.jpg
July 9th, 2005 at at 10:15 pm
http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/bsod/bsod-wall/5.jpg
July 11th, 2005 at at 5:11 pm
I nominate the sisters Bijani. Remember them? Read the whole sad story here.
July 12th, 2005 at at 9:02 pm
I agree with the siamese twins… that was a sad story. No benevolent, loving god would allow for that to happen. Only a god who was, well… a dick.
July 17th, 2005 at at 6:53 pm
…has judgement day arrived?
July 22nd, 2005 at at 10:51 am
Here’s my entry. I call it ’sedimentation’:
http://www.genesoc.com/pictures/cmsimages/2005/powell24.jpg
July 22nd, 2005 at at 2:46 pm
I am resubmitting this because the old url I used isn’t working anymore, and I want it to be considered for the contest still. This is the abortion truck, and I forewarn that the images are graphic.
http://www.pbase.com/justrollthedice/image/23305954
July 22nd, 2005 at at 2:51 pm
I like that the electric poles look sorta like a cross here:
http://www.thunderbolttours.com/stills_us_04/0523dc03.jpg
July 22nd, 2005 at at 3:12 pm
Here’s a good one…
http://tinyurl.com/d9c3n
And, the most famous Gap dress in history…
http://tinyurl.com/92pea
January 22nd, 2008 at at 4:57 pm
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