Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/07/miracle-calf-in-india-born-wit.html
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“It’s a miracle… [this] avatar has most definitely created a devotion feeling amongst the people.”
That’s how I feel about my own avatar.
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Hydrocephalus is not uncommon in calves. Have these nimrods really never seen it before? Do the religious scammers need a new cause to keep the grift going?
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I saw Jesus on my toast this morning. Whole wheat, of course.
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I saw FSM in my pasta!
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Somebody explain this to me.
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Reverse Minotaur?
That’s one ugly human face.
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This is the same mentality that sees Trump and thinks “presidential.”
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By jumping off a cliff.
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“Dante, who was familiar with the writings of the ancients but not with their coins or monuments, imagined the Minotaur with a man’s head and a bull’s body (Inferno, XII, 1-30).”
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Too Soon!
Missing something… hmm… oh I know!
There. Fixed it.
I’m as much of a misanthrope as the next misanthrope, but come on, we’re not that ugly.
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So is this just the ordinary human appetite for spectacle and news of the weird; or is there an unpleasant chance that it’s catering to the same people currently playing at emboldened Hindu nationalist cow-protection vigilante groups and other…deeply unsavory and incidentally cow-themed developments?
Fortunately we educated Westerners would never fall for this kind of malarkey.
That’s why it was a question: Good honest enthusiasm for weird animal deformities is something I’d expect from anyone; so that being the motivation is essentially the null hypothesis; more or less unsurprising in any time or place.
Cow-tinged religiosity with a sometimes alarming penchant for violence is a more specific phenomenon; but one that has done pretty well under the Mhodi administration, and is hardly necessary to explain interest in weird deformed calves, but is definitely a thing; and might well take a particular interest in such matters.
The same question was on my mind.
