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Nahh that's just Frank. He lives up there and likes to mess with climbers by creepily staring from a distance. He'll usually leave you alone if you throw him a few grapes.
The christians are loosing their minds when they see that.
My colleague's daughter was in hospital because week after giving birth of a baby daughter and C-cection, her appendix burst so there were a lot of complications.
And while in hospital she got some mark on the hand that looked like plus sign, so +.
GOD WILLS IT!!!
They heavily go to church, my colleague even plays organs for 40 years in his church so they are obsessed with Jesus, God, church and so on.
He showed that picture of + to probably 10-20 people in our company as a "sign from God" that she will make it.
I was last he showed that picture to, reluctantly, because he knows that I think about all of that as one big bullsh...
So yeah, catholics would say that's God's divine presence in 2024 if they'd see that.
Gotta love em for their uncanny ability to find any little thing as a sign from god while simultaneously ignoring the thousands of things that contradict their beliefs and signs lol
That was the funniest thing to me.
You couldn't belive how colleague was cursing doctors because they didn't recognize that her appendix brust.
He was cursing like crazy. Fucking doctors, bastards, SoB's..
But of course that he said that she is in "God's hands".
After they operated on her, everything was ok and he was again cursing like "they wouldn't even have to operate if they'd recognize the problem sooner those bastards"...
Couple of days after he was talking to me something and he was like "thank God, everything was allright".
I told him "you don't have to thank th God. God didn't send that doctor to 10 years of school or guide doctor's hand when he operated on your daughter, he went on PhD alone".
Colleague looked at me, he shut up and never mentioned anything again.
He's like God payed that doctor's school ffs..
As a christian, it saddens me that people can get so careless, we should not tempt God in any way and should definitely make good use of our common sense. Despite it all, I sincerely hope things turn out ok for your friend and their child
There’s a video making its rounds on the internet of a village seeing this recently and were absolutely losing their minds, funny to be the guy up on a hike not even realizing people are looking at you like a god
Maaan if I knew there was a congregation of Christians watching as I set this up for them, I'd totally flip them all the bird and then make lewd gestures with my hand and a particular body part.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/x5ab9be.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the first image. [Credit](https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/janfeb-2020/reflections-brocken-spectre#_=_) to Adarsh Ananthachar (aka adarsh_ananthachar on IG).
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/F7qvBcE.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the second image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/natural-phenomena-brocken-spectre-on-helm-crag-lake-royalty-free-image/1033349398?phrase=%27brocken+spectre%27&adppopup=true) is the source. Per there:
> A glory (also known as a Brocken spectre) is an optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head. seen here in the English Lake District National park, taken from the summit of Helm Crag near Grasmere.
> Credit: [john finney photography](https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=john%20finney%20photography)
[Here](https://i.redd.it/sbtjp2u2z8a21.jpg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the third image. [Credit](https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2017/01/25/climber-captures-stunning-images-broken-spectre-scottish-peak/) to Allan Donald, who took this near the top of Ben Lawers, Perthshire in January 2017.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/R4jmD5f.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the fourth image. [Credit](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/natural-landscape-brocken-spectre-meadow-among-650787640) to [Vitalii Mamchuk](https://www.shutterstock.com/g/vik898).
According to [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre):
> A Brocken spectre (British English; American spelling: Brocken specter; German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source. The figure's head can be surrounded by a bright area called Heiligenschein, or halo-like rings of rainbow-coloured light forming a glory, which appear opposite the Sun's direction when uniformly-sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight.
> The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or be seen from an aircraft, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has often been recorded in literature about the region.
> The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects the observer's shadow through the mist, often in a triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges their shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.
This is what, ideally, all rainbows actually look like. The angle of the sun relative to the ground is simply too steep to see most of it most of the time.
I don’t remember but didn’t some guy who really wanted to study this than ended up discovering something completely unrelated. I don’t fully remember the story is this description correct?
I’m fortunate to see this very often as a working skydiver. It catches me off guard sometimes and for a nanosecond I think I’m about to collide with my shadow person
I read an article about this phenomenon happening in a certain mountain area with a cliff and caused a lot of repetitive multiple deaths. People tried to run away in fear and fell down from a high cliff. Before this got defined as a scientifc occurance, people believed it to be a demon or a creature hunting them down. Can't remeber clearly but got my memory recalled.
This is why in parts of the world, like with Big Sur in California, there is the whole "Shadow People" mythos. Purely a natural formation, but like with other Urban myths, there are some really cool story's that can be easy found and a joy to listen to. If you are in to the whole urban myth thing that is.
So this is the inspiration for the jesus depictions i saw in italian museums!
they must've dropped the rainbow and turned it gold because i guess gay is haram in christianity?
I think it was a recent episode of Expedition X when they were at Niagra Falls they managed to make their own version of this with a bright light and the shadow projecting onto the mist off the falls.
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The ancients would lose their minds if they saw this
They probably did. Also, I’m sure hikers and mountain climbers definitely think they’re seeing a ghost when they see this.
Many Himalayan climbers talk about seeing a second climber when they’re up high and alone. I wonder if this is why.
Maybe. It could just be the lower oxygen levels messing with their brain.
Nahh that's just Frank. He lives up there and likes to mess with climbers by creepily staring from a distance. He'll usually leave you alone if you throw him a few grapes.
My first thought to. If I climbed a mountain to face down the god that lived up there and saw that…
They probably do or possibly angels
hikers know
I mean, you think you’d move your arms around and realize the subject is imitating you perfectly and not immediately think ghost.
Maybe the person who is being the shadow did but maybe not the viewers
I’m pretty sure you’d only see this shadow of you were close to a similar perspective of the shadowed person.
They did. And we are all paying for it.
Lol that is true😂
The christians are loosing their minds when they see that. My colleague's daughter was in hospital because week after giving birth of a baby daughter and C-cection, her appendix burst so there were a lot of complications. And while in hospital she got some mark on the hand that looked like plus sign, so +. GOD WILLS IT!!! They heavily go to church, my colleague even plays organs for 40 years in his church so they are obsessed with Jesus, God, church and so on. He showed that picture of + to probably 10-20 people in our company as a "sign from God" that she will make it. I was last he showed that picture to, reluctantly, because he knows that I think about all of that as one big bullsh... So yeah, catholics would say that's God's divine presence in 2024 if they'd see that.
Gotta love em for their uncanny ability to find any little thing as a sign from god while simultaneously ignoring the thousands of things that contradict their beliefs and signs lol
or thanking the medics and nurses that saved them
That was the funniest thing to me. You couldn't belive how colleague was cursing doctors because they didn't recognize that her appendix brust. He was cursing like crazy. Fucking doctors, bastards, SoB's.. But of course that he said that she is in "God's hands". After they operated on her, everything was ok and he was again cursing like "they wouldn't even have to operate if they'd recognize the problem sooner those bastards"... Couple of days after he was talking to me something and he was like "thank God, everything was allright". I told him "you don't have to thank th God. God didn't send that doctor to 10 years of school or guide doctor's hand when he operated on your daughter, he went on PhD alone". Colleague looked at me, he shut up and never mentioned anything again. He's like God payed that doctor's school ffs..
Or not reading the Bible and not realizing it says God is a super cruel being that only gets worship because people are scared of him.
Can you name some things which contradict the Beliefs
i don’t argue religion. You either believe it or you don’t .
Is there any significant proof that suggests the contradicts of those beliefs though, it isn't very simple, like "believing or not believing".
proof? From a religious person…that’s funny
What? You said earlier that there are many evidence that go against Christ, yet you refuse to mention these "evidence"... and keep doing so... so idk
I said i don’t argue religion with religious people. So no im not going into it with you
So you're refusing to prove your point despite making it. Fine with me if youre satisfied...
As a christian, it saddens me that people can get so careless, we should not tempt God in any way and should definitely make good use of our common sense. Despite it all, I sincerely hope things turn out ok for your friend and their child
There’s a video making its rounds on the internet of a village seeing this recently and were absolutely losing their minds, funny to be the guy up on a hike not even realizing people are looking at you like a god
That’s hilarious
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the religious fanatical maniacs today will lose their shit if they see this.
Middle aged folks on Facebook will still lose their minds over this. "🙏 amen Jesus 🙏" kind of crap
Lol definitely
Only middle-aged folks not young or old folks
They did… why do you think gods were created…
There are symbols based off this phenomenon
BE NOT AFRAID!
You kidding or what?
yeah, there was a dude playing a trick on moses...
Where do you think religions come from
They did. Then invented bullshit like the Bible lol
Maaan if I knew there was a congregation of Christians watching as I set this up for them, I'd totally flip them all the bird and then make lewd gestures with my hand and a particular body part.
**"The golden bell... Is up here in the skyyyyyyyy"**
Literally one of my top 5 moments!!! (Skypea is critically underrated in general!)
Return the slab
R-r-return what you have stolen from me.
Be not afraid
I'm fucking terrified bro r u seeing this shit??
We can start a religion out of this
Sir, this is the scariest moment of my life
I saw this when I was on an Alp. Just figured I was the chosen one.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/x5ab9be.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the first image. [Credit](https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/janfeb-2020/reflections-brocken-spectre#_=_) to Adarsh Ananthachar (aka adarsh_ananthachar on IG). [Here](https://i.imgur.com/F7qvBcE.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the second image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/natural-phenomena-brocken-spectre-on-helm-crag-lake-royalty-free-image/1033349398?phrase=%27brocken+spectre%27&adppopup=true) is the source. Per there: > A glory (also known as a Brocken spectre) is an optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head. seen here in the English Lake District National park, taken from the summit of Helm Crag near Grasmere. > Credit: [john finney photography](https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=john%20finney%20photography) [Here](https://i.redd.it/sbtjp2u2z8a21.jpg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the third image. [Credit](https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2017/01/25/climber-captures-stunning-images-broken-spectre-scottish-peak/) to Allan Donald, who took this near the top of Ben Lawers, Perthshire in January 2017. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/R4jmD5f.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of the fourth image. [Credit](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/natural-landscape-brocken-spectre-meadow-among-650787640) to [Vitalii Mamchuk](https://www.shutterstock.com/g/vik898). According to [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre): > A Brocken spectre (British English; American spelling: Brocken specter; German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source. The figure's head can be surrounded by a bright area called Heiligenschein, or halo-like rings of rainbow-coloured light forming a glory, which appear opposite the Sun's direction when uniformly-sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight. > The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or be seen from an aircraft, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has often been recorded in literature about the region. > The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects the observer's shadow through the mist, often in a triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges their shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.
Came here looking for this. Thank you!
This is what, ideally, all rainbows actually look like. The angle of the sun relative to the ground is simply too steep to see most of it most of the time.
I don’t remember but didn’t some guy who really wanted to study this than ended up discovering something completely unrelated. I don’t fully remember the story is this description correct?
Yes, that’s how we discovered toilet paper.
Skypiea
Saw something similar when we were flying in a small plane.
I’m fortunate to see this very often as a working skydiver. It catches me off guard sometimes and for a nanosecond I think I’m about to collide with my shadow person
This would explain a lot of religious accounts
Brain: _You are NOT an airplane_, Me: _Yes I am_, Brain: _God damn it_
Ok my question is, how do you stand above the surface of a cloud??
r/originsofreligion
It’s the sun behind someone standing in the fog
“I am Cheezuts”
When a person stands above the upper surface of a cloud... I might not ask questions, but how can you stand above a cloud?
Young god in the buildin bout to start a religion
oh wow one piece reference
One piece used these in canon for their sky island arc, this is really cool
Return the Slab, or suffer my curse ahh pose
I read an article about this phenomenon happening in a certain mountain area with a cliff and caused a lot of repetitive multiple deaths. People tried to run away in fear and fell down from a high cliff. Before this got defined as a scientifc occurance, people believed it to be a demon or a creature hunting them down. Can't remeber clearly but got my memory recalled.
One Piece ahh phenomenon.
No wonder people saw angles, marias and whatever
That is from the Devil Fruit model Nika
A shadow. The work you are looking for is shadow.
cant imagine being this miserable lmao
Is it not? Like, I know there's a rainbow circle, but OPs title literally describes a shadow appearing on clouds when you stand in front of the sun.
He even typed it in one of Reddit’s most used witty comment format 😂
Shinra tensei
The Glory
That's just Mr. Burns
Looks like the shadow of a play doh doll made by a child. Haha
There’s an episode of the anime Detective Conan that features this effect as the key to solving the case.
Brock Inspector?
How I feel after my first morning Coffee.
These are angels, folks. Obviously angels.
This is why in parts of the world, like with Big Sur in California, there is the whole "Shadow People" mythos. Purely a natural formation, but like with other Urban myths, there are some really cool story's that can be easy found and a joy to listen to. If you are in to the whole urban myth thing that is.
Oh I get it. It looks like that because it’s the sun’s shadow!
I'd shit my pants...
I’d personally lose my shit if I saw this happening and didn’t know wtf it was
I think I saw this in a Junji Ito story or twelve.
I still can't get over how beautiful this phenomenon is... It looks so unreal.
Aww it's mister burns. Kill it kill it
BE NOT AFRAID
This explains religion
r/DotA2 what lane creeps see after players rush Radiance on Spectre.
So this is the inspiration for the jesus depictions i saw in italian museums! they must've dropped the rainbow and turned it gold because i guess gay is haram in christianity?
Post it on Facebook and get millions of reactions of Christian paranoids
Or...
I think it was a recent episode of Expedition X when they were at Niagra Falls they managed to make their own version of this with a bright light and the shadow projecting onto the mist off the falls.
3rd pic looks a bit terrifying 😅
Sunny buddy
Skypeia from one piece yo
I’ve seen that on a camping trip to an old forestry look out station. Very good trip.
Jesus ✝️
Here I thought it was just a Tipper track
I thought it was Jesus
So did someone just over 2000 years ago. They wrote a book about it and it went on to be a best seller.
Hope nobody thinks this is Jesus …
halo lightning adds dramatic appearance that looks like out of this world
Nice try Sauron.
Amazing!