Ah, here's some rare wood for sale!

[David Hakala]

" I was out in my garage, cutting some molding for a project, thinking about all my problems. Although I don't regularly attend church services and haven't prayed in years, just this once I said a silent prayer. I prayed for my mother, I prayed for my grandfather, I prayed for my financial recovery and I prayed for John Paul II. At the moment I finished my prayer, I felt a surge of great peace, reassurance and solace, something I've never felt before. I thought nothing of it at first but looked down at the piece of wood I was cutting and was taken aback, literally shocked by the image I saw. It was the unmistakable image of Jesus Christ with his hands folded in prayer! "

And his problems went away. So can yours. ;-)

Actually, it's not a bad piece of wood for a buck!

[toller]

I didn't know he wore glasses! This changes everything.

[Lee DeRaud]

And a plaid flannel shirt.

Oh wait, that's Norm...never mind.

Lee

[John]

Starting date should have been April 1.

[Dukester]

Looks like Lennon to me.

[joeD]

I see a groundhog.

[Frank Ketchum]

I find it strange that he was cutting up a piece of birch plywood (finished, no less) for molding. Wonder what that project looks like!

[Markndawoods]

I am still amazed at how anybody knows what JC was supposed to look like? Was Kodak around back then?

See, I really think that was an image of Judas, and he duped him too!

[Lee DeRaud]

Ah crap, six more weeks...

Lee

[Lobby Dosser]

Mona Applebaum.

[Charlie Self]

David Hakala posts:

wood I was cutting and was taken aback, literally shocked by the image I saw. It was the unmistakable image of Jesus Christ with his hands folded in prayer! "

And his problems went away. So can yours. ;-)

[dteckie]

NO back then they had The faithful like "Brother Dominick" with Picture perfect memory who would scribe the Picture on Papyrus. Those were Kodack (Monk) Moments.

thinking

[toller]

"Supposedly" the common conception of what Jesus looked like is based on the shroud of Turin, before it was lost for 1,000 years. I don't really buy either the S/T or the conception (though this piece of wood is probably authentic), but who knows....

[Leon]

Looks more like Michael Jackson to me.

[Andy Dingley]

The common impression of Jesus is based on cheap Victorian chromolithographs in Sunday School bibles. Holman Hunt's "Light of the World" being perhaps the most famous example of the genre.

Basically a European, white male hippy. They wouldn't look out of place in a Grateful dead T-shirt.

[Hax Planks]

The shroud of Turin is known to be a fake. The common image of Jesus was heavily influenced by ancient sculptures of Zeus (Jupiter). The Renaissance painters like DaVinci were surrounded by these images. Still, the images may not be as far off as history debunkers claim. He probably had brown eyes and a shade darker complexion, but Jesus was an ancient Jew, not a modern Arab, and probably not very different from a Greek or Roman.

[Hax Planks]

I thought it looked like the Grim Reaper.

[Charles Krug]

Amazing that a First Century Jew would look so UNLIKE present-day Sephardic Jews or anyone else who's lived in the Middle East in the previous thousand years or so. :)

[Charlie Self]

[Hax Planks]

Was his name Sgt. Hartman? Man, that movie was a classic.