selective vision

on page 2913 of the coast to coast website, which i believe is the art bell radio show, i found this:

On July 22, 2006, I walked over to the window and saw this moth on my outside air conditioner unit. It was the most bizarre thing I had seen in a long time. I retrieved my digital camera and snapped a picture through the glass and the window screen before going outside in a failed to attempt to capture the moth.

I contacted a moth expert. He told me what kind of moth it was, but added that he had never seen one with a cross on its back like this one. I call it the 'Crusader Moth.'

--Dennis Latham

oddly, the original post presenting the moth was edited for the coast to coast website (not that a website editing is odd, but the omissions changed the original more than a little in my mind) and had i read dennis latham’s words i might not have thought this:

have you ever seen a picture of a mounted butterfly or moth with it’s antennae pointing downward?... i searched around and didn’t find one… it would be like standing on your head… so if we stand on our head, we’d probably see a cross too… but if we place the moth in the position every other preserved moth is placed in photographs and stood on our own two feet, we see an upside down cross…

and what does an upside down cross mean?

so just what is this moth crusading for, anyway?...

so i wrote dennis a comment and forgot to paste the comment after i sent it and dennis screens his comments, so i may never remember exactly what i wrote, but it went something like this:

two and a half years and not a single comment?... that in itself may most effectively demonstrate the power of the media… i’d have expected this image to be waved around and discussed in religious and pseudo-religious circles with great controversy…

but since the moth performed no miracles, it may have been an evolutionary error in the second coming, which might explain why he did not stick around for an interview… of course if we view the moth in the traditional antennae up position, the cross is upside down, which may mean you were visited by the anti-christ, who also had a bit of a blunder with the genes…

of course it could have simply been a moth… i wonder what the design would have looked like with the wings spread open… now if it turned into a jewish star, that would have been quite the metamorphosis…

i do believe i elaborated on the comment, but it may never appear on dennis’s site, so whether you are amused, offended, bored, or something else, here you have it…