Mike Hollingshead is s storm chaser from Nebraska. Just came across some of his amazing aurora images via digg. They sure look unreal! For thos of you who didn’t know, Aurora is a glow in the night sky. It is also known as “aurora polaris” or in northern latitudes, as “aurora borealis” or “northern lights”. It is caused by electrons of typical energy obtained by the electrons passing through a voltage difference. The light is produced when they collide with atoms of the upper atmosphere. Here are some of Mike’s photographs, but be sure to visit his website for whole-lot-more of them! Image below gave me impression of a Ghost Ship comming out of the fog!
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the bible says that god is
(A)omnipotent (all powerful),
(B)omniscient (all knowing), and
(C)benevolent (all loving).
But as we all know there is evil in the world, if there is evil then God;
(A)can do nothing (is not all powerful
(B)doesn’t know (is not all knowing
or (C) doesn’t care (is not all loving)
therefore by logic, volia NO GOD!!!!!
now lets leave it there and trip out looking at the pretty colours.
my dad did do that, he told me so.
end of arguement.
wait who is this God person?
Okay, wow um, why does a discussion about Northern Lights mean everybody gets to force their own beliefs down everyone else’s throats? I mean honestly!!! Debate is fine, but some people are getting just plain awful about it. And you know who you are.
To the people who don’t believe in god (and Abe Lincoln): Does science really mean that more than religion? Maybe religion is a science? Because I know science is a religion.
To the people that do believe in god: Do believe that everything’s true just because it’s written in some book? It’s just a book. You can’t prove god wrote it… but then again, you can disprove it. What if it was just written about God? Oh, and about the whole he/she/it thing, just because it’s written in the bible, or any other book, that God is a ‘he’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. I mean come on, how many times have you meant to write one word and written another? Maybe it’s the same thing. And anyway, if the bible really wasn’t written by god, then it would most likely have been written by men. Boys were the ones who got to learn to read and write, not girls. Wouldn’t you want to make your gender the better one by making god the same sex? Nobody’s perfect.
Anyway, it’s really just a debate about whether things are just about chance or if they are just a part of –I don’t know- the scheme of things. And then if everything does happen for a reason then who is the creator? And so on.
And everybody needs something to believe in, whether it’s science or religion.
you know, for the first time I actually agree with loser, lets just keep this simple, thank God for all he gave us, then admire it.
has anyone other than me(pun not intended) noticed that the illusions that come packaged with debatable topics get the most posts? this is an illusion site guys. take your debating, non-directly-related-to-the-illusion comments somewhere else. gosh.
lol at some of these comments.
My point of view:
I’m an atheist but i don’t have a problem with other religions i’ve learned to respect them as long as they don’t go forcing their views into my face.
Is god an all loving person? Why does he let all those people in poverty suffer, if anything charities are god who care for the poor.
Secondly, you christians believe that you shouldn’t worship idols (pictures of god) yet instead you just have pictures of jesus who you all basically worship anyway.
Thirdly, go red
Fourthly, yeah i agree this is what starts wars about religion when religion is all about peace.
Fifthly, i guess i am shoving my views down (some of) your throats but i guess this is my 2 cents.
its just an Aurora and “God” and any other religious symbols aren’t real, i’ll belive “God” is real when I see him for my self. my first post “sniff”
What’s with the debate? It’s natural in origin. Rather than believe it was made by a supernatural being, enjoy the wonder & beauty that is reality. Believing it is supernatural just takes away from what it really is.
This is sooo not the place for this… >.< But I wanted to reply to PrObLeM oF eViL's comment.
I agree that the bible says God is:
(a) omnipotent
(b) omniscient
(c) benevolent
And yes, as we all know there is evil in this world.
(a) Just because he can prevent sin it doesn’t mean he will.
As our loving (benevolent) creator, God gave us the gift of free will. The freedom to pursue whatever we feel is in our best interest physically, mentally and emotionally. The bible is very clear that this is because he wants us to love him unconditionally as he does us and without any fear that he will strike us dead if we don’t.
(b) If he is all knowing and we most certainly are not. Isn’t likely that he knows something more about being God that we do?
(c) The bible does say God is ben
evolent but benevolent does not mean all loving. But for the sake of a debate that shouldn’t be taking place here to begin with, we will supposing for an moment that it does. In that case I would have to partially agree with you. Because for God to be all loving he would have to love the sin as much as he loves the sinner. And he does not. God abhores sin. He cannot have anything to with it. Which is why he sent his son to suffer and take on our own sins. So that nothing, not even our wickedness can can prevent us from being with him. Nothing that is except our free will.
…It really is a beautiful picture though isn’t it?
…the meek will inherit the earth, love your neighbour as yourself, a day in your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere, he will wipe every tear from their eyes, death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away. Not long now before everyone’s happy….keep smiling, keep enduring.
I feel sorry for those who need God to bring meaning into their life. Those whos lifes revolve around religion need it so badly, almost like a drug addiction. Some people are so dependent on religion they have to fight any contradictions made to their belief (which is the cause of all this arguing).
I have a question for those who strongly believe in a god: Why do you need to go through life with the reward of an afterlife motivating you? (Think of a horse folowing a carrot on the end of a stick.)
Wouldn’t it be more rewarding to finish your lives and be able to say I did this by myself with no reward. To be able to be good to others with nothing driving you. Instead you have to make up a false reward for completing life.
It’s true that some people use religion as a crutch, but not everyone. I know that I do not only do what I do on Earth for a reward in the afterlife, but rather because I want to. I want to do what God wants me to do. No, I haven’t been brainwashed. I believe that it’s OK to want to follow God’s will in your life. It does bring meaning to my life, but it is not the only think that does.
These are beautiful pictures that are a part of the nature that God intended for us to enjoy. But please don’t throw out whatever you think will cause more controversy even if it is not true. And you cannot tell me that what I have just said is not true, because it is about me, and I think I know myself better than you.
angel eyes ur crazy!!! pete im totally on ur side
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if you don’t believe in God, where do you think you go after you die?
pirategirl made no sense.
wow… and I’m not talking about the images. The single greatest argument of all time made its way to an “Illusions” website. LOL Can’t you people realize that arguing over this is pointless? If you seriously think that “you” can make some sort of difference and change “everyone’s” opinion on this topic… you should be GOD! Because apparently the hundreds of thousands of people before you, armies, cults, entire civilizations, religious sects, extremists, etc. etc., spanning hundreds of years failed miserably! There are 3 types of people, no more, no less… those who can’t figure it out and rely on faith in something they can’t see to explain these things and make them feel safe… those who think they have figured it out and rely on science and facts based entirely on theories (how much do you want to bet an argument is born out of this one) to make them feel safe… and those who just back, enjoy the ride and don’t care one way or the other. I personally choose to sit back… if God is real and I die and go to hell I guess I deserve it right? If science is real and I die and nothing happens… at least I didn’t spend my life worrying about it.
I think I’ll go get a Big Mac now and work on becoming a true, fat American. :P
When will you people realize you cannot argue science vs religion!!! Here’s why… mankind exists because of science based on theories we created ourselves, since we had no one to learn from or ask we pose the question “who created science?” God??? Ok fair enough answer… but who created God? Now we’re back at square one!!! We don’t know so we say he just “existed” and we create religion to explain this paradox to keep us sane.
My point… Science is there to prove why we exist… religion is there to prove why we need faith. These are two ENTIRELY different goals people!!!
You would have much better luck trying to argue which hand is better to raise… your right or your left.
I am christian, yes, but, I certainly do not believe that god created “everything” because it is not logical at all.
I believe that he once EXISTED, but that still does’nt make sense. because, he came back to life a couple of times, and he performed things that would seem like magic to us, but why would only one person in all of our time be able to do that?
And for all you people that believe that he makes your life better, than good for you! That’s very nice and respectful to think that, but. How could one “entity” focus on everything all at once, it would have to think deeply about a single person, now imagine it thinking about 6 billion at once.
I am mostly aetheist aetheist, that would make me really bad towards my relegion, so why have’nt I been punished yet?
Now, I tried really hard not to shove stuff down my own religion’s throat, but I just have to go with pure logic.
ok anonymous, i kinda agree, but i dont belive in god AT ALL because there is no REAL proof. And mankind doesnt really exist BECAUSE of science based THEORIES. how is God a fair enough answer for who created scince? The universe wasn’t created by God, but natural occurances, The Big Bang. The universe and humans and all living things was made in this. We were formed by the particles that came together. There God problem solved.
ANYWAYS those pictures are great. Way to catch the beauty of earth
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace”
Buddha
yay for the buddha guy!
I read through almost every comment on this page, and I have yet to read one convincing LOGICAL arguement!! I am not going to state my beliefs, but if you wish to state yours, please present them in an un bigoted fashion and with some class!
Think about this… What is truth? Is the science that portrays these lights true? And where did truth come from? Just a thought!
Great Pics!!!
When I die, I’m gonna be reincarnated into something that reflects how good I was in this life! Like a cheeseburger!XD J/K Yes no yes, I’m atheist.
You wanna know what makes the reincarnation happen? A hamster on a treadmill driven by the motivation of a belly rub! From himself!
i love these i really want to see them in real life you now at the north they are so awe inspiring
Holy crap. If that first person never mentioned God, you all wouldn’t have ranted on and on.
These photos are beautiful, but I’m not quite sure why they’re on the site, in 2-d images.
david you are totaly right on both comments
wei long your right and where not forcing you to read this and where not trying to shove anything ”down your throat” i mean come on all these people are doing is giving a testimony but i realy think that we need to stop making this bout religion because everyone is intitled to there own opinoin and if you want to say it say it.. ”freedom of speech” ring a bell well it should and even if your a christian or athiast or evolutionist or w/e i think we can all agree that this is somthing beautiful and we should all be gratefull that we can even see this w/ our own two eyes. and if your one of those people who have to c to belive all i have to say is look around you
yay for the guy who quoted Buddha
Aren’t the lights nice
Why does it matter why they’re there?
they’re pretty
and we can see them
is anything else really that important?
best internet argument ever
We need to stop fighting, sheesh!!!! Something that beautiful and we aren’t even enjoying it!! Why don’t we say how nice it is instaed of agueing about where it came from!!! Just enjoy the veiw of it and chill!!! I think it is a great picture (but I don’t know how it is an illusion)
sorry about this anonymous, but about the whole God-created-the-northern lights thing, why hasnt anyone stuck to the point and asked WHY God would have created them? To me it seems like an entirely pointless thing to bother creating, and if you people are going to say that its just a pretty thing He made for us to look at, isnt it conceited of us to think God would do that just for us and not to bother with something more important? Why do we insist on thinking that the universe was created just for us?
Hey why dont I ever see pictures of the Aurora Australis anywhere around here? it’s just Borealis, Borealis, Borealis…
comment 71- I don’t have one word to create peace but 2
“stop arguing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
lol
You all sound very smart so Im going to quote something smart from grey mater on ben 10…
“What’s your
malfunction…probably something stupid like the DNA splicing replicator copping a fragment of demino acid sequencece (gasp)!!! So this is what it’s like to be smart”.
No really I know who made this. You think it was God or the Magnetic field of budhha or the atheist god (which doesn’t exist). No, the answer is simple…
Crab people!
Carb People! crab people! run away from the crab people…
i have an idea lets all say o pretty lights in the sky up there lights just lights no one gives who or what created them they r pretty colored lights yes very pretty colorful lights ……. in the sky…… who made them idk but yea……..pretty
Sonicblaze
there is no god but Allah(muslim god) AND muhammed is his messanger.
only someting so great and soo powerful could of have done something like this. Dear readers i am not telling you guys to except Islam straight away i am only saying learn about our religion befor criticisng it.
Now listen to this:
There is only one leader of Australia and he is John Howard. there is only one queen, one prince, one king and one princess of Australia. if there were two three or eve more then there would be war. Because one would want to do something and other wouldnt want to do that something. So that means there is only ONE ruler of the universe and that ia ALLAh the all merciful and the all forgiver
Dear readers please here me and follow the straight path.
with love and respect a muslim girl age 14 who is in love with her religioun
David
i so adree with you what you have said made me have a huge grin on my face thank you a lot.
Aight peeps, let’s all take a chill pill and enjoy the pretty lights. Simple.
Beautiful but not really classified as an illusion. Just something us Northeners get. Though I’ve never seen it that intense where i live…
To anonymous up there… of course there’s a God. Allah is one of his names…I think. See, I’m not sure, but I think we believe in the same God, we’re just confused about the details.
To quote: “With love and respect” a 14 year old Christian girl who loves her God.
ok to comment #69, you are being a huge hypocrite by saying that you are Christian yet you dont believe God created EVERYTHING. God did create every little detail on this earth and if you say you are a Christian and you don’t believe that then you are a major hypocrite saying that your a Christian. no Christian can belive that God didn’t create everything. all true Christians know that He spoke it and it was so.
To those who truly are not “enlightened”, I submit the following…. (I pray you will not leave this earth the sleepwalker that you are now.)
Sir Isaac Newton had an accomplished artisan fashion for him a small scale model of our solar system which was to be put in a room in Newton’s home when completed. The assignment was finished and installed on a large table.
The workman had done a very commendable job, simulating not only the various sizes of the planets and their relative proximities, but also so constructing the model that everything rotated and orbited when a crank was turned.
It was an interesting, even fascinating work, as you can image, particularly to anyone schooled in the sciences.
A scientist-atheist friend of Newton’s came by for a visit. Seeing the model, he was naturally intrigued, and proceeded to examine it with undisguised admiration for the high quality of the workmanship.
“My! What an exquisite thing this is!” he exclaimed. “Who made it?”
Paying little attention to him, Sir Isaac answered, “Nobody.”
Stopping his inspection, the visitor turned and said: “Evidently you did not understand my question. I asked who made this?”
Newton, enjoying himself immensely no doubt, replied in a still more serious tone. “Nobody. What you see just happened to assume the form it now has.”
“You must think I am a fool!” the visitor retorted heatedly, “Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius, and I would like to know who he is.”
Newton then spoke to his friend in a polite yet firm way: “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander universe whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker? Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?”
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Why even argue. Bottom line: God believers can’t prove God exhists. God non-believers can’t prove God doesnt exhist. Simple as that. So enjoy life and what comes of it.
Why all this god stuff? its just magnetic poles and solar winds.
Even if God was real (which I personally doubt) I don’t think he would’ve been sitting up there a few weeks in and be thinking “Yeah this planet is pretty… but it really needs some P-ZAZZ! I know! Let’s put some pretty lights here… and over here too! Et voila!!”
Seriously.
PEOPLE!!!!
ITS PRETTY!!!!
LIVE WITH IT!!!!
god-beliver-people: wouldn’t He, if he exists just want you to enjoy it, not turn it into a debate and lose the beauty???
non-god-beliver-people: cant you just let people belive what they want to belive??? if they think it was caused by someone, let them belive it!!!
its an optical illusions website!!
its not a place to air your religious veiws!!!
everyone is not the same!!!
live with it!!!
i would tell you what i think but none of you will care
and no one will read this
bye
CowGirl is right this is an illusion website not a religion discussion. And anyways I noticed if I look at them carefully it sort of looks like they are moving a little bit. Like those circle illusions.
PEOPLE!!! It doesn’t matter if you believe in God or you don’t; just enjoy the pics and keep your religious opinions to yourselves!
Remember: arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics… eve if you win, YOU’RE STILL RETARDED!!!
There is only one thing all you people and every one in the world have in common: HOPE.
Now that is something really interesting that makes christianity worth thinking about. What if you only believe in science? You die. No HOPE.
And about seeing God: If a blind man cannot see grass, does that mean the grass isn’t there? Though, by hearing people talking about grass and probably by feeling it, he is almost certain about the existance of grass. He has got TRUST and HOPE that there is grass.
Do you all really think we believe in God just to get any meaning in our lives? No one ever said religion made life easier. If you only believe in yourself, what is left when you sink into depression, you get to disrespect yourself, what have you got left to believe in? God gives HOPE, a way out, an emergency exit.
I thank God for creating the Aurora Borealis. I’ve seen it myself in Norway and was silent.
But I also thank Him for creating it, for all you people, how bad you might think about him, all started to think about life, God, and probably about HOPE.
If you tell people to keep their religious opinions to themselves, then that’s like me telling people to keep all of their opinions to themselves.
That’s all it is….our OPINIONS. You don’t have to believe it, you can hate it, but it doesn’t matter what YOU think, now does it? It’s not like your saying “You’re stupid and wrong” is going to change that person. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. You don’t have to like it, and it’s okay to express your own opinion on someone else’s opinion, just don’t get all messed up going nuts because this is just a friendly chat, remember? :D
For my opinion….I think God’s awesome, and so are these pics of the Aurora Borealis. Some of you people are atheists and think that the earth’s magnetic field is the only point of praise here. I’m not going to tell you that you’re wrong and stupid, because my saying that won’t change anything. Say whatever you want….That’s what “comments” are, right? o_O
Oh…and Armando – you’re a jerk for making fun of retards. Just my opinion.
That is cool how in the 1st and 2nd pics the flag looks like it is melting into the aurora. Those are beautiful.
“if you don’t believe in God, where do you think you go after you die?…”
I, most unfortunately, must be going to hell in that case.