A Canadian photographer was stunned when she went back through the photos she snapped of a polar bear in her backyard to find it praying in front of a cross.
Jessica Andrews, 22, learned the bear was roaming around the Wesleyville, Newfoundland on an island behind her house from an online alert Wednesday.
Andrews didn’t even notice the photo of the praying bear until she went through the 200 photos after the shoot.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4368188/Polar-bear-caught-praying-cross.html#ixzz4cvclXNNh
Surely, this photo will end up in Al Gore’s slide show, and be used in creative ways by WWF and other rent seeking outfits under the guise of something like “polar bear prays for the Arctic”. But, I thought we might find some other, obviously funny captions from our community of readers.
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“If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.”
Fudd’s First Law Of Opposition,
as applied to the acquisition of the dangling food cache.
This was my first thought too, but I think it’s too low.
‘Dear Lord, If I’m really a polar bear, how come my feet are bloody freezing’?
“This must be a tree…!!! growing this far north… oh no… we are doomed…!!!”
#(:))
“Could have sworn I hung a Greenpeace explorer up there yesterday to eat later – where’d he go?”
“Huh – long pig in season already?”
Dam it! The wind turbine is frozen solid again!
“The Martyrdom of Mann”. Crucified by Falsehood. Consumed by Facts.
That bird up there looks delicious.
What a fat thread beare. Put the animal on a diet of Green peas.
“I have the bad feeling I’m near the cross-hairs of a marksman’s rifle.”
Suddenly, in the presence of the strange icon, he felt the urge to stand erect and look at it.
or
Oh $h#t, inedible.
Where’s the meat?
Please Lord, make me a Mann.
Jesus Christ, it’s cold today!
We all prey in our own way.
Winner!
Hummmm. Find another one, chalk line the field and we can play Ice Ball!!
Damn no bark, cant scratch my back
Polar bears don’t pray, but worship of bears by humans has an ancient history. Cave bear skulls on altar-like platforms date back tens of thousands of years. It is natural that people would consider bears gods, since in so many environments, they are the most powerful carnivores, possessed of great intelligence, able to walk like men and hard to kill with stone, bone and wooden weapons.
Well into historical times bear worship persisted in a number of cultures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_worship#Ainu_bear_worship
Ainu rituals are reminiscent of Christian dogma and practice, involving sacrifice and a ritual feast upon the flesh of the victim offered up to cleanse sin and propitiate the spiritual powers.
Given their strength, smarts and other-worldly senses, polar bears were arguably the top predator in the Arctic before firearms. In groups, Eskimos, American Indians and indigenous Siberians and Sami could hunt and kill the largely solitary bears, but one on one, it was nolo contendre.
A cross to bear
Eugene WR Gallun
I think it’s most humorous to consider the different prayers our saintly brother bear might be offering depending on his denomination:
– Catholic: “Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.”
– Episcopal: “Reading together from Pg 828 of the book of Common Prayer, let us pray: ‘O gracious Father, who openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness: Bless the lands and waters, and multiply the harvests of the world…’ ”
– Presbyterian: “…if it’s pleasing to You, grant travel mercies to those heading south to warmer climes during this harsh winter. And if it be in Your Divine Will, please bless those of us hunting seals this week with success and let us remember that regardless of the outcomes of our endeavors, Your Will is perfect and Your grace sufficient for all our needs.”
– Southern Baptist: “And turn the hearts of these wayward seals back You, that we might enjoy a full harvest of willing souls tonight…”
– Pentecostal: “And STRIKE the hearts of these…SINFUL…seals. And lay them DOWN at the feet of YOUR servant. AND TURN these backslidden miscreants OUT of their misery, and BACK INTO the the RIGHTEOUSNESS of TRUE…”
– Ricky Bobby: “Sweet Baby Jesus…wrapped up in swaddling clothes…bless me with many seals today…”
rip
Forgive those alarmists for they know not what they do.
“Looks like there’s a pretty bare easter around here”
“Hope she can make a decent coffee”
‘They used to hang snacks on these things.’
Global warming to blame!
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For Newfoundland kids, ‘stranger-danger’ includes polar bears
Parents are schooling kids in the risks posed by ursine visitors. Good idea, because the bears may soon be arriving in greater numbers
“Since bear sightings in the early winter have been linked to climate change, some parents are more concerned for their future grandchildren. “If this is going to continue, one of the things we’ll have to teach children is to pay attention to news bulletins and things like that, and to avoid conflict with a polar bear,” says Ernest Simms, mayor of St. Anthony’s, Nfld., where a bear was hit by a snow plow last week, while another was spotted near an RV park. Polar bears have always roamed southern Labrador in the spring, but climate change may bring them out earlier in the winter.”
http://www.macleans.ca/society/for-newfoundland-kids-stranger-danger-includes-polar-bears/
I thought the narrative is that Polar bears would disappear? Are people following the progression of the meme from say 30 years ago? Aren’t they questioning yet? Why not?