On 10/29/2005 in Saigon, Vietnam a statue of Mother Maria cried and now people are all over it trying to take pictures. The government are blocking the road access to the statue.
Also I heard my friends said that the day this statue cried in some or most temples the buddha statues cried too. Not sure if this is a warning to something bad happen soon to Vietnam like the bird flu, but heres the link to the pictures Note: Its in Vietnamese.

Pictures:
http://dactrung.net/phorum/tm.aspx?m=209489
http://www.pbase.com/ducmekhoc/image/51489549/original
http://www.rmitportal.info/forum/showthrea...ted=1#post16879

Video:
http://www.take2tango.com/uploads/mp4/ducme.html

It might be fake, I remember some years ago, in porugal, there were a statue of mother Maria that cried blood, but eventually the descendant of the person who made the statue, showed up and told it was a secret technice that was teached in his family for generations, it had some kind of mechanism, and a recipient, this man told this to the press cause he didnt wanted the church to use it as fake advertisement.
That statue is big enough to not to be moved, so it might be one of those.

Wow! I've heard about things like this happening.

I only saw one picture because my computer is a bit slow today, so I couldn't see the different methods of photography. I'd like to see one that had been taken with a heat-sensitive lense to see if the tears were warm (warmth has been know in the past with this kind of phenomenon). If the pictures are fake, it would be difficult to keep the tears warm on a statue made of stone.


EDIT: Welcome to UM, aznraven88.

You could fake those easily these days, but it must have been quite a sight.

This case is very weird because...Buddha statues crying too? o_o; Well assuming the mother mary statue cried, that would imply that the Christian religion were right...but if the Buddha ones cried...wtf...I'm confused. D=

A bit more impressive than Ganesh drinking milk. It's interesting all the sights they've had around the world. I'll look into this one.

But it was only something they heard their friend say. You know how things are exaggerated?!

Not saying your friend is lying though, aznraven88

...umm...

Wtf are you talking about?! I think you quoted the wrong post. *quirks a brow*

Nope. I quoted you and you're who I meant to quote.


EDIT: I think you got confused with whom I was talking to when I said "I'm not saying your friend is lying". Sorry. It's been edited.

You know, the "Ganesh drinking milk" thingy got the whole of India into a frenzy few years ago. People were lining up in huge queues in front of temples with milk for Ganesh idols.
It was nothing but surface tension at work, which made milk trickle away in several directions along the surface of the idol. It is really amazing, how many people WANT to believe in such things even when the evidence is so clear.

The pictures of Mother Maria are not very clear but such things are not that difficult to fake, given the overwhelming majority of people who are ready to believe in such things at the drop of a hat.

True, I wish I could remember the name of the documentary on how they faked the tears of blood on a statue. It was the same doc where they showed Ganesh "drinking milk". It was a good episode though. If they break that statue in half, they'll find out if it's real or not.

Yeah, I remember it too, I think it was on discovery channel.

You'll be very lucky if they don't break you in half if you even suggest it to the believers.

THATS A SIN!!!!

No kidding.

But you didn't hear it from me.

Anyone noticing that the tears are coming from out the middle of the eye, like the in the movies? This point to its fake, people dont cry that way from nature

yes i.. AHHH!! * yelekiah stabs me in back * * yelekiah *no no i didn't i heard nothing * me ughh * yelekiah shoots me twice * *yelekiah * umm u didn't see any thing

lol

Then a bomb goes off in Yelekiah's pocket, and they both die.

I think this is just a scam to get more people in town to raise money.

* im already dead *

Overkill. It's necessary.

AHH!! * yelekiah kills my angel * Umm.. AHH!! * god kills yelekiah * umm... u saw nothing



lol

WTF?

God : umm.. * he stabs u again * ohh hi god * god kills me * umm.. *BOOM!!! god destroies the world *

A lot of them I'm sure are scams. People should realize that these are pretty easy to fake nowadays. But people have faith in it. Oh, well.

crying statues....personally, I dont see what the fuss is. i think God has performed real miracles, and those are miralces that change peoples lives. i think its a scam, or just a small form of mass hysteria...i mean, what is a crying statue going to do for you and your faith...

personally to me, if you look close enough, it looks like bird poop.

This make remember of a pair of "crying" marys....all fake, very clever ways to make "cry" the statue. And yes, there are a lot of people that belives it has a miracle in the instant. Just like the people how see the virgin mary in a mirror or a toast.

Best thing to do, would be to get a small sample of the " Tears" and run them through a DNA scan. This will prove if it is water, or actual tears.