I saw this last night in Matosinhos - north Portugal outside of Porto.
This is a town that happened to have its biggest celebration of the year last night. It's called Festas do Senhor de Matosinhos.
The meteor made an appearance 15 minutes before midnight. The big fireworks were to go off at midnight. We all thought it was the weirdest firework we'd ever seen and only later realized it was a meteor.
It was truly huge. And lit the ground blue.
The really interesting part of this is that the festival is to celebrate a miracle in the town wherein a vision of Jesus appeared a long time ago.
I am not religious. But wow. Quite a coincidence.
Posting under a fresh account for location privacy, of course.
Maybe this sounds unbelievable but here is the program of the festival where you can see that the fireworks happen:
It's no coincidence believers see God in clouds or toasted bread.
Scientifically, this phenomenon is called confirmation bias. The bigger your belief, the more biased your conclusion. "Faith" is simply how religious people call their confirmation bias.
Time ago there was a running joke about YouTube comments sillyness. That section has improved a lot. Live chats, on the other hand...
During a recent volcano eruption someone was convinced that the rain would help stop the lava. I can't forget that. Oh, and the prophetic, blessings, I knew it, climate change, etc.
Yeah but no matter where it is, people are going to people and where there’s a lot of them, you’re also going to see two things: their superstitions and the knowledge problem in action.
This is a town that happened to have its biggest celebration of the year last night. It's called Festas do Senhor de Matosinhos.
The meteor made an appearance 15 minutes before midnight. The big fireworks were to go off at midnight. We all thought it was the weirdest firework we'd ever seen and only later realized it was a meteor.
It was truly huge. And lit the ground blue.
The really interesting part of this is that the festival is to celebrate a miracle in the town wherein a vision of Jesus appeared a long time ago.
I am not religious. But wow. Quite a coincidence.
Posting under a fresh account for location privacy, of course.
Maybe this sounds unbelievable but here is the program of the festival where you can see that the fireworks happen:
https://www.leca-palmeira.com/senhor-de-matosinhos-4/
And here's the wiki about the reason for the festival:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matosinhos#Etnografia