signs vs pareidolia

[Arizona_John]

why don’t people believe in rock carvings and just write them off as pareidolia, do they not see signs in the rock or refuse to see it?

 

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[robertk]

i don't think the problem is that people don’t believe in carvings. The problem is that there are an awful lot of people who think every odd rock has some great significance when most just simply don’t. I think it’s a lot like people seeing clouds shaped like animals or something, but the difference is nobody thinks clouds were “carved” that way. Yet with rocks, the attitude flips to “that can’t be natural, so it must mean something”, and for a person with a treasure hunter’s mindset, it can only mean one thing. Sometimes we only see what we want to see.

 

[Blackfoot58]

i don't think the problem is that people don’t believe in carvings. The problem is that there are an awful lot of people who think every odd rock has some great significance when most just simply don’t. I think it’s a lot like people seeing clouds shaped like animals or something, but the difference is nobody thinks clouds were “carved” that way. Yet with rocks, the attitude flips to “that can’t be natural, so it must mean something”, and for a person with a treasure hunter’s mindset, it can only mean one thing. Sometimes we only see what we want to see.

Well said. We all have imaginations and they can/do occasionally impact reality.

 

[sdcfia]

why don’t people believe in rock carvings and just write them off as pareidolia, do they not see signs in the rock or refuse to see it?

Rock carvings are obviously manmade and had meaning for those who created them. Despite numerous conflicting expert opinions, we don't know know for sure when the carvings were created or what their meanings were.

Pareidolia relates to completely natural objects that appear to humans to resemble familiar recognizable things, like faces, animals, geometric patterns, etc. They are not manmade.

"Treasure hunters" want to believe both are signs, clues, pointers, messages, etc. pointing to hidden wealth. Sometimes the carvings may fit that bill, but almost always they don't. The "looks like" things may be useful as landmarks if they are easily recognizable by all humans. Most of the time they are not easily identified by most humans and are just natural things in nature.

 

[Arizona_John]

For the people that don’t believe in markers etc., and fall under skepticism and see something that’s unnatural that can’t be formed by erosion, wind or Mother Nature fury of some sort come of as saying pareidolia. These people are obviously wasting their time, energy and money hiking all over the place looking for nothing and telling stories about other people hiking all over the place couldn’t find anything and they couldn’t find the place where they thought they found something after they left the place. I know where I’ve been and can re find places I’ve visited. People can disbelieve and believe in their pareidolia. I know what I’m seeing.

 

[Arizona_John]

For the people that don’t believe in markers etc., and fall under skepticism and see something that’s unnatural that can’t be formed by erosion, wind or Mother Nature fury of some sort come of as saying pareidolia. These people are obviously wasting their time, energy and money hiking all over the place looking for nothing and telling stories about other people hiking all over the place couldn’t find anything and they couldn’t find the place where they thought they found something after they left the place. I know where I’ve been and can re find places I’ve visited. People can disbelieve and believe in their pareidolia. I know what I’m seeing.

this is what I’m talking about, people might see something and some people will not. Image below

 

[Steely]

why don’t people believe in rock carvings and just write them off as pareidolia, do they not see signs in the rock or refuse to see it?

Hi Arizona this is Steely. Would you lease look at the carvings I posted and give me your opinion.

 

[detectorcowboy]

i don't think the problem is that people don’t believe in carvings. The problem is that there are an awful lot of people who think every odd rock has some great significance when most just simply don’t. I think it’s a lot like people seeing clouds shaped like animals or something, but the difference is nobody thinks clouds were “carved” that way. Yet with rocks, the attitude flips to “that can’t be natural, so it must mean something”, and for a person with a treasure hunter’s mindset, it can only mean one thing. Sometimes we only see what we want to see.

Well said.