Woman treats green ogre figure with great reverence; says she will continue to worship ‘kind-hearted’ cartoon statue
As long as she does.not want to establish Shrekism as a state-religion…
This is how I view all religion, so this is fine.
Clearly it was working. If Shrek wasn’t answering the prayers I think it would be obvious.
Shrek is love, Shrek is life.
Onions!
I mean… there are worse options
Shrek isn’t the worst idol.
He’s grumpy but he’s got layers, and is fairly accepting. And I think we can all relate to how far he’ll go for a bit of peace and quiet.
What? Like some kind of onion creature?
I’d liken him more to a parfait
Like he came from a 3D printer.
Honestly that’s a far better idol than most religions.
And? Why stop now that you know how good he is. Shrek provides for everyone.
The title literally says she was going to keep doing it.
Ah, I didn’t notice that. Well, all is good then. Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
She isn’t worshiping Shrek any more than someone praying at a cross worships wooden plus signs. Stupid article.
I thought a ‘+’ sign was doubly symmetric.
Yup. No more stupid than someone worshiping a guy who lived 2K years ago whose mother had an affair and blamed a magical sky fairy.
I doubt you understood them. Buddhists don’t worship Buddha idols or anyone: Buddha considered such devotion or worship unenlightened/unskilled & instead encouraged self-reliance in one’s journey to nirvana. They’re more contemplating the enlightenment they identify with Buddha as they meditate on their own way to achieve that. A Shrek figure may work just as well for their purpose: enlightenment to them means shedding ego & not letting vicissitudes/nuisances cling them to samsara.
Idk. It says worshiped right there in the title.
Amitabha
Being honest, it was very common at the time to have Zeus’ or Jupiter’s babies.
Do other people not pray to Shrek daily?
I’m not devout, it’s only once every 2 or 3 weeks for me.
Shrek is love Shrek is life Shrek is god
can someone doing 3D printing take a look at the pictures? i have no idea about these things, but it looks like the ears would be some crazy overhangs.
from the reflection of the light i assume, the statue was printed bottom to top. so how did they manage to do the ears?
Decent modern printers can handle overhangs fairly well. If the overhangs get too big you can use supports. If you want to get fancy there are filaments meant to be used only as supports in a multi-material print that dissolve in water so they don’t leave marks on the print.
FWIW I don’t think it was printed upside down. It would complicate things and would require more supports for no benefit.
Hey now, she’s an all-star!
As a buddhist, that statue is most definetely something I want in my home.
The ears are literally the only thing making it Shrek.
Shrek is just Buddha with weird ears.
Well, I’d argue that Shrek’s normal face is exactly halfway between Buddha and Sexy Human Shrek.
That is nothing, billions of muslims worships nonexisting god, billion+ christians worships same nonexisting god and milions jews worships same nonexisting god while killing eachother without remorse.
Maybe their god wanted some peace and quite and thought that if they were to annihilate each other, that might lead to fulfilling the requirement.
Objectively not the dumbest religion I’ve ever heard of.
