NOW Deities drink milk???

I was reading about this on Reuters. Fascinating that people in the 21st century still want to believe in miracles. We don't seem to be a rational species.

It happened earlier in 1995 and it was explained by scientists. Still I feel the desperation of people in discarding or ignoring raionalism. Many of them are more amused by the idea and do not believe it genuinely.

This happened in the UK - thousands of people queued up to force-feed a statue of Ganesha a bewildering array of milk products. Semi-skimmed, full cream, yoghurt, evaporated milk; milk in bottles, cartons, jugs, basins etc, etc.

I think Ganesha got so fed up with it he's cursed every journey on London Underground to be miserable!!

Gods are used to this. Ganesha is particularly subjected to various abuses by devotees. Ganesha is supposed to be 'sankat mochak' (protector from crisis), he will not curse, but will be thinking about how to manage this crisis I guess.

Maybe I'm a cynic, but in Ireland they have a similar phenomenon with "Weeping Madonna" religious statues. It usually happens when the tourist season hasn't been as prosperous as hoped...

I remember the '95 cases...
Are you familar with a publication called 'Fortean Times'? It is a magazine devoted to the inexplicable and mysterious, but wonderfully challenging and irreverent. It has a round-up of various claims and sightings from raining frogs to mirages. As an ex-Catholic I am very aware of the frequent sightings of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. In FT such occurences are listed as sightings of the 'BVM'- The Blessed Virgin Mary - Which amuses me enormously.

yeah first the mahim water turnin sweet and now the gods drinking milk,i guess this happens when devotees blindly follow any religion,bcoz every religion condemns superstions and blind belief....
in india i find this problem of people revering their previous generation,for ex if we point out to any superstious and illogical act being followed,all that many say are that this is being followed from days immemorial.....we r none to question it....cmon its high time we bcome more practical....

amuzing, how practical the humankind has become to stop believing in miracles. guess it's because it's easier to try to find a logical explanation to any miracles that happen that to actually accept them. i know, it might sound very bizzarre, illogical, and stupid what i am saying, but i've gone through that practicality and cinicism myself, asking a million of questions and finding reasonable, down-to-earth answers. But, luckily, i now accept the miracles, the ones that my heart tells me to accept, and that's very hard to explain, you need to feel it