Web: An Eye From On High Watchin' You

Don't stare too long at the photo. Is it funny? All I can do is laugh nervously and shift uneasily in my chair.

A recently released infrared Hubble photograph of the "Eye of God" on MSNBC's Cosmic Log is pretty hypnotizing. Although the Snopes rumor-busting website assures us that this is not actually the "Eye of God," you've got to admit it's certainly BIG enough.

I couldn't help recalling a BBC report about a Newcastle University experiment in the UK. Turns out that the feeling of being watched makes people act more honestly, even if the eyes are not real.


And then I remembered reading that 7,500 years ago in the ancient city of Jericho, the city's walls were embedded with the skulls of their ancestors enhanced with facial features reconstructed from plaster and the large eyes inlaid with shells.

And then I started hummin' the old Gospel song:

As you make life's big flight, keep the pathway of right
There's an eye watchin' you.

Every step that you take, this great eye is awake

There's an eye watchin' you.

Chorus--
Watchin' you, watchin' you

Every day, the course you persue.

Watchin' you, watchin' you

There's an overseein' eye watchin' you.

And then.... I, uh, hit the back button.


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