{"id":400,"date":"2016-12-04T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:50:02","slug":"evil-eyed-jesus-thinking-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/evil-eyed-jesus-thinking-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil-Eyed Jesus and the &#8220;Thinking Men&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; Add Color<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; add color wherever they present themselves.  The world is not black and white.  It&#8217;s much more nuanced.  Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to color your mind with this thought for a moment:  What if we and all we know are merely the thoughts of another being?  What if we exist in a colorful cloud of thought in someone&#8217;s mind?  Does that ultimately change anything for us?<\/p>\n<p>Think about this:  What if all our thoughts are manifestations of colors?  In another dimension, maybe what is perceived as color is actually generated by a thought from someone in our dimension.  The people in that dimension see our myriad thoughts as the varying tones and hues of a plethora of colors.  Rainbows everywhere!  Rainbows so rich in multitudes of colors that we can only imagine but which are clearly seen by the inhabitants of this other dimension. <\/h3>\n<h2>Evil-Eyed Jesus Begs to Differ<\/h2>\n<h3>Now hold on.  There&#8217;s a critic at hand.  Literally to the right of my hand.  Evil-Eyed Jesus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161203_evileye_jesus_sticker.jpg\" alt=\"Evil-Eyed Jesus\" width=\"247\" height=\"312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161203_evileye_jesus_sticker.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161203_evileye_jesus_sticker-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evil-Eyed Jesus, a tough critic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Certainly, this cannot be the real Jesus.  The real Jesus would never scowl like that.  I&#8217;m sure this must be some other dude.  He&#8217;s been stuck on this sign for quite a while.  I&#8217;ve walked by him several times in just as many months.  He&#8217;s given me the creeps each time.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have challenged him with color.  I&#8217;ve given him companions, colorful thinking companions.  I think the real Jesus would approve.  He would wish kindness and the warmth of color for such a scowler as this man on the sign.  I think he would.<\/h3>\n<h2>But What About Bobby Kennedy?<\/h2>\n<h3>Is that Bobby Kennedy so near to my face in the first picture?  Or is it Scarface?  My wife was undecided as to which.  It doesn&#8217;t matter.  I have nothing to say about him, other than, &#8220;Back off, Bobby.  You&#8217;re too close to my face.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h2>For further amusement from the &#8220;Thinking Men&#8221;:<\/h2>\n<h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/thinking-men-outside-carnegie-hall-nyc\/\">&#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; Outside Carnegie Hall, NYC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/thinking-men-in-glen-rock-nj\/\">&#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; in Glen Rock, NJ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; Add Color &#8220;Thinking Men&#8221; add color wherever they present themselves. 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