I read the intro and all that and have lived through a religious war and lost god along the way I would never wish to see any hate type posts here... BUT sometimes people take religion too seriously. I came across this joke which I thought would only offend a few.... *grins*
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I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said "Stop!
Don't do it!"
"Why shouldn't I?" he said.
I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
"Like what?"
"Well ... are you religious or atheist?"
"Religious."
"Me too! Are you Christian or Jewish?"
"Christian."
"Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
"Protestant."
"Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"
"Baptist."
"Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"
"Baptist Church of God."
"Me too! Are you Original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"
"Reformed Baptist Church of God."
"Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?"
"Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!"
To which I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
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Regards
Drax
This would be hysterically funny if my mother's family weren't Baptist ...
Jenny
Adding on to it.
There is a priest whos village gets flooded.There reaches a stage where he has to sit on his roof as the water level has drastically encreased and most have evacuated the village.The boat comes once again and the boatman asks him to get in to which he replies "My lord will save me."
Soon the water reaches his neck and the boat comes again and once more he refuses to get in saying "the lord will save me." Well it rains more and the water level rises over his neck and he dies
.In heaven he asks god"Why didnt you save me?"
God answers-"My son I sent the boat three times."
Poet Mohit.K.Misra
You just HAD to cross the line... Didn't yOU! lol
tDMg
LdsNana
In 1976 they held a Christian Conference in Dallas, for 276 different denomination of christanity, this joke rings that so true. A question and maybe this should be another topic, I'm new here so please excuse me, but why don't people just be nice to each other, God or no God?
Why do people, in the name of religion, take a passage from their religious book and hold that little part to be the absolute truth? Even in it's creation, the Bible is not a complete book. Why can't we just laugh off our differences and get on with making this planet a better place to live?
Thanks for the joke, and thanks for posting it.
Blaine561
"The Denial of Death" by Becker, gives a very clear description of the psychological processes that make people get so attached to beliefs, to the point where they will kill other people over them.
He covers nationalism and religionism, and a few other examples.
Jenny
Blaine561
"The Denial of Death" by Becker, gives a very clear description of the psychological processes that make people get so attached to beliefs, to the point where they will kill other people over them.
He covers nationalism and religionism, and a few other examples.
Jenny
you should start a forum on that.
hahahahahahahahahahaahahaha......wait, words don't do it justice....
If you want to pull it out, by all means post a new thread.
It might be a dull conversation, though if not many people have read the book ...
Jenny
ugg. I have done so much reading lately I just want a quick over view.
Quick overview of the thesis in "The Denial of Death":
Animals, including humans, get a surge of adrenaline (fear) when they think their lives are in danger (the fight or flight response).
Humans have a high enough cognitive capacity to know that they are inevitably going to die.
It is not possible to live with the contsant fear that knowledge generates.
So we deny the reality of our own death.
We do this by identifying with a symbol (a nation, a religion, an idea like democracy or communism, our Great American Novel, etc), and then we can convince ourselves that as long as the symbol survives, we haven't really died. This reduces our anxiety.
Any apparent threat to the symbol re-awakens our mortal fear, which is why we react so violently emotionally to things like people burning the flag, etc.
Paradoxically, we often become willing to give our lives for the symbol, because it represents our immortality. Most directly, of course, when the symbol involves a story about our eternal soul, but even "giving one's life for one's country" involves an often-explicit promise of immortality:
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, or the years condemn,
But in the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We shall remember them.
Lest we forget.
Jenny
P.S. It's an academic text full of actual experiments, natural and laboratory, and their results, plus a detailed description of the psychoanalytic processes at work. This is just a really, really, high level overview.
What would you do if you were in a country where a dictatorship took over and you wanted your old way of life back? Would you fight knowing you might die or risk crossing the border knowing you might die or get thrown in a camp?
If you answer no that you wouldn't or that you would just wait it out, then you would be fine on some level with the various forms of slavery that arise out of dictatorship and you would not hesitate to submit, even if you ended up dead anyway due to paranoia of the people in power. You would submit to fear in the sense that you would just keep living your life as your options continued to get smaller and smaller and your choices more and more restricted.
If however you would organize something, even if it was only peaceful protest (in which case you could still be killed), then I would not call that achieving immortality. I would call it weighing risk and wanting something, and then doing what you think it would take to get the life you wanted back. You would still be submitting to fear, but you would be redirecting it into anger and hatred and using that to attempt to overcome and destroy with the idea of rebuilding with an eye towards that which you once had.
I understand what this guy is writing, but I fail to see how dieing for something like "democracy" is going to make me anything other than dead. However, death is not a given necessarily in any given struggle, as one might come out on top and overthrow a regime in one's own country that is autocratic in nature.
Dying for a symbol is stupid, it won't bring immortality, there is no such thing as immortality.
However as any WWII soldier who survived could tell you, it just might bring about positive change and more freedom...
Have you heard about the dyslexic agnostic suffering from insomnia?
He was up all night contemplating the existence of DOG.
Speaking of religious jokes, here is one:
Very Funny Religious Joke
And here is some poetry to rival Vogon poetry (the second worst in the universe)
The Third Worst Poetry in the Universe
Mark failed to understand Christ or Christianity,
To justify his ignorance he refutes god arrogantly.
No knowledge of god or religion,
What are you doing on this forum?
Poet Mohit.K.Misra
Aw, now I am all confused
I can't decide if I am evolved, ignorant, intelligent or what.
I have left out the more obvious insults.
"Roses are red, Violets are blue,
This is proof that god loves you."
Saint Mark, Poet and prophet of Roddenberry, Enlightened/evolved being, Ignorant fool and more.........
Whatever else you may be, Mark, You are definitely funny. You can approach the most serious of subjects with a sense of humor, and I, for one, love it. Keep posting, and I will go back to just lurking in this forum.
I was being nice to you,it went to your head and you started jumping on my head so I had to put you in your place.
Mohit, stop being such a jerk. Enlightened people don't behave the way you do.
Answering questions better than anyone else.I do not like being insulted for no reason when I work to spread god knowledge and help uplift humanity.
Poet Mohit.K.Misra
I think I had enough of his arrogant posts. I suggest we just ignore him from now on. I will.
Misha like some others just cannot understand the question,
How dare anyone answer with poetry and precision.
Insulting everyone you come across who tries to plainly speak to you is not uplifting humanity.
It's being a jerk.
You know, for a guy whose sole purpose in being on Hubpages is to sell poetry that looks like a grade schooler wrote it, you sure are a pompous jerk.
I'm chilled, just ask Mark or Misha. They've seen me bust a cork at spammers with the nerve to come back and justify their words.
Seriously, you're only on Hubpages to promote your book and try and get it sold. That's pretty cruddy in my book.
You do not seem chilled to me ,you seem very very aggresive
Okay, I'll buy the book you're shamelessly promoting. Would you consider that a "recognition of the truth?"
Just a question.. I got an email the other day from a Mrs. Abeleia Misra wanting to split 40,000,000 USD with me if I came to some place to sign as her late husband's next of kin. Is this lady related to you?
If you want to read my book I can gift you an ebook.
My grandfather was the Collector of Allahabad.My father the Harbour Master of Mumbai Port Trust.An uncle the advisor to the President of India,another ther senior most Director General of Police in India.My mother side we own and run a Agyari or Parsee fire temple in Mumbai.I have a reputation to protect.Sorry but I am not a thief.
And you, Mohit, are a spammer. Are you the Director of Indian International Spam Relations?
When and if you become a poet you will understand I spread knowledge and love in my poems.
You are very,very aggresive-go take a cold shower or get a life.
a poem for you CONTEMPLATE ON IT
DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION
Some people are so desperate for attention,
They try to get it at the cost of your cremation.
Why can’t they remain humble and free?
They pull you down in front of the world to see.
They don’t look so good and are not too amusing,
An insult from them is not bemusing.
The magic in them is so clear,
It all goes when they show such fear.
They are fooling themselves is what it is,
Never mind it is all going to end in bliss.
Make peace with yourself is what they say,
I have my friend when will you do I pray.
These desperate acts are so embarrassing
Do you understand the word called harassing?
The seeds in the garden some day must grow,
Everything is all right is what I want you to know.
LOL
Mohit, you're not very observant.
I have about half a dozen poems published here on Hubpages. I have earned awards for my poetry from three different websites, as well as one live poetry reading contest.
You're just posting stuff from your ebook.
Why would I be jealous of you? Other than your obvious obliviousness to your own shameless self-promotion, the only thing you've done is toot your own horn and show rankings on a website with so few visitors it doesn't even have an Alexa rank narrowed down to a very specific category.
Hardly anything to be jealous about, realistically speaking.
Are you talking about my blog,just started it.wow you looked up alexa rankings I myself havent.
Did you also see Ponder Awhile is ranked 1 for 2006 in poetry books or did you miss that intentionally.Its ok you can never be as good as me,few have dont feel so bad.Life goes on.
I never wanted to become a poet,cannot help it the universe has other plans,it wants my book to be no1 ,you need to argue with the universe not me.
Mohit, stop it. Your not being very nice.
LOL!!!
I didn't have to "look" anything up. I don't care that a site with less traffic than most privately owned blogs ranked your book of poems number one. It likely did so because your book is spammed about enough that it got more traffic than the established and world-renowned poets also featured on the site.
Didn't you say something about being homeless and trying to make a living off your book? If so, how is it you're on the computer all day long?
You don't read English that well, so I'll give you a break, but cripes you're self-absorbed.
Are you trying to get someone out there to say "Oh yes, Mohit is the most awesome poet ever?"
Someone who isn't related to or friends with you?
Keep trying.
Well I ranked his poetry number 3
The third worst poetry in the Universe
This competes with Vogon poetry
For the third place slot.
"Vogon poetry is widely accepted as the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, but the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. The absolute worst poetry was written by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex. Luckily it was destroyed when the earth was."
And here is a classic example of Vogon poetry:
"Oh freddled gruntbuggling,
Thy nacturations are to me
As plurdled grabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my footing turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly binglewurgles,
For otherwise, I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!"
Is it just me, or is there some disturbing similarities?
Except for the lack of rhyming? Which is a good thing.
Are you a physcic ,your intuition is not bad its just the other way round,been ranked at 3 from the top;)
Hi Everyone - be very afraid - Mohit is back, ranking with the highest in Rome, or something
You feeling left out,? wasnt addressing you.
LOLOLOL! That's hilarious!!! I so have to email that to my friends! LOL!
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