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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:04 PM Original message |
Jesus had a weird sense of humor - always using puns for example |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Peter and "rock." Yes. There was a pretty bright light burning in the |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't think it's really a pun. It's more like saying, to Tiger Woods, |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's rather a double pun, since Peter tended to crumble at critical |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Simon Peter, that's right. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 01:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Paul, particularly, seemed to dislike women. He was REAL Old School |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 02:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Jesus didn't elevate them either, in worldly terms. They were already in a submissive position. |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 03:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Injustice towards the poor? I've always been in that class. |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 03:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Injustice towards the poor? I've always been in that class. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. No, it wasn't rhetorical. I was enquiring. Though I'm still not clear |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 04:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. So, religion needs Viagra more than it needs a Vatican? |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. "I didn't say 'Why hast thou foresaken me?' What I said was--" |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I was just curious if any other major religious figure was noted |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 04:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. yes, the laughing buddha! He comes back at the end of the cycle. |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 05:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Depends on whom you consider a "major" figure |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. So tell me more about Nasrudin |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-06-07 03:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Folkloric mullah |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-06-07 07:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. "Maybe I can teach the damn horse to fly!" |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 05:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. L. Ron Hubbard |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
12. Did Jesus know Greek? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 06:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. At least 2, although they were fairly similar: |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 02:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I read that a carpenter in those days would have been more like |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-04-07 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. I've always wondered, |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 12:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. How's that square up with doubting Thomas? |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 09:35 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Well, the other possibility, |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 02:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. Didimus (Diego, Didier) meant "twin". So I could see the possibility of |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
20. No. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-05-07 07:59 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. *If* he even said it, |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-08-07 09:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. I would expect the writers to have cleaned up any humor in order |
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