The Laughing Jesus

[Traditz]

okay, sige we are "gods" pero dili actually "Gods."

[regnauld]

okay, sige we are "gods" pero dili actually "Gods."

Yes because The WHOLE (GOD) is greater than the sum of its PARTS (gods)

[regnauld]

Wake up! Rouse yourself from the collective coma you mistake for 'real life'. See through the illusion of separateness and recognize that we are all essentially ONE. Although we appear to be isolated individuals, in reality there is one awareness dreaming itself to be everyone and everything. This is our shared essential nature. The simple secret to enjoying this dream we call 'life' is to wake up to ONENESS. Becaue, knowing you are ONE with all, you will find yourself in love with all. You will fall in love with living. This is the message of the original Christians, who symbolized this awakened state with the enigmatic figure of 'THE LAUGHING JESUS.'

[regnauld]

"Unless you become like a little child you cannot enter the kingdomof God." - Jesus The Christ

So, PLAY and LAUGH till you drop!

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Child Laughing

Laughter is the physiological reaction to occasions of humor or the 'comic': an outward expression of amusement. Aristotle noted that "only the human animal laughs". No satisfactory theory of laughter that explains why we laugh has yet gained wide acceptance. A number of competing theories have been written. For Aristotle, we laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at being superior to them. Socrates was reported by Plato as saying that the ridiculous was characterized by a display of self-ignorance. Schopenhauer wrote that it results from an incongruity between a concept and the real object it represents. Hegel shared almost exactly the same view, but saw the concept as an "appearance" and believed that laughter then totally negates that appearance. For Freud, laughter is an economical phenomenon whose function is to release psychic energy that had been wrongly mobilized by incorrect or false expectations.

[ace_ndahouse]

char.. pa sun GOD2x naka reg da.. mura ka true.. nyahahaha ma sunog baya ka reg,

[regnauld]

char.. pa sun GOD2x naka reg da.. mura ka true.. nyahahaha ma sunog baya ka reg,

Unsa-on man pagka sunog nako or nato kung we are the rays of the sun? GOD is the SUN and we are the RAYS!

[regnauld]

"Jesus is back...and this time he's funny!"

[regnauld]

Laughter. Everybody laughs once in a while don't they? And even if they don't laugh, I'm sure they smile sometimes. I think I've seen every person in this congregation laugh or smile at least once. Given the universality of laughter, it seems logical that Jesus laughed too.

Feeling quite confident, I called up this searching program and searched the translations for the words laugh, laughter, humor, and smile. I can now report that there is precious little laughter recorded in the Bible nor is there any smiling. The only references in the Hebrew Scriptures to laughter I found were in the psalms and in Job. This humor isn't of the banana peel variety. In the second psalm we find this text,

He who sits on the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.
Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
"I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.

This kind of humor sure isn't infectious. In the four gospels, there are only two references to laughter found in the Sermon on the Plain:

Blessed are you that hunger, for you shall be satisfied.
Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.
This is encouraging until one reads a few lines later:

Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger.
Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

This sure doesn't make you want to laugh does it? These are the only references to laughter in Christian scriptures included in the Bible, and from this we could not infer that Jesus was much of a comedian.

But at least JESUS LAUGHS!

[schmuck]

*woops no ht linking diay

[handsoff241]

^that site ftw(semi)