From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:27:26 -0500
At 12:01 PM 6/25/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:--- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
> On the other hand... I have a tee shirt that has a > picture of Stonehenge and > says, "Orthodox Druid" on it. I like the shirt > because it's a joke -- there > is no such thing as orthodoxy among druids. > Orthodox druid is as much an > oxymoron as military intelligence or Microsoft Works.
<grin> I gave a similar shirt to a friend: Stonehenge with rays of light coming through, "Born-Again Pagan." He'd snapped off a letter to his homeowners assoc. when they told him he needed to remove all Christmas decorations from the house by Jan 12 (IIRC); it read along the lines of "I cannot believe you are such religious bigots; we are druids, and we must garland our abode with greenery until the spring equinox...The deer represent perseverence through the dark days
That's why the Christmas lights are still up around the edge of the roof.
Though I'm not like the people who used to live across the street: one year they kept theirs burning until the last bulb finally burned out, sometime in May IIRC . . .
Wait, if one bulb goes out, they all go out, no? How'd they do that? Aren't those things linear circuits?
...I am truly sorry to live in such an intolerant world of misunderstanding..." etc, etc.
He got an apology letter back. ;}
Of course now they have to leave up their evergreen swags until equinox every year... ;D
Of course, that might cause a bit of a problem if the president of the homeowners association looked out one Sunday morning and saw the entire family dressed up and driving to the local Baptist church (or whatever).
You're investigating the local religious folk and their strange rituals. :) (No offense to Baptists, of course.)
I'd have a lot of fun with it: Mow the lawn wearing robes with runes all over them. Set up Stonehenge in the front yard and Mini-henge in the backyard. Welcome the Equinoxes with a public fertility ceremony (well, *throw* one at least... I doubt I'd convince my wife *that's* a good idea!). Celebrate each moon (Harvest moon, Honey Moon, etc.,) with a huge party and ritual. Harass my neighbors when they trim the trees in their yard. Sacrifice Goldy the Goldfish on a backyard funeral pyre when she went to the great fishbowl in the sky. See Lord of the Rings eleventy times.
I expect you get the idea. :)
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> None of them want to > believe me when I tell them > it's a joke, and they try to tell me that even > joking about this can make me go to hell.
From time to time I write some religious humor. Yesterday, while discussing a piece on-line with some fellow writers, I pointed out that if you count the circuitry for that purpose in the UPS, this computer is connected to the outside world through three levels of surge protection in series, therefore at least any power surges due to lightning should be well-isolated . . .
Cute. :)
Some bloopers show I saw last week ran a clip of a reporter in a field at night taping a weather report. Halfway through, while he was off camera there was a BIG flash and a horrific scream, then static. The weather guy had been struck by lightning. Apparently ok, thankfully, but the phrase 'Pride Goeth Before A Fall' did cross my mind.
Jon
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