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Tag Archives: humor
If You’re Religious, Do You Put Your Soul At Hazard By Watching Comedy Central?
Below are four pretty good reasons for thinking humor is dangerous to religious belief: Humor is dangerous to any confident expression of metaphysics, for it lampoons pretense. It deflates and complicates; it speaks on behalf of the sorts of contending truths … Continue reading
Saturday Night Live: Is This A Representation Of The Prophet Muhammad–Or Not?
After Charlie Hebdo and Pamela Geller, Prophet Muhammad drawing is amusingly dealt with below by Saturday Night Live. In a picture drawing game, what could a blank canvas be inferred to be–but the Prophet Muhammad himself? So was the Prophet … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, humor, Islam, Mohammad, religion, saturday night live
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Practicing Angry
Hmm.
Harvard Med Students on What the Spleen Does
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Tagged comedy, Harvard, health, humor, medicine, music, spleen
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We’ve Entered the Atheist Holiday Season
___________ Magician and atheist James Randi magically levitates a holiday bird with occult powers given to him by Satan. Via James Randi at Facebook.
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Tagged art, atheism, Christmas, comedy, funny, happy holidays, humor, James Randi, mash up, Norman Rockwell
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Fossilized Republican Found in Georgia?
Responding to the discovery in the Republic of Georgia of a 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus skull (possessing about one-third the volume of the average human skull), a wag from Seattle under the moniker of “1west,” commenting this morning in the thread … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, comedy, evolution, humor, Politics, Republicans, science
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Crowd Effects
The below video gives fresh meaning to Karl Marx’s amusing phrase, “the idiocy of rural life.”
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Tagged bandwagon appeals, comedy, critical thinking, democracy, herds, humor, life, marx, Politics
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Hot Potato
The dookie left the doggie; the doggie left the dookie. For me.
Stephen Colbert Dances
He’s “up all night to get lucky.”
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Tagged comedy, dance, funny, get lucky, humor, music, stephen colbert
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A Great Gift Idea
Sort of. Maybe for campers.
Celebrating Beardage
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Tagged beards, comedy, freedom, happiness, humor, joy, life, music
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Louis Black on Texas v. Illinois, California, and New York
A nice volley in the American culture wars.
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Tagged America, California, comedy, culture wars, humor, illinois, Louis Black, new york, texas
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The Diligent Shall Rule
Or at least annoy. Focus and never give up.
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Tagged comedy, humor, life, music, Nietzsche, struggle, war, will
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The Ultimate Revenge Fantasy Movie
One of the ironies here is that this is exactly how a lot of Christian fundamentalists imagine Jesus actually returning (a lamb the first time, a lion the second). Another irony is that one could never even make such a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christopher Hitchens, comedy, Djesus, End Times, funny, humor, Jesus, Nietzsche, second coming
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The Next Financial Cliff
Troubling. Disconcerting.
