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No flaming please, I mean this to be a fun thread.

So, do you believe your god has a sense of humor?
Why?
What kind of sense of humor?


Seriously, if this drops into some sort of flame-fest, then I'll probably be the first to complain to the mods. So keep it nice.

DisclaimerAnd I'm a polytheist, so the wording is entirely relevant to my beilefs. It's not ment to assume that one religion is better then another, I just believe in many gods/goddesses, and figured this would be the easiest way of putting it with the least ammount of offence.

"Poll - Do you think your god has a sense of humor?"

When he allows a servant like me??? You're kidding, right??

Would it be possible for a God to have a sense of humor?

You're kidding right?


I think some of mankind can't see the joke, because they don't realize they are the joke.

Would it be possible for a God to have a sense of humor?


Sure!

And no, I'm not kidding, I'm serious.
I don't just mean jokes about us being the joke, I mean a sense of humor in general.

For instance, I ake fun of my gods (No, really, I do). But I believe they have a sense of humor (Or at least the ones powerful enough to protect me from the jerk ones do), that I can, and do get away with it.

either a sence of humor or a sick pleasure in waching me squirm..

Guilt is like a bag of fucking bricks. All you gotta is set it down... Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway? God? Is that it? God? Well I tell you. Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift and then what does he do? I swear, for his own amusement, his own private cosmic gag reel he sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch but don't taste. Taste but don't swallow. And while you're jumping on one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughing his sick fucking ass off. He's a tightass. He's a sadist. He's an absentee-landlord! Worship that? Never!
If there is a god, I think this sums it up nicely :p

Yes I do... :D

if a nonexistent mythical being can have a sense of humour...

Well as best I can figure it the Divine must have a sense of humour, although tha may only be my own lack of understanding of the nature of the Divine. Tough for us hard agnostics to comment on this, but it certainly looks like a sense of humour to me.

if a nonexistent mythical being can have a sense of humour...


No flaming please, I mean this to be a fun thread.

Seriously, please don't start dragging this down.

Of course God has a sense of humour.... have you SEEN the platypus?

Yes, just look at the platypus :p

Of course God has a sense of humour.... have you SEEN the platypus?
Beat me to it....

Seriously, please don't start dragging this down.
im not...that was my answer

my concept of god is that its some mythical being that you can comfort yourself with...not necessarily a real being...like a comfort blanket, but for the mind

God is a comedian playing to an audience to afraid to laugh - Voltaire


As far as I know, there isn't a god...

If he doesn't, then the joke's gonna be on me!

(But if he doesn't, how come he's playing a joke on me? But if he does, then there's no joke, so he doesn't after all. I tell ya, that burrito's too hot to eat.)

Any adherents to Christianity, Judaism, Islam or associated offshoots would have to accept that god has something that might be construed as a sense of humor. After all, I think a fundamental principle in all of those religions is that people are created in god's image (at least that's pretty central to Judaism, I may be wrong about the others). I take that to mean that all good qualities that we possess are posses in their perfect from by god. So god has a perfect sense of humore. He's also the ultimate music and art expert. And if you have a question about Shakespeare, he's the guy to ask.

No, I'm not being serious.

Of course he/she does. He/she created us. Nuff said.

Would it be possible for a God to have a sense of humor?

well, look at the norse god loki. very big sense of humour.

My god IS the Sense of Humour.

Well, more akin to something like Eric Idle's "The Road to Mars".

Levity.

Well, given that Jesus* made jokes in the Bible (do you really think that he was being serious when he described people as having logs in their eyes? It was making a serious point, but he was still making a joke), and Paul's letters contain jokes (he played with words in Philemon), I'd say yes.

And, yes, the platypus point.

*My God is the Christian one

Any god who could create me has to have a sense of humor....

well, look at the norse god loki. very big sense of humour.

I was referring to a monotheistic all-powerful God. Since most humor is based in absurdity and irony, I don't know if God would understand it.

Yes, the Christian God gave us some pretty funny laws in Leviticus...

We shall not cut the hair on the sides of our heads

We shall not trim the edges of our beards

We shall not wear clothing of two different fabrics

...Come on don't tell me he wasn't just messing with us! :p

Yes, just look at the platypus :p
LOL! Have you ever heard the song "What if God Smoked Cannibus?" It implies that God was baked when he made the platypus.

*Sings*
What if God smoked cannibus?
Hit the bong like some of us
Drove a tye-dye micro bus
And he subscribes to Rolling Stones!*

I'll tell you a story.

One day, while I and a friend where driving around our home town of Plantation Florida, we saw a slightly obese kid most likley around 14 walking down the street. What we did was bend down so he couldent see us, drive up real slow right behind him, and then honk the horn abruptly and scare the shit out of him.

We did.

He jumped, spun, and hit the ground as if a gun had just fired.

Afterwards, my friend said to me, "we are definately going to hell."

I said, "naw...God is sitting there laughing his big holy ass off right now."

I was referring to a monotheistic all-powerful God. Since most humor is based in absurdity and irony, I don't know if God would understand it.
Heh. You want absurdity and irony, look no further than our little blue marble.

I'll tell you a story.

One day, while I and a friend where driving around our home town of Plantation Florida, we saw a slightly obese kid most likley around 14 walking down the street. What we did was bend down so he couldent see us, drive up real slow right behind him, and then honk the horn abruptly and scare the shit out of him.

We did.

He jumped, spun, and hit the ground as if a gun had just fired.

Afterwards, my friend said to me, "we are definately going to hell."

I said, "naw...God is sitting there laughing his big holy ass off right now."


Almost as funny when my girlfreind and I were in Plantation, a theatre I forgot the name of, to go see Freddy Vs. Jason, and some parents brought their spoiled, fat, 10-year old son. We just laughed the whole way though the movie, partly because it was funny, partly because the poor kid started the movie whining and demanding things of his parents, acting tough, and then after the killing started he cried his little eyes out.

I'm cruel, I know.

I practice Asatru, which places Loki as the god of fire, mischief, and evil.

Interpreting the administration of George W. Bush as Loki's meddling I went to light a candle in prayer for his defeat. Every lighter in the house stopped working and not a single match would catch fire. I posted a humorous account of this story a few days ago, but it really felt like Loki was saying "request denied." After I gave up on the candle, all the lighters started working again, but I knew I had my answer.

So I tell people, I believe in my gods because my prayers are always answered. Sometimes the answer is 'no' but it's still an answer.

Can you look at the platypus and doubt that there is a sense of humor at work there?

http://www.genevaschools.org/austinbg/class/gray/platypus/adult1.gif

God must have a sense of humour, because if he doesn't, then we have something which he doesn't, and so he cannot be all powerful. Indeed, God must have the perfect sense of humour. Good person to be at a party with, methinks.

Can you look at the platypus and doubt that there is a sense of humor at work there?

Hey, they're eminently suited to their environment. Everyone stop picking on the platypus.

We have a sense of humor so God has a sense of humor. Hey, that works if you are a believer or not!

of corce he does cuz im my god and im funny

http://www.dcwit.com/images/show%20files/obey.jpg

Hey, they're eminently suited to their environment. Everyone stop picking on the platypus.
And their environment is HUMOROUS

Hey, they're eminently suited to their environment. Everyone stop picking on the platypus.


http://www.dongettyphoto.com/kenya/reticulatedgiraffe.html

Ok, ok, check this out: the giraffe.

http://www.dongettyphoto.com/kenya/reticulatedgiraffe.html

Ok, ok, check this out: the giraffe.


What about the Dodo Bird (http://berlinbear.com/folkmanis.gifs/dodobird.jpg)?

What about the Dodo Bird (http://berlinbear.com/folkmanis.gifs/dodobird.jpg)?


God realized it was just TOO silly and allowed us to edit it out of creation. ;)

It is the idea of a God or gods that I think is funny. :p

giraffes 4TW !!! shift + 1 11
http://www.dongettyphoto.com/kenya/reticulatedgiraffe.html

God realized it was just TOO silly and allowed us to edit it out of creation. ;)


So... god(s) is/are a moderator?
I'll have to remember this.

So... god(s) is/are a moderator?
I'll have to remember this.

So the real question is "do moderators have a sense of humour?"

So the real question is "do moderators have a sense of humour?"

At least a few of them do. Either that, or Cog's just trying to throw us off.

Of course God has a sense of humour.... have you SEEN the platypus?
:D