It is summer and as long as you have your shoes off, we might as well tickle each others’ feet.

Who cares if I spell "such" and "siuch." Flow with the new word.

What tickles your funny bone?

Have at it.

A merry heart does good like medicine.

<OK you silly bone souls!

It is summer and as long as you have your shoes off, we might as well tickle each others’ feet.

Who cares if I spell "such" and "siuch." Flow with the new word.

What tickles your funny bone?

Have at it.

A merry heart does good like medicine.>

LOL~~Your little post here was enough to tickle my funny bone! That’s why I love this place.

I
especially get a kick out of posts that are meant to be serious, but
come across funny for some reason (maybe a typing or spelling error
that changes the meaning of the sentence). Father Jim did a cute one
once that really cracked me up. I don’t think I’ll remention it unless
he wants me to.

I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing?

Brenda

I can truly see Jesus laughing when I think of the little children gathering around him.

Children
will laugh at little things or nothing at all. Maybe that is why some
people will say: “He is in his second childhood.“ I see the laughing in
the very young and the very old.

Now,
if you are just a middle age person and laugh a lot they might say your
crazy. If you don’t laugh enough the doctor will say you are depressed
and give you a pill. There is no pills for crazy so, that is what I
would choose.

I could always imagine Jesus laughing but not his mother.

An example would be when he was lost and they found Him preaching in the temple.

You just know Mary wasn’t laughing but worried.

Or
when Jesus would put the animals in the barn and leave the barn door
opened. Can’t you just hear Mary saying: “Shut the door!“ “Were you
born in a barn?“

Jesus enjoyed relaxing at dinner time on the floor — adults don’t do that anymore.

He enjoyed having His feet tickled more than worrying about cleaning the house or cooking dinner.

I mean Tom, when you sing “I Got the Joy, Joy, Joy down in my heart…..“ Do you think we aren’t laughing in the Spirit?

Brenda

I have been to a lot of churches and I can truly say the Pentecostal churches laugh the most.

Wonder
which church cries the loudest? Again, I would have to say the
Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the
Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup
all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the
floor and laugh. Lol

The
woman that came to Jesus with the problem of blood must have been a
Pentecostal. I mean those people could have killed her for being out of
the tent in that sickened condition. She just started pushing through
the crowd, crawling around to get to Jesus. She had to be a roller.

Some church people just wait around for that once a year revival to act the way the Pentecostals act in each service. Lol

Wouldn’t
it be great if we just stopped waiting for Sunday (or in some churches
Saturday) until that Spirit of love and laughter visited us? I need at
least a daily visit. VBS

Don’t
people know that when you get to heaven there isn’t going to be any
Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic or any other of them there “Orthodoxy”
religions? There just gona be Christ and them?

Brenda

<<< I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing?

Probably the Russian Orthodox Church.

Richard W.
(I play a pretty good straight man when I want to.)

<I have been to a lot of churches and I can truly say the Pentecostal churches laugh the most. >

Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-)

<Wonder
which church cries the loudest? Again, I would have to say the
Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the
Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup
all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the
floor and laugh. Lol >

Oh, you brat! ;-)

<The
woman that came to Jesus with the problem of blood must have been a
Pentecostal. I mean those people could have killed her for being out of
the tent in that sickened condition. She just started pushing through
the crowd, crawling around to get to Jesus. She had to be a roller. >

Whatever it takes.

<Some
church people just wait around for that once a year revival to act the
way the Pentecostals act in each service. Lol >

I think you hit the nail on the head

<Wouldn’t
it be great if we just stopped waiting for Sunday (or in some churches
Saturday) until that Spirit of love and laughter visited us? I need at
least a daily visit. VBS>

Yes, you did hit the nail on the head. Speaking of VBS, ours is coming right up–gotta get studying.

<Don’t
people know that when you get to heaven there isn’t going to be any
Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic or any other of them there “Orthodoxy”
religions? There just gonna be Christ and them? >

Yes, no matter which style, we’ll be worshipping in spirit and in truth

To All:

Laughter is a gift from God and truly lightens things up and lifts the spirit!

Every Wednesday, straight from morning Mass, a group of about six of us go out for breakfast together at a local restaurant.

I
think the group of us laugh the loudest there! Even the waitresses
enjoy waiting on us and taking part in the fun. We are all senior
citizens and joke about the aging process and all our foibles. We can
be pretty serious about our conversations as well, sharing about our
various ministries and activities, but it is always interjected with
something funny.

I can’t imagine what this world would be like without the gift of humor. Thank you Lord!

Peace,

Dot

Hi, Tom–

I’m
the only one, so far, who voted for the last one. Remember the movie
"Mary Poppins"? When I was a kid, I loved that movie and we had the
soundtrack. I LOVED the song "I Love to Laugh" (along with
"Supercalfragliciousexpealadochous" <spelling?>). There is
(almost) nothing more satisfying to me than having a great big ol’
belly laugh. Two friends, whom I have retained
since we were 12 -13 years of age, both have great senses of humor and
are "performers" — I’m a great audience if someone is actually funny
<s>.

The best times I can remember
with my family are the ones where we laughed so much we almost could
not breathe! We still can get to that point, even now. My dad’s sense
of humor carried us all through his trips to the hospital over the last
decade or so. It really can be a life-saver in tense situations. My
mom and brother are like a comedy team. Sometimes my mom will give an
outragous opinion and I suspect she’s trying to get my brother to
respond to her comment in his absurd and dry way. It reminds me of
another duo on this forum ;-)

I
still can find something so funny that I laugh at myself laughing so
much. I had a recent dream where I was talking to someone in the
dream, cracked up about the conversation and woke myself up by laughing
— that was a first!

Whether it’s
a Christian issue it depends on what someone laughts at, I suppose. I
regret that I’ve laughed at something that was said at the expense
of someone else — it may have been funny, but was not kind and I want to avoid that.

peace,

Cheryl

Who in the world would consider himself ‘humorless’?
Life is way to short to be like that. If I took everything seriously,
I probably wouldn’t be here, now. Thinking back over twenty years of the
USN, I have to really try hard to find something serious. Mostly it was a
blast. So is this forum. Oh, there are moments. Like the boss mis
spelling a word or two.

Harold

<<Who in the world would consider himself ‘humorless’?>>

mmmm, guessing tommy.

<< Mostly it was a blast. So is this forum.>>

Dem bones dem bones dem dryyyyyyyy bones.

<<< mmmm, guessing tommy.

That was … me.

Somebody has to play the straight man part! I figured it was my turn to do that. <g>

Richard W.

>> guessing tommy. <<"

Nah. He is ‘tongue in cheek’ type. I see through his humor.
Someone else?

Harold

> Do tell. <

Clue: Burns and Allen

<<That was … me.>>

That’s a relief. <s>

<<Somebody has to play the straight man part! I figured it was my turn to do that. <g>>>

Cheers! <g>

C >>Clue: Burns and Allen<<

J >Say outrageous things to provoke a response? Moi?!? <

Actually, it’s the other way around — although I don’t think your partner in humor means to provoke a humorous reply from you but that’s what happens most times after she posts.

Btw, where are you Judith? We miss you! <S>

peace,

Cheryl

<<I see through his humor.>>

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

<<Someone else?>>

nope, richard fessed up!

>>nope, richard fessed up!<<

Richard????? Not our Richard W.??? I would have guess you before
him.

Harold.

I think the resoration of an ordinate sense of humor is a mark of the Christian.

One
can sometimes ‘feel’ the health of a church by walking into a social
event and just tuning the ear to the nature of the ‘laughter’. Either
none, a dull dead somber coldness, or a shrill phoney ‘worldly like’
false front heard is often a sign of a spiritual problem in the group.
But a good sense of delight in each other, God, and our world is quite
often a good first indicator of both the orthodoxy and health of a
congragation. Of course cultures and church styles vary, but I find
this is often the case.

C.S. Lewis wrote of this experience when
he quipped that when they were at the pub and having a good old time
laughing and all people would think ‘we were talking bawd’ when in fact
they were delighting in a theological issue!

But a lot of the problem is that the world will use laughter to escape from relaity rather than to engage it. Prov. 29:9.

To
me most of what passes for ‘comedy’ today simply is not at all funny,
it has no sense of the incongruity that makes for real hymor, no sense
of the ironic, it is just one verbal assault after another, one cheap
shot after another. A little kid, or a preacher, coming out once with a
potty mouth word in an utterly unexpected way can be very funny,
repeating them over and over is just crass.

The real help a
sense of humor gives us is when it teaches us never to be serious about
ourselves, for we know full we;; we are going to fall flat on our noses
at times, and you have to laugh or cry then. Today people cry and whine
about themselves too much, and so they can’t have any left over
seriousness for that which should be taken with all seriousness.

the
Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the
Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup
all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the
floor and laugh.

One thing you can probably say about their pews then is "PHEW".

 Stephen

Serious things are the best sources of humor.

I get a good laugh our of it when I catch myself taking myself too seriously.

With what shall we decorate it then?

Stripes?

Jump in here those who you to whom the stereotype applies.

Jesus
had to laugh with the kids because they were most likely tickling his
ribs, pulling his beard, and drooling all over him … AND HE LIKED IT!

When he spoke of the camel going through the eye of the needle, he was using subtle humor to make a point.

I can easily see Jesus laughing … certainly with the tax collectors and sinners … certainly with the disciples.

And the God who made cute animals and cuter babies is a chuckling Sovereign who invites us into His presence of Joy.

SMILES!

That is a good sign!!!!

Now that can really be funniey <s>.

Good disctinction.

>>A little kid, or a preacher, coming out once with a potty mouth
word in an utterly unexpected way can be very funny, repeating
them over and over is just crass.<<

I must disagree with that one. Any kid or preacher of mine would
not ever have a second chance at that. Not in my church. That sort
of language only shows a lot of ignorance on the part of the one
who taught the words. The industry calls it "Adult language."
I disagree with that, too. More like "Gutter language". I don’t
know very many adults that talk like that. Even with twenty years
in the Navy.
Our preacher once was telling a story of someone like that, and
mentioned that the guy cussed like a sailor. I stood up, in
church, and made him retract that. He did.

Harold.

<< I would have guess you before him.>>

Heavens know. I voted for laughter is a celebration of Christ’s life in me.

<<But
a good sense of delight in each other, God, and our world is quite
often a good first indicator of both the orthodoxy and health of a
congragation.>>

Amen! Good post!

>>Heavens know. I voted for laughter is a celebration of
Christ’s life in me.>>

I am glad. I thought over my answer and thought it might sound
a little strong. I surely didn’t mean that you don’t have a
sense of humor. Every one really needs one. God sure does have
that sense of humor. Look around.

Harold.

I think I was actually back quoting someone else and the part I agreed with was that it becomes crass.

– Tom

>>I especially get a kick out of posts that are meant to be serious, but come across funny for some reason <<

<Serious things are the best sources of humor.

I get a good laugh our of it when I catch myself taking myself too seriously.>

Yes. I don’t take myself too seriously that often.

The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it’s happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-?

I do hate these quizzes where none of the answers fits!! <G>

I
think that anyone who can conjure up the vision of a guy with a dirty
great lump of wood sticking out of his eye offering to get a tiny
splinter out of his neighbour’s eye must have a great sense of humour.
So Christ had a sense humour and I think we can assume that the other
two persons did as well. So I imagine that it is perfectly in order for
us to find things funny <whisper>and even have humour occasionally in a sermon to make a point </whisper>

Martin

>>>>I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing?

I’ve
only been in Protestant & Full Gospel churches, and I’ve found the
humor level satisfactory. Some room for improvement though.

Here’s something amusing, interesting that I saw recently in the phone book:

The different classifications of "Baptist"

ABA Baptist
Full Gospel "
General "
Independent "
Missionary "
Reformed "
Southern "

What are they independent of?
What are they reformed of?
Are there "Northern" Baptists?
1/2 Gospel?
1/4 Gospel?
Specific Baptist?

I even found a "Primitive Baptist Church"

??

>
These are also known as Hardshell Baptists. They believe so strongly in
the Presbyterian concept of predestination that they forswear any kind
of missionary activity at all in the belief that if one is not
predestined for salvation, nothing anybody can say or do will bring it
about. If one is predestined for salvation, likewise it will happen
without intervention from anybody else. <

I
wonder what they think of Jesus saying "go and make disciples"? Maybe
they think it means only the people who happen to stumble over the
threshold of their church. It reminds me of something that happened in
our church. We have an official Outreach Mission in our congregation
but it’s hard to convince some of the cradle roll Lutherans.

Our
church doors are usually locked during the week because the office is
not in eye-sight of the sancutary. Those who have a reason to be there
have keys — except on Tuesdays, when there is Bible Study, so the
doors are left unlocked. When we were leaving Bible Study, we met
a weepy woman who seemed confused, needed a ride home and was obviously
drunk or high. One of the women in our study and the Pastor got her
home (she did live nearby). Later in the week we were telling this
story to a group of women in the church in order to pray for her, when
one quipped, "See — we don’t need to do outreach — they’ll come to
us." <S> She was kidding…sort of.

peace,

Cheryl

Just ask me I’ve got a million on them….lol

Southern Baptist under SB Convention (SBC) is a US-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world.

Then you have the Baptist Babble Fellowship, for pastors only. (Falwell, for an example). They are affiliated with the SBC.

Independent Baptist (also referred to Fundamental Baptist,
or IFB) the "iffers" are churches holding to Baptist beliefs but are
characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations
and church councils. Reformed Baptists (½) lol….are the ones that were not certain if they wanted to be Baptists or Calvinists so they declared they are both.

I think they hold fast to the 1644 or 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. They can trace their history through the early modern Particular Baptists of England.

Primitive Baptists (¼) have a historical connection to the missionary/anti missionary dividing Baptists of America in the early part of the 19^th century. They could also be called the “Old Time Baptists”…but I might be mistaken on that one.

Free Will Baptist Church
(or Free Will Baptists) is a group of churches that share a common
history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free
grace, free salvation, and free will, based on the idea of general
atonement but they will pick your pocket for the good of God before you
get out of service.

If
you want to see miracles happen go to any Baptist Church. I went there
one day for prayer. I had terrible leg cramps. They bear hugged me to
the floor and my legs didn’t hurt anymore….until I got up. Lol

I
would really have to say the Baptist churches I have been to are the
most friendly. They hug up on you, fed you and then make you listen.

They
never tell the mamas with those crying babies to leave the service
either cause their pastors are very skillfull in preaching right over
any loud emotions.

Brenda

<<I surely didn’t mean that you don’t have a sense of humor.>>

That’s alright, Harold. It’s understandable.

A
preacher is also a human being, and if we place him, or ourselves,
outside the sphere of common human ineptness and folly we set up an
idol.

The preacher in that sort of case may have retracted what
he said, I would never do that, but some would, but I suspect he also
wished you to go to a place you don’t really believe exists, and
quickly at that.

That is because while a verbal reference to
the sin of cussing may seem out of place in a sermon against it, or in
an illustration fo sin, to some people, I think all really human people
would find interupting any speaker to gripe about it to be arrogant and
uncalled for. [now if the man had started cussing like a saior to
illustrate what he meant, that might be another story].

Anybody
speaking with passion will at some point in time, however ‘spiritual’
they are, most likely say something not quite right, if one has never
ever seen themselves able to do that I suspect their speech is
artificially contrived and edited so much beforehand that it is dead
and flabby and prissy and utterly powerless. Of course we should
striuve not to offend, but heaven help any who are so easily offended
they can’t think us human and laugh at our folly WITH US rather than
stand up as some kind of plastic plaster sueprsaint against the very
expression of life.

Real people slip on real verbal banana
peels at times. for example I misspelled a word in the sentence "God
emptied His bowls of wrath on sin" in this passage, Rev. 16:1ff. [an
extra ‘e’ in the fourth word]. After we all had a good laugh when this
was pointe dout one person quipped, ‘yes, that tells us God was REALLY
mad at sin, doesn’t it?’ . Life is like that at times.

That is true of almost everything he ever tackled in my opinion.

– Tom

>>The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it’s
happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-?>>

It happened to one of our pastors. A friend of mine. He was so
embarrassed. He got tickeled about something before the funeral
started and just could not shake it. He said he tried to make it
look like he was crying. You have to know him to see how that
wouldn’t work.

Harold.

You are, without a doubt, what this discussion is about. I don’t
think I have ever ran accross anyone who can find the least little
bit to twist.

The preacher in question was not the least put out. He laughed
right along with the rest of the congregation. You seem to think
that we all have very thin skins. I think you do. Or is it just
the opposite? Your skin is so thick that you don’t feel a thing?

Harold.

>>The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it’s
happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-?>>

<It happened to one of our pastors. A friend of mine. He was so
embarrassed.
He got tickeled about something before the funeral started and just
could not shake it. He said he tried to make it look like he was
crying. You have to know him to see how that wouldn’t work.>

:-D Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment. Was he doing the service?

>
The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it’s happened to
me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-? <

Reminds
me of the Mary Tyler Moore show where the TV cast and crew attend the
funeral of Chuckles the Clown. Mary just could not stop giggling. She
had it controlled until someone read a tribute to Chuckles which said
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" and
she lost it. <s>

peace,

Cheryl

>
The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it’s happened to
me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-? <

<Reminds
me of the Mary Tyler Moore show where the TV cast and crew attend the
funeral of Chuckles the Clown. Mary just could not stop giggling. She
had it controlled until someone read a tribute to Chuckles which said
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" and
she lost it. <s>>

Omigosh <G>

Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WjJ_Gy1gOOU

>>Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment.
Was he doing the service?>>

Yes. I wish I could remember the details. It had something to do
with something one of the mourners said to him about the deceased.
Somehow, it just broke him up. I know that has happened to you. It
surely has to me. Maybe not at a funeral, but almost as bad.

Harold.

Babble
was suppose to be Bible — but in real life I just don’t understand
Jerry F. sometimes. Nothing against him or his cronies.

Brenda

<<Probably the Russian Orthodox Church.>>

I was reading that Russian Orthodox believers are in communion with all other Eastern Orthodox believers.
So, that’s a start.

Brenda

<<Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-)
>>

That’s true. Are you back on-line now and puter all fixed?

Brenda

<<One thing you can probably say about their pews then is "PHEW".
>>

I
think they could have spent money on other needy things other than the
pews afterall they don’t sit in their seats very much. lol

Brenda

<<certainly with the disciples.>> Yep especially when they went fishing … "look world what we caught."

Brenda

Edward Abbey "The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages– as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already."

There
are several Appalachian Mountain churches that still today use snakes
in their services, encourages laying hands on the sick, speak in
tongues, provide testimony miracles. I mean you can not walk in and
walk out the same way. Lol

They have strict dress code such as
uncut hair, no cosmetics (they would change their mind on that one if
they seen me in the morning).

Short hair and long sleeved shirts
for men. Men only preach. No tobacco or alcohol. Some abstain from
holidays such as birthdays and Christmas because they can’t agree which
day Jesus was born on. I guess some just prefer not to have any Spirit
at their weddings. lol

Brenda

<<Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-)
>>

<That’s true. Are you back on-line now and puter all fixed?>

This
is a rental, but it’s in the house, so it’s easier to be online more
often than when we had to go to the library. We have this for 2 weeks,
then we’ll do some more shopping.

<<We have this for 2 weeks, then we’ll do some more shopping.
>>

Sounds like a good fix in a tempo way.

Brenda

<<We have this for 2 weeks, then we’ll do some more shopping.
>>

<Sounds like a good fix in a tempo way>

Yep, we had to have something for Matt to use to fix up his graphic design for the competition.

Cheryl,

Thanks for the Chuckles video. :-)

>>Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment.
Was he doing the service?>>

<Yes. I wish I could remember the details. It had something to do
with something one of the mourners said to him about the deceased.
Somehow, it just broke him up. I know that has happened to you. It
surely has to me. Maybe not at a funeral, but almost as bad>

Yes, I’ve been there. Once I actually questioned my own sanity, it was that tough to quit laughing. .<s>