The Funny Side of Religion

Galvasean

^^ Should stick that in the competition thread

Sonics2k

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOM_mbaY8jg

vibe666

Sarky

Playing a mmorpg with a joypad?

Jesus should be 10 stone heavier and hunched over a keyboard with a mountain of empty crisp packets and red bull beside him.

Blizzard would probably ban his ass anyway for harassing the other players.

Galvasean

Maybe he's playing Skyrim.

Everybody is playing Skyrim.

Boards is so quiet

robindch

vibe666 wrote: »

you're only an atheist because you haven't read the right book yet

Androgynous Jesus ftw!

vibe666

Galvasean wrote: »

Maybe he's playing Skyrim.

Everybody is playing Skyrim.

Boards is so quiet

was behind some woman buying a copy of it in harvey norman today (was getting a TV wall mount, otherwise i would have stayed home) and she was asking if it was pronounced skee-rim or sky-rim and it occured to me that i have no idea since nobody actually talks to anyone in the real world any more so i've no idea how it's pronounced, despite having been a pretty keen gamer up until fairly recently.

sensibleken

Galvasean wrote: »

Maybe he's playing Skyrim.

Everybody is playing Skyrim.

Boards is so quiet

Im still not quite sure what skyrim is. frankly i dont wanna know.

rainbow kirby

sephir0th

sensibleken wrote: »

Im still not quite sure what skyrim is. frankly i dont wanna know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLWrT7qoZaA

The Mad Hatter

sensibleken wrote: »

Im still not quite sure what skyrim is. frankly i dont wanna know.

It's a computer game. Like Pacman.

robindch

rainbow kirby wrote: »

In North Korea a few years back, I visited the Mausoleum where Kim Jong Il, the current (though dead) president of North Korea rests in state in a largish room. Exiting it, one comes into a very large hall decorated, floor, wall and ceiling, if memory serves, with white marble. In the middle of this, there's a peculiar translucent irregular block of something, perhaps six inches high and a meter or two square.

This, we were solemnly told, is the salt from the tears wept by the women of Pyongyang upon hearing of the death of the Great Leader.

I'm inclined to think that all religious people should visit the DPRK in order to see how a religion is done properly.

zico10

Would you look who it is!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079224/Face-Jesus-sock-Image-Jesus-Christ-miraculously-appears-amid-laundry.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The Mad Hatter

robindch wrote: »

In North Korea a few years back, I visited the Mausoleum where Kim Jong Il, the current (though dead) president of North Korea rests in state in a largish room. Exiting it, one comes into a very large hall decorated, floor, wall and ceiling, if memory serves, with white marble. In the middle of this, there's a peculiar translucent irregular block of something, perhaps six inches high and a meter or two square.

This, we were solemnly told, is the salt from the tears wept by the women of Pyongyang upon hearing of the death of the Great Leader.

I'm inclined to think that all religious people should visit the DPRK in order to see how a religion is done properly.

Cool, but the president of North Korea is Kim Il Sung, no?

robindch

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Cool, but the president of North Korea is Kim Il Sung, no?

Oops That's what happens when I'm posting here while drawing with a five-year old

The guy in the Mausoleum Kim Il-sung and he's the Eternal President of the DPRK and will remain so until the constitution is changed or the country collapses, whichever happens first. On KIS's death, his son, Kim Jong-il, was made Supreme Leader and commander of the nation's military, the positions his alleged son, Kim Jong-un, now occupies.

MagicMarker

robindch wrote: »

In North Korea a few years back, I visited the Mausoleum where Kim Jong Il, the current (though dead) president of North Korea rests in state in a largish room. Exiting it, one comes into a very large hall decorated, floor, wall and ceiling, if memory serves, with white marble. In the middle of this, there's a peculiar translucent irregular block of something, perhaps six inches high and a meter or two square.

This, we were solemnly told, is the salt from the tears wept by the women of Pyongyang upon hearing of the death of the Great Leader.

I'm inclined to think that all religious people should visit the DPRK in order to see how a religion is done properly.

What brought you to North Korea? They don't just hand out tourist visas do they?

robindch

MagicMarker wrote: »

What brought you to North Korea?

Insatiable curiosity, an interest in totalitarian societies, the unmissable Mass Games, a stuffed crocodile drinks tray from Nicaragua, the threat of nuclear armageddon, the Yanggakdo Hotel (hey, my photo and glib edits are still there!) and Taedong Beer (we drank the Yanggakdo dry one evening ). And a rickety Ilyushin Il-62.

MagicMarker wrote: »

They don't just hand out tourist visas do they?

Yes, they do, through several "registered" tour agencies in Peking. I went with Koryo Tours and would trust them to be able to organize a day trip to the moons of Jupiter. Our tour guide, an English guy named Simon, is almost certainly the smartest human I've met.

Here's a picture of the Mausoleum from my trip there. Incidentally, you get to the President's room via, I estimated, around one and a half kilometers of slowly-moving, horizontal escalator. In the other direction, comes an endless stream of identically-clad women (black and white trad dresses) and men (all army wear). They seemed to enjoy being waved at amiably.

Galvasean

robindch wrote: »

an interest in totalitarian societies

AHA!!!! :pac:

el oh el

Priests have been fighting in Bethlehem inside the church of the nativity (video is at the bottom of the page, was too lazy to look for it on the guardian page)
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/12/28/video-priesters-op-de-vuist-in-geboortekerk-in-bethlehem/

amacachi

I assume it was you who posted about it somewhere before robindch, would love to go, think I'll leave it a few months before making enquiries though. :pac:

Dades

zico10 wrote: »

Would you look who it is!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079224/Face-Jesus-sock-Image-Jesus-Christ-miraculously-appears-amid-laundry.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Jesus my ass - it's feckin VOLDEMORT!

Galvasean

I see the Big Boss man myself..

ShooterSF

Galvasean wrote: »

I see the Big Boss man myself..

Thanks. Now I have his theme music stuck in my head. Bad enough I can't pass a guard without thinking of it!

Coriolanus

sensibleken wrote: »

Im still not quite sure what skyrim is. frankly i dont wanna know.

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

It's a computer game. Like Pacman.

But with an amusing amount of religious intolerance thrown into the mix. They really went all out with the realism this time round. :pac:

robindch

el oh el wrote: »

Priests have been fighting in Bethlehem inside the church of the nativity [...]

Happens most years, when the orthodox, armenians, greeks, catholics etc have a right holy dust-up.

BTW, two fun facts: the keys to the church have been jointly held by two muslim families since the 12th century, since christians can't trust each other.

But the best story about the church is one about the ladder which was put up in the 1850's to do some work on a window, but the christians couldn't agree on the terms and conditions related to how to to take the ladder back down again. So the ladder's been stuck in position for the last 150-odd years.

It's all got to do with being holy and good.

robindch

amacachi wrote: »

I assume it was you who posted about it somewhere before robindch, would love to go, think I'll leave it a few months before making enquiries though

PM me if you're interested in going; it really is worth the trip, in the most bizarre sense possible.

BTW, here's the IT today on visiting Kim's Mausoleum:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/1229/1224309591622.html

MagicMarker

robindch wrote: »

PM me if you're interested in going; it really is worth the trip, in the most bizarre sense possible.

BTW, here's the IT today on visiting Kim's Mausoleum:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/1229/1224309591622.html

It sounds like the movie Equilibrium, except without the cool Ninja Clerics.

I'd love to go, especially that hotel which looks like the most depressing place on Earth.

bnt

Saw this in a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon's mother (an evangelical Baptist) is visiting, so his friends take her on a tour of Hollywood ... and she wants to see Hollywood churches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzo6eDPipLw

(Sheldon is not in this scene, but he is an atheist and can be quite blunt about his mother's beliefs - sometimes so blunt that I'm surprised that it's not cut out of the show to avoid offending believers. I think the show gets away with it because he has Asperger's Syndrome and is blunt about everyone and everything.)

recedite

MagicMarker wrote: »

What brought you to North Korea? They don't just hand out tourist visas do they?

Didn't you hear about the 4 great Atheist pilgrimages?
Pyongyang, Moscow, Beijing, and Hitler's bunker in Berlin.