Death reigned since adam. From the first sin, death plagues mankind. Sin may be given a softer face from day to day, but not so in death. Looking into the eyes of the kind, the mean, the strong, and the weak alike all suffer from the sin. There has not been a man that has escaped it.
Amazing to consider that one man should condemn his whole family, how Adam our father, should fall, and the weight be poured out generation to generation; what disease is there that rivals the punishment of the lord.
Still, grace was given as a free gift from christ so that everywhere that Sin reigned, grace abounded much more. Death is the punishment awaiting us at the end of a very long road, but grace abounds not only in the end, but in the very pores and fabric in our life. Now only is it our flight to heaven in the end, it is the rescue from the woes and wails of the world. it is our divine purpose and surpassing joy in the present age.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
What is the price of being funny?
Does being humorous have a cost? A mean leader will lose friends, family, love, but gain respect. A people pleaser will gain many friends but lose his personality because of pleasing others. What about a joke teller, a funny man, a stand up comedian? What is his science? My guess is that jokes require one of two things, either you make fun of yourself or you make fun of others. Simple enough. Have you heard the phrase "fun at my expense". Jokes cost something, but what?
Consider the personality morphing funny man, he dons personalities of famous or familiar people. Strange body language, strange word strings, foreign accents. What is the effect? Well, comedian is pointing out consistency and ridiculousness of a celebrity. It has to be both repeated and a little strange. An awkward way of saying "r"s, or the ill-logic of statements or behavior. The problem is that implicitly, the comedian exonerates himself in the process, to tell of someone else's problems is to look at self-flaws very small.
An example would be "your momma is so fat when she sit around the house, she really sits around the house". This is a play on words. The components are, your mother is overweight, and I'm calling it out because I am very different from that. It doesn't mean literally that the comedian isn't over weight, but that he has distanced himself from it.
Much of joke telling relies on having an outside perspective, and perhaps too many jokes will leave one on the fringes, forgetting first what is happening on the inside.
The real difficultly is in men, when jokes are barter. If you can tell more jokes, you gain more respect. Yet often times i find that the Guys that tell the most jokes often are the most blind, and the most distant from other people.
So again, what is the price of being funny?
Consider the personality morphing funny man, he dons personalities of famous or familiar people. Strange body language, strange word strings, foreign accents. What is the effect? Well, comedian is pointing out consistency and ridiculousness of a celebrity. It has to be both repeated and a little strange. An awkward way of saying "r"s, or the ill-logic of statements or behavior. The problem is that implicitly, the comedian exonerates himself in the process, to tell of someone else's problems is to look at self-flaws very small.
An example would be "your momma is so fat when she sit around the house, she really sits around the house". This is a play on words. The components are, your mother is overweight, and I'm calling it out because I am very different from that. It doesn't mean literally that the comedian isn't over weight, but that he has distanced himself from it.
Much of joke telling relies on having an outside perspective, and perhaps too many jokes will leave one on the fringes, forgetting first what is happening on the inside.
The real difficultly is in men, when jokes are barter. If you can tell more jokes, you gain more respect. Yet often times i find that the Guys that tell the most jokes often are the most blind, and the most distant from other people.
So again, what is the price of being funny?
This passage says "let your laughter be turned into mourning". It is a strange transformation. It is also supported in later ecclesiastes.7(M)Submit therefore to God (N)Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8(O)Draw near to God and He will draw near to you (P)Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and (Q)purify your hearts, you (R)double-minded.
9(S)Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
10(T)Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11(U)Do not speak against one another, (V)brethren He who speaks against a brother or (W)judges his brother, speaks against (X)the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not (Y)a doer of the law but a judge of it.
12There is only one (Z)Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is (AA)able to save and to destroy; but (AB)who are you who judge your neighbor?
2It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the (A)end of every man,
And the living (B)takes it to heart.
3(C)Sorrow is better than laughter,
For (D)when a face is sad a heart may be happy.
4The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning,
While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure.
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