Did Jesus or any holy figure ever joke around?

[amorphous_constellation]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

 

[Geoff-Allen]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

Curious timing indeed!

I was half planning - at 4 am and sleep-deprived a thread about humour & God ...

Great minds think alike.

There is no room for laughter in religion - life is deadly serious - if you believe the wrong things you may burn forever and that's not a pleasant prospect!

Only kidding - I firmly believe there is no Hell or eternal damnation but I could always be wrong - I never claimed to be inflammable!

Plenty of people believe ina loving God but how many believe in a laughing God?

I think that unless God has a fabulous sense of humour most of us are in deep trouble!

 

[amorphous_constellation]

I was half planning - at 4 am and sleep-deprived a thread about humour & God ...

do that

Only kidding - I firmly believe there is no Hell or eternal damnation but I could always be wrong - I never claimed to be inflammable!

very funny. But god and the spirit world are not laughing.

I think that unless God has a fabulous sense of humour most of us are in deep trouble!

I think there's probably some psychological reason that humans probably project out anti-humor type deities. I think the primate inclination is to find truth in seriousness. You probably don't stare into the stern face of a dominant male chimpanzee or gorilla for example, but that is where the authority is.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Curious timing indeed!

I was half planning - at 4 am and sleep-deprived a thread about humour & God ...

Great minds think alike.

There is no room for laughter in religion - life is deadly serious - if you believe the wrong things you may burn forever and that's not a pleasant prospect!

Only kidding - I firmly believe there is no Hell or eternal damnation but I could always be wrong - I never claimed to be inflammable!

Plenty of people believe ina loving God but how many believe in a laughing God?

I think that unless God has a fabulous sense of humour most of us are in deep trouble!

Didn't Christianity's God afflict people with hemorrhoids at one time? I thought that was pretty funny.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Didn't Christianity's God afflict people with hemorrhoids at one time? I thought that was pretty funny.

Everything is funny - as long as it is happening to someone else!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Everything is funny - as long as it is happening to someone else!

Yea. Pretty much.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Yea. Pretty much.

The ultimate enlightenment is to be able to laugh at your self. It is my major challenge

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I find humor/irony in the Tower of Babel story, what God did.

 

[Valjean]

I heard Jesus could rattle off some side splitting Samaritan jokes.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Walking on water sounds pretty fun too.

 

[Nakosis]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

If you’re not laughing out loud when you read some parts of the Bible, you’re missing the point. I’m not denying the serious impact of the Scriptures, but some stories and sayings are just funny. This is especially true in the teachings of Jesus, who was not only a brilliant teacher, but also a pretty good comedian.
Did Jesus Tell Jokes?

 

[Spirit of Light]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

The spiritual holy people like Jesus, Buddha, and so on were mostly silent if they did not teach their wisdom to a person or a group of people. In my understanding, they spoke not much about other than spiritual topics, because that is why they come to earth, they were and still are teachers of a path to freedom for us human beings.

They might have had some form of humor, but not the kind that made others uncomfortable and no jokes about silly topics.
My understanding is that spiritual teachers take life very serious because if they begin to become immoral they will have failed their "mission on earth" and become just regular human beings too.

 

[Howard Is]

Walking on water sounds pretty fun too.

Turning it into wine was his best prank

 

[firedragon]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

We dont know truly.

But one must say there are many reports that the prophet Muhammed was making jokes with his friends. But those are stories. Could be folklore made out of over admiration.

Anyway there is no way to know for sure.

 

[Ellen Brown]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

We laugh when our brain sees a paradox. It is likely that he did. Humans are a joke.

 

[Howard Is]

did your holy figures ever do much joking?

This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together.

 

[Heyo]

Maybe they all joked around. But the jokes didn't make it into the scripture. Wise people make witty remarks in casual conversation but when they write about a serious subject, they are dead serious.

 

[Howard Is]

Maybe they all joked around. But the jokes didn't make it into the scripture. Wise people make witty remarks in casual conversation but when they write about a serious subject, they are dead serious.

That’s why I like Sufism.
Mulla Nasrudin.

Nasrudin was standing near a river. A man on the other side shouted to him, "Hey! How can I get across the river?"

"You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.

 

[JJ50]

kind of reading about this whole "idle speech" idea, which could probably be its own thread, but judging by some biblical passages I'm kind of doubting that joking or much laughter was ever allowed. This to me seems almost completely implausible when envisioning the new testament scenario of a dozen or so men continually camping and living together. However, there are plenty of passages speaking against chattering, babbling, joking and gossip. Jesus says you will have to give an account of all the words you say. So with that it mind, one wonders if all of these men were often almost completely silent, and as stone serious possible.

And to those who follow things outside of the bible, did your holy figures ever do much joking?

We have no idea what the real Jesus was really like, just the gospel writers creation, which was more than likely at odds with the person he actually was.

Some of the people I remember from my childhood who were oh so holy on a Sunday, certainly couldn't be classified as such the way they led their day to day lives. They liked a laugh and a joke like anyone else. One church elder was laughing when he told me as a teenager what he would like to do with my very attractive mother in his hay loft! The married pastor was smiling when he touched my upper thigh inappropriately when I was 14 telling me how beautiful he thought my mother was!

 

[Audie]

If you’re not laughing out loud when you read some parts of the Bible, you’re missing the point. I’m not denying the serious impact of the Scriptures, but some stories and sayings are just funny. This is especially true in the teachings of Jesus, who was not only a brilliant teacher, but also a pretty good comedian.
Did Jesus Tell Jokes?

What did he teach that was so "brilliant"?
For a son-o-god, he seems kind of derivative,
and not half the orator of, say, Churchill or Mark
Twain.