Orthodox Humor
This section has Christian jokes and humor, and the lighter side of Orthodoxy. If you are looking for a place to start, I suggest Archdruid of Canterbury Visits Orthodox Patriarch. But free to check out the Orthodox books section too.
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1054 and All That (short)
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The confused person's guide to being even more confused about F Orthodoxy.
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If you don't know what this refers to, do a Google search for "Archbishop of Canterbury becoming a Druid." The issue is more complex than it looks, but not that much more complex.
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They're at it. (Again.)
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You may have heard of the Evangelicals who studied hard, tried to re-create the Early Christian Church, and rediscovered the Orthodox Church. Here's an update.
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Pope Makes Historic Ecumenical Bid to Woo Eastern Rite Catholics (short)
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Hot off the trail of the Pope's offer to Anglicans comes a new historic bid, this time aimed at Eastern Rite Catholics(!).
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The most convenient way to become an Orthodox bishop.
Satire
Satire. If you're looking for a place to start, I suggest Religion within the Bounds of Amusement. You might also like Orthodox Humor.
Funny how those who speak of "crank magnetism" have a magnetism to a standard model they are magnetically stuck to. (And no, I'm not interested in Individual Sovereignty, Wh*te N*t**n*l*sm, or a moon landing hoax when the U.S.S.R. had every vested interest and competency to debunk any U.S. / NASA forgery.)
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Hayward's unabridged dictionary: a free online (satire) dictionary (long)
Ambrose Bierce wrote a classic of wit and satire, called The Devil's Dictionary. This book follows in that tradition, and comments on any number of things in American life.
Hysterical Fiction: A Medievalist Jibe about Disney Princess Videos
In historical fiction, there are almost always people whose psyches are like our contemporaries: postmoderns in armor or whatever the historically accurate garb of the day was. Here is, ostensibly, such a work by an ancient author writing "historical" fiction set in our day.
There is a considerable buzz among New Testament scholars among the discovery of a nearly complete manuscript to the book of the Bible called Romans.
Inspired by a visit to a "seeker service." To those unacquainted with Christian lingo, this means a church service which tries to reach out to people seeking God—but "reach out to people seeking God" really means, "put on a circus."
A strange archaeological find (medium)
Read a 26th century historian as he extols the poetic beauty of a light bulb, praises Darwinism as a truly great myth... and analyzes a rather strange archaeological find.
A leading nutriceutical supplement MLM announces a line of Kool-Aid for its distributors, containing some of the most powerful plant toxins available to "humankind."
Eight-Year-Old Boy Diagnosed With Machiavellian Syndrome By Proxy (MSBP)
Various Kinds of Humor
A handful of humorous items. If you're looking for a place to start, I suggest Procedures for the Adjustment and Repair of Televisions.
- Automated Windows Tech Support (short)
- I have here a personally developed automated Windows technical support system, available free of charge.
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A Fully Functional Windows 95 Emulator That Runs Right in Your Browser (short)
- Plans are underway for a fully functional Windows 7 emulator, but unfortunately are running into difficulties with IE6 compatibility.
Worth a brief look.
- Microsoft Offers Better "Truth in Advertising" for Windows XP Dialog Box
- Microsoft has released a clarified wording for one of the most important—and most annoying—dialog boxes in the Microsoft Windows XP Operating System.
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Procedures for the Adjustment and Repair of Televisions (short)
- A number of methods may be used for dealing with televisions; here's the one I think is best.
- The Quintessential Web Page (short)
- What is the Web? It's a tough question to answer, perhaps because it's so hard to define a typical web page. If you click on this link, however, you'll be taken to about as quintessential of a web page as I believe exists.
- Remember those TV commercials a few days back, where warm sunlit scenes were followed by a warm voice saying, "Florida Orange Juice. Because it makes you feel so good?" Here's an update.