Swimmingly well, just swimmingly!
Tonight I had a very fruitful discussion with my good friends on Biblical mish mash. Not to say that the discussion was fruitful in any intellectual, philospohical, or even theological way, no no. Quite the opposite. In those respects we kind of were all beating our heads against walls. With the exception of Brandon we were all beating our heads against the age-old arguments over the Bible's flaws and contradictions. Brandon was beating his head against the wall that was the rest of us.
The fruitful part came out of many funny situations that were relayed during this conversation. We're all very smart guys, and we're all very funny guys, so any intellectual discussion between us will tend to breakdown into silly situational humor. This time was no exception.
First we got onto to Jesus, and i mentioned he had a sibling named James who was important in the continuing of Christian teachings after Jesus's death. That lead to conversations of Jesus constantly out-shining him when they were kids, and making him feel inferior. Seriously, how do you compete with the son of god?
Then we moved on to the Druids and how the Romans might or might not have objected to human sacrifice seeing as how they had reveled in it themselves until only just before discovering the Druids in the lands known today as the U.K. This provoked jokes about rehearsal sacrifices, and what not.
Then somehow we got into vikings. I think that one was David, but damn if it wasn't comedy gold.
I have a veritable treasure trove of material for this animation website. I've always said that the best jokes are right under our noses in history books. Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill is proof of that. History based comedy. I mean, it's all public domain, isn't it? you can't copyright actual events. :) It's free material and virtually inexhaustable seeing as how the world keeps on turning in a mundanely predictable fashion.
Sweet.
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