Religious Humour

Religious Humour: Spiritual Jokes - Jesus was...

Recently, at a theological meeting in Rome, scholars had a heated debate on the subject of the ethnicity and nationality of Jesus. One by one they offered their evidence:

Religious Humour: Encyclopedia II - Euphemism - Etymology The word euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemos, meaning "auspicious/good/fortunate speech" which in turn is derived from the Greek root-words eu (ευ), "good/well" + pheme (φήμη) "speech/speaking". The eupheme was originally a word or phrase used in place of a religious word or phrase that should not be spoken aloud (see taboo). The primary example of taboo words requiring the use of a euphemism are the unspeakable names for a deity, such as Persephone, Hecate, Nemesis or Yahweh. By speaking only words favorable to the gods or spirits, the speaker attempted to procure good fortun ...

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Judaism - Introduction

Judaism - Jewish denominations

Judaism - Jewish prayer and practice

Judaism - Community leadership

Judaism - Jewish religious history

Judaism - Judaism and other religions

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Melancholia

Melancholia (Greek μελαγχολια) was described as a distinct disease as early as the fifth and fourth centuries BC in the Hippocratic writings. It was characterized by "aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness," as well as the statement that "Grief and fear, when lingering, provoke melancholia". It is now generally believed that melancholia was the same phe ...

Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Chastushka

Chastushka (часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme. Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment. The rigid, short structure (and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor used) parallels limericks in British culture. The name originates from the Rus ...

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Chastushka - Examples

Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Feeling

Feelings are most generally INFORMATION that biological beings are capable of sensing in the situations they are in, exposed to or depending on. For example fear is information that there is risk, threat or direct danger to the own being or related concerns. This information is not necessarily resulting in the same reaction among receivers but varies depending on competence to handle the situation, depending on how it relates to past experiences and other factors. see http://www.feelingdictionary.com Harvard professor Abraham Maslow pointed ...

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Feeling - Translations

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - United Kingdom Underground

The United Kingdom Underground was a countercultural movement in the United Kingdom linked to the underground culture in the United States but having a number of key figures of its own and its own unique characteristics. Its primary focus was around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill in London. United Kingdom Underground - Background. The desire to change the status quo was a key feature of the whole Underground Movement both in the UK and America; flamboyant clothing was a somewhat more superficial. For a "tr ...

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Christ

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Christ ...

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Belief

Belief in the psychological sense, is a representational mental state that takes the form of a propositional attitude. In the religious sense, "belief" refers to a part of a wider spiritual or moral foundation, generally called faith; historically generated by a group's need to provide a functionally valid foundation to sustain them. The generally accepted faiths usually note that when oppressive states are generated by it being exercised, and not a fact of reality, it was ...

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Brianism

Brianism describes itself as "a religion-substitute" based on the writings and sayings of Brian the Cyber-prophet, as set down in the Book of Brian. It appeared in the 1990s as an outgrowth of the skeptic movement. Followers of Brianism are termed Brianists and the symbol of Brianism is the circle with a point at its centre, which Brianists term the Circumpunct. Brianism - Goals principles and practices. It aims to provide the positive aspects of organized religion without the "mumbo-jumbo or irrationality" ...

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - The Golden Ass

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus) by Augustine, is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. Lucius wrote it in the second century CE, adapting the story from a Greek original, possibly by Lucius of Patrae. The Greek text has been lost, but there is Λουκιος η Ονος (Lucios or the Ass), a similar tale that is possibly an abridgement of Lucius of Patrae's text, writte ...

Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Culture of Quebec

As a North American society and the only society on the continent with a French-speaking majority, the culture of the province of Quebec, Canada shows many unique features. On the whole, this culture differs from that of the well over 300 million English-speaking citizens of Canada and the United States who surround it, as well as from that of France. For historical and linguistic reasons, Quebec also has cultural links with other North American French speaking communities, particularly with the Acadians of New Brunswick and to a lesser extent with the French Canadian communities of northern Ontario a ...

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Culture of Quebec - Creative Arts

Culture of Quebec - Lifestyle

Religious Humour: Encyclopedia - Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 - 1 December 1947) was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug user (especially heroin). Aleister Crowley - Biography. Edward Alexander Crowley was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, between 11:00pm and 12 midnight on 12 October 1875. His father, Edward Crowley, once maintained a lucrative family brewery business and was retired at the time of Aleister's birth. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew ...

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Religious Humour: Encyclopedia II - Euphemism - Euphemisms for death

The English language contains numerous euphemisms related to dying, death, burial, and the people and places which deal with death. The practice of using euphemisms for death is likely to have originated with the "magical" belief that to speak the word 'death' was to invite death (where to "draw Death's attention" is the ultimate bad-fortune -- a common theory holds that death is a taboo subject in most English-speaking cultures for precisely this reason). It may be said that one is not dying, but fading quickly because the end is ...

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