This one deserved a thread of its own

[nostatic]

no, just confusing. who's on first?

[stevepaa]

Siddhartha Gautama, then comes in to say "JC, I've come to bring you home."

[nostatic]

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free

Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes, but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me

Today I dont need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart was going boom boom boom
Hey, I said, you can keep my things, they've come to take me home.

[oldE]

This reminds me of the old one which comes from the other direction, (sure to have been recycled after New Orleans):

The flood waters found a gentleman of great faith on his rooftop escaping the elevated waters rushing around his home. Seeing he had no hope of swimming to safety, he declared he would put his faith in the Lord.
Shortly after his decision, a neighbor who had managed to get a canoe launched offered the gentleman a ride to high ground. "No thank you." came the reply, "I know the Lord will save me."
Later that day, searchers in a small boat called to him they could pick him up on their next trip through. Again, he advised them he was in the Lord's hands. When the helicopter hovered over him, a few hours later, he stuck by his decision and refused their aid.
Not long after, the house collapsed into the flood. As he was swept away to his death, the gentleman cried out, "Lord, I don't understand. I put all my faith in you, but you let me down!"
Came the reply, "Let you down? I sent a canoe, a boat and even a helicopter, but you refused to be saved!"

Les

[sammyg2]

The way I see it (and you can see it differently if you want to, just don't insist I'm wrong and you're right) God's book (the bible) tells us that God loves and looks out for all who believe in him, accept him as God, and accept his only son (Jesus) and their savior.
If the soldiers did that, then God was looking out for them. If someone was trying to take advantage of their position as a so-called intellectual professor to try and convince his students to believe as he does that God does not exist, then he was asking for it. God does not punish non-believers, he just doesn't protect them the from evil that surrounds us.

We have freedom of speach and freedom of religion. We have those things because soldiers have fought and died for them. We also have fanatical left wing liberals who enjoy and abuse those freedoms without ever aknowledging the enourmous sactifices that were made so they could have those freedoms. They are hypocrits, condeming all those who gave so much to allow them freedoms which they take for granted.

You can think what you want, you can believe what you want, but you shouldn't try to force your beliefs on others. That is what he was doing.

I've had many professors over the past 25 years. Many of them were pompous, self absorbed morons who thought they knew more than everyone else in spite of the fact that they had never experienced life outside of acedemia. They read books by other professors which were mostly full of opinion presented as fact. They regurgitated those opinions with slight changes and declaired them as truth and original thought.

This was a good joke. It was funny.

The hypothetical professor in this joke crossed the line, basically challenging and ridiculing those who believe in God. The classroom was not the place for that. Reading that he got punched out was ironic justice and that made it funny.