Friday, January 05, 2007

How Many Roads Must a Man Travel Down Before.....

"How many leaders of the Jesus Seminar does it take to change a light bulb?
Well, at first they thought maybe they could do it, but when they looked at the bulb they decided somehow that it really wasn't the bulb in question and put it down, and for quite some time now, they have been in the kitchen trying to 'unscrew' an onion - and there's not much of it left either...

How many Form critics does it take to change a light bulb?
They just decide that it could not be an authentic request since it came from the new apartment 10A and there is no prior incidences of this at all. They conclude that someone must have "borrowed" the request from some OTHER apartment, and simply put the request "on the lips of the tenant in 10A"...

How many Textual critics does it take to change a light bulb?

Their professional opinion is that we should leave the original bulb as it is. The probability of someone replacing a bad bulb with a good one is much lower than the opposite, and hence the bad bulb most likely reflects the oldest (and therefore better) bulb..

How many Talmudic Sages does it take to change a light bulb?
R. Abiva heard from R. Millerstein, who heard from Rab Josy, who got it from R. David, who got it from Moses, that it would take three. Whereupon, R. Marshmallow said that Moses said 'three' but meant 'two' since "light" has three radicals, but the vaw in the middle separates the light from the dark.

How many Darwinists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Well actually, they won't even TRY to change the bulb. They will simply stop using the room that has the burned out bulb, and start using only rooms with FUNCTIONING bulbs. That way, over time, ....

How many ID:ers does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change it quickly, and one to point out that no transitional forms occurred at all.

How many Existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two - one to bemoan the darkness until the other redefines something else as light.

How many Cartesians does it take to change a light bulb?
None - unfortunately, when the bulb blew out, they were all so shocked that they stopped thinking for that brief moment - and 'poof', they all just blinked out of existence.

Inlagd av Daniel Astgård i Blandat och humor

1 comment:

Jennifer said...

LOL!!!! This is awesome! I think I like the Darwinists the best, followed by the Existentialists.