A Little Humor for the Day 2024
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I was going to post this on the What Are You Smoking? thread, but thought perhaps I'd better not. Today's smoke is 500-year-cellared Old Jor-El's Kandor Dark Fired in this artisanal masterpiece from Bizarro Pipeworks, Inc., crafted in diamond with a red kryptonite mouthpiece. I have just gone blind to the colour green and my hands have turned into lobster claws. I hope it'll pass. Has a few rough edges. Not an everyday smoke.
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The Christmas Dalek At The Manger:
A Conversation
(This is very loosely based on a real-life event)
I called in at Saint Joseph’s to collect donations for the food bank, and there found Father Micheal O’Donnell, standing before the Christmas crib, shaking his head.
- Will you look at that, now, he said as I came up beside him.
- Look at what, Father?
- The Dalek, man. There's a Dalek in the Nativity scene, there. Can you not see it?
And I looked, and beheld, and sure enough, in among the Three Kings, proffering their gifts, was a visiting dignitary from the planet Skaro.
- Ah, so there is, I said. It was good to have as a subject of conversation something we could both easily agree on, without contention.
- One of the children must have put it there during Mass, he said, and reached down to remove it. -
I rather liked the ecumenism of the gesture, I told him.
- What in Heaven's name do you mean, Ecumenism? Some child, without proper understanding, has offered one of its toys to the Christ child to play with, God bless it. That is all.
- A votive offering, you mean?
- I do.
- Not thinking, perhaps, that the little stable was a dolls' house?
- The Dolls' House Of God, maybe. But I have no idea what you mean by Ecumenism here. Confusion and Error are not Ecumenical things. And certainly Daleks have no part in the Mystery of the Incarnation.
- I perceive that the Dalek was the only creature in the stable not bending the knee before the Christ Child, I conceded.
- Precisely. It is not in them to kneel at all. Not only are they physically incapable of adopting a posture of veneration, they would not do it even if they could. No, your men the Daleks are evil. They can have no place in the story of the Nativity whatever.
- But surely, Father, if they are evil it must mean that they are possessed of a rational soul to know the difference between good and evil, and willingly make the choice between the two?
Father Micheal pondered for a moment.
- That would be the case, I suppose, if they existed, but they do not.
- We cannot be certain of that, I countered.
- Maybe not, but they do not figure in the Biblical narrative. They have no place here.
- Look, Father, I said, this stable is the House Of God The Son, if you will. It has only one room, in which human and other animals coexist and from which, as Saint Francis - as the inventor of the Nativity Crib - well understood, none of God's animal creatures can be excluded. A such, it is an analogy of Planet Earth. But in the House Of God The Father, we are told there are many apartments, one of which Jesus went to prepare for the humans who were to follow him. That is an analogy of the Universe. Does it not therefore follow that in one of the other many apartments we might expect to find a Dalek or two?
- Only if they existed as rational souls, and then only if God had gone among them to preach a Gospel of repentance, redemption, and salvation.
- As a Dalek. I mean, there would be no point going to convert the Daleks in human form, would there?
- But God made Man in His own image, Father Micheal said.
- Nonetheless, if God willed it, He could take the form of a Dalek for the purpose of saving the Daleks. Presumably as the same Person of the Trinity.
- Get away with you, man. It is the salvation of the human souls we are concerned with here, on this planet. Let us leave the rest of the Universe to God. And you - you should come to Mass more often. Or indeed, at all. Now, will I get you a wheelbarrow for these groceries?
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A Conversation
(This is very loosely based on a real-life event)
I called in at Saint Joseph’s to collect donations for the food bank, and there found Father Micheal O’Donnell, standing before the Christmas crib, shaking his head.
- Will you look at that, now, he said as I came up beside him.
- Look at what, Father?
- The Dalek, man. There's a Dalek in the Nativity scene, there. Can you not see it?
And I looked, and beheld, and sure enough, in among the Three Kings, proffering their gifts, was a visiting dignitary from the planet Skaro.
- Ah, so there is, I said. It was good to have as a subject of conversation something we could both easily agree on, without contention.
- One of the children must have put it there during Mass, he said, and reached down to remove it. -
I rather liked the ecumenism of the gesture, I told him.
- What in Heaven's name do you mean, Ecumenism? Some child, without proper understanding, has offered one of its toys to the Christ child to play with, God bless it. That is all.
- A votive offering, you mean?
- I do.
- Not thinking, perhaps, that the little stable was a dolls' house?
- The Dolls' House Of God, maybe. But I have no idea what you mean by Ecumenism here. Confusion and Error are not Ecumenical things. And certainly Daleks have no part in the Mystery of the Incarnation.
- I perceive that the Dalek was the only creature in the stable not bending the knee before the Christ Child, I conceded.
- Precisely. It is not in them to kneel at all. Not only are they physically incapable of adopting a posture of veneration, they would not do it even if they could. No, your men the Daleks are evil. They can have no place in the story of the Nativity whatever.
- But surely, Father, if they are evil it must mean that they are possessed of a rational soul to know the difference between good and evil, and willingly make the choice between the two?
Father Micheal pondered for a moment.
- That would be the case, I suppose, if they existed, but they do not.
- We cannot be certain of that, I countered.
- Maybe not, but they do not figure in the Biblical narrative. They have no place here.
- Look, Father, I said, this stable is the House Of God The Son, if you will. It has only one room, in which human and other animals coexist and from which, as Saint Francis - as the inventor of the Nativity Crib - well understood, none of God's animal creatures can be excluded. A such, it is an analogy of Planet Earth. But in the House Of God The Father, we are told there are many apartments, one of which Jesus went to prepare for the humans who were to follow him. That is an analogy of the Universe. Does it not therefore follow that in one of the other many apartments we might expect to find a Dalek or two?
- Only if they existed as rational souls, and then only if God had gone among them to preach a Gospel of repentance, redemption, and salvation.
- As a Dalek. I mean, there would be no point going to convert the Daleks in human form, would there?
- But God made Man in His own image, Father Micheal said.
- Nonetheless, if God willed it, He could take the form of a Dalek for the purpose of saving the Daleks. Presumably as the same Person of the Trinity.
- Get away with you, man. It is the salvation of the human souls we are concerned with here, on this planet. Let us leave the rest of the Universe to God. And you - you should come to Mass more often. Or indeed, at all. Now, will I get you a wheelbarrow for these groceries?
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John 10:16 are Daleks ???
I've never heard that interpretation until now.
