From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Subject: Re: A joke?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:38:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.193125.24632@newshost.unh.edu>, ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
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 > A person died without Christ and went to hell for eternity.
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 > Oh, I'm sorry -- this is for humor.  But the devil is laughing his head off!
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 > |                              The Rink                              |
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 >  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
 >    it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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 > |                          Ephesians  2:8-9                          |
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HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!!

How about this one:  A person was brought up in deep religious faith in Christ
and tried very hard each day not to commit any sins.  He was so hung up about sin
that he rarely was able to relax and enjoy life; and indeed, he became *nearly*
the paragon of virtue that he truly wished to be.  He took his religious fervor
further in search of ways to aid others to virtue.  He got on the school council,
and banned books he felt would jeopardize the morality of the children.  He wrote
very long letters to newspapers, and helped collect money to fund missionary
ventures abroad.  He lived a very austere and hard life, always in anticipation
of the rewards he'd get in heaven.  He worked very very hard at his job, knowing
that good people never shirk.  Often, he put in hours and hours of overtime for
no extra pay, just to do as good a job as he possibly could.

Finally, he grew old and died.  Before this, he'd fathered a new generation, and
become a grandfather.  He made very sure to put the fear of God into each and 
every one of his offspring, but good.  When he died, he was mourned by more than
a hundred close relatives.  But all of them new that he'd gone beyond the mortal
toil to a new and glorious life in Heaven.

The very religious man went to Heaven, of course.  When he got there, his reward
was to spend eternity doing just the same as he had done on Earth.  Because since
he had spent so much energy and time all through his life just to live in that
very, very austere and virtuous way, it logically followed that he must really
enjoy that kind of life.  So eternity, for this man, was to spend every day
working very hard overtime, for no pay, and to spend what time he didn't spend 
at work just helping to run all sorts of social clubs for all the other dead
souls.  

Now, nobody was laughing.  Not even the devil, for even he is sick unto death
of this kind of people.

Leif the .sigless
"Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they shall surely
 screw you over."  --someone else.
"Put neither your trust in the lords of the next world, for they have already
 been screwing you over even since before your birth." --Myself.

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