Godly Humor Series
the funny side of life
Why do artists love Nature?
Art and Nature are one. The acorn is planted. The earth loves it and it grows. It stretches to the heavens. Then it is called Nature. It is cut down. It becomes the mast of a great ship. Then it is called art. But it is still Nature.
—Edgar Allan Poe
INTERVIEWER—Tell us a joke.
WHEDON—Your life has meaning.
INTERVIEWER—Tell us a secret.
WHEDON—Your life has meaning.
—Joss Whedon (27 April 2012) in Rosanna Greenstreet, Q & A—Joss Whedon, The Guardian
Grim—If you know everything, then what's the meaning of life?
Master Control—Life has no meaning—only machine intelligence is truly significant on a cosmic scale.
Grim—Hmm, I didn't think he'd get that one right.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The Bad News Ghouls / The House of No Tomorrow [4.12]
Chairman—Item six on the agenda is the Meaning of Life. Now, Harry, you’ve had some thoughts on this.
Harry—That’s right—yeah. I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One, people are not wearing enough hats. Two, matter is energy. In the Universe, there are many energy fields, which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source, which acts upon a person’s soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches—it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
[Pause]
Max—What was that about hats?
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