Christian Women shouldn't be silly!

[Witsec1]

Well, the author thinks it's OK to be joyful, but you can't joke around or be silly.

So, basically, remove everything that makes life enjoyable, then beat yourself up because you lack a" joyful countenance."

[Kaylee]

I don't know which makes me want to jump off a bridge more: suggesting women should take no joy in life, lest Satan snatch us whilst we sing silly songs to our children - OR - suggesting we discuss this opinion with our husbands, just to be sure.

If I brought this idea up with my husband, he'd accuse me of being silly.

..well, that or just being a dumbass.

Seriously though, I couldn't imagine life without laughing and having fun. How do this women have children if they can't be silly - my toddler cracks me up most days, and silliness is how we manage to get stuff done when he's cranky (then again, I bet these are some of the same ones who would advise beating him into submission to make him stop being silly).

[Funky Chicken]

DOn't they know laughter is medicine. Also, the Bible tells you to laugh so get a grip, silly women. Smile and laugh-it's contagious.

Silly, goofy people make the world better and brighter. Being serious all the time is such a drag. All these people today from the uplifting quotes turned into ridiculous selfishness to the never sing or be happy folk make me think of the Puritans "Fun is sinful."

Fun may be sinful but by doG, certain sins can be very funful...

[FJismyheadship]

I am a flibertygibbet. And proud of it. eta riffles

[Deleted05]

Someone send this to Miss Raquel.

[notsocommon]

FTS! The day I quit being 'silly' is the day I die. JOY is one of the fruits of the spirit! I'll take joy and pass on the stick.

[emmiedahl]

I am very silly. I grew up in a large family and we are pranksters, jokers, just generally not people who take themselves too seriously.

Being able to laugh through tears has gotten me through a lot of crap. Silliness makes my days happier, and I think I am a more pleasant person because of it. I guess happiness is not of worth to the fundies, but that makes me sad for their children and partners.

[finleeport]

Silliness practically runs in my family.

[emmiedahl]

If God did not want us to be silly, why did he make it good for our health?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/enviro ... ughter.htm

[notsocommon]

I just wanna know if I am the only one who randomly breaks out in to song and dance routines- either made up or from musicals?

:banana-blonde: :banana-dreads: :banana-explosion: :banana-dance: :banana-rock: :banana-rainbow: :banana-guitar:

I have to be careful not to break out in song to my customers on the phone. I'd get fired for terrifying them! :o Too many years teaching prescool where I made up songs on the fly about everything, it is hard not to make up songs about ordering people's perscriptions! :lol:

[GenerationCedarchip]

Wow- can you imagine what holidays in that writer's house must be like? I knew a few very sombery sorts in fundieland, but even there most of us knew how to be silly. I think if I couldn't tell stupid jokes and blow off steam a little bit, I would have been a total nutjob rather than being able to find my way out.

[Peas n carrots]

The autocorrect on my iPad always changes "fundies" to "fun dies." It seems the autocorrect is in fact, correct.

My family's stock in trade in bonding is our sarcastic sense of humor and silliness. Some of my best childhood memories involved my dad suprising my mom with a squirtgun and chasing us and the kids around the house in it. Oh, and the epic Krakatoa farts my dad would emit that would crack us kids up (and damn near gas us out too). My mom was a certified bitch, but she also happens to be one of the funniest people I know.

I'm not rich, nor am I the smartest person in the world, and I don't expect that to change...but hell I have a good time.

One of my co-workers says it best (in his family it is a toast)

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time.

ETF code

[ladypuglover]

I'm pretty sure God wasn't "sober" that day that He created the platypus. Maybe He had a little too much wine with His Son?

My youngest just got a book this week for his birthday about strange animals and I asked what he thought God was doing when He made the platypus. My little guy looked me straight in the eye and said that God was drunk on power that day and just wanted to prove the impossible could be done. :shock:

I am very silly. I grew up in a large family and we are pranksters, jokers, just generally not people who take themselves too seriously.

Being able to laugh through tears has gotten me through a lot of crap. Silliness makes my days happier, and I think I am a more pleasant person because of it. I guess happiness is not of worth to the fundies, but that makes me sad for their children and partners.

I'm already planning my next April fool's joke on my babies. Last year was making a meatloaf cake frosted with mashed tators for dessert and a rice crispy meatloaf with a side of ice cream potatos for dinner, finding green pea size candy was hard but I did it. This year I think we are going to eat jello "blood worms" for dessert. http://www.theidearoom.net/2009/09/jell ... worms.html Uhm, yea, I never grew up.

[jenny_islander]

So the God Who looked with favor on the king of Israel hiking up his clothes and dancing in public with his skinny shins sticking out, the God Who does not seem to have smitten anybody for putting happy porny romance right in the middle of His holy book ("Oooo, look, a cedar tree!" I mean, really.), the God Who in His time on earth liked to give His friends nicknames that would fit right in on Wrestlemania (The Rock and the Sons of Thunder, come ON), and let's not forget His first public miracle which involved helping a happy drunken party get even happier and more drunk out--He doesn't want us to be silly?

Hey, you know polar bears? Their lives are nothing but serious. They are constantly a meal away from a lingering death in the cold and the ice. What do they do when they have plenty of food? They play. I suppose people who won't let themselves sing nursery songs in front of their own children might argue that polar bears playing is a sign of the Fall, or something, but I would rather not live in a world where grown-ups aren't allowed to play, thank you, and by all evidence of my senses God doesn't want me to. God lets the polar bears play and forget their troubles for a while. God makes toddlers goofy and kittens giddy. I don't think that's a design flaw; I think it's a hint.

[ADoyle90815]

Fundies. The realization that someone, somewhere is being silly.

:angelic-blueglow: :animals-dogrun: :banana-angel: :banana-blonde: :banana-dance: :banana-guitar: :banana-skier: :banana-rainbow: :character-beavisbutthead: :character-jestercolor: :character-spongebobdance: :text-bump:

[Jezebel]

I don't buy that God doesn't want us to be silly. . . .I think the platypus is evidence of that.

And otters. Seriously: OTTERS. Sure, beavers, ants, and honeybees may have the best protestant work ethic in the animal kingdom, but otters have the best play ethic.

[jenny_islander]

Whenever I see bees held up as an example of a good work ethic I shrivel a little inside. Because 99.99 percent of the bee colony exists to do nothing but work and work and work and work and work and then be too old to get up and work one morning and end up kicked out of the hive to die.

[Renting with Raggles]

Whenever I see bees held up as an example of a good work ethic I shrivel a little inside. Because 99.99 percent of the bee colony exists to do nothing but work and work and work and work and work and then be too old to get up and work one morning and end up kicked out of the hive to die.

Just like the Duggar family! An old queen making babies, some useless drones and a whole bunch of female workers who keep everyone fed and healthy.

[salsa]

"Vanity," in the Bible, means "emptiness," or "chasing wind" (as in Ecclesiastes), or pointless dwelling on life's eternal puzzles - not an excess of pride. The words get confused.

The Bible verses referenced all involve people laughing because of soethign God did, and not because of earthly silliness. Not that I think that Christians ought not be silly! I think in fundie land, humor is limited to God's goodness. I wonder if their preachers ever use humor in their sermons or if they all rant and kick the pulpit and slam their Bibles?

If that's how to get to heaven, I'm in biiiig trouble!

[duchess0592]

This answers my question on why Jackson tells johannah to stop acting silly :roll:

[JemimaPuddle-Duck]

That's so ridiculous, there isn't anything wrong with being silly sometimes. I wish these Christians would quit coming up with more and more things to count themselves more Godly than others, it makes the rest of us look bad.

[emmiedahl]

This is so extra-Biblical.

I think they rewrite Christianity constantly to justify their lifestyle choices. They are not happy and it bugs them that other people are, so they have to find a way to feel better about their misery.

[dawbs]

Did none of these people ever read (or watch) PollyAnna?

I'm not insisting we all do the 'be joyful' thing (that smacks of 'keep sweet' a lot of the time too), but why does the 'joy' have to be SERIOUS and subdued joy? why can't it be singing "there was an old lady who swallowed a fly" while gallumphing around the kitchen?

[Future Teacher]

When I read those the only thing I thought of was Monty Python. "No stop it right now, it's too silly!" :D

[GolightlyGrrl]

Barbara Curtis from Mommy Life loses her burrito because Michelle Obama did a comedy sketch with Jimmy Fallon at the White House.

http://mommylife.net/archives/2012/02/m ... jimmy.html

Yet, I bet she has no problem with Nancy Reagan macking on Mr. T while sitting on his lap.