Punch Lines
Lawyers have an axiom that you should never ask a question in court if you don’t already know the answer. Well, that’s what I’ve heard anyway, but I don’t really know if it’s true.
I could maybe learn a thing or two from lawyers.
I asked God if he had any favorite jokes. He told me that life was a joke he played on protoplasm.
Death is the punch line.
That punch line is a crowd killer.
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Given that God’s joke consists of life played upon protoplasm and that a punch line denotes the finality of the use of humor in order to provoke a comedic response from the audience, this indicates that either ‘god’ is a singular entity telling itself jokes, or that existence contains other entities outside of those who were given ‘life’. This gives rise to the question: who are these other entities?
You make the mistake of thinking that just because the joke is also being played on you that you can’t be part of the audience for the same joke being played on everyone else.
“When I talked to God, I knew he’d understand. / ‘Stick by my side and I’ll be your guiding hand. / Just don’t ask me what I think of you. / I might not give the answer that you want me to.’” -Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)