Comments on: Black Comedy

By: Uadh Arlas

Uadh Arlas — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:24:39 +0000

So, I seem to be rather late to this post, but..

LOL has been my response to this. These are very funny ideas, especially #2 and DKL’s idea involving a stockpile. I also like #1 a lot.

I’m with annegb, I would buy these. And thank you everyone for the references to dark comedies. I’ll read.

By: zabada

zabada — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:08:07 +0000

Bishop with multiple personalities. His “normal” self can’t remember what his “demons” do. Notes mysterious large deposit in his bank account, horrified to realize the amount is the same as the tithing collected in his ward. Can’t figure out why ward members are making all kinds of crazy choices (that he counseled them to do)–RS Pres put kids in daycare and got job at Hooters, EQ Pres locks entire ward in the church building until all the HT is done, own kids get their missionary scriptures tattooed on their foreheads…).

By: Susan M

Susan M — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:52:09 +0000

#1 seems more like a farce to me?

Here’s a couple ideas:

* A church historian discovers some secret papers written by Joseph Smith that outlines the PH ordinance for ressurrection. He promptly ressurrects his dead brother, a man he mistakenly believes lived an exemplary life. Turns out, he was a really rather evil man, and is now roaming the earth a ressurrected being…
(Inspired by Ed and His Dead Mother)

* Three men show up in a small Utah town, and they are claiming to be the Three Nephites. Everyone in the town is taken in, except for Sam, a young boy, who is the only person to recognize them for what they really are…

By: Kimball Hunt

Kimball Hunt — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:20:14 +0000

Then then Moses–the Middle East’s and ultimately the entire West’s–earliest and most important Axial Age prophet, instead of describing the powers that be as rival cupidity, spoke in All-encompassing Universals (all the while God was commanding through him: “Thou shalt make no graven images”).

(Postscript: I should have said “lioness of the Lord” in #39, two posts above.)

By: annegb

annegb — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:43:00 +0000

mean, but that was based on one thing, you know what happened. Also long writings on scripture stuff.

But I’ve changed my mind. Write that book and I will buy it. For reals.

By: Kimball Hunt

Kimball Hunt — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:33:05 +0000

Regarding, in a way, a dark-side/ light-side duality:

Julie seems a very friendly entity to me–although one who’d turn on a dime into a vicious she-wolf in protection of those dear to her, perhaps.

In primitive belief, someone’s own people’s “totems”(?)–familiar entities, animal helpers or whatnot–are perceived as guiding and friendly to you. While those gods or angels of competing tribes or enemies are perceived as demons. So, for some religious people to account some negative “mythic” or mystical status to the entities’ which worked among our human tribe to found our Mormons’ faith seems an exercise or “discernment of faith” of this stripe.

And, then, one type of dynamic many early empires used would be to gather whatever entities are revered or feared in various places together to make with them a unified and amalgamated mythology.

By: Julie M. Smith

Julie M. Smith — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:26:10 +0000

LOL, Starfoxy!

By: Kaimi Wenger

Kaimi Wenger — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:02:58 +0000

Julie, I can't speak for AnneGB, but until I saw this post, I had always assumed that you were a shape-shifting lizard.

By: Starfoxy

Starfoxy — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:53:29 +0000

You mean those videos we watched in seminary weren’t dark comedies? Cipher in the snow? Prime the pump? I don’t think you could convince me that at least someone invloved in making those didn’t think they were funny.

By: Julie M. Smith

Julie M. Smith — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:18:43 +0000

“I really love your ideas, it makes you seem more human. ”

/afraid to ask

What did I seem like before?!?