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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Ducks

By and others ⋅ February 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

http://pip.rubberfeet.org/stuff/ducks.html

Humour in the Bible

By and others ⋅ February 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

By ARIEL DAVID – Associated Press ROME (AP) – Scholars say the Old and New Testament are riddled with humorous references and aim to set the record straight at a three-day congress, “Laughter and Comedy in Ancient Christianity.” There’s the tale from Luke’s Gospel of Zaccheus, a diminutive and despised tax collector who, eager to […]

Geometry

By and others ⋅ February 22, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Those who can remember their secondary school geometry may be surprised to learn that mathematical calculations went much further than the Pyramids, the Parthenon and Machu Picchu, with applications that went as far as early family planning techniques. An early American Plains Indian legend relates to a wealthy chief who had three wives, with one […]

Thinking about quitting?

By and others ⋅ February 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) Thinking about quitting? Warning: You are about the enter the “pun zone.” Enter at your own risk: My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn’t concentrate. Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me […]

Politicians

By and others ⋅ February 18, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I read a story once in which the attitude of politicians came up at one point. One politician was described as a person who put his country first, his party second and himself third. But since he was convinced that the first two would best be served by the continued ascendancy of the third …

A Riddle… and more

By and others ⋅ February 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

TODAYS RIDDLE: What’s better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing? /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ Literally, the word NOTHING ============================= Not sure how it ever got started, but a tradition in […]

Doors

By and others ⋅ February 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I read this yesterday: ‘The front doors of houses always open inwards… Doors on public buildings often open the other way…’ Why? Scroll for answer % % % % % % % % % % % % Houses: if the doors have a simple pin-hinge system, that needs to be inside the house, otherwise burglars […]

One-liners

By and others ⋅ February 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Would a wingless fly be called a walk? Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they worried someone will clean them? If a mime is arrested do they tell him he has the right to talk? Why do they put Braille on the drive thru bank machines? Why do they use sterilized needles for […]

Elderly gentleman and other stories

By and others ⋅ February 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for hearing aids. The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, “Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased.” The […]

What’s A Church?

By and others ⋅ February 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

What’s A Church There was a $20 dollar bill and a $1 dollar bill on the conveyor belt at the downtown Federal Reserve Building. As they were laying there side by side, the $1 dollar bill said to the $20 dollar bill, “Hey mannnnnn, where have you been, I haven’t seen you in a longtime?” […]

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