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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

Behaviorist Solution

Joe has been seeing a psychoanalyst for four years for treatment of the fear that he had monsters under his bed. It had been years since he had gotten a good night’s sleep. Furthermore, his progress was very poor, and he knew it. So, one day he stops seeing the psychoanalyst and decides to try […]

Always Be Nice To Your Nurse !!

When you’re hospitalized, it pays to be nice to your nurse, even when you’re feeling miserable. A bossy businessman learned the hard way after ordering his nurses around as if they were his employees. But the head nurse stood up to him. One morning she entered his room and announced, “I have to take your […]

Riddles and stories

TODAYS RIDDLE: What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook? /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ Australia was always the biggest island in the world, even before it […]

Instant Ordination

From a netfriend: A couple of years ago I got myself ordained at the universal church of everything (I think that is what it was called)… They sent me email congratulations and a printable certificate… I didn’t, however, purchase the “Ministry in a Box” because it cost US $50… Here’s the latest: You are about […]

Medical Fraud?

The police recently busted a man selling ‘ secret formula’ tablets he claimed gave eternal youth. When going through their files they noticed it was the fifth time he was caught for commiting this same criminal medical fraud. He had earlier been arrested in 1794, 1856, 1928 and 1983………..

Laughter

MILE OF SMILES: Take the best medicine of all for what ails you — laughter: “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs–jolted by every pebble in the road.” ~Henry Ward Beecher “Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.” –Arnold Glasow “Laughter is by definition healthy.” –Doris Lessing “If […]

Computer Age

————- *What boots up must come down. *Fax is stranger than fiction. *Don’t byte off more than you can view. *The geek shall inherit the earth. *The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. *Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net […]

Emergency

EMERGENCY: Dispatcher: What’s the nature of your emergency? Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart. Dispatcher: Is this her first child? Caller: No! This is her husband!

Christmas in Summer

What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic. ~~~ CONTRADITION: In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat? ~~~

Signs Of The Times

SIGNS OF THE TIMES: The sign in a Norwegian lounge reads: “Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.” Tacked on the door of a Moscow hotel room: “If this is your first visit to the U.S.S.R., you are welcome to it.” An airline ticket office in Copenhagen reminds you: “We take your […]