Ship of Fools: Cringeless religious affiliation

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Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :

From the blurb for a forthcoming management conference for w*rk (UK corporate culture):

quote:
One of the objectives with any conference is to network with your colleagues. With around 300 attendees there will probably be someone that you don't know.

To help break the ice why not add a short comment on your interests, or a little known fact about yourself via this link that will help someone who doesn't know you to start the conversation

How might Shipmates respond, given that a certain professional etiquette is expected and that a fictitious response is likely to be rapidly discovered? God ought to come into it as my "interest"; how about 'I spent Sunday morning wearing a tablecloth propitiating a malevolent sky fairy'?

WWJD?

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

I spent Sunday morning wearing the calluses off my knees.

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Qoheleth.:

WWJD?

Whatever Jesus would do, he would do it on a Saturday.

Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :

If it's religious-themed then I can honestly say that I used to live a gay rabbi and that I named a dog that used to live in Lambeth palace. [Cool]

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
I used to live a gay rabbi

You've been reincarnated. Cool.

Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :

Bloody typo!

Used to live *with* a gay rabbi.

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

I spent an hour sitting in silence on Sunday.

When I drive to work, I listen to hard rock.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

On a hassock in my cassock.

Posted by molopata (# 9933) on :

Well a real-life example is a mischievous friend of ours who explained at once such conference that she was sleeping with one of the lecturers at her Bible college.
It was only once she had reaped the full crop of scandalised incredulity that she explained that he was also her husband.

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

That's always fun. You (well, I, once upon a time) could vary it by telling people you're pregnant with the pastor's child, or simply kiss the pastor (in dog collar) on the steps of a Catholic university. That was fun.

But for my entry: I was excommunicated from church and am now working mainly with agnostics. [Devil]

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

Terry Pratchett ( [Votive]

) is my favorite theologian.

Posted by Ricardus (# 8757) on :

quote:
Originally posted by molopata:
Well a real-life example is a mischievous friend of ours who explained at once such conference that she was sleeping with one of the lecturers at her Bible college.
It was only once she had reaped the full crop of scandalised incredulity that she explained that he was also her husband.

There's an old story about a preacher who proudly declared in his sermon 'I spent the best years of my life in the arms of another man's wife ...' Scandalised reaction! ' ...in the arms of my mother.'

The story continues that another preacher, sitting in the congregation, was dead impressed at this and decided to try it out at his own church on Sunday.

'I spent the best years of my life in the arms of another man's wife ...' Scandalised reaction; in fact the reaction is so scandalised that the preacher loses his train of thought completely and eventually stutters: 'But I can't remember whose!'

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Terry Pratchett ( ) is my favorite theologian.

Him and Ian Anderson , pretty much.

[ 20. April 2016, 20:14: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]

Posted by Evangeline (# 7002) on :

There's always the old, most weekends I drink blood and eat flesh.

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Terry Pratchett ( ) is my favorite theologian.
Him and Ian Anderson , pretty much.

IMO, the best introduction to ecclesiology is Life of Brian

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

My Dad married me [Smile]

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

There's nothing like keeping it in the family. [Biased]

Posted by Pure Sunshine (# 11904) on :

This reminds me of the blurb on the back of one of G. P. Taylor's fantasy novels:

"He lives in a graveyard and lectures on the supernatural."

Translation: he is a vicar ...

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