Fun Links

Some fun-links to try out.

• Humor columnist Tim Bete


• Bruce Cameron, a good humorist; his stuff translates well over the Web.


• Funology, a site just for fun, for all ages.


• horn+swaggled blog, that dabbles in religion-world satire


• Laugh and Lift :)


• The Leviathan, which puts the 'fun' back in fundamentalism. (Y'mean there was some?)


• MyHumor.org. Try it just for laughs.


• Peggie's Place, Peggie Bohannon's pleasant place to stop off during a long
  hard night's Netsurfing. (Bohannon also is one of the pioneer Christian believers on the Web.)


• the Phantom Tollbooth. (Not easy to describe; you have to dig into it to get a grasp of it. Enjoy!)


• the long-running Ship of Fools satirical magazine. I'd never even heard of them until I stumbled onto this web home for the bizarrly faithful. Also, their digital Church of Fools, and their version of the history of saints, Loose Canons.


• one version of the origin of April Fool's Day.


• Snopes.com, a good resources for checking over those on-line hoaxes and 'urban legends'.


• A check-up for your attitude, with
  Dr. Thorson's Humor Scale

Spiritual Shrinkage

A reader at Spirithome.com asked me this question :

>> I hear all this blah blah blah about
>>'spiritual growth'. But is there such a thing as
>> 'spiritual shrinkage'? <<

There are a lot of folks who say 'no', including some of the
wisest spiritual folks around. They say that spiritual
awareness can't disappear, just like a raised consciousness
supposedly can't be lowered. Something of it still lingers,
some things about the person can never be the same.

I can see some degree of truth to that, but not enough.
Growth goes up and down and stops and starts. You may not
notice your growth - though sometimes others do. Spiritual
growth is not a constant. And if it can stop, it can go
backward. Sometimes, people spiritually shrink and warp. What
can cause it? Desperation. Fear. Hurt. Greed. Lust. Anger.
Loss. Powerlust. Their spirit becomes shallower. There's nothing
that can make you shrink. Nothing has the power to
defeat the Spirit's work in you. Anything that can get you to
shrink can be turned around to make you grow. But that's easy
to say, hard to live, because of the power you have over you.

You can make choices that will shrink you. So you can shrink spiritually.