This section has intentionally selected writings from long ago which have traditionally (in the current age as of this writing) been interpreted seriously, and possibly understood differently than intended by those portrayed.

The proposals of possible interpretations as "intended humorously" are strictly due to hypothetical considerations of ConserveLiberty AND are offered as CREDIBLE for your consideration.

Since the authors or their subjects are no longer available for interview, it is not possible to validate the possible humorous intent proposed.

Consider these. Skeptically. Openly. Perhaps there are other insights that were intended to be communicated, and delivered from a humorous perspective.

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• The Rape of Dinah
  • There are various offered interpretations of this Old Testament tale. Many scholars who have done much more research into the history and the cultures at the time than I have discussed this. However, I suggest that this story also tells a tale of irony whose ending was recognized as humorous by Dinah's brothers.
    
    Basically, Dinah was taken for intercourse without marriage by a Canaanite sometime around 1800-2000 B.C. (I'll refine this date later.) Probably (my hypothesis) because he was horney, so horney that he was willing to give Jacob nearly anything in order to have her as his wife. He promised the Israelites access to nearly all of his wealth and land, hoping to appeal to their greed. Jacob's sons wanted revenge, and instead appealed to the Canaanites horneyness, saying that they would do the deal, including allowing the Canaanites "access" to the Israeli women, but only if they circumsized themselves.
    
    So much did the Canaanites want to do the deal that all the men circumcised themselves so that the deal could get done quickly. The Canaanites believed that in doing so they would soon have all the Israelite's wealth and women. Instead, Jacob's men, led by Dinah's brothers, came into the city and slayed all the men, who were too sore from their circumcisions to fight back. Then they pillaged all the houses, women, children and anything of value therein.
    
    Guaranteed laughter by Dinah's brothers at the irony of the whole thing.
  
  
• Jesus on the Cross with the Thief
  (this will be extracted out and a shorter version placed here)
  (Hugely faith challenging. Irony overlooked if Jesus was misunderstood).
  • This episode, to my knowledge, has never been portrayed as an example of Humor, and there are likely a number of reasons for that. It is not ConserveLiberty's goal to convince anyone that this episode does actually represent a comment intended to affirm its point using humor, nor is it our goal to convince anyone that Jesus of Nazareth was only human, as ConserveLiberty describes him to be. Ours is simply a hypothesis, which cannot be validated, and it is intended to be considered as a credible proposition.
    
    ConserveLiberty believes the following may be credible, and if so, should be considered from its humorous perspective:
    
    
  • Jesus lived, around the time that the scriptures say he did.
  • Jesus was human. Only human, although different, as we all are.
  • Jesus was Jewish, took his spirituality very seriously, and spent much of his early life exploring and developing it. At some point he spent time outside of his faith community with the intention of understanding The Truth of All That Is more deeply than was being conveyed to him by his mentors. He believed them both intentionally wanting to be good Jews, but also corrupted. Corruption is often habituating, and when it is it becomes difficult to separate Corrupted Views from Truthful Views.
    
    
  • Once Jesus had matured to a point of more harmoniously understanding who and what we are and what we were built to be, by The Father Jesus returned to share his insights with the Jews in order to help them be more consistently and intentionally truthfully Jewish, as The Father intended. (This would be Jesus' perspective.)
    
    
  • ... The intervening set up has been removed and will be linked to as an addendum in a future revision.
    
    
  • At some point, this led to his torture and crucifixion, a huge challenge for any human, and especially so for Jesus, who understood that for him to continue going forward harmonically with All That Is that he would have to go forward accepting (embracing) that!
  • Even making his way nearly all the way through his crucifixion, Jesus understood that if he was destined to be an everliving part of the Kingdom of God (in which he had endeavored to live his whole life), and he hoped he was, if the Father would have him, that his crucifixion RIGHT NOW was part of that Everlasting Living. So long as he continued to embrace the Unfolding as was unfolding for him. And he was nearly totally exhausted.
  • At that time, the Penitent Thief being crucified with Jesus rebuked the Impenitent Thief (also being cruficied with them, and who was deriding Jesus), saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
  • Jesus, having the views he did about already being "in the kingdom" by willingly embracing what was unfolding for him (even though he had no choice, actually), understood that the Penitent Thief was also embracing what was unfolding for him. And so Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.
  • At this point, if Jesus had much energy left, I can imagine him amused at both the truth and the irony of that statement (from his point of view.)
    
    Note   → To Jesus, they were in Paradise, crucified.  ←
    Note   → Humor stimulates the Reward Center. Perhaps the last stress management he influenced before he lost consciousness. Very human. Very potent.  ←