stuff happens
I was searching the web this morning for a Simone Weil quote which I had written down without its reference. As so often happens with such searches, I came across something that had nothing whatever to do with what I was looking for but happened to be on the same page. This made me laugh out loud, and I had to pause for a coffee break. Oh, and then I found the source for my quote on another site entirely. Which is also one of those things that just happens most days of the week.
Stuff happens. What do the world’s religions have to say about this vexing existential problem?
Taoism: Stuff happens. Who gives a stuff?
Hinduism: This stuff has happened before and will happen again.
Buddhism: The stuff that happens doesn’t really.
Zen: What is the sound of stuff happening?
Islam: The stuff that will happen will happen.
Judaism: Lord, why is this stuff happening to me?
Evangelicalism: Jesus, we praise you and just wanna ask why this stuff isn’t happening to someone else?
Catholicism: Stuff happens because you deserve it.
Open Theism: Stuff happens to God too.
Pentacostalism: Tuffs appensh.
Anglo-Catholicism: Verily, verily, stuff happeneth.
Atheism: Stuff happens. Then you die. No more stuff.
Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke the stuff.
Link: connexions ? Blog Archive ? Stuff Happens.
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Stuff? Very polite
So what’s that Simone Weil quote? “Stuff happens, and usually at the expense of the working class”…?
Yeah, wasn’t there originally a different ’s’ word in there???
rude words? I don’t know any of those…
Oh there are lots more of these:
Hare Krishna — “Stuff” happens! “Stuff” happens! “Stuff” happens! “Stuff” happens! . . .
Jehovah’s Witnesses — Let us in and we’ll tell you why “stuff” happens.
Quakers — Quietly praise God for the blessings that “stuff” brings.
Calvinists — “Stuff” won’t happen to you if you work hard enough.
Christian Scientists — Agree that there is no “stuff.”
Televangelists — Tell you “stuff” won’t happen to you if you send in your love offering.
Conservative evangelicals – We can’t find “stuff happens” in the Bible so quite clearly it doesn’t.
“Anglo-Catholicism: Verily, verily, stuff happeneth.”
Haven’t heard this one before – but so true!!!
On a tangent…what do you get if you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with an atheist?
Someone who knocks on your door for absolutely no reason !!
Archbishop of Canterbury – “I think that, in a very real sense, it is entirely appropriate to say that stuff, by which we commonly mean things or events in their, as it were, very thingyness, does indeed, both in my own experience and in the experience of many others, happen, and I see no reason to doubt that it will continue to do so for quite some time.”
I have a short version of this on a T-shirt. Strangely, it *doesn’t* contain the word “stuff” once… ahem.