(according to Google News)
1. Fail to predict your best friend / employer’s sudden death:
He never thought he’d be CEO material.And yet here he is, running the 6-year-old John Entwistle Foundation, working every day to get musical instruments into the hands of poor and sick kids.
“If you want to make God laugh,” Luongo said, “tell him your plans.”
Then again, Luongo never predicted Entwistle would die so unexpectedly in 2002. When that happened, Luongo found himself without a job and without his best friend.
And without a purpose, too.
That’s when he got the idea for the foundation.
2. Expect to have a healthy child:
Garrett is 13 now and though he still doesn’t have his words, therapy has helped him to communicate with his family and he has learned to ski. He continues to undergo behavioral, speech and occupational therapy.“Things that you once thought would be accomplished at that age; it’s completely different when they hit that age,” said Carolyn Robb. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him you have plans.”
3. Assume that your father won’t need emergency heart surgery during your ultramarathon:
How’s the saying go: “Want to make God laugh? Tell him about your plans.”This was to be the year I really crushed it. My plans were to head out to Death Valley a week in advance of the event to heat acclimatize, something I’d never done before. Well, a day before my scheduled departure, my father goes in for a routine procedure and discovers he needs urgent heart surgery.
4. Get unexpectedly killed in the WTC collapse:
Mychal Judge, chaplain of New York City’s fire department who was among those killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11th, was fond of the saying “if you want to make God laugh, tell Him what you’re doing tomorrow.”
Perhaps writing a funny book wasn’t actually the right approach.
Wow, how depressing. Certainly, dealing with uncertainty is part of the human condition. I’m sure that this aphorism is theists’ way of acknowledging that and trying to embrace uncertainty, rather than take the futile and unhappy path of resisting it.
But I just don’t understand how one can find it easier to accept this inherent uncertainty by imagining a magic invisible douchebag laughing at us….?!
God is not vengeful, but I can only imagine how much he’ll be laughing on your judgment day, buckaroo. I’d pray for your soul, but it sounds like a lost cause. Ha! the joke will be on you.
-RPTH
ps, for the duration of your foreseeable life, I would advise staying indoors during thunderstorms ha!
Time to close up shop Joel, some nutbag racist is praying for your soul.
Nutbag racists have been praying for my soul for years. Imagine what my writing was like back when they started!
anna laser tandblekninng…
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