An old Jew eventually dies of old age and goes to heaven. He meets God and tells him a holocaust joke. And God says “That’s not funny”. And he says: “I guess you had to be there.”
(I like how philosophical the joke is, heard it from Ricky Gervais.)
And a whole classroom of kids getting gunned down is god’s plan and not something that can be stopped with common sense laws like the rest of the world has.
How can anyone still believe in that shit. The same people freely give away 10% of their income to a charlatan and believe Trump is god’s choice of a leader. I’m afraid you picked the wrong community if you wanted this conversation to be casual. They have a fucking book with a selfless hero that tells them exactly how to live and they IGNORE IT ALL!
Do you also scream at churches whenever they have mass?
Wouldn’t do any good. An organization built around raping children for centuries is still going strong. Good Christian morals tho
Well that’s certainly putting the “casual” in casual conversation.
Lighten up, Francis.
That joke was funny for exactly 3 years.
Now let me tell you one about Palestine.
Zionism isn’t the same as Judaism. A lot of holocaust survivors are horrified by what Israel is doing (and we’re enabling).
Are you telling me Allah is absent from Palestine?
You got me stumped. Can you explain it?
Not OP, but there are at least 2 things going on here:
The first part is that the Jewish person is effectively treating this like an inside joke, where someone might not find it funny unless they were present in the situation that the joke references.
The second part to the ‘God not being there’ bit (which is what actually makes it funny imho) is basically saying that the holocaust was so horrible that God was clearly someplace else/asleep/absent to allow something like that to happen under his watch.
Sometimes, jokes are only funny if you experienced the original context they are derived from, I.e. “You had to be there”.
In this case, the Jew is stating that God (who is typically omnipresent) was explicitly not present during the Holocaust.
this is one of my favorite jokes, and i draw it out quite a bit farther. when you make it longer, when you drop the punchline it hits better.
it might make a bit more sense too, to the listener. in short;
the man walks through the pearly gates, down a very long hallway. as he reaches the end of the hallway, he realizes he is in front of god himself. he says to god, ‘god, i want to tell you a holocaust joke’. god looks at the man and says, ‘sir, that is not funny’. the man says ‘oh, i guess you had to be there’
