At The Halloween Party:

Josh, with cousin Shaylen, enters the party house bearing a huge bag of Rockets (those amazing candies) while showing off an expertly carved pumpkin by Marya and himself of Spongebob:

A pretty girl sitting by herself on the couch looks slightly bored, and Josh feels somewhat obligated to erase any boredom. He sits down and says hey. And that's where this story begins.

Josh: Hey

Girl: Hi!

Josh: Cool decorations, hey? I just got here.

Girl: Yeah, I got here at 3pm..so I'm kinda bored now.

Josh: 3pm? That was 7 hours ago! Why'd you come so early?

Girl: I came here after work. I live in Cochrane, so I didn't want  to drive all the way home from work and then come back.

[This seems to be going moderately well. Josh knew that because she was still sitting beside him. Granted, it had only been 30 seconds.]

Josh: makes sense...where do you work?

Girl: A gynecology clinic down south

Josh: Oh wow! That's pretty intense.

Girl: Yeah, I see a lot of crazy things. Places you didn't even know you could tear: I've seen that. I'm definitely careful about birth control because I don't want that to happen to me.

Josh: [somewhat taken aback]..yeah..for sure.

Girl: And when I do have kids? I'll be getting a C-section. I've seen the after-effects and it can get pretty bad. I don't even want to tell you all the issues I've had to deal with. There's just so many things that can go wrong down there. It's a lot of paperwork, too.

Josh: ....um...

...want some Rockets?

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Halloween+Jesus?

I'm not a big holiday person, but I don't want to be a party pooper.

Is it totally disrespectful and vulgar and morally wrong to go as Jesus to a Halloween party (I'll only know one person there)? What about as a modern day Jesus, like 'Incarnate' style? The message it would portray is "Hey, you know..Jesus could come back as an every day guy, and he might even come to a Halloween party. I mean, he's gotta be well liked, and you'll be more popular if you go to Halloween parties, right? So keep your eyes open...if you believe in that idea..."

It doesn't really matter what I believe, but we can reasonably agree there IS a chance that Jesus could pay us a visit. We don't have to believe it to know the story and understand the possibility of it being true.. I mean,  no one knows anything for sure. We can agree, whatever his agenda was, that Jesus was probably a pretty nice guy back in his day. I'd pick him for dodgeball. So at this Halloween party,  all I would have to do is show up, be awesome (not difficult), and maybe I'd get a chuckle or two.

I'd really like some opinions on this one. I don't want to be offensive...this time.

My costume would consist of a nice shirt and pants...Casual. I may or may not tote a bible, and a classic name tag reading "HI My name is... Jesus"..none of the tacky 'Jesus garb' that I find really cheesy and mockery...it makes him like a mascot for his team when he's wearing that white dress thingy and red sash.


This situation reminds me of a renowned French artist in the '20s who submitted (under an alias) a mass-produced urinal as an art piece. He titled it "Fountain". People loved the joke and thought provoking conversation, but many people really disliked calling it 'art'.


But whoa now. Let's not debate religion or what constitutes art...even though a costume of Jesus crosses into both those realms. I just wanna know: How uncool is the costume idea?

Some people find even THIS representation offensive.

Such a touchy subject.

Why?

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