I still don't get why people think it is absurd or a joke or funny??
I find it weird people get a laugh out of the situation. It's not funny, it's serious.
No matter how certain you appear, no matter how much confidence you exude and no matter how genuine you seem, there are those who clearly possess at least an equal measure of those same qualities, yet are preaching a contradictory message.
The likely response to this is that it's not the person preaching the message that matters, but rather the message itself. But here, too, we have a host of messages that all have their own particular strengths and weaknesses, insights and oversights, harmonies and inconsistencies, conformities and incompatibilities.
Add to all this the fact that it is easily demonstrated that people can believe with all their hearts in the 'truth' of things that are demonstrably false, even to the point of doing things like giving away all their possessions, putting their lives on the line (and indeed, even taking them) and other similar acts of supreme faith, and you end up with a situation where even the most seemingly profound circumstances are definitely not a reliable indicator of the objective existence of
anything beyond one's own particular method of experiencing the world, and efforts to make sense of such.
All that is left, then, is your insistence that none of that is truly relevant because your message is true regardless, along with all the equivalent proclamations of those with
conflicting messages.
If you
still don't see how absurd it is, imagine that you stop by a street corner, wind down your window and ask a bunch of bystanders how to get to the local library. Instead of providing you with a detailed route, they all shout different directions at you while intermittently accusing each other of being wrong (and in some cases engaging each other in what looks to be the beginning of a protracted debate). The individual bystanders themselves might be taking it seriously, but the situation itself is indeed an absurdity.