humor: a happifying resignation to the rediculous
Philosophical question: What is humour?
by yadda yadda 2 14 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
Yadda, you ask about humor. Were you trying to be funny?
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BurnTheShips
Mike Smith, the man raised by Martians in Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, sees, after living among humans for a time, that the root of humor is actually tragedy :
I grok people. I am people… so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery . . . and a sharing… against pain and sorrow and defeat.
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minimus
Another "funny" question.
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Paralipomenon
I think laughter is the mind's way of resolving conflicts that have no easy resolution or established method for recognition.