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 More options Jun 1 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: Wolf <wolft...@micron.net>
Date: 1998/06/01
Subject: Re: Humor vs. Joking & Degrading
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Tommy_spooges...@xs.net wrote:

> Wolf wrote:
> > As for dark humor being J&D'ing... here I'll disagree. To some extent
> > all humor is J&D. Be it shaggy dog stories or Henny Youngman one-liners.
> > Humor points up the rideculous, the pompous, the stupid, the
> > self-serving and the host of other traits we find easily in others and
> > disregard in ourselves. I'm fairly sure that's what Hubbard meant by
> > stating that laughter is 'rejection'. But I don't buy it as anything
> > even close to an absolute.

>     As usual, Heinlein stated it better.  In SIASL, the young man raised
> by Martians had returned to Earth,

<snip>

>        Bottom line: We laugh because we see something so painful that we
> *must* laugh, ere we cry. This is how we deal with man's inhumanity to
> man. As a critic, I see much about Scientology that is laughable - and
> sad.

Speak for yourself ;~)

Much of the true value of laughter and humor is that we don't often
understand why it's funny and if we don't have the proper context, it
isn't funny. It's a discussion where opinion rules.

> > You'd think if the
> > ARS-snobs were really bright, they'd have come up with a new joke by
> > now...
>    And if the Scientology apologists were borderline intelligent, they'd
> have come up with a new doctrine in "handling" critics. But they can't
> -  can they ?

I'm not sure what your point is. For starters, I don't have a clue what
a 'scn apologist' is, I gather that's an opinion-laden arena as well. As
for Scn itself, it has been roundly criticized, attacked, sued, yelled
at, picketed and denigrated for nearly 50 years. And the last time I
checked it was still present and accounted for. There are entire nations
that didin't have that much longevity.

Now... you were saying something about the ineffectiveness of their
doctrine?

Wolf


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