Religion negatively correlated with sense of humor

[Mole]

What if you're hilarious and you create your own religion in which you are the deity?

It is telling that religion lacks a sense of humour.

However instead of being religious, we are now spiritual. And our spirituality takes the form of narcissism. And it is interesting that this site promotes, teaches, and encourages narcissism. But still, after all that, the narcissists can't laugh at themselves.

So not only does traditional religion lack a sense of humour, the New Age narcissism also lacks a sense of humour.

But why should we be surprised as Americans keep telling us they have the best sense of humour in the world without a trace of irony.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

Apparently, Satanism is hilarious...

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
by Anton Szandor LaVey

© 1967

Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

Apparently, Satanism is hilarious...

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
by Anton Szandor LaVey

© 1967

Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

I don't know what about this you find funny.

 

[Forever]

Apparently, Satanism is hilarious...

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
by Anton Szandor LaVey

© 1967

Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

I knew a couple of those people superficially and suspect one hides it. Silly or not, the culture is immensely intriguing.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

It is telling that religion lacks a sense of humour.

However instead of being religious, we are now spiritual. And our spirituality takes the form of narcissism. And it is interesting that this site promotes, teaches, and encourages narcissism. But still, after all that, the narcissists can't laugh at themselves.

So not only does traditional religion lack a sense of humour, the New Age narcissism also lacks a sense of humour.

But why should we be surprised as Americans keep telling us they have the best sense of humour in the world without a trace of irony.

Having narcissistic traits doesn't make one a narcissist. We all have narcissistic traits. Some of us can laugh at ourselves just fine despite this. In fact, both acting narcissistic and making fun of oneself in a humorous manner are merely ways to deal with pain, insecurity, fears, etc.

I don't really understand your preoccupation with narcissism, if I'm being frank with you.

 

[Coriolis]

It is telling that religion lacks a sense of humour.

Some religions have a wonderful sense of humor. I put Judaism at the top of the list - I suspect on some level it has been a survival strategy throughout the centuries - but some of the Pagan traditions give them a run for their money. Of course I know plenty of religious folks - most of them Christian just due to demographics - who are quite humorless about the whole thing.

Apparently, Satanism is hilarious...

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
by Anton Szandor LaVey

© 1967

Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Seems like reasonable advice to me.

 

[Mole]

Having narcissistic traits doesn't make one a narcissist. We all have narcissistic traits. Some of us can laugh at ourselves just fine despite this. In fact, both acting narcissistic and making fun of oneself in a humorous manner are merely ways to deal with pain, insecurity, fears, etc.

I don't really understand your preoccupation with narcissism, if I'm being frank with you.

It's nice you are being frank with me, but we have been living in a culture of narcissism for the last fifty years, see The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch, click on The Narcissist Society | by Christopher Lasch | The New York Review of Books

and click on Christopher Lasch The Pursuit of Progress (1/2) - YouTube

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

I had a sense of humor once, but Jesus took it away from me

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

Last time I attempted a joke, I made children cry. I felt really bad. I laughed about it later though. That's what they get for bothering me.

 

[Mole]

I had a sense of humor once, but Jesus took it away from me

We only lose our sense of humour in a trance. We only lose our sense of humour when we are entranced. We might be entranced by religion, we might fall in love, we might be entranced by sport, we might enter the hypnogogic trance as we fall asleep and as we wake, and all we have to do to regain our sense of humour is to wake up.

This is more difficult for Americans because they are entranced by their national ideology, and they would have to wake up while everyone else is entranced. This would be too disorientating to bear, so Americans sleep the sleep of ideology, unbeknownst to themselves.

 

[Mole]

Last time I attempted a joke, I made children cry. I felt really bad. I laughed about it later though. That's what they get for bothering me.

Take a tip from me, stop telling jokes, and focus on being good humoured, and focus on not what you say but how you say it.

 

[Mole]

Some religions have a wonderful sense of humor. I put Judaism at the top of the list - I suspect on some level it has been a survival strategy throughout the centuries - but some of the Pagan traditions give them a run for their money. Of course I know plenty of religious folks - most of them Christian just due to demographics - who are quite humorless about the whole thing.
Seems like reasonable advice to me.

Yes, that's true, but it is telling that the sacred books of all religions from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, the Book of Mormon, and others, are remarkably free from a sense of humour. This is because these sacred books were written in a trance where the sense of humour is asleep. And these sacred books induce a trance in us, haven't you noticed?

The best way to induce a trance in others is to first induce a trance in oneself, and this is just what the sacred books do.

And this is why they are sacred.

 

[Coriolis]

Take a tip from me, stop telling jokes, and focus on being good humoured, and focus on not what you say but how you say it.

When I was in first grade, I deliberately wrote a wrong answer on a test. I wrote it neatly, perfectly, just where it was supposed to be on the page, as the teacher had instructed us. It was still marked wrong, because it was.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

[MENTION=3325]Mole[/MENTION]
I tend to enjoy reading your posts and find your perspective interesting, so I hope it doesn't offend if I say that sometimes your obsession with narcissism strikes me a little funny. It is because you can relate absolutely any concept back to narcissism. I'll bet you could connect...

french fries and narcissism

broadcast signals and narcissism

Surrealism and narcissism...

 

[Coriolis]

Yes, that's true, but it is telling that the sacred books of all religions from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, the Book of Mormon, and others, are remarkably free from a sense of humour. This is because these scared books were written in a trance where the sense of humour is asleep. And these sacred books induce a trance in us, haven't you noticed?

No, actually. These religious books are about as trance-inducing as DC comics.

Then again, I don't see much humor in cookbooks, textbooks, home repair books, and many other sorts of books whose goal is more to inform than to entertain. Fortunately cooking, learning, DIY projects, and even religion are greater than the books that inform them. If we find it humorless, the fault is in us, not in them.

 

[Mole]

Religion and Cook Books

No, actually. These religious books are about as trance-inducing as DC comics.

Then again, I don't see much humor in cookbooks, textbooks, home repair books, and many other sorts of books whose goal is more to inform than to entertain. Fortunately cooking, learning, DIY projects, and even religion are greater than the books that inform them. If we find it humorless, the fault is in us, not in them.

Vast number of cook books are written and sold every year and almost none of them are used for cooking. No, they are food porn, and reading them does not feed us, rather they entranced us.

This is the point of the vast number of cook books written and sold every year, it is to put the writer and the reader into a trance, to entrance both the writer and the reader, and so there is not the slightest hint of a sense of humour.

 

[Littleclaypot]

Interesting idea... the patron saint of humor and laughter, St. Neri, comes to mind.

 

[Mole]

[MENTION=3325]Mole[/MENTION]
I tend to enjoy reading your posts and find your perspective interesting, so I hope it doesn't offend if I say that sometimes your obsession with narcissism strikes me a little funny. It is because you can relate absolutely any concept back to narcissism. I'll bet you could connect...

french fries and narcissism

broadcast signals and narcissism

Surrealism and narcissism...

Now you mention it, of course I could because I can speak metaphorically, and a metaphor can connect anything to anything. And it is important to remember that metaphor created almost every aspect of language we speak. Sometimes the metaphoric nature of some words is hidden by use, and sometimes it is quite clear.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

I don't know what about this you find funny.

Maybe you have to be a person who has spent a lifetime wanting people to leave you alone, and then you find out someone made a religion out of it.

 

[Mole]

Interesting idea... the patron saint of humor and laughter, St. Neri, comes to mind.

When a religion becomes humorous, we know it is dead. We know for instance that Christianity is dead when we watch The Life of Brian Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones - Trailer - [HD] - YouTube

And we know Islam is very much alive because there is no equivalent to The Life of Brian about Mohammed.

There is a musical about the Book of Mormon but I don't know what that means.