was lost...might have burned in the fire at the Alexandrian library
(?)- heaven only knows what was lost in that sad event- the cure for
the common cold?//The Papacy set a bad example but doesn't democracy/
free enterprise do the same?// You don't seem insecure to me.
On Feb 2, 7:49 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Four Lions" is a brilliant piece mocking Islamic terrorism from all
> sides. I rather like teasing humour and farce. I might almost be
> your mocking friend - I'm insecure enough at times! Umbero Eco (Name
> of the Rose) had the very existence of an Aristotle text on humour as
> a threat to the Church. Our current religion is in need to mockery.
> A system that encourages a vastly wealthy class hardly sounds like a
> starting point for reasonable equality of opportunity! Etc.
>
> On Feb 2, 12:11 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Satire is meant to bite- so it's not truly comedy, i.e. scorn versus
> > merriement. Yes- I heard ethnic, racial, sexist jokes growing up but
> > they were not mean-spirited then political correctness pounced though
> > now the style in political and social humor is mockery>distain/
> > contempt. I do like slapstick- another great was Sid Ceasar- also Mel
> > Brooks maybe Jewish humor derives from their tragic history, in part.
> > As for Kierkegaard, I might have smiled if I could wade through his
> > style- maybe I was not fair with K. One friend still reminds me of
> > doing the right thing and is grateful that when a mutual "friend"
> > thought the behavior of the "ex" in a messy divorce was hysterically
> > funny I said this is her life and it is not funny at all- there is a
> > lot of cruelty found in the "nicest" places sometimes. Another ex-
> > friend is a great mocker- takes on accents and puts on a little show
> > to illustrate her superiority over others and I don't doubt I am
> > another on her list. But these type are just cruel and insecure.
>
> > On Feb 1, 8:42 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > My child hood was littered with jokes. How do you keep an Irishman
> > > busy all day - put him in a barrel and tell him to micturate in the
> > > corner. The Germans bombed our chip shop and had no sense of humour.
> > > In France, the Belgians are the butt or "Irish" jokes; elsewhere the
> > > Poles. Jokes often rely on 'taking the Micky' - ridiculing someone
> > > else. In Englishmen, Scotsmen and Irishmen jokes it was common for
> > > the English and Scots to be the suckers to a sharp and cunning
> > > Irishman. Even the holocaust has been subject to joking - often by
> > > the victims.
>
> > > I have taught Kierkegaard as an example of dark, lengthy Danish humour
> > > (and can point to books on same). There is an affinity in his work
> > > with the Monty Python poverty joke in which each in turn recalls a
> > > childhoods in greater poverty than the last. Eventually, just as one
> > > thinks the guy claiming to have lived in a shoebox on the central
> > > reservation of the M6 has 'won' the game another bloke says,
> > > "Shoebox? You had a shoebox. Luxury!" Kierkegaard does this with
> > > Christianity.
>
> > > My own humour is dark, but it's rare I mean anyone harm. I used to
> > > think that satire offered some hope of change, but in recent years
> > > have come to see it as merely part of the problems we have. It is of
> > > the Establishment and feigns resistance.
>
> > > I think humour might be part of a way out of chronic illusion; but it
> > > is often merely cruel and parochial.- Hide quoted text -
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