Is there a difference between laughter and humor?

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Is the purpose of this thread to bring laughter out loud or sense humor within?
 
Robert_Sock said:
Laughter is **sin that originates from within the darkness **of the unconscious.
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I’m making a distinction between humor and laughter, with the former being healthy and the latter being psychotic.
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Have you discussed this idea with a priest?

Have you watched a baby laugh and seen sin? Have you watched a playground of happy, laughing children and seen sin? Have you watched friends enjoy laughing together and seen sin?

May God release you from the idea that His gift of laughter in the human person is a sin.
 
Laughter is frowned upon in the Rule of St. Benedict, chapter 6, “On the Spirit of Silence” or “Restraint of Speech,” which says:

“But as for coarse jests and idle words
or words that move to laughter,
these we condemn everywhere
with a perpetual ban,
for such conversation
we do not permit a disciple to open his mouth.”

But I see this more as an injunction for keeping peace and order in the monastery, and not as a total rejection of laughter. There is a time for mirth and a time for solemnity. Some people can not seem to take anything seriously, laughing when it might not be appropriate. There is also a kind of laughter which is not forced or deliberate, but which springs from a situation of delight or irony, which I think even good St. Benedict would not oppose.
 
christofirst said:
Laughter is frowned upon in the Rule of St. Benedict, chapter 6, “On the Spirit of Silence” or “Restraint of Speech,” which says:

“But as for coarse jests and idle words
or words that move to laughter,
these we condemn everywhere
with a perpetual ban,
for such conversation
we do not permit a disciple to open his mouth.”

But I see this more as an injunction for keeping peace and order in the monastery, and not as a total rejection of laughter. There is a time for mirth and a time for solemnity. Some people can not seem to take anything seriously, laughing when it might not be appropriate. There is also a kind of laughter which is not forced or deliberate, but which springs from a situation of delight or irony, which I think even good St. Benedict would not oppose.
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This is more of where I’m coming from. Things change drastically under monastic rule.
 
Robert_Sock said:
This is more of where I’m coming from. Things change drastically under monastic rule.
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And that’s also completely foreign to anything in the outside world. I’m sorry, but normal laypersons DO NOT need to abide by the rules of a Benedictine monastery. If you like that, go join them yourself and don’t bother us all with it.
 
dshix said:
And that’s also completely foreign to anything in the outside world. I’m sorry, but normal laypersons DO NOT need to abide by the rules of a Benedictine monastery. If you like that, go join them yourself and don’t bother us all with it.
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Nobody is forcing you to read my posts.
 
RoseMary131 said:
Have you discussed this idea with a priest?

Have you watched a baby laugh and seen sin? Have you watched a playground of happy, laughing children and seen sin? Have you watched friends enjoy laughing together and seen sin?

May God release you from the idea that His gift of laughter in the human person is a sin.
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👍 Bravo!
 
Robert_Sock said:
I’m making a distinction between humor and laughter, with the former being healthy and the latter being psychotic.
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oh, so my 1 year old and nearly 3 year old grandsons, when they are doing things like rolling a ball to grandma, or seeing grandpa dressed in a funny costume for Hallowe’en, are psychotic now because they laugh as they play.

I. DON’T. THINK. SO.
 
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