Prologue to this post:
Klaatu (played by Keanu Reeves) seeks out fellow alien at
McDonalds :-) and alerts fellow alien Mr. Wu (played by
James Hong) that all humans are to soon be exterminated
so that the aliens can make use of the Earth - a rare life-
supporting planet.
To Klaatu's surprise, Mr. Wu (who has resided undercover
with humans for 70 years) states in no uncertain terms that
he has come to love humans and wants to stay and die along
side them.
Now - here is why I am mentioning this movie:
Mr. Wu makes the statement - 'Human life is hard.'
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When I heard Mr. Wu make the statement, 'Human life is
hard,' I thought - Wow, he is right. Human life IS hard.
Coming to the point of this post, I believe that because God
knew that life was going to be hard for us humans, in His
always Good and Magnanimous Spirit, God gave us a sense of humor - and laughter.
And thus Comedians - to make sure we carry out the God's purpose
in giving us a sense of humor.
~~~
When things get very bad - we need to balance this sense of desponency
with laughter.
It works - and really - it is not only the best way to survial, I have found it
is the only way.
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:) seg
23 comments:
HYPOTHALAMIC DAMAGE & EMOTIONAL INCONTINENCE: LAUGHTER & RAGE
When electrically stimulated, the hypothalamus responds by triggering two seemly oppositional feeling states, i.e. pleasure and unpleasure/aversion. The generation of these emotional reactions in turn influences the organism to respond so as to increase or decrease what is being experienced.
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A general theory that explains laughter is called the relief theory. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and "psychic energy". This theory is one of the justifications of the beliefs that laughter is beneficial for one's health. This theory explains why laughter can be used as a coping mechanism when one is upset, angry or sad.
In other words, the opposite state to laughter is likely not despondency... but RAGE.
And Rage would relieve itself through a "physical manifestation" of the state... much as laughter alleviates physically/ spasmodically involuntarily via the autonomous nervous system???
How one reacts to despondency I would assume would be... activity.
And yes, laughter AND rage are both forms of "activity".
I suspect that "grief" ties autonomic (internal) via septal nuclei... whereas "rage" is more amygdalic (& externalized). But I could be wrong.
Limbic languages are no longer a subject of study for me.
Speed - While I was hoping that four different people commented on my post - instead I get a rather complicated and for me, uncomprehensibe comment from you.
But, Speedy, I like your comments and appreciate them.
However, later I will try to dicipher the language you speak.
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I hold with what I said: for me it is despondency/sometimes uncontrollable laughter.
I have experienced a type of rage, but that is not common.
I am somewhat in control of myself most of the time.
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Thanks Speedy for your legion of information.
I thought Speedy was a spammer at first. Then I reread the stuff and laughed my head off.
Humor is funny.
truth - you are so brilliant.
Do you realize what you just said:
Humor is funny.
You are too much.
Truth, you're not funny. So why do you suppose so many people laugh with you?
You save them the effort of inventing cruelties to impart upon their political foes... of course!
What fun!
...lazy f-ks that they all are.
Thersites - Hello.
How nice of you to stop by my
blog so that you can chat with truth.
The truth is Ther, you made my comment count go up by three, and that counts for something.
Thanks for stopping by.
Now THAT was funny!
Thanks, Titan.
I was going to say what Speedy said. Then I was going to say what Truth said. Now I have nothing to say...
;-)
Cube - How can anyone say what Speedy said?
And no one says it like the Truth.
Thanks for checking it out, Cube.
Speed - I checked out Limbic Languages, plus your other two comments.
What happened to the good old days of just a quick comment as opposed to a detailed science leseson?
Just kidding - I'll take any comments I can get. :-)
I could have been wrong... so I left you a link where you could find out (but only if you wanted to). Like I said, I no longer study neurophilosophy or the etiology of emotions.
...of course, I'm not an expert like "truth" is. ;)
Speedy - The truth is, I'm not an expert like truth is, but to tell you the truth, speed, I do like the Truth.
I know you do, Sue. Don't worry, I won't hold that against you if you don't hold my dislike of him against me. ;)
"Fiction" holds a very special place in my heart... a place where "truth" often fails to penetrate.
Speedy - The secret to getting along in this world is that no one should hold against another person how they feel about a certain person.
I like truth. You don't like truth.
I like you. If you like me it shouldn't matter if I like truth o even if you don't like him.
Some people just don't get it.
Speedy - Here is what truth vs fiction means to me:
I like the Truth. I need to live with Truth. My Soul thrives on Truth.
But 'fiction' to me means the creativity that is a deep part of my very being.
'Fiction' says that I can believe in something that may never exist for me - yet this 'fiction' allows my heart to go on - all the while knowing that it most likely is just 'fiction.'
But my heart needs to believe in this 'fiction.'
And so I continue to believe...
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