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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
there’s this weird implicit belief in western culture that “joking” is the opposite of “serious” - it’s particularly weird because that’s not how eg actual comedy works at all. george carlin just said a bunch of stuff he really believed
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
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fascinating quote from an anthropologist realizing that people from other cultures can have a sense of humor about their spirituality reddit.com/r/AskHistorian
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
feels like some kinda judeo-christian hangover 🧐
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Hormeze ❤️‍🔥🥲
@hormeze
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in seminary they told us not to joke about god because "one joke can erase a thousand torah's (teachings)". I think they were right, a joke can indeed be more powerful than a thousand lessons.
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Swamp Yankee
@ndwpdx
i should say: ridicule is a bladed weapon don't use it despite god don't use it because of god use it, if you're gonna because reasons, and remember god
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Zizek once said something like, you don’t become a Marxist by reading Marx, you only read Marx if you are already a Marxist. So how does one become a Marxist? Internet memes.
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Hormeze ❤️‍🔥🥲
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When I did MDMA therapy I said this over and over again while laughing for a while
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Hormeze ❤️‍🔥🥲
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter." - Alan Watts
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