Subgenius, discordian?
Apart from Zen Buddhism, are there any religions that use absurdist humor, self-mockery, and/or surreal, cryptic jokes as official parts of the spiritual practice, and as valued tools for enlightenment? Genuinely curious.https://twitter.com/GKCdaily/status/1068912617115316225 …
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I mean a religion with at least 25 followers.
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Talmud (2 jokes but this is - surprise - up for debate) and then literally all subsequent commentary.
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Sufism and Taoism come to mind.
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Also, the absurdist joke religion that has real and serious value in practice: Discordianism.
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Interesting... While there may not be sufficient documentation to answer this definitively, I would say that within each tradition, the 'crazy wise' always arise. It's inevitable that the trickster/jokester appears to upset everyone's 'apple cart', since the 'truth' is the joke.
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Do you not mean the 'falsity' of everyone's precious 'apple carts' that the 'crazy wise' pierce through rather than 'truth' that is a joke?
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For whatever it's worth- Trickster gods list, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Trickster_gods … .. (More about cleverness than humor.)
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".. Zuni have sacred clowns Koshare (Pueblo clowns), performing during the spring and summer fertility rites. Among the Hopi there are five figures who serve as clowns: .." via pg 78 Humor theories and the archetype of the trickster (Ana Stefanova 2012) https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol50/stefanova.pdf …
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If comedy is concerned with human foibles and non-heroic, non-virtuous characters, then as a genre it is ill-suited to the sacred, and perhaps tends to undermine it. Wasn't that one of the themes raised by Eco in The Name of the Rose?
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