-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Measl wrote:
>Truth is seldom funny. Oh? I'm not so sure, actually. Ever hear of Schopenhauer's incongruity theory? He says that humor arises when the seemly and logical abruptly dissolves into the low and absurd--the amused response is a recognition of incongruity between representation and a concept; we encounter a situation where a particular representation is "thought through" a concept which is in every other respect incongruous with it. Thus, the sudden apprehension of the unexpected incongruity produces an amused response. Another interesting observation from Schopenhauer that Nietzsche took and ran with: "humor as the only divine quality of man". Read what he had to say about the Spirit of Gravity...here's another bit from Zarathustra: "I bade them laugh at their great masters of virtue and saints and poets and world-redeemers. I bade them laugh at their gloomy sages and at whoever had at any time sat on the tree of life like a black scarecrow. For in laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss." Something to think about. ;) ~Faustine. *** To be self-sufficient, to be all and all to oneself, to want for nothing is assuredly the chief qualification for happiness. - - Arthur Schopenhauer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjxLWGYXHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8X8 YgCfYMevUrgJRNOAGGhk2FWxBwfJf6oAnj3JQtETrjzBPIOSYQi4Ttxp8cOZ =60eB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
