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Mental Health Break (gacked from Sully).
"This multitude see the comic side of a thousand low- grade and trivial things—broad incongruities, mainly; grotesqueries, absurdities, evokers of the horse-laugh. The ten thousand high-grade comicalities which exist in the world are sealed from their dull vision. Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage," - Satan, in Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger."
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The ancient Celts knew this. If a person behaved badly, from the average Celt, up to the chiefs and kings, he would be satirized by the bards. This tended to keep their leaders on the up and up, as it was a horrible fate to have the whole tribe laughing at you.
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(Lord knows we need something cheering - have you checked out the latest news?) (Just look at Sullivan.)
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I've been trying to see what's been happening; but it's so overwhelming! I watched a clip of a young girl being shot in the chest and dying. It's just too horrible to comprehend. But yes, I'm off to sullivan country next...
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That seems like a fair assessment.
I watched a clip of a young girl being shot in the chest and dying.
Her name was Neda. (It means 'voice' in Farsi...) And good luck with Sullivan, he didn't take the weekend off.
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So I see. And now her family have been driven out of their home... how tragic.
And good luck with Sullivan, he didn't take the weekend off.
Gah! It's been an eventful weekend for sure!
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And the authorities are blaming the BBC/reporters...
Gah! It's been an eventful weekend for sure!
It sure has. I hope you're doing OK btw?