posted October 31, 2009 05:05 AM         

Plenty of people can't do silly. I see that everyday. I see it here too. Silly I understand.

Emotional and mental health and no sense of humour. Yes, I can see that connection as well.

posted October 31, 2009 07:15 AM         

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posted October 31, 2009 08:18 AM         

i've often thought about this as well.

from my own personal experience, i have come across people with zero sense of humor. they can't let themselves go and be silly. they get offended or confused if you say something funny. they don't get sarcasm at all. like if i say something funny/sarcastic, for example if someone yawned at work, and i go, ooohh out partying at the clubs last night! these types would be quick to get all defensive and say no i don't go out partying. i'm tired because i couldn't go to sleep. or something like that...

however, some of them eventually became my best and closest friends. i discovered probably the reason why they were so humorless was because they had a lot of hurt in their life. one was bullied by kids growing up. one was just not able to get along with other kids all that well and was just very abrasive towards others.

posted October 31, 2009 08:54 AM         

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I know some people think to be spiritually inclined, you have to be all serious, but I think the opposite.

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I agree. Most people also believe that to be evolved and enlightened and to have "arrived", you have to be all positive and not even glance at the negative or the dark. What they don't know is that it doesn't help to have a segregative/separatist/isolationist frame of mind. This is a world full of polarities, not acknowledging one side of a polarity doesn't mean it doesn't exist. No light equals shadow equals scary.

What I know is that we have to acknowledge both ends of the spectrum, and then make a choice as to which part we want to align with. We don't need to devalue the part that we don't resonate with, because doing so only gives it power and makes us more attracted/attractive to it, hence even more likely to experience it.

To get back on topic, laughter raises our frequency and we know that joy is supposed to be the natural state of man. We humans have just been so accustomed to making life serious and complicated, so we now tend to discount anything simple and fun to be anti-life.

posted October 31, 2009 12:15 PM         

There are times for seriousness though, there's nothing wrong with that. They can be useful and "spiritual" in their own right as well. And just because someone isnt laughing along with you constantly, doesnt mean they are too serious. Maybe they just don't find you funny or are going through a more somber time in their life. There's no way of escaping our spiritual beingness, light or dark periods and all. One isnt better at their spirituality because they can pointlessly clown around all the time or laugh more than another. It seems to me some people are avoiding things by doing so.

posted October 31, 2009 12:27 PM         

for instance here at LL i find myself at a loss because of lack of IT skills! while some are good at written humour others use their bodies to convey it, etcetcetc.