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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Re: 'Offensive' jokes, minorities, r
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Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 23:22:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 23:22:30 1984
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:Greetings:
	Re: reasons for being offended at some jokes, not others.

The human reactions to pain or percieved pain are either crying or laughing.
Which you react with, is primarily based on your perceptions as to whether
YOU are in pain as a result of the perception of pain.  The entirety of
jokes and humor is based on pain.  There is a BUTT to EVERY JOKE.  If you
don't identify with the BUTT, you will laugh that it wasn't you in pain.
If you identify with the BUTT, you will cry (at least in your heart) for
empathy with that pain.

A challenge:
		*PLEASE*, someone show me a joke which is not based on
someone else's pain.  I've been looking for even ONE example, for years.
If we can't find jokes without BUTTs, then I propose the above theorem on
humor must hold true.

WHY are jokes so popular then? are people sadistic?
				no, they aren't
They're getting used to dealing with pain, by repeately dealing with
managable levels of pain (jokes), in hopes that the preparation will
pay off in times of true crisis (pain).  Ha Ha HA HA HA....
I just lost my job, my spouse, my car, my home, my life....
Ha ha ha ha ha, all the way,
				until reality returns.

[ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4]!sun!sunny	(Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)