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I'm kind of interested in what the concept of Heaven is for people that have faith. Genuinely interested as it's always struck me that it'd be more than my non-informed "Chill on a cloud all day", although that does sound pretty good.
Manchu wrote: Milquedawg, I hope you don't really think that the only way to laugh is at someone's expense.
I can't think of any good jokes that involve positive things happening with people's/thing's I always thought the biological reason for laughter is to help ease hardship.
Reducing social phenomena to evolutionary mechanisms, as with any overapplication of a metaphor, is a good way to misunderstand them. But that's certainly beyond our point here, which is that laughter does not always result from contemplating someone's misfortune. Have you never laughed out of joy?
Manchu wrote: Milquedawg, I hope you don't really think that the only way to laugh is at someone's expense.
I can't think of any good jokes that involve positive things happening with people's/thing's I always thought the biological reason for laughter is to help ease hardship.
Reducing social phenomena to evolutionary mechanisms, as with any overapplication of a metaphor, is a good way to misunderstand them. But that's certainly beyond our point here, which is that laughter does not always result from contemplating someone's misfortune. Have you never laughed out of joy?
Well the enjoyment is the sensation laughter itself which for me is caused from things like someone embarrassing themselves, saying something ridiculous, being clumsy, causing a mess, things failing, awkward moments, absurd/bizarre things happening, etc.
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Medium of Death wrote: I'm kind of interested in what the concept of Heaven is for people that have faith. Genuinely interested as it's always struck me that it'd be more than my non-informed "Chill on a cloud all day", although that does sound pretty good.
In supernatural, PEople go to heaven have all concept of time removed and are placed into their most treasured memories. Like Sam did when he had his first thanks giving.
I always imagined people have their own heaven.
Or I imagined heaven as a live in day spa
Manchu wrote: Milquedawg, I hope you don't really think that the only way to laugh is at someone's expense.
I can't think of any good jokes that involve positive things happening with people's/thing's I always thought the biological reason for laughter is to help ease hardship.
Reducing social phenomena to evolutionary mechanisms, as with any overapplication of a metaphor, is a good way to misunderstand them. But that's certainly beyond our point here, which is that laughter does not always result from contemplating someone's misfortune. Have you never laughed out of joy?
Would you agree that laughter does have some purpose under evolutionary theory? Even the idea of creating social concepts or participating in social phenomena are evolutionary traits (as far as I'm aware).
notprop wrote: A nice chap I was talking to online said that in heaven I'll be given 72 virgins to look after if I do some stuff now for him.
So im guessing that means I'll be given a reasonably popular games store filled with customers.
Should be a good laugh.
See even that has a bit of negativity to it as it implies that gamers aren't that sexy and that the stores aren't that popular so it still has those negative elements that I identify in a joke.
I don't know... Knock Knock jokes can be tame.
However, if Heaven's idea of consists of an eternity of tame knock knock jokes, I'm joining the Norse.
I mean, Valhalla is a bit a mess, but at least the inhabitants know how to have a good time. And unlike hell, there shouldn't be some dick trying to sodomize people with a cactus.
This guy gets it
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Captain Fantastic wrote: The only way to have sex in heaven without being sent to hell would be to have it with your spouse, who is also dead.
To quote skeevy comic book rodent Herman Vermin, "God, is it necrophilia if I'm dead, too?"
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Since marriage is only "untill death do us part" , and you have to be dead to enter Heaven (unless the Rapture happens, I suppose) you will no longer be married.
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I'm gonna go with CthulhuIsspy and join the Norse, methinks.
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well according to southpark heaven is full of Mormons as their the only true religion which you need to get in and they were all very annoyingly nice and cheery , one persons heaven is another persons hell.
If there is such a thing I certainly won't be visiting.
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Emperor's Eagles (undergoing Chapter reorganization)
Thousands Sons (undergoing Warband re--- wait, are any of my 40K armies playable?) 