How Can I Laugh When Nothing S Funny

How Can I Laugh When Nothing’S Funny

I am confident that you will hold dear and utilize the knowledge and resources in this reading material and that these principles will continue to resoundingly ring in your heart and mind, holding you together so that you will not fall apart and sink to that sunken place that depression prepares for you. The battle will always remain between your two ears and in your heart, impacting your mind and your emotions, but have no fear. You possess the power of mind to overcome. Perception and perspective both matter, and both of these qualities can determine the difference in your response. You will always be challenged, but you will get through and win!

Inside Jokes

Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.

Thirty Something (Nothing's How We Dreamed It Would Be)