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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: E who wrote (42588)11/23/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
Hey- E,
It's nice to see you back.

I wouldn't try to understand them- it is probably a waste of your mental resources. Contemplating your navel would probably bring more enlightenment.

Of course I believe in making fun of everything- but that doesn't preclude DOING the right thing in action. One can make fun of hunger and still do everything one can to end it. If they were joking about hunger AND trying to end it- well, I could support that. But I can't support getting in the WAY and then joking about it.

For example, there is this super video out called "And God Said HA". It's tremendous. Some of the BEST cancer jokes I've ever heard are in that movie- and WHY are they funny? Because they are set against the backdrop of people who were really trying to overcome cancer. They weren't making little of cancer as it ravages the body- they were mocking cancer, they were cheating the ability of cancer to destroy the soul. Too much seriousness can destroy one's humanity- just as too much frivolity can.

And why did I go off on this tangent? I don't know.
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