with your Religious or lack of Religious beliefs?
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Please be respectful.
2007-09-03 11:05:01 · 8 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Zalem!!
((((G.P.))))
Julia, no love for me baby? tisk,tisk...
2007-09-03 11:18:48 · update #1
((((((so12gods))))))
2007-09-03 11:25:10 · update #2
Jack, hang in there bro!
2007-09-03 11:42:09 · update #3
we laugh at ppl's misfortune ! for example when we see someone fall while stepping on a Banana peel!
looks funny enough - right??? but by laughing we have only revealed our most miserable side! character = none! just ignorance! we can apply this quote in soooo many different categories!
I agree - ((((John)))) :))
2007-09-03 11:21:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Holy cow! I never heard that quote before, but I think it is SO right on! I guess Goethe knew his stuff.
The main thing I laugh at is pomposity and piety. By "piety," of course I don't mean the due respect you give God, but I mean that hot-house piety that is mostly for show and nothing else.
What might that be saying about my character? I hope it says that I find pomposity and religion-for-show comical. The holiest people I ever met not only had a side-splitting sense of humor, but were also the least pompous and pious.
I think the Gospels give us a hint about how Jesus must have had a sense of humor too. All the times they quote him as saying "Verily I say unto thee," or in more normal English, "Truly I say this:", I think just prior to that, Jesus had the apostles in stitches, laughing about life and religion and especially their nemeses, the Pharisees. It was like Jesus saying through the laughter, "But seriously now....." before he went on to say something important.
2007-09-03 18:09:26 · answer #2 · answered by Acorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Veeeerrrrry Intersting John O! Veeerrrrrryyyy Interesting indeed!
2007-09-03 18:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a good one to bring up with..
A lot of people laughed when others were doing something that was considered not beneficial in some perspective..so they laughed...but actually, no body would agreed the earth is round after it was confirmed that it wasn't flat...so while a person was laughing...they would not know if they were missing something they didn't have thought about...
2007-09-03 18:15:40 · answer #4 · answered by - 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Then my character is that I find laughable what other people find laughable (that is, I find merit in that which is often dismissed, and dismiss what others find has merit)
2007-09-03 18:09:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favourite one along that line:
"A man may be known by the quality of his enemies".
-Oscar Wilde
2007-09-03 18:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jack B, sinistral 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
A man should be judged by what he gives not by what he receives.
Albert Einstein
2007-09-03 19:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by Zappster (Deep Thunker) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok, you want seriousness, I'm a joke...LOL
HI
2007-09-03 18:09:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋