Comedy and humor are different. In comedy you reveal the most stupid or ugly parts of people and impress them on others. In humor you help people understand their own weaknesses or shortcomings and take care of them.
Comedy is ugly criticism. Through comedy you can destroy the best images and lead people to vulgarity.
Under the protection of comedy you say or do things that you would never be able to say or do otherwise.
Humor is based on pure observation and using that observation to help people uplift themselves.
Comedy and jest, when they reach the level of vulgarity, are as dangerous as drugs.
Comedy slanders people, principles, laws, and standards in making you laugh. Laughter makes the slander accepted. Laughter is used as a pass to enter into sacred places.
Comedy is used very efficiently also as a political tool to disgrace people or to exaggerate their weaknesses.
People like to laugh even if they realize that they often laugh at themselves. To see oneself as is, is an advantage. To see an exaggerated image of oneself is depressive or a misleading device.
Comedy prevents your mind from penetration into reality. It prevents you from using your mind freely.
People use comedy also to hide their ugliness, or they use comedy to make people accept their ugliness. The motive behind slander is the same. Slandering others hides one’s own ugliness by drawing attention to others.
There is also a form of joking used to remove the sacredness of certain objects, ideas, and beliefs. It is the most subtle way to make people repulse certain sacred objects, ideas, and beliefs. Through certain jokes many sacred principles are destroyed.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Cosmic Questions vol.3
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