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Josher
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14 Mar 2008, 3:00 pm

Humor causes a lot of benefits but it also causes problems. We shouldn't experience it if it's not important to our survival. But what exactly is humor? Is it a signal notifying us of weird activity? If it is then why do we fell better after experiencing it? Why does it have an influence on us that could cause violence or peace? This is something I wanna know really bad!


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14 Mar 2008, 3:06 pm

Josher wrote:
Humor causes a lot of benefits but it also causes problems. We shouldn't experience it if it's not important to our survival. But what exactly is humor? Is it a signal notifying us of weird activity? If it is then why do we fell better after experiencing it? Why does it have an influence on us that could cause violence or peace? This is something I wanna know really bad!


I think one of the purposes of humor is to release stress or tension.



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14 Mar 2008, 5:45 pm

People are hardwired to like humour. Life's comic reliefs are always welcome.


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16 Mar 2008, 6:18 am

homour is the best thing ever. it's great because it's so versatile: I could laugh at an innocent joke, or I could laugh because the guy with crutches just fell down a flight of stairs.

No matter what mindset you get into, humour always follows you. *hugs humour* :D