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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: loneliness and humor
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 12:21:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 12:21:13 1985
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["Oh, why am I coeval with a monotheistic universe?"]

> Finally, work on your sense of humor--go see comedies,
> read humorous novels, stories, etc.; try writing some.
> Learn the art of telling jokes (the best ones are a
> bit off-color); use your imagination.

"Working on" your sense of humor is probably futile, especially if you
try to do it by telling risquE jokes and reading Twain or Bombeck.  True
humor is spontaneous.  (For examples of false humor, see net.jokes.)

From Perls, Hefferline, and Goodman, _Gestalt Therapy_ (1951):

	Consider some everyday life-situations, objects or activities as
	if they were _precisely the opposite_ of what you customarily
	take them to be.  Imagine yourself in a situation the reverse of
	your own, where you have inclinations and wishes exactly
	contrary to your usual ones.  Observe objects, images and
	thoughts as if their function or meaning were the antithesis of
	what you habitually take them to be. ...

Just a suggestion.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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