Robert
Monroe on
Humour
I recommend you to watch 3 good old american movies about the
non-physical life (Afterlife): "Between
Two Worlds", "Guy named Joe", "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" !
This is the opinion
of a non-human being about human humour (these 2 words: human and
humour sound almost the
same, means that humour is originated from humans) on p.47- 50,
"Ultimate Journey" by R.Monroe:
I asked the INSPEC if
I could be shown one nonphysical, nonhuman
intelligence which I could talk with easily. Somewhat to my surprise,
my friend offered to lead me to one and we set off through the
darkness. In what seemed only a moment we flashed into a space filled
with stars. Just below us was what I recognized as our moon and in the
near distance was the huge blue and white marbelized globe, the Earth.
I looked around. Where was this super-nonhuman intelligence? Reading
the question, the INSPEC told me to look
behind and above.
I was astonished. Just twenty feet above me and stretching for what
seemed to be miles was a huge, circular, saucershaped object, a typical
"flying saucer" as so often described, but a thousand times larger.
Much too big to credit—but as I had that thought, it shrank
instantly to some two hundred feet in diameter.
Then a door in the bottom slid open and a figure . . . a man . . . a
very human-looking man, emerged and walked—
yes, walked, across to where I floated. As he approached, I recognized
him. Short, round, and chubby, dressed with a
sort of shabby gentility and wearing a gray top hat, his nose red and
bulbous, his mouth a leering grin, he was an exact replica of the star
of so many comic movies I had enjoyed in the physical when I was
young—W. C. Fields!
This replica, projection, hologram—whatever it was—
spoke like Fields as well, with the same intonations and repetitions.
He invited me aboard, and showed me into what appeared as a large,
domed room with pictures on its walls of every comedian I had ever
heard of, and many more of whom ; I hadn't, together with thousands of
scribbled jokes and cartoons. He described all this as his cargo.
I framed the question in my mind.
"Cargo? What do you
mean, cargo? And," I continued, "you can drop the impersonation. I can
take you exactly as
you are."
"You really mean it, don't you . . . But I'll keep it if you don't
mind. It helps me to think like a human. Or would
you prefer someone else? Groucho Marx, perhaps?"
"No, no. Stay as you
are. Tell me, what are you doing, hanging around Earth?"
"My boy, I'm an exporter."
"I see. What do you have
that we need—apart from this spaceship?"
"I must have used the term wrong. I export from here, not to, my
friend."
"What possible thing
could we have that is valuable to you? You're obviously way ahead of
our technology. You use
thought communication.
We have nothing you could want or need."
He scratched his nose. "Well, sir, it's not easy to get it, but I do,
yes sir, I do. We don't have any, and you can't
imagine how valuable something is if you don't have any."
"Don't have any what?"
"I've been gathering it for ages. It used to be very rare, but there's
more of it about now."
"You've lost me."
"Sometimes you need to know the civilization to understand it, that's
one of the problems."
"I still don't see . . ."
"You humans have it, and it's very rare and valuable among the rest of
the intelligent species in what you call the physical
universe—and elsewhere. Very rare and valuable, sir. I'm a
specialist in collection. You don't understand, I see! Let me explain."
"Please do."
"It's a
one-in-a-million product and you humans have it. A sense of humor!
Jokes! Fun! The best tonic there is for
overloaded mind
systems. It auto-erases the tension and pressure almost every time it's
used!"
"So you cruise
around among us looking for the newest and latest . . . ?"
"Exactly! You humans catch sight of our collection units every now and
then and get the wrong idea. You even make
UFO jokes about us! All we want to do is look and listen—
nothing else. Apart from the odd practical joke—just to keep
in training. And now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I must be on my way."
Suddenly I found myself outside the spaceship, which was rapidly
diminishing into the far distance. I homed in on my INSPEC friend, who
was waiting
for me in the deep darkness.
Now
I knew that at least humans have one unique quality."
Fun articles from Inet
The Madness of Copyright
Земля
эмоций (Original Animation
about a 100% Positive Planet and one of us turning up there, LM)
http://earth-chronicles.ru/news/2012-01-18
(Worth watching! It's about how one of us gets to 100% Positive Planet!)
Оригинальный и смешной мульт вдобавок содержит в себе много информации
для размышления. Так ли плоха Земля и эмоциональность, а так же
индивидуальность ее жителей. Особенно той части жителей, которые не
хотят смотреть на мир по данным кем-то шаблонам и так ли уж хорошо,
быть такими, как все...
Residents change Chinese town name
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2012/01/21/Residents_change_Chinese_town_name_709654.html
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Things have come to a productive end for residents of a remote Chinese
hamlet who campaigned to have its name changed from Dog Sht Village.
Now, according to UK newspaper The Sun, the settlement in remote
Guizhou province will be known as Jinxin, meaning "prosperous and
happy."
The original moniker arose when residents noticed the spot was so
inaccessible only dogs used it to relieve themselves, the paper said.
From there, it was a hop,
skip and a bark to police, local and government officials calling
it that. "Gradually it became what everyone called us," said one
resident.
The catalyst for the name change by local governors was the
construction of a road linking the town to the outside world, leading
villagers to claim
they needed a designation that was more dignified and less pointedly
descriptive.
Is it a bird, a plane or a microwave?
Friday, December 30,
2011
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/12/30/Is_it_a_bird_a_plane_or_a_microwave_702099.html
Fridges might fly and beds fall from the sky as residents in
Johannesburg's Hillbrow district see in the New Year by throwing broken
furniture on to the streets below. South Africa's police will send in
helicopters, armoured vehicles and special units Saturday night to
patrol the unruly area, which has earned a reputation as a trouble spot
at the turn of the year. Every year a dozen-odd people among those who
dare to venture outside on December 31 are hit by crashing objects
thrown out of high-rise apartment blocks - everything from televisions
to kitchen appliances. 'We throw the old stuff because we got new
stuff,' said computer repairman Dickens Patwell, a 24-year-old
Zimbabwean, who had himself once tipped a bed over his balcony. People
toss 'many things, like electrical stuff,' added his friend, fellow
Zimbabwean James Thomas. 'Microwaves, broken stoves, televisions ...'
the 26-year-old welder told AFP in a bustling Hillbrow street, as
minibus taxis hooted loudly for passengers and vendors sold vegetables
on the footpath. 'We don't throw things during the year, we can't
afford to buy new things then,' he said..."
Birds-Entertainers on Youtube