DAY 222 --- HUMOR, Who Wrote the Etiquette Bible of Humor?

What is humor?  Is there always room for humor in today's world?  Is there room for humor when serving on a mission?  Does humor take anything away from the Spirit and inspiration?  Is it a asset or a liability?  Is "loud laughter" different than a small chuckle?

In 2 Nephi 2:25, we are told that man is that we might have joy.  Is joy humor?  I Alma 41, it promises us never ending happiness.  Is happiness humor?  Can it be, or should it be? Or are we talking two different things? 

I the war chapters of the Book of Mormon when Alma wrote down that they did try all their liquors, for if it would kill a Lamanite, it would kill a Nephite.  Is that humor?

I guess you have to be in a "humorous" mood to laugh at things.  Then if you are not in the mood, then something you would have laughed at, you wouldn't have.  I recall many of my kids talking about being punchy.  It was late at night, when everyone should have been in bed, and then all of a sudden, everything was funny and made them all laugh.  Everything is funny when one is punchy.  We someone is sad, or enduring trials, almost nothing is funny and humorous.

One place you don't often encounter fun and laughter is in the temple.  The work done in the temple is serious and sacred.  There is not any place in allowance for humor while doing the sacred work in the temple.

So does that mean there is a place for humor and there are other places that should not be allowing humor.  So, who wrote the humor etiquette bible?  Were they experienced in humor, or did they get a degree in humor to be able to write that "bible?" 

I love a good joke as much as the other guy.  There are many not-so-clean jokes that are floating around.  There are good jokes, but again, who is going to say if a joke is in the etiquette bible and thus it is OK, or it was cast aside because it certainly was not OK?  Did millions of people vote on the decisions made and put in the etiquette bible? If something is not in that Bible, then it can't be funny, right?

Someone once said that if we are not laughing every day, then we are taking everything too seriously.  So Lighten Up!  Tomorrow more insights about humor, I hope.