"This isn't the worst we've had. But it is my first cannibalism." -- Sheriff J.B. Smith of Smith County, Texas, who arrested a guy for killing his girlfriend. Cops found her ear boiling on a pan atop his stove, and human flesh on a plate on the suspect's table, with a fork stuck in it.
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Okay, fair's fair. The next time someone goes off on a rant about the sad, sad evil of aborting darling little fetuses, I'll crack some amusing jests about sticking a fork in the remains and having them for lunch. Or the next time a Muslim blows up some bystanders, I'll speculate about whether the resulting barbecue was halal or not. I'm chuckling just to think of it.
"And isn't the Eucharist ritual cannibalism?"
Cannibalism = eating dead human flesh.
Eucharist = eating eternally living flesh; fully human, fully God.
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I admitted it wasn't very sporting of me.
But there is such a thing as gallows humor ...
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And then there is of course Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, if you can grok it.
Posted by: Eric W | January 8, 2008 9:01 AM
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Yes, indeed I do grok it. As a side note, I think it could be argued that RAH's "Stranger" had as much to do with the emergence of the neoPagan movement as did Joseph Campbell's works.
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Eucharist = eating eternally living flesh; fully human, fully God.
Posted by: Max Schadenfreude | January 8, 2008 2:08 PM
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I'm reminded of another Heinlien quote, "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."
Larry, the American Heritage definition of "gallows humor" might serve to support your apologetics for this thread: Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation
However, ever-helpful Wikipedia supports my impression that "gallows humor" is allowable because it is created by the person who is suffering--in its original form, the person about to be hanged.
Gallows humor is a type of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations such as accidents, wartime events, natural disasters; often in circumstances where death is perceived as impending and unavoidable. It is similar to black comedy but differs in that it is made BY THE PERSON AFFECTED. (Emphasis mine.)
If Julia Sweeney tells some jokes about having cancer, it's courageous and edgy. If I know that you have cancer, and take the opportunity to crack myself up laughing at your pathetic condition, that's just crude and heartless.
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