There was an exchange yesterday that I wanted to comment on but the thread was quickly closed as usual due to volume before I could get there.

Someone posted that: "John Dehlin's Hearing Postponed Until Feb. 8"

Elder Berry replied:

"Too bad they couldn't do it on the 14th - have a court of love for Valentines Day."

Another poster responded:

"You are not at all funny Elder Berry"

As indeed beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too humour is all in the humerus ("funny bone") of the individual. I thought the Valentine's comment was cute and funny. So very many exmos use humour ("dark humour" as Elder Berry went on to call it) to express their feelings towards the church they left and its negative effect on their lives.

I was going to ask the poster of the "not funny" comment why he would take the time to say that but as I said, the thread closed; perhaps a good thing as I didn't want to argue about it, just that (1) I was surprised he didn't laugh at EB's post and (2) I wondered why he would bother registering his non-laughing response and especially with such a stern "voice".

Anyway, Elder Berry went on to respond himself:

Re: You are not at all funny Elder Berry

"Dark humor. I thought it was funny. I also think calling it a "court of love" is deliciously ironic.

"If it is something you love then you are falling over yourself to validate Mormonism's control of you. Mormonism's idea of love is not something for Valentine's Day.

"I wonder if one could reduce their sentence (my father was prohibited from rebaptism for a decade and he tried the first time a year after pleading guilt to child molestation in the 80s) by sending GA's Valentine's Day Card?"

I enjoy EB's irrespressible funny bone. I'm guessing it's getting him through some dark spots. If you can make people laugh you're doing a good thing. If you can laugh your way through your own tough times, that is half the battle (depending on all circumstances, of course).

Again, thanks, Elder Berry. I'm at least one person you keep laughing. And as they so wisely say: "Laughter is the Best Medicine" (for what ails ya).

Carry on. I hope.

too seriously. I love EB's humor. Just his board name makes my ex and I laugh.

It reminds me of one of my ALL TIME favorite movies. But AUNTIE! There is a BODY in the window seat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuvsfwu43xs

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> Carry on. I hope.

Thanks Nightingale. Humor is my lifeline. So much about tacitly supporting a wife and kids in Mormonism as an ExMormon is depressing and sad. I feel for Mormons.

They have no idea how their church brings so much sorrow and sadness and offers no relief. No one these days is singing praises to their church granted forgiveness that I have read anymore. Most Mormons suffer in private and tell their troubles to leaders who often don't have a passion for counseling and helping people.

Like my brother with his porn addiction, he has to go into the mists of darkness and find Lucifer's preacher to comfort him in his private battle with his morality in a Mormon mortality.

A little bit of loud laughter even in the face of Excommunication (well probably especially in this case) goes a long way.

My father suffered more from Excommunication than what he did to get exed. If he was a tortured soul from his sins he hid it well and expected to be rebaptised sooner than I would have thought someone suffering from a lot of remorse. Maybe he didn't want to feel bad and thought of LDS baptism as a reset button for him.

No, not a polygamous one, either!

Brother moose, having been authorized by Jesus Christ, I rebirth you in the name of my mother, her narcissism, and all of her other hangups with The Mormon Church being one of the most important.

In the name of her farter, her sob son that I am, and her eternal disapproval. Amen!


There, we are brothers by proxy.

That was me....
I realize my uber_deep sarcasm gets best of me most of the time.
I just loved it, and whenever I like a comment like this compliment comes out this way....
Again, it was brilliant....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2015 06:35PM by quinlansolo.

Sorry, quinlansolo. Yes, indeed, that comment did whoosh right over my head. I didn't realize at all that it was supposed to be funny, sarcastic, wry, ironic or anything but critical. It came across as very stern and reproving. I did wonder why you would bother to make such a remark. Usually if we don't think someone is funny we just move on, it seems. No need to tell them.

So, that is solved. But meantime, we get some more good posts from EB and for that I am not sorry I started this thread.

for far too long I've been told, 'that's not funny!'

Having kicked the church to the curb, and many of it's believers, I find myself laughing more and enjoying my life deeper than ever.

EB, I think your line was hilarious.

Carry on.