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You guys make me laugh out loud. Thanks. Is that a sin?
Of course Mormons are dour and boring. What can we expect with all the guilt they carry. The members I know personally who are not dour and boring FAR outnumber the ones who are dour and boring – and when it comes to guilt, we’ve got nothing on the Catholics. 
I agree that the singing is sometimes pretty dull. But I’d agree with Ray that I don’t see Mormons as dour, guilt ridden as a group. I also don’t think I’ve ever heard it taught that we should ‘avoid loud laughter’ in all aspects of life.
My parents would have people in stitches with their christmas talent show sketch. It usually involved some sort of ballet dancing/muscle man, hammed up dance with balloons in inappropriate places. There was some very loud laughter! One year an older sister slipped off her chair because she was laughing so hard.
My parents are now separated (one of the sad Mormon ‘hold together until the last goes on his mission). Their christmas sketch is among my fondest memories.
I just don’t see it as a ‘literal, every waking moment’ instruction. Sorry if I’m repeating myself.
Old-Timer wrote:The members I know personally who are not dour and boring FAR outnumber the ones who are dour and boring – and when it comes to guilt, we’ve got nothing on the Catholics.
You are correct Ray. I was referring to myself when I am at church. I am bored because I do not believe. Many members are actually quite exciting. Crazy almost in their enthusiasm for fiction that they perceive to be truth. So maybe all those members who act dour are only those like me who find it all so irrational.
I think generally when we are in the midst of loud laughter, and we are honest, most of the time the thing that made us laugh loudly was inappropriate. At least that is the case in my life. So being warned to beware of loud laughter is not telling me there can be no humor but rather to be aware of what it is I am making the subject of my finding funny! DBMormon wrote:I think generally when we are in the midst of loud laughter, and we are honest, most of the time the thing that made us laugh loudly was inappropriate. At least that is the case in my life. So being warned to beware of loud laughter is not telling me there can be no humor but rather to be aware of what it is I am making the subject of my finding funny!
Again, I guess this is a way of making an ‘odd’ instruction fit our logic (and I guess I gave the example of my Dad’s ‘inappropriate balloons’), but this pre-supposes that all loud laughter only comes from dodgy humour, which really isn’t the case.
I was streaming tears of laughter the other day having read something that was making my brother laugh (not rude). It was the thought of him laughing that was making me laugh all the more.
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