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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) www.howstuffworks.com This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself...good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. www.bahiker.com Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. www.jatbar.com Runned by a few ordinary people like you and me, this well-organized website has several food reviews of Bay Area restaurants. Plenty of pictures too! Check it out if you want new ideas of where to go eat. |
| WHY THIS WEBSITE EXISTS: To share and stimulate thought and insight on life issues |
| Quotes: Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. -- Yogi Berra Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. -- Josh Billings Seven days without laughter makes one weak. -- Mort Walker Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. -- The Talmud The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. -- Bill Nye To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 (Bible) The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: How much do you tend to laugh to cope with stressful and painful situations? a) I find myself often laughing or thinking of something humorous as a way to relieve myself in stressful or painful situations. b) I find myself laughing or thinking of something humorous once in a while during stressful or painful situations - but it depends on how bad the situation really is. c) I don't find anything worth laughing about, particularly during bad situations. It's usually too much of a hard time to think about humor. |
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| If you have any comments, suggestions, thoughts, etc. about this website, please email me by clicking here. Thank you for checking my website! LSC's BASEMENT: Here's another personal favorite this month. Going back a bit but my favorite movie from 2004: Spider-Man 2. Next month, I'll share my favorite movie that I saw this year. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| How are you doing? Sorry for running late with this month's update...the topic for November is the same as last month's on laughter, but the focus this month is on why laughter is a coping mechanism for difficulties in life. Lik-See, 11-27-05 Just a few thoughts and reflections of why laughter can be used to deal with hard, stressful and even traumatic situations: -because laughter is a surface-level expression of what we want to deeply feel and experience, namely joy and happiness in life. When we are faced with difficulties that threaten or are perceived to threaten our joy and happiness, laughter is a reflex to affirm to ourselves and others that our joy and happiness are still intact. -because laughter is an expressed belief that there is some meaning, purpose and even lesson behind the turmoil and tragedies we go through but can't easily explain to why they happen. -because laughter is an effort to have some mental and physiological outlet - when we find little else to bring us relief - to express how messed up life feels at times. -because laughter is a form of telling others in a round-about way how much we are hurting inside and wanting others to show sympathy and empathy to us in our trouble and distress. -because laughter is a real or perceived tranquilizer - something that makes us feel good and helps us drown out our misery and the hard facts of reality we don't want to face up to. -because laughter is a way to safeguard our emotions from spiraling (further) down into anger, bitterness and resentment, believing that we stand a better chance controlling our emotions than our circumstances (or not). -because laughter is a way to convince and assure ourselves that the bad that we go through is not all bad, but that there is a glimmer of hope - that some good will come out of what we are experiencing. |
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| Laughter: the best medicine? |
| Just a random, final thought: I wonder if laughing as a coping mechanism occurs mainly when we're at the spot between us realizing our pain and hurt is too much to simply ignore (we have to take it seriously) and us being at the point of despairing hopelessly at pain and hurt we can't handle (becomes too serious for us to cope with on our own)...I wonder if laughing then is a way of avoiding the position of where we say , "I can't handle and cope with this; it's hasn't gotten to the point where it's too much to bear" A lot of websites out there promoting laughter and humor as a healthy way to live, particularly from a physical standpoint. Click here for an example (not a personal endorsement). |