An important distinction needs to be made between spirituality in religion and spirituality as opposed to religion. In recent years, spirituality in religion often carries connotations of the believer's faith being more personal, less dogmatic, more open to new ideas and myriad influences, and more pluralistic than the faiths of established religions. It also can connote the nature of a believer's personal relationship with God, as opposed to the general relationship ...

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Main article: Chastushka. A specific form of humor is chastushkas, songs composed of four-line rhymes, usually of lewd, humoristic, or satiric content. ...

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Jokes often depend for humour on the unexpected, the mildly taboo (which can include the distasteful or socially improper), or the playing on stereotypes and other cultural myths. Many jokes fit into more than one category. Joke - Mathematical jokes. Main article: Mathematical joke There are numerous jokes related to mathematics. Many of them are in-jokes, bu ...

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Required components: some surprise, contradiction, ambiguity or paradox. appealing to feelings or to emotions. similar to reality, but not real Methods: metaphor hyperbole reframing timing ...

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Jokes often depend for humour on the unexpected, the mildly taboo (which can include the distasteful or socially improper), or the playing on stereotypes and other cultural myths. Many jokes fit into more than one category. Joke - Yo' mama jokes. Main article: The dozens. Jokes of this kind originate in the dozens, an African-American custom with West African roots in which two competitors -- usually males -- go head to head in a competition of comedic, often ribald, trash-talk. The target of ...

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The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous. For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective. By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true. Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term (the German loa ...

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Every nation is fond of this category, but in the Soviet Union telling political jokes was in a sense an extreme sport (like mountaineering): according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. A judge walks out of his chambers, laughing his head of. A colleague approaches him, and asks him why he is laughing. "Oh, you should hear the joke for which I just gave that guy ten years. An advisor asks Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev: "Leonid Ilyich, I've heard you are a great fan and collector of political anecdotes? How many do ...

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Every nation is fond of this category, but in the Soviet Union telling political jokes was in a sense an extreme sport (like mountaineering): according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. A judge walks out of his chambers, laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him, and asks him why he is laughing. "Oh, you should hear the joke for which I just gave that guy ten years." An advisor asks Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev: "Leonid Ilyich, I've heard you are a great fan and collector of political anecdotes? How many do ...

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Survival is often considered to be the overall goal of dark spirituality. Even in the physical, the survival of the individual is considered to be paramount. A process known as individuation is used to carry out the goal of survival beyond the death of the body. Individuation is the process of improving one's self spiritually to the point where the individual's consciousness survives death. This should not be confused with the psychological meaning for individuation. Some within the religion believe there is a reincarnation cycle that has to be overcome to accomplish individuation, while others believe one's spirit simply d ...

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The earliest Romanian character found in an anecdote is Păcală. His name is derived from a se păcăli ('to fool oneself') and, since this word cannot be found in any other related language, we can safely assume that he's part of pure Romanian humour. The Ottoman influence brought the Balkan spirit and with it other characters and situations. Nastratin Hogea of Anton Pann is a classical example of an urban tradesman. As Jewish people from Russia settled in the Romanian lands, two other characters joined Romanian humour: Iţic and Ştrul, a pair of cunning Jews, mainly ...

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In some parts of the world, spirits are believed to be able to possess humans and control their behaviour. ...

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For most of Russian history, humour remained an expression of the human spirit. Under the ascetic dogmatism of the clergy in medieval times, human laughter was pagan and suspicious, and political satire was considered potentially dangerous under autocratic monarchies. Though independent political satire could be extremely dangerous during most of the Soviet period, the official satirical magazine Krokodil was given considerable license t ...

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Like everywhere else, a good deal of jokes in Russia are based on puns. Of course, 95% of humour is lost in translation, but... (L) The genitive plural of a noun (used with a numeral to indicate five or more of something, as opposed to the dual, used for two, three, or four, see Russian nouns) is a rather unpredictable form of the Russian noun, and there are a handful of words which native speakers have trouble producing this form of (either due to rarity or an actual lexical gap). A common example of this is kocherga< ...

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Spiritualism in its modern incarnation started in the mid-19th century in the United States, a syncretic adjunct of largely Christian population. It is often described as Christian due to an essentially Christian moral system, a perceived belief in the Judeo-Christian God and an afterlife similar to the concept of Heaven. Liturgical practices such as Sunday services and the singing of hymns are also evidence of a largely Christian influence. Traditional Spiritualists state that they are not necessarily Christians. While they view Jesus as a great teacher and likely a medium, they do not see belief in his teachings a ...

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