What is humour?

   I'm not sure. So in a humours mood I offer up the following video link, which my daughter showed me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDso5ElFRg 

   One of the things that this video pointed out to me was the danger of spiritual development becoming reactionary. Reactionary impulses are bound to be destructive because we are primarily reacting to something that is in ourselves, denying it, and projecting it on to the other. It is very hard to avoid this when it is mild.
   This may or may not contribute to a questioning  of humour: a nonhumorous joke:
   Have you heard the one about the Imam, the Rabbi, the priest, the yogi, the monk, and the Aboriginal.  ... Ok, so a true-Muslim, a true-Hebrew, a true-Christian, a true-Hindu, a true-Buddhist, and a true-Shaman meet up together due to fortuitous circumstances. And because they were all good esotericists they deeply knew where the others were coming from. They decided to work together and they accomplished great things for the world.
  I had further fun deciding what a true-politician is, a true-garbage man is, a true-doctor, a true-photographer, a true-solider, a true-policeman, a true-criminal, a true-terrorist, and finally a true-mental patient would be. I even found a living example of a true-solider. Well, he is dead now: Daskalos, Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis, also known as Spyrous Sathi. He did a lot of good in the war on Cyprus for people on both sides and never intended to killed anyone and actually didn't kill anyone.
   So humour can be an opportunity to see things in a new light and find enjoyment in what can be a sorrowful world.