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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian

I can't help but notice some hardcore members of this forum - and I won't lie, its mostly the religious ones - seem to be losing their sense of humour and I don't mean lightly...MAJOR sense of humour loss going on. We are getting to the point where we can't poke fun a things because its offensive and well...I want to poke fun at things!

We are here together, not as two warring factions debating a treaty but as friends, and good friends can laugh at you, you at them, and everyone is fine with it.

I have noticed when I mock some peoples views, I get people telling me I shouldn't be so abrasive, and rude. However when I express my views, which aren't always very PC, I admit, I still get seven bells of hell ripped out of me and no one says a thing!

I don't think that's fair! I take most of these things in good humour, 'cause if I didn't I would be a hypocrite, but it's NOT funny any more.

I have the right to laugh at your silly beliefs, if I believe them to be silly.

Just as you can laugh at mine, but there is a serious undertone to the laughing as well, because ultimately mockery is a form of questioning the perceived authority.

If we can't make fun of beliefs we think are stupid, then how can we truly grow as a community?