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"Individuals who can do things, no matter whether
good, bad or indifferent or outrageous, simply because they're
fun — an individual who can freely and with a clear heart do
things because they're fun is a very sane person. And he'll be
in good shape. And the amount of laughter which a person
laughs — which is, by the way, not your harmonics of laughter.
Laughter, you see, has a number of harmonics down the line.
Rather upper scale laughter: a person, he laughs, he doesn't
laugh because he's embarrassed, he doesn't laugh this way and
that, he laughs because he thinks something is funny. And if a
person laughs fairly often, and is very easy in that laughter,
you got a sane man in your hands.
"And they just go downscale and laugh less and less and
less or laugh more embarrassedly or compulsively or
obsessively, more and more and more, as we get clear down to
the bottom.
"Person down at the bottom doesn't laugh at all. He doesn't
live, either. He just lies there, a lump of energy, being
mass, meaning and no mobility. He's not even a symbol
anymore.
— L. Ron Hubbard The Phoenix Lectures |
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