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10 JUL 2004
Bliss language -- I get it
I need to apply it to the ladies I love to keep things going.http://happyoasis.com/
Happy Oasis, divine source of blissfulness and funniness, has ventured onto the Web. Her book, Bliss Conscious Communication, is an essential tool for funny lovers. Her happy talk exaggerates love to the point of funniness.
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20 JUL 2004
Tears are a danger sign
Must be funny takes serious emotions such as tears of love as a danger sign and breaks them up. What a shame. Look what we're giving up. It's hard to deny such virtuous emotions.Then the question is how to have it both ways, and mbf has an answer, which is to enjoy a serious deadpan performance in an absurd context that makes it funny. If we can operate on both levels simultaneously, we are totally into our dramatic experience, while also laughing at the comedy of it. No, we can't laugh during the performance. Do we switch back and forth? Here's a bit more of the story. Then a review, wasn't that funny? An audience helps.
Create a con job and entertainment based on the mission, exaggerating all these elevated emotions. Hey, we've got to act them out with passion to recruit the rubes. Yet we're also getting the goods and we know it.
As performance we only do it for an audience, and the rest of the time we're back to normal. Except when we're rehearsing, trying new stuff. Maybe we stay in role so we're always improvising new stuff.
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20 JUL 2004
Treat recruits as god
This game, where god is an entry-level position, lets funny people adore recruits until they're hooked, then drop them for the next batch of gods. This allows the full experience of loving someone as divine, while limiting it to a short time.The role-reversal provides a funny context. Our exaggerated emotions are funny. Our fickleness is funny. The obvious recruiting scam is exaggerated and funny.
The important part is the license to love, to indulge those heady and hearty emotions.
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