Speaking as a therapist, with a developed sense of empathy, and humor so dark the American police would shoot it, I think it’s possible to sustain both through awareness and choice
SBA #242 Sins and Virtues
Submitted 1 month ago by agent_nycto@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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essell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I walk that line very well. Dark humor helps me cope, and when combined with self-awareness, at least in my experience, allows me to keep my empathy/sympathy muscles well maintained. That is to say, making the dark joke with the awareness of its darkness allows me to continue to feel empathy. I dunno if that makes sense, but that’s how it works in my head and I continue to have an incredible sense of empathy, sometimes even to my detriment.
essell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, that fits with my experience. Well said.
NathanDerWeise@feddit.org 1 month ago
Do you make these yourself? Are they quotes from something?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t make any of the SpongeBob Adventures, I just find them and try to post one a day! I think these quotes are just from random people on the Internet.
Bloodshot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thx for finding them! They’ve certainly been entertaining
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thank you for posting these, I only saw the 7 sins and virtues ones. Also props to always answering this question on like every one lol
Furbag@pawb.social 1 month ago
I fucking love this squidward meme lol
Zensate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Truly
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Well, any world where you have to resort to dark humor to stay sane, deserves only ridicule and lack of empathy.
dsilverz@catodon.rocks 5 weeks ago
What when dark humor is self-deprecating instead of deprecating others? For example, this drawing I made, in which there's humor from mixing esoterica/occult (alchemical transmutation/metamorphosis) with ornithological behaviors (owls eat rodents) being read by my self-avatar (i.e. a projection of my self) in self-loathe (imagining oneself as a rat/mouse to become dinner for owls). Perhaps one would call this "grim humor" because it's a subtle Memento Mori, but it seems more of a dark humor piece, a piece I had some legit laugh back when I made. Drawing pieces like this is my attempt to stay sane while trapped into an insane existence.
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.worldAttachment: hel1.your-objectstorage.com ↗WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
My mind is blown
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love dark humor and I don’t care what you think/ feel!
Stolas@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hasn’t happened yet. I still unfortunately feel empathy for even people I probably shouldn’t.
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All humor is dark humor. Name a joke that doesn’t revolve around someone’s pain?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Knock knock jokes. Puns. Fart noises. Picture of a pee pee.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hah… pee pee
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Knock knock jokes: the pain is you have been made to look foolish. You did not expect such an obvious trick.
Puns: how do people react to puns? With anger. People tell puns to get that reaction from people. The pain is how cringy the joke is.
Fart noises and penises. Embarrassment at a social taboo. Something private is now public and shame is the pain of the joke.
UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 1 month ago
absurd humor maybe. sometimes puns and that kind of stuff.
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How do we as a society react to a pun? With hatred and anger lol. There’s the pain. People who enjoy telling puns also enjoy that reaction to them.
The pain is how cringey the joke is.
Sordid_Seraphim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Knock knock.
Who’s there’s?
On first.
On first, who?
No, Who’s on second, What’s on first.
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a reference to a joke purely around frustration. That’s the pain in that joke. Extreme frustration and confusion.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This troll mfer got the whole thread feeding him!
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aren’t trolls supposed to rile people up and start arguments? I had a pretty peaceful conversation with a couple people. There’s nothing here to even be angry about lol.
But okay.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The majority of jokes aren’t around pain. Don’t conflict your own limited humor with everyones.
Here is one:
There are 2 pizzas in the oven.
Says one of the pizzas: “It is getting warm, isn’t it?”
Says the other pizza: “EWW, a talking pizza!”
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You added the word eww for no reason then? A pizza in an oven having sentience… Or just the classic “oh you shocked me”
jafra@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I love those wisdom pieces. Thank you
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love this