Ever noticed that "diarrhoea" also says "dire rear"?
Why do we become so happy that we loose control of our breathing, and sometimes even fall over, when we come across words that contain more than one meaning in a joke?
We usually call it laughter.
Adamic provides the first rational explanation for humour, and it’s a very simple theory.
The theory is that it is the language spoken in heaven, and that as heaven is such a euphoric place, when we catch a tiny glimpse of the multitude of meanings found in the language of heaven, we instantly become happy. And not just a little bit.
While explaining jokes isn’t very funny, for the first time, we seem to have an explanation for why jokes containing word plays make us so happy that we instantly smile and laugh.
Interestingly, Jesus said that no one comes to Earth unless they came from heaven in the first place (John 3:13) and the Qur’an says that God said to everyone, get down there for a while (Surah 2:36 & 2:38), suggesting that we actually recognise the language of heaven, because we have been there before, and the memory of it makes us happy.
(Even more interesting still, there’s a prophecy in the Bible saying God would return a pure language to Earth and another saying that God has chosen the foolish things, the word plays found in jokes, to confound the wise people like scientists. You’ll see how on this blog later on.)
