Humor in Science and Theology

As you wrote, humility leads to more wisdom. A person humiliated by life is more willing to forgive. That is why it is better to insult an old man than a young man - the young man is proud and wants revenge. Young men often lack humility and therefore seem to lack wisdom.

Conclusion: to become wise, we should allow ourselves be humiliated. Just live and make mistakes, that makes you wiser - but also sometimes hurt because it is the hard way to learn.

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23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, ā€œGo up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!ā€ 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.

Psalm 22:11-16 would also be a bad option.

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ā€œWhen one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. Thatā€™s how doors work.ā€ ā€”Unknown in Readers Digest

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I think itā€™s actually ā€œRevenge is a dish best served coldā€. Iā€™ve seen it paired with whatā€™s best served hot but donā€™t recall what that was.

Yes, thank you. Another omission. Iā€™ll fix it.

On the theme of redeployments of non trained specialties (aka, us) for hospitalist during the Covid pandemicā€“Glaucoma Fleckens had a funny take when they imagined all of us joiningā€“
The ICU Redeployments - YouTube

Another one that makes a lot of laughter. Of course, these are stereotypesā€“ortho is a really sought after specialty, and you have to have outstanding marks to get in.
Ortho Admits Patient To Medicine - YouTube

Amazing how just his facial expressions and simple props capture the essence of the various specialty stereotypes. The psychiatrist was especially good.

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Time change . . . :face_with_monocle:

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I ought to or someone more clever should be able to do something with that and med school applicants today, and that both of my parents were whole body donors and my wife and I are too. :thinking:

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(What is the significance of the apparent eyeball looking thing at the bottom between the shovel handle and the corner of the building and above the word ā€˜medā€™ in the caption I wonder. Some kind of mark of the cartoonist?)

ETA: Yes:

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This cartoonist has a collection of things they hide in their cartoon each day, ranging from an eyeball, a flying alien, a shoe, a smoking pipe, a crown, a stick of dynamite, etc. Next to their signature they put a number which corresponds to the number of ā€œhiddenā€ items in the cartoon, some of which are not all that hiden. This one just has a ā€œ1ā€ and so the eyeball is the only one is this cartoon.

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Ah, I see the pipe and the stick of dynamite additionally right off in yours, but Iā€™m not seeing #4 unless itā€™s K2.

Yeah - Iā€™m not spotting #4 either (unless itā€™s the ā€˜K2ā€™). The pipe, the stick of dynamite, and the eyeball are all there.

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Is that a duck inside the gravediggerā€™s lamp?

The little handle on the side of the candle flame? Yeah I couldnā€™t make that out. Nothing about it says ā€˜duckā€™ to me visually.

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Thatā€™s just to adjust the wick, not that Iā€™m all that familiar with using kerosene lamps. There is a handlebar above the man in the apronā€™s lip though. :grin: Could the window on the lamp be a slice of bread?

Handlebar mustache? That looks normal enough on him! I guess I donā€™t know what all might qualify as a hidden thing.