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In the Urantia Book

Primitive men have no capacity for humor due to their serious nature and lack of need for reversion activities. 48:4.16 66:5.29
The sense of humor was the legacy of the Adamic race, Andites, greatly influencing the present-day races with joy, play, and laughter. 48:4.13 63:4.2 74:6.7 78:5.8 80:5.7

Humor is most hearty when it depicts one's supposed superiors falling victim. 48:4.13
Genuine religion exalts all true humor and imparts new values to play, illuminating human fellowship within religious groups. 99:4.1
Humor serves as a vital safety valve, preventing overwhelming pressure from prolonged self-reflection amidst the challenges of personal growth and truth, offering insight and relief. 48:4.18
Humor reveals the absurdity of our concerns, offering relief from present anxieties through a focus on future certainties. 48:4.6
Humor helps us overlook present anxieties in favor of focusing on future certainties. 48:4.6
Humor is the divine antidote for our self-glorification, making us take ourselves less seriously. 48:4.15
Humor functions as an automatic safety valve to lessen the shock of unexpected facts or truths. 48:4.18
Humor on Urantia serves as health insurance by preventing injurious nervous tension and as a liberator of emotional pressure, allowing for rejuvenation through relaxation and a backward glance. 48:4.19

Angels, of spirit nature, share in our nonsensuous emotions and sentiments, appreciating and greatly enjoying our real humor. 38:2.1
The beings of the Joy of Existence seek to improve humor taste and promote joy among angelic hosts and lower will creatures. 28:5.16
The Reversion Directors promote relaxation and humor through reversion to past memories, aiding in mortal progression in the local universe. 30:3.7
Celestial humor is rooted in our faith in God's loving overcare and the belief that all things work together for good. 48:4.7
Even the higher spirits in the transition spheres engage in reminiscent humor while recharging spiritually in the enormous edifices used for recreation on the morontia worlds. 44:3.4
Humor in the celestial realms never accentuates misfortunes of the weak and erring, but instead embraces reminiscing, lightening current worries, and finding joy in prophetic assurance. 48:4.1-7
Our humor encompasses reminiscent, current, and prophetic types, never mocking the weak or divine, but finding joy in past memories, present uncertainties, and future certainties. 48:4.4-7

Humor on Urantia is a reflection of past experiences, serving as a liberator of emotional pressure and preventing injurious nervous tension. 48:4.19-20
Urantia's humor may be vulgar and unkind, but it shows a comparatively keen sense of depicting one's supposed superiors falling victim to experiences associated with inferiors. (48:4.13,19)

Jesus’ rare good humor shone brightly amidst his profound understanding of human emotions. 129:4.4
Jesus greatly regretted that the Jews lacked a sense of humor. 156:2.8

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.