ridicule

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man__ weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. _ A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.

Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

If you think it__ offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it__ ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago and killed them using hydrogen bombs? These are all religious beliefs of others, but that doesn't mean calling them ridiculous is an insult - it's an objective fact until proven otherwise.

Indeed, not all attacks__specially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin__re offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Chapter 4,__rganised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief_, uses Zizek__ (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse. The central argument of this chapter is that organised abuse has come to public attention primarily as a subject of ridicule within the highly partisan writings of journalists, academics and activists aligned with advocacy groups for people accused of sexual abuse. Whilst highlighting the pervasive misrepresentations that characterise these accounts, the chapter also implicates media consumers in the production of ignorance and disdain in relation to organised abuse and women__ and children__ accounts of sexual abuse more generally.