I CAN LAUGH WHEN THINGS AREN'T FUNNY
Kuru (aka transmissible spongiform encephalopathy) is a fatal neurodegenrative disease associated with the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. One of its symptoms is uncontrollable laughter. It turned out that the Fore practice of cooking and eating the bodies of their dead in order to free the spirits of their deceased relatives. Remarkably, the disease has an incubation period of anywhere from 10-50 years, which meant that even when the Fore abandoned cannibalism, kuru didn’t disappear until about 2010.
Or did it? Check out the YouTube video link below. It features the Trumpvangelical prosperity gospel huckster Kenneth Copeland, of Lubbock, TX. Makes you wonder what he and his congregation have been eating for lunch.
(And damn, come to find out that this is the same guy, recording as Ken Copeland, who had a minor hit in 1957 with “Pledge of Love” – a song I actually liked, and which you can find on YouTube if you care to look.)