Distance Learning Assignment 2: Video Response

 1. What is the Divine Sense of Humor? 

 Humor means the ability to see through things. A person lacks a sense of humor if he cannot see through things. A person who has a sense of humor can look through a window easily. The world to them is like a window. It is transparent. The words he hears and sees mean something else to them. Some people have a sense of humor and others do not.    

  

2. How does it relate to the class discussions about sign and symbol? 

When he talks about certain gestures such as a handshake or a kiss, it can be a sign and or a symbol. When you shake hands with someone it can be physical and spiritual. When you shake hands with someone there’s a sign of physical and spiritual connection because it represents a symbol of friendship. Shaking hands by yourself is nothing. A kiss to someone is a sign physically and presents affection or love towards someone if that person returns the gesture. Fulton talks about Einstein and what E=MC2 means. He has a sense of humor. It is not just that equation. To him, E (energy) equals M (mass) times C (Speed of light) squared. Fulton gives other examples of how the little things that we see represent more. A sunset is a revelation of the beauty of God. Not just a sign meaning that its morning. A snowflake is not just a little white spec that we see around Christmas time. It is a tell tale of the purity of God. In class we talked about how a sign just gives you a minimum direction of what it’s saying. A symbol is a deeper meaning of what it actually is. It relates to what Archbishop Fulton Sheen mentioned about seeing things for more than what an object or word is or does on the surface. We should see it for something more.