SELF HUMOR AS POWER

Humor allows you to make fun of yourself as well, so you don't think you're too important.

If your friends enjoy self-humor, they do not put themselves over you. Humor puts friends on the same level.

Friends who are on the same level will find it hard to try controlling one another.

Religious leaders/pastors who can laugh at themselves will find it hard to control others unnecessarily.

Parents who can laugh at themselves will find it hard to be overpowering in raising children.

Children raised in a home where humor is used daily will be well-rounded psychologically and will be able to see through control scams, as they learn to see the sad building blocks of the super ego in the "psychic vampires" who seek to control them.

That is also why it is hard for people who have been heavily controlled by others growing up, either due to religion, bad parenting, sexual abuse or physical abuse, to see through the Watchtower as the cult that it is, because they have learned to FEAR and OBEY such self-appointed authorities. In this case they have to learn about human nature and control mechanisms and then see it at work in the worlds around them for the first time in a different light.