Moments of silence

[Kamilian]

Have you ever had a moment of silence (like it was for like September 11th, or when that one space shuttle exploded 2 or 3 years ago), and everyone is silent and suddenly you just want to laugh for no reason?
And have you ever actually burst out in hysterical laughter?
I'm wondering because for a moment of silence for those people that died in that space shuttle explosion 2-3 years ago, at our school, I was literally shaking trying to stop from laughing out loud. I felt bad but for some reason I couldn't help it!
Anyone else have that kind of experience? Or am I just a weird and horrible person that will burn in hell for all eternity?

 

[The Condor]

Yeah we were forced to have one on 9/11 and I am pretty sure when the spaceship exploded. Someone did burst out in laughter (during the first one)and got suspended though. Also, yeah I have done that before. On the last one I can't say for sure.

 

[plarq]

Well, sometimes you're shocked and silent, sometimes you feel sad but you just can't help laughing. It's not a sin.

For 9.11 I felt shocked and sad, and a little angry during the next week, and all went back to normal.

For space shuttle I felt sad for a little while, and back to normal in about a minute.

Moment of Silence (Physics Version)

Quantized vibration: E=(n+1/2)hw
n=0 --> Silence
So: the moment of silence is square root of (mhw)
Am I right?

 

[Simon Darkshade]

No, I have never burst out laughing in a solemn moment of silence, nor been forced to have one.

Randomly laughing out loud for no reason is, at the least, eccentric.

 

[North King]

I have had the urge, but always suppressed it.

 

[plarq]

I have the urge to sing a requiem, though (even though I don't know how to sing a requiem).

 

[Birdjaguar]

Or am I just a weird and horrible person that will burn in hell for all eternity?

Yes.

Empathy for people who you don't know or don't care about is not a natural thing for everyone. Wanting to laugh may just be the way your body deals with a disconnection between what you actually feel and what other people tell you you should feel. Don't worry about it.

 

[The Condor]

Empathy for people who you don't know or don't care about is not a natural thing for everyone. Wanting to laugh may just be the way your body deals with a disconnection between what you actually feel and what other people tell you you should feel. Don't worry about it.

Like me. I rarely (if ever) care about other people I don't know (especially in movies since it is not actually happening to the people it is just actors).

 

[bombshoo]

One time for like the 2nd or 3rd anniversery for 9/11I was at school, and happend to be going to the bathroom during the moment of silence, it was alittle awkward...

 

[Atlas14]

Empathy for people who you don't know or don't care about is not a natural thing for everyone. Wanting to laugh may just be the way your body deals with a disconnection between what you actually feel and what other people tell you you should feel. Don't worry about it.

Exactly. I usually manage to suppress laughter, but I always have a smile on my face when everyone else is looking down and is solemn. I kinda like moments of silence though, because I usually do feel really bad for the people who have died, even though I usally don't know them personally.

 

[Caprice]

I can't say I've ever had that particular problem (especially in regards to Sept 11 or the Columbia disaster), nor have I ever been "forced" to observe a moment of silence. In occasions where everyone else was silent and I didn't really care I would just zone out and do something entertaining in my mind.

I do, however, sometimes randomly and spontaniously break into laughter.

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

For some reason my school had a silent minute a day or two after 9/11. I felt with those who had died, or rather for their friends/family, but couldn't understand why a Swedish Gymnasium would hold a silent minute for them. I almost laughed out of pure confusion but as it was only a minute I managed to stay quiet.

 

[El_Machinae]

Learning to control inappropriate responses is a part of becoming an adult.

 

[Caprice]

Learning to control inappropriate responses is a part of becoming an adult.

I'm in trouble then.

 

[jeriko one]

Coupling had an episode about this subject. It was in a funeral.

I laughed(not quite loud) once in a moment of silence in a conference. It was not horrible nobody understood.

 

[LLXerxes]

At school every morning we have a minute of silence to give people time to pray (seperation of church and state my ass) where I occasionally find myself making noise.
I've engaged in casual conversation
I've burst out laughing (got in big trouble for that one)
I sharpen my pencil

In the end, only my wacky crazed science teacher makes a fuss about it.

 

[Joeb WK]

In the U.K we seem to have an awful lot of minutes silence's for various reasons, any way for the record I've never felt like laughing during oneof them although I have had to hold in sneezes neumerous times.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I've never had the urge to do something like that during a moment's silence, but I do sometimes realise how weird the situation might seem to some random stranger who didn't know what was going on.

Especially during one time during my second year at school when we had a minutes silence for something. During a swimming class, in our swimming gear sitting at the edge of the pool. Very odd.

 

[Kamilian]

Learning to control inappropriate responses is a part of becoming an adult.

damn lol
then i'm immature


when we had that moment of silence for the spaceshuttle i felt some sadness but i dunno - it was only on a very very small scale that i felt that sadness. especially when compared to the 9/11 one - w/ that i was maybe not necessarily in shock but in deep sadness. but w/ the spaceshuttle crash, i dare say that i didnt care that much.

and ya i remember that coupling episode about it (both the british and the short-lived american versions). that was funny and ironic

 

[Caprice]

but w/ the spaceshuttle crash, i dare say that i didnt care that much.

I think the only reason I cared so much about the shuttle thing is the fact that I believe it signified the begining of the end of the shuttle program. I guess the fact that I also watched the Challenger blow up on TV as a kid didn't help any.

I just really hope that whatever replaces the shuttle is good and is soon. I don't want those pesky Chinese passing our score on the hisograph ya know.