Joker Face

[Fake Messiah]

Why do so many religious people want to have the joker face?
Scientologists seem to force the religious grin. Like when you see them, or their testimonial videos, they look like they must be super happy or they will get in trouble with the upper echelons.



And even Leah Remini said that every Scientologist is spying on each other and writing so-called Knowledge Reports if they see non-Scientology behavior among Scientologists - like if they're out in public somewhere and some Scientologist doesn't laugh enough or doesn't look happy enough.

Also, nuns are frequently known as having a smile carved into their faces so that even when they are not smiling, they look like they are smiling because they have those smiling wrinkles across their faces.

But what also prompted me to open this topic was seeing how women of the Westboro Baptist Church also have that glowing smile on their faces. I'll try to put some screenshots from the documentaries by Louis Theroux.



In fact, they are totally ecstatic as they wait for doomsday and sing songs about how cancer is the best thing in the world, how Jews, gays, Muslims, and everyone who is not them must be murdered and tortured.

So although there is a song that goes "if it makes you happy it can't be that bad" - it can in reality be that bad.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Joker face' is an excellent description. These people look less like they're trying to save souls and more like they're plotting to kill Batman.

Boru

[Sal]

'Joker face' is an excellent description. These people look less like they're trying to save souls and more like they're plotting to kill Batman.

Boru

Kenneth Copeland, and his little band of mischiefs springs to mind. He's completely psychotic all the time.

[no one]

Apparently, once you feel the holy spirit come inside you, it's wall to wall smiles.

[onlinebiker]

It's what "nutbag crazy" looks like....

[Angrboda]

Duping delight is a particular micro expression a person will display that betrays a sense of enjoyment they are getting out of controlling and deceiving another person. It is a very important expression to watch out for in catching dishonesty in a person. In fact it is a form of body language pretty much exclusively reserved for pathological character types such as psychopaths.

The phrase was coined by the psychologist and body language expert Dr Paul Ekman and was defined by him as “the pleasure we get over having someone else in our control and being able to manipulate them”.

Duping delight most often manifests as a grin or a smirk which will flash across a person’s face, and is usually completely inappropriate to the situation or the topic that is being spoken about. The psychopath is either about to lie, or is lying to someone and they are believing it, and the smirk is a leaked expression of pleasure that they are getting away with it.

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[Nay_Sayer]

Wanna know how I got these stigmata scars?

[Fake Messiah]

This also reminds me of Robert Crumb talking about how his father was a depressive psycho who smiled all the time (but not at home).

[zwanzig]

@Nay_Sayer Good Night, Nay Sayer! That is horrifying.