Do these things with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, not with much laughter, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and a cheerful countenance
Doctrine & Covenants 59:15
How do we judge between “much laughter” and “a glad heart and a cheerful countenance”?
I personally suspect that part of it is volume of sound (getting overly raucous or boisterous) while another part is volume of time (spending too much of our resources on frivolity and things of no lasting merit) and still another consideration is a matter of being genuine (forcing laughter to cover up less pleasant things, to make light of more serious things, or to downplay the negative perspectives of others).
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