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Originally Posted by Zeno
The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake. -H. L. Mencken
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You too!
And there is remedy which is not fake at all. It's called clarity through education, care for knowledge and the pursue of the unknown, it's called exploration. We shall never seize exploring and at the end of our exploration will be to arrive at the same place again and see it for the first time. This is the goal of science, an endless improvement of awareness and wisdom. A thousand generations looking at the moon and seeing it incrementally different, an ever emerging recognition of its true condition.
Clarity brings confidence and happiness and motivation to obtain further clarity and solve problems. Clarity builds better ethics, recognizes and improves the human condition, enables imagination to produce original synthesis that opens doors to intelligence.
In the end there are four kinds of people. Those that see the glass half empty. Those that see the glass half full. A third kind born out of the second that sees the glass filled 50% and yet with enough deuterium atoms in it to desalinate through fusion reactions sea water resulting in dozens of glasses of crystal clear water. Finally there is a 4th kind who is inspired by the visionary dreamers of the third kind but is taken down to earth by the futility eternally devastating the first kind during their depressing battle for clarity, yet somehow born out of love and persistence find the guts to fly again and deliver the dream with struggle, at last in place triumph of clarity for all 4.
This is our condition. The world is a beautiful and difficult at times place. But it is a place always worth fighting for.
Last edited by masque de Z; 12-09-2018 at 05:43 AM.