Oftencold
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First let me define two kinds of hope.
The first is based in your faith in another. For instance, your upstanding grandfather tells you that he has left you a goodly sum in his will. Having "hope" in that promise is all well and good, again based in the character of your grandfather. I'll call this Greater Hope.
The more common usage, refers to little more than wishful thinking and self delusion. I'll call this Lesser Hope.
I abjure you to eschew Lesser Hope. Try not to even say "I hope that the weather is good for the picnic." If the weather is important to your plans, plan for the various possibilities. Hope is a waste of time and energy, as sets one up for endless, corrosive disappointments.
Accept that things tend towards chaos and evil, and that people as a global whole are vile more often than they are enlightened and just. If you'd have things otherwise in your own life, recognize that great effort will be required to make such things a transitory reality. Nothing will mark you as prey for the legions of nefarious people on this planet more readily than and optimistic outlook full of baseless Lesser Hope.
Nature is definitely hostile towards Lesser Hopes. Most of the cute fuzzy baby things she makes she feeds to things like maggots and bacteria, which she makes in far greater numbers.
You might have been corrupted by destructive modern, I suppose that we must call it "thinking," in which overweight and under-disicplined children are given colorful pablum about the "need for hope" to make life bearable. Nonsense. Nature gives us many gifts that make life bearable, most notably instinctive terror of the alternative and the suffering attendant upon its acquisition.
So you might be wondering what could fill the void left by a mature rejection of Lesser Hope in all its insidious forms. Fortunately, I have found an answer. Look about you. Consider your fellow human beings. Their trials. Their needs. Their potentials. Their plots. Their Greed. Their pettiness. Their indolence. Their many hatreds. The tiny amount of motivation that it would require for many of them to nail your door shut in the night and burn your house down with you and your family trapped inside. Live for spite.
(It is possible that I'm being sarcastic. Then again, maybe not.)
The first is based in your faith in another. For instance, your upstanding grandfather tells you that he has left you a goodly sum in his will. Having "hope" in that promise is all well and good, again based in the character of your grandfather. I'll call this Greater Hope.
The more common usage, refers to little more than wishful thinking and self delusion. I'll call this Lesser Hope.
I abjure you to eschew Lesser Hope. Try not to even say "I hope that the weather is good for the picnic." If the weather is important to your plans, plan for the various possibilities. Hope is a waste of time and energy, as sets one up for endless, corrosive disappointments.
Accept that things tend towards chaos and evil, and that people as a global whole are vile more often than they are enlightened and just. If you'd have things otherwise in your own life, recognize that great effort will be required to make such things a transitory reality. Nothing will mark you as prey for the legions of nefarious people on this planet more readily than and optimistic outlook full of baseless Lesser Hope.
Nature is definitely hostile towards Lesser Hopes. Most of the cute fuzzy baby things she makes she feeds to things like maggots and bacteria, which she makes in far greater numbers.
You might have been corrupted by destructive modern, I suppose that we must call it "thinking," in which overweight and under-disicplined children are given colorful pablum about the "need for hope" to make life bearable. Nonsense. Nature gives us many gifts that make life bearable, most notably instinctive terror of the alternative and the suffering attendant upon its acquisition.
So you might be wondering what could fill the void left by a mature rejection of Lesser Hope in all its insidious forms. Fortunately, I have found an answer. Look about you. Consider your fellow human beings. Their trials. Their needs. Their potentials. Their plots. Their Greed. Their pettiness. Their indolence. Their many hatreds. The tiny amount of motivation that it would require for many of them to nail your door shut in the night and burn your house down with you and your family trapped inside. Live for spite.
(It is possible that I'm being sarcastic. Then again, maybe not.)
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. I don't mean anything by it, just looking for advice and words of wisdom from people with a lot of experience in life. 
