- Wonder why it unfortunately tends to be the case that the more benign an individual’s personal situation the typically more conducive it then tends to be towards encouraging a naive and illusory concept of reality within them - as in conversely how it is also sometimes reported that an experience of personal suffering, with all its accompanying disillusionment, nonetheless can have the effect of educating within an individual a set of personal values corresponding more accurately with reality? — Robert Lockhart
I think the OP is fine. It's raising the question whether pessimism is more realistic than optimism. — Cuthbert
Bit rotten if it turns out that the process of our ultimate education inescapably requires that first we must endure malign experience! — Robert Lockhart
Bit rotten if it turns out that the process of our ultimate education inescapably requires that first we must endure malign experience! — Robert Lockhart
nonetheless can have the effect of educating within an individual a set of personal values corresponding more accurately with reality? — Robert Lockhart
Reducing the superfluous complexity of — Bitter Crank
Peter gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were
overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great
excitement, and implored him to exert himself. — Beatrix Potter
Hanover likes sarcasm which is good, because a fair amount is aimed at him. — Bitter Crank
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