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Tom Sherman
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> On Nov 11, 10:56 am, Tom Sherman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Claire Petersky wrote:
>>
>>> You can live in Mr. Keats world, where, when you are in pain, you seek to
>>> feel better and be happier - through snuggling with your significant other,
>>> through food, through some recreational chemicals, whatever - and you feel
>>> positive about the world and see that people are good to each other.
>>> You can live in Mr. Sherman's world, where, when you are in pain, you hold
>>> it in, and don't trust others. You then feel pessimistic about the world and
>>> see mostly violence.
>>> I'd rather live where Mr. Keats does.
>> Reality stinks, no?
>
> Well, perhaps yours does. But for many of us, reality is quite nice
> indeed.
You mean the one-fifth of the world population that does not live in
poverty?
> To a certain extent, we create our own realities. You can control
> much of what happens to you.
Not in the larger scheme of things.
> And more important, you can control your response to what happens to you.
Pollyannaism lives.
--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
Tradition is the worst rational for action.
> On Nov 11, 10:56 am, Tom Sherman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Claire Petersky wrote:
>>
>>> You can live in Mr. Keats world, where, when you are in pain, you seek to
>>> feel better and be happier - through snuggling with your significant other,
>>> through food, through some recreational chemicals, whatever - and you feel
>>> positive about the world and see that people are good to each other.
>>> You can live in Mr. Sherman's world, where, when you are in pain, you hold
>>> it in, and don't trust others. You then feel pessimistic about the world and
>>> see mostly violence.
>>> I'd rather live where Mr. Keats does.
>> Reality stinks, no?
>
> Well, perhaps yours does. But for many of us, reality is quite nice
> indeed.
You mean the one-fifth of the world population that does not live in
poverty?
> To a certain extent, we create our own realities. You can control
> much of what happens to you.
Not in the larger scheme of things.
> And more important, you can control your response to what happens to you.
Pollyannaism lives.
--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
Tradition is the worst rational for action.