(August 14, 2015 at 1:07 pm)robvalue Wrote: Thank you Pyrrho
There was a cool quote on Hannibal a few episodes ago, he probably stole it from somewhere:
"The optimist hopes that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that this is true."
Drich's post does nothing to address the cruelty of allowing me to imagine an infinitely better world, one which the god is unable or unwilling to provide. He had no need to do that.
In my easily imaginable worlds, no one would be "bad" because bad, evil, harm and so on would not exist in the first place.
It comes from The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell. The original wording:
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
