If the beasts eat you anyway, irrespective of the flare, isn't this a false hope and a cruelty perpetrated by God?
Hope doesn't always pay off. I've no doubt that there are people in Aleppo who hope that the bombs and bullets will stop, but they die all the same. I'm as certain as can be that millions upon millions of people place hope and trust in God that their child's cancer would spontaneously remit, but the child dies all the same.
I agree with you to the extent that having hope is a positive thing (the alternative - hopelessness - is too horrible to contemplate). But hope that is misplaced in a mythical being is precisely the same as wish-thinking.
Boru
Hope doesn't always pay off. I've no doubt that there are people in Aleppo who hope that the bombs and bullets will stop, but they die all the same. I'm as certain as can be that millions upon millions of people place hope and trust in God that their child's cancer would spontaneously remit, but the child dies all the same.
I agree with you to the extent that having hope is a positive thing (the alternative - hopelessness - is too horrible to contemplate). But hope that is misplaced in a mythical being is precisely the same as wish-thinking.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
