What I've learned about giving in to cynicism and despair is that it has no bottom. It never reveals anything. It becomes an excuse for not helping, for ultimately narcissistic self-reference and poor-me-ism. It can be seductive & pseudo-sophisticated but we can choose to say No.

Apr 12, 2022 · 12:15 AM UTC

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cynicism always struck me as lazy and halfway-informed
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Thank you for sharing. What I’ve learned about feelings of cynicism is that they are a sign that hope and frustration have collided within me. These feelings are often brought on by an unbalanced diet of news of political turmoil and government malfunctions. I’m reminded to …
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✌🏼☯️🙏🏻🤍resonates/Ms. Marianne, 🙏🏻 I’ve been in this pattern(knowing better)since end of 2020. A few things are calling me bk✌🏼as I can Spirit(&loving earthly & heavenly angels gracing my path have loaned me bits of wisdom/asking how can I help?
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Yeah but then u become vulnerable to scapegoating. I think its a little more complicated than that.
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Refusing to vote for Dems and wanting to build a strong 3rd party is not cynicism.
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The passage from this book always gives me hope! I made this years ago to remind me.
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"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell." -Historian Dierdre McCloskey
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❤️🙏🏼💕
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And yet it too is part of the human experience. All positive feelings all the time is unsustainable, all negative feelings just drags you down. People need a balance of positive tension and negative stress that equals a satisfying living.
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