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   Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 07:35:50 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

   Cynicism is easy. It asks nothing of you or the world. Cynicism delights in despair.

   Hope is brave. Hope takes work. Hope makes you take responsibility for doing your part, however small, to steer the world toward where it should be.

   Do something brave. Have hope. And then do your part.

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     JWcph, Radicalized By Decency (jwcph@helvede.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 07:36:49 JST JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

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     @fraying Exactly. Hope is action oriented 👉 https://aeon.co/essays/true-hope-takes-a-hard-look-at-reality-then-makes-a-plan

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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:54:39 JST Iron Bug

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     @fraying exactly vice versa.
     criticism is hard work of mind. it takes knowledge, analisys and critical thinking. it's scientifical method.
     hope is a blind confidence in something. it does not need any mental efforts, any knowledge and it has not any real basis. that's religious bs and it's delusional.
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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 01:49:54 JST Iron Bug

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     • Iron Bug
     @fraying that's all you have to say to me, believer?
     though, I've never expected anything else from religious morons. they have never had any explanations. idiocy is always like that: if someone disagrees morons get agressive and that's all. they're incapable to discussion or arguing.
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     Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 01:49:55 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

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     • Iron Bug

     @iron_bug Oh fuck off.

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     shuro (shuro@friends.deko.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 02:23:18 JST shuro

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     • Iron Bug

     @iron_bug @fraying Cynicism and criticism are not always the same thing :)

     Cynicism is often blind, of "this shit doesn't lead to immediate benefit so it is doomed to fail, why bother" variety. It is easy indeed but it doesn't help anyone or anything.

     Constructive criticism usually preceded with hope. If you don't believe something can be good you won't bother looking into it and trying to see flaws and if it is possible to avoid them and make it better. It usually requires someone not to be cynical because why spend your mental resources if you don't care? Cynics don't do that.

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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 02:34:23 JST Iron Bug

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     @shuro @fraying you said "you believe anything is good". but the only working way is to _know_ anything is good. to get sure, to check facts, to read, learn, think and make conclusion it is really good, beliefs are senseless.
     and criticl thinking imminently leads to cynicism. I misread the word, I admit. but cynicism is the direct consequence of active thinking and analysis of facts. it comes from knowledge.