On certainty vs. hope

[yuretz73]

I am thinking about a very important :) philosophical question: what is fundamentally better, a phantom hope of victory, or a certainty of defeat? Because when you are still unsure of the outcome, you are absolutely convinced that certainty, however dire, is going to be much better than the indefinite state. But once you know that all is lost, you

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[yuretz73]

Yes, but defeat itself is the greatest dissapointment!

[yuretz73]

Huh! But it has also been said "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities." Of course, when David wrote this, his main hope was in vain, his son still died despite all prayers and penitence...

[krablebums]

Ничего, что я по-русски

[yuretz73]

Я просто с фейсбука это скопировал, где больше стараюсь писать по-английски, поскольку у меня там три четверти читателей англоговорящие. Переводить на русский было лень