On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:56:31 -0800, Dolores
 wrote:

>Michaelashouse wrote:
>
>> Dolores wrote:
>>
>>>Skinner1{at}hotmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>That there is a silver lining.
>>
>>
>> I'm quite surprised you (of everyone
>> here) don't see the truth of that saying.
>
>There is no truth to that saying. Things happen, good or bad. You can
>choose how you react to the world, but to assume that there is a
>positive to every negative is blind superstition. The death of a loved
>one has no silver lining; pain, hunger and humiliation has no silver
>lining. That my life is good after having experienced these things is
>not the direct result of experiencing them, which is what the "silver
>lining" superstition would tend to indicate.
>

Being a man who has always believed that everything is on the bell
curve I would disagree.

Now, if you ask me whether I believe everybody get's to see that
silver lining I will emphatically tell you Absolutly NOT!

Look at your bell curve. In ANY sample there is ALWAYS going to be a
top 1% and a Bottom 1%. There is no changing that fact. Some
individual samples will migrate across the curve.... some never move.
Is it the fauly of the sample?? Who knows. That's where the throey of
Fate comes into play.

>A silver lining mythology is consistent with the belief that "what goes
>up, must come down", ie that there is some sort of automatic balancing
>system in play, that affects everyone personally. Having a long run of
>bad luck doesn't mean that you're due for a break. Believing is luck
>keeps people down more than it offers any ray of hope; since life is
>inherently unfair, you must take action wherever possible to help ensure
>that is any positive opportunities come your way, you can avail yourself
>of them. This doesn't by any means mean that by working hard, you can
>definitely change your fortune, nor does it mean that lazy self-centered
>indolent thoughtless stupid people won't get ahead. Because life is not
>fair, and there is no silver lining.
>

Nope. Not fair one little bit. WHen I was a younger man I used to say
"Fair is what you are willing to accept". To some extent I still
believe this. But fair situation are as rare as hen's teeth!

So what you eventually settle for as fair has little to do with true
fairness.

>> "There is nothing either bad or good, but
>> thinking makes it so."  ~Shakespeare
>>
>> - Michaela
>>
>> That there is fairness. That if things
>>
>>>are bad, they will get better.
>>
>>



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