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How to make meaning out of suffering

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Greatest Sin Is Disdain

A rabbi called despair the greatest sin because it's the death of hope. Do you think that's right? You have to get up again. That's the difference between, you know, a successful life end world, and an unsuccessful one. Ah, i'm all for momentary despair. I'm all against permanent despair. But i understand why people feel hopeless for oment. However, there has been tremendous progress in our world in so many ways that part of our despair is forgetting what life was like 203 hundred, 400 years ago.

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