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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the nice, experienced, kind people posting in this thread (1700 and 1729):

Where have you been?  We have been needing you here.[/quote]

Seriously? you need to kill any hope? You sound just like Alighieri. The sign over the gates of hell.. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here"[/quote]

1. You can't make sound decisions at a critical time blinded by false hope.
2. Some people can handle the truth.
3. Dante was a theist.[/quote]

ad 1. What is a sound decision anyway when you are so sick and possibly dying? Why do you need to be rational when your existence is ending? Every person is different in the face of death. If there is something that can help and there is a hope, what is wrong with hoping? How do you know when the real hope ends and false hope begin, in death or otherwise? Life and death, sickness and health, all unpredictable. You never truly know when hope is false and when it is not. If it was guaranteed, you would not need a hope. Many hoped against the hope and they were granted. Was it because they hoped, would it happen if they did not hope? Nobody can be sure but lots of people experience miracles daily, with extended hope of their own and help of others in the form of prayer. So, nobody knows. Why  stomp on hope if this is not your hope but a dying person. Let them hope.

2. Hope and truth are not mutually exclusive. You can handle the truth and yet you can hope for something that is hopeless. You can think that it all ends with death, and you may accept it but at the same time  you may hope.  Nothing wrong with it. Why do you think that handling the truth is morally, ethically or intellectually superior. Even if it is, what difference does it make.

3. Or was he? You certainly must know everything about his times and if you do, you should not be so sure.[/quote]

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