Pollyanna

[Carrie]

Occasionally, this comes up like it's a bad thing. "Don' be a pollyanna".
Don't look for the good and be glad and grateful and appreciate what we
have. Be miserable and create more misery? What's the point of a life like
that? I think what they might be trying to say is don't gloss over problems
and not deal with them. But, dealing with them by focusing on them, and not
seeing the good and positive and what one DOES have which might actually do
some good in feeling better and creating better. Falling into the depth of
despir because "it's how life is" isn't really productive. Finding something
good, no matter how tiny, to build on, seems much more productive (in life)
Pollyanna is online (many places) one:
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/pollyanna.html
I think I have posted the link to this and witten about it before and it
was ignored.
Which is okay, just because others don't agree (and talk about it)
doesn't mean they are wrong. Everyone is creating their own life (and
overall, in the context of that, the world around them) and can certainly
create it any way they want.

[Sidney Lambe]

On talk.religion.course-miracle, Carrie

Post by Carrie
Occasionally, this comes up like it's a bad thing. "Don' be a
pollyanna". Don't look for the good and be glad and grateful
and appreciate what we have.

I am not surprised to learn that a Pollyanna doesn't know what
a Pollyanna is.

Pollyannas are willfully blind to anything they consider
negative. They pretend that such things don't exist.

Therefore, very real and important challenges are not met. After
all, how can you feed the 15,000,000 or so children that die of
starvation every year if they can't possibly exist?

They are the ultimate bigots.

I believe that people are basically good. That doesn't mean I
am blind to the fact that Carrie is, at the moment, a mean and
ignorant religious fanatic.

[Carrie]

Post by Sidney Lambe
On talk.religion.course-miracle, Carrie

Post by Carrie
Occasionally, this comes up like it's a bad thing. "Don' be a
pollyanna". Don't look for the good and be glad and grateful
and appreciate what we have.

I am not surprised to learn that a Pollyanna doesn't know what
a Pollyanna is.
Pollyannas are willfully blind to anything they consider
negative. They pretend that such things don't exist.
Therefore, very real and important challenges are not met. After
all, how can you feed the 15,000,000 or so children that die of
starvation every year if they can't possibly exist?
They are the ultimate bigots.
I believe that people are basically good. That doesn't mean I
am blind to the fact that Carrie is, at the moment, a mean and
ignorant religious fanatic.

Well that's good. No one would want you to be blind to what you are
choosing to see.
And I do think people can look on the good side of things and go in the
direction of the positive (what they want) AND feed the starving children at
the same time.
Seeing there are 15,000,000 or so starving children isn't exactly
feeding them and helping them, is it?
If you want to get technical, going by statistics, if all these
children (and adults) are dying of starvation, and more from AIDS and a few
more thousand from being bombed, and how ever many are dying from cancer,
who is having the 15 million or so children each year to die from
starvation? They aren't gowing up to reproduce and adults living where they
are starving wouldn't be fertile and able to carry a pregnancy to term. I
have seen commercials on TV looking for donations that say even more, like
so many millions are daying per day (of starvation, or disease- from where
they live and their way of life. I guess the innocent ones who are
slaughtered by US bombings don't count) If so many people are dying in these
countries, and so many children die, or don't gow up healthy enough to
reproduce, where are all the children and people coming from? Seems like at
some point it would cancel itself out.
Anyway, I understand your point, people have to see a problem to try
and resolve it. But, they can see it and resolve it from the solution and
not seeing "the problem" and dwelling on THAT and never doing anything else.
I think you are saying you believe in negative motivation and if someone
feels good, and happy, and positive and like they, pesonally are thiving and
doing okay they WON'T care about the needs and problems of others?
I see it the other way around. Someone who sees the good, positive and
possibilities is more in a position to help than those who dwell on the
problems, in a negative way.
But, to each his own, of course.

Post by Sidney Lambe
Sidney Lambe / Evergreen - usenet4444 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
Solitaire Wiccan Priest - Spellsinger Wicca
http://tinyurl.com/63zc9bh - http://tinyurl.com/7vs9zb
All will be well. All manner of things will be well.

[Sidney Lambe]

On talk.religion.course-miracle, Carrie <***@charter.net> wrote:

[snip]

Carrie? I am not going to let you bitch at me again. Why do you
have a cow when someone criticizes your religion?

Oh ye of little faith!

You are boring.

You are as boring as ACIM is misleading.

Christianity stinks to high heaven, whether it's called
Catholocism or A Course In Miracles.