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Cynicism

The Cynic Within
Everything is so weary and tiresome! No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not conten.
Ecclesiastes 1:8

"A word of kindness and a loaded revolver will get you a lot more than a word of kindess alone." Thus thinks the cynic.

The cynic flatters himself or herself a hard-eyed realist, a down-to-earth, unfazed, practical person of experience—especially in comparison with "the idiots who maintain some kind of fool hope or optimism." The cynic has been there, done that, and been disappointed. Won't do that again—no way! Won't feel that way again—not on your life! Won't be tricked into hope—too street-smart for that. The cynic has learned that when the person with experience meets the person with money, the one with experience usually ends up with the money, and the one with money ends up with experience.

The cynic pretty much knows it all—if "knowing it all" were confined to this side of the sun. "Under the sun," all is vanity ...

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