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Nihilism comes from despair, and it's not been making headlines, even if it exists in some subthreads of reddit. Humans hope. They can't help it. But they need not to be confused by some lie about "false hope." There is no such thing as false hope.
There are experts in Hope out there. Pope Francis was one of them.
Pope Francis has written an amazing book about how Hope exists in all people worldwide, with lots of concrete examples. Hope is the anchor of the soul. As he says...
Hope is a real and tangible experience. Even secular hope.
The scientific community now considers that this characteristic of the human species is one of the most powerful survival mechanisms existing in nature... it ensures that our brain is equipped with chemical targets upon which social interaction, words, and thoughts can have an effective impacet... trust, expe ctations, positive feelings move a myriad of molecules, ... this important psychological component uses the same mechanisms as medicines, activating in the end, the same biochemical paths. In short, human hope is far more than an illusion and is far more even than simple trust: It is in fact a medicine and a cure....
The scientific community now considers that this characteristic of the human species is one of the most powerful survival mechanisms existing in nature... it ensures that our brain is equipped with chemical targets upon which social interaction, words, and thoughts can have an effective impacet... trust, expe ctations, positive feelings move a myriad of molecules, ... this important psychological component uses the same mechanisms as medicines, activating in the end, the same biochemical paths. In short, human hope is far more than an illusion and is far more even than simple trust: It is in fact a medicine and a cure....
I highly recommend the book to everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(Pope_Francis_memoir)
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