Pandora's Box: Is Hope good or evil?

[the_bob_delusion]

Discuss.

[bluecat*dancing]

It depends what you are hoping for.

[the_bob_delusion]

Well, I'm more refering to Is having Hope good or evil. 

[poddster]

Hope coupled with inaction is akin to blind faith.

Both are counter productive emotions

[**meep**]

must be bad.....why else would it be in the box with all the other evil things....

[ca04]

a world or life without hope is but a dead end.

[the_bob_delusion]

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@**meep** wrote:

must be bad.....why else would it be in the box with all the other evil things....

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I kinda agree. I gave someone plus their wife hope today about their son's condition. Maybe that's not a good thing. 

[joz*garage]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

must be bad.....why else would it be in the box with all the other evil things....

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I kinda agree. I gave someone plus their wife hope today about their son's condition. Maybe that's not a good thing. 

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yes, that could lead you to a negative emotion - disapponitment, if the condition of the son doesn't improve

[cherry*135]

Are there different types of hope?

False hope - is hope built entirely around a fantasy, a hope that has no knowable chance of coming to fruition.

Not good.

Ordinary hope -  hope you win the lotto, hope it doesn't rain tomorrow, hope you do well in your exams (need to study as well though!).

No harm done for this type of hope.

[the_great_she_elephant]

1 Corinthians 13:13

King James Bible
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

or

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For there are these three things that endure: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.