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Rejecting is Not Overcoming

6/15/2022

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It's all fine and well to reject some things because -- let's face it -- some things in life simply must be rejected outright. At the same time,  we should not confuse rejecting with overcoming. 

Rejecting involves rebuffing, repudiating, repulsing, repelling, and refusing. When we reject, we dismiss, deny, or disavow something because it is inadequate, faulty, wrong, unacceptable, or just plain evil.

Some things require little work and can be dismissed out of hand. However, for other things, rejection is inadequate. More is required. 

Things that cannot be rejected must be overcome -- meaning that they must be dealt with and gotten the better of.

Our primary purpose is not to reject the world but to learn from it and strive to overcome it.

And that makes all the difference in the world.  
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bruce charlton
6/16/2022 08:16:30

Valid point.

e.g. We cannot (without dying) reject 'the world' - therefore we cannot reject The System' - but we can strive to overcome the world and The System.

We cannot overcome world/ System, either; but it is though that striving (and failing and repenting), by-which we learn.

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Francis Berger
6/16/2022 21:15:45

@ Bruce - Yes, and since we cannot overcome world/System, it is indispensable that our striving include following the one person who did overcome the world.

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