When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta. In seventeen fifty nine. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire published a satirical novel about a young man and his tutor. Panglass, the tutor,
Instructs the student candid. That they live in quote. The best of all possible worlds. As the story unfolds, Candide witnesses war Disease, natural disasters, torture, and death.
Pangloss encounters many of these tragedies himself. Yeah. No matter what happens, He continues to insist that everything is unfolding.
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