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cachukis

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4. In light of that line, I have concluded,

Reply to sir pball (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:39 PM

Mar 19

everyone always does the best they can at the time they are doing it.
Have yet to find an argument against it.
The best of all worlds is always. Regardless.

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I read a small book in my AP French class in high school, and it's colored my look on the world ever since. [View all] sir pball Mar 19 OP

Perhaps it is referring to the multiverse, parallel worlds etc. lostincalifornia Mar 19 #1

No...you should read the book. sir pball Mar 19 #5

I wasn't being serious. lostincalifornia Mar 20 #23

One of my favorite books ever! n/t Greybnk48 Mar 19 #2

If you want to be cheered up, listen to Leonard Bernstein conducting the Overture to Candide fierywoman Mar 19 #3

Funny and devilishly difficuly. soldierant Mar 20 #18

Do you know Kristin Chenoweth's version? fierywoman Mar 20 #22

In light of that line, I have concluded, cachukis Mar 19 #4

Have you read the book? sir pball Mar 19 #6

No. I came to my conclusion sans Voltaire. cachukis Mar 19 #9

Didn't Candide and the doctor dine on Cunegunde's (Sp?) buttock? Ponietz Mar 19 #7

I'm pretty sure the woman with one buttock soldierant Mar 20 #15

A friend's mother like to tell her kids (and me) that "everything happens for the best". greatauntoftriplets Mar 19 #8

what does that even mean, "everything happens for the best" Skittles Mar 20 #17

I agree. greatauntoftriplets Mar 20 #19

reminds me of people who are "always happy" Skittles Mar 20 #20

I always want to slug the people who argue that you have no reason to be unhappy about something. greatauntoftriplets Mar 20 #21

Re: wondering why so many of our parents' generation spoke in platitudes Donkees Mar 21 #27

That quote belongs in the trash along with "Everything happens for a reason." raccoon Mar 20 #25

it sounds like religious nonsense Skittles Mar 20 #26

I think Pangloss was voicing an opinion edhopper Mar 19 #10

I believe it comes from Leibniz. Warren_Pointe Mar 19 #11

Yep, it's Leibniz, creator of calculus, binary arithmetic, statistics, and other stuff. hunter Mar 19 #12

Indeed we must (you made me smile.) soldierant Mar 20 #16

Voltaire was relentlessly satirizing nave optimism and shallow platitudes through the character... Ol Janx Spirit Mar 19 #13

As An English Major, I Wrote One Paper on "Candide." I Can't... ColoringFool Mar 20 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Mar 19 #14