https://freerepublic.com/tag/forboding/ en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:12:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2107202/posts Surveying the Abyss Those who know me best have little doubt: I am irrepressibly optimistic. Not naive, mind you — at least from my perspective — but whether by personality, disposition, or faith, I am wont to believe the best about people, and circumstances, and the future. I drive my wife nuts, she being of a decidedly more pessimistic bent. But I must confess of late to a recurring sense of foreboding, about a great many things. Now, prognosticating about the future is a fool’s game, to be sure; a review of most any futurist’s predictions invariable shows a... The Doctor is in https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2107202/posts#comment Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:12:32 GMT