"(British psychologists did an experiment) where participants were given stories about cruelty or violence, which, not surprisingly dampened their moods... but those who read stories about acts of kindness reported a greater belief in the overall goodness of humanity.... hearing about the kindness of others makes you happier and protects you against what some researchers call mean world syndrome, an anxious outlook caused by an overestimation of the world's dangers." - Reader's Digest, Feb 2024, page 38
Mean World Syndrome is a phrase I just read last night for the first time.
It describes those in a dreadful panic over *climate change*, atheism, and man-hating *feminism*.
Compare these state-of-the-art scientific findings with Philippians 4:8, from 2000 years ago:
'...whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
For several years, I have been passing out these slips I print out twenty at a time to store clerks helping me, and to occasional strangers I meet in public places: