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when life gives you lemons...
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When life gives you lemons

We need to start first with asking ourselves what this conversation of lemons is.

If we are to begin to examine the philosophical roots and entymology of "lemon," per se—and the question, of our time, whether the societal approach and reaction of "lemons" is to procure "lemonade—"this question in itself must be a crucial element of our examination of the issue at large (how it might fit into the lemonadum, as several prominent thinkers have thus been calling it), and it is imperative we understand and acknowledge that this inquisiton is not, as it could seem, a simple and prefunctory element that stands in isolation in the world of men, but is rather a reaction, and, in a sense, the natural precursor to a world that, in essence, is a world of suffering—of the dharma, as Buddhist thinkers propound—that we live in the world that is inherently and firstly a world of pain, a world in which the chief desires in life are promptly spurned, discarded and waylaid by the cruel hand of providence—Ad astra per aspera, and then to the earth of our sins.

If we embellish on this concern, we might be able to approach a full debate.