Weltschmerz - or, as DUers call it, EVERY SINGLE DAY UNTIL 2009

[derby378]

Such a shame that the poor girl blew the word during the Scripps Spelling Bee tonight - but at least all of us DUers just enriched our word power a little bit more. Weltschmerz describes a lot of what I see here on a day-by-day basis.

[aikoaiko]

1. I was happy the jersey girl won

kudos to her.

[Yoda Yada]

2. I didn't see the spelling bee....

..but I remember that word from a psychology class in college. Weltschmerz= world sorrow

And that is EXACTLY how I feel when I think about America's place in the world. :cry:

(from the German: Welt=world, Schmerz=pain, pronounced "velt-smerts")

1.) mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.

:cry: Welcome to BushWorld :cry:

[derby378]

3. Or, as my wife calls it, "sentimental pessimism"

The sort of feeling where you want to down a glass of absinthe, slam the glass on the table, and declare to nobody in particular, "My God, we've got to get a Democrat in the White House."

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Well, you know, that seems to be the current zeitgeist.

We alternate between bouts of weltschmerz and schadenfreude.

[Yoda Yada]

5. And now my head hurts...(in German) n/t