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Too pessimistic! 🙂
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Haha
Maybe we should be pessimists
How are you?
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I guess I’m probably a realist . So I know that there are elements of life which create pessimists. I, however, prefer to be an optimistic . . . (I believe it might be referred to as ‘burying your head in the sand’)?
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It is good to be an optimist. Though pessimism, in my view, is living closer to the facts
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Optimistically pessimistic 😉
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I agree with his statements, but most people would call me a pessimist. Pessimism gets a bad rap and I don’t understand why people (in the US) think it makes you a bad person. It’s simply a lens to view the world and nothing more. It certainly doesn’t define my “moral” character. I just don’t expect things to work out fine and dandy all the time.
Upon further thought, I think the reviling of pessimism in America might be for religious reason. In the religious US you always have to “hope in the Lord” or you’re considered unfaithful. So there’s that.
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I think you’re onto something, Violet. Do you suppose that my attitude is a hangover from my church days??
Then again, I could be half-foolish . . . 🙂
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Well Carmen, I know religion can indeed give you one FUCK of a hangover. 😀 We’re all a little crazy around here…it just makes us colorful characters.
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I’m in great company!! Characters are my favourite people, too!
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Maybe not and you are just an optimist
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How can it be otherwise and the Lord will save you and keep you 🙂
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Violet, excellent points. Here’s an article, loaded with studies, about the dark side of positive thinking
The ‘Tyranny’ of Positive Thinking Can Threaten Your Health and Happiness
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Thanks for providing that article, Victoria. It’s good to see something like that finally in the media. I used to work as a psych nurse and even that field is saturated in “positivism.” Every time a suicidal person walked on our unit and was forced to endure classes on how to be thankful, I inwardly cringed. Nothing wrong with being thankful, but one also needs to acknowledge their losses, and that was never done on our unit. It made me sick that we were abusing people with this message of “only the positive is acceptable” when what they needed most was to talk about why they were suffering so much.
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They needed validation. Well said, Violet.
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The world is doomed. The glass is half empty. Life sucks. But those statements brought a cheerful, warm, loving smile to my face so now all is well. 🙂
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Hahaha.
We can smile to that and even throw a toast
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Or to quote the Marquis de Sade, “Spankings will continue until morale improves.”
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That is a practical person
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Probably around 50/50.
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Hey stone god. How are you?
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Excellent, my friend!
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Yes, the world is troubled. Yes, human nature is questionable. Yes, nonsense, triviality, and deceit dominate our societies. I wonder, though, what the inference is. Should we give up trying to make things better? Should we commit mass suicide because there is no hope left? I say, NO.
No matter how bad things are or are likely to be, I – for one – feel obligated by our shared existence to work towards improving the human condition as well as improving the condition of all life on this fragile little planet. That I should succeed or fail isn’t important. What’s important is that I try to succeed.
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Spoken like a true humanist
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The world is a mirror of the mind. There is always a brighter side to every situation if one is willing to reconfigure one’s mind.
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So as one thinks, so is the world to them?
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To a large extent and in relation to the complex social world, yes.
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My mor(m)on mother, is one of the most pessimistic people I know.
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My sister is one of those, Mormon and pessimistic.
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You got to be pessimistic.
You can never know if you have made the cut for heaven
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Is that pessimism a Mormon trait? The evangelicals I know commit all manner of sin, yet keep insisting they are assured of going to heaven as long as they remain faithful to Jesus. That’s not pessimistic, that’s about as optimistic as one could possibly imagine.
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Rather than “optimistic” I might call this habit of mind “smug”.
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Sure, it’s also patently self-serving. But, evangelicals actually believe it. To think that one’s unethical, immoral, or criminal behavior can be absolved solely by one’s faith in god – or any particular idea – is about as optimistic as optimism can get.
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The evangelicals repent everyday and hope they will have that same chance to repent should death coming knocking giving the express access to heaven
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She is not certain of getting to Mor(m)on heaven
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Religion is the opium of the masses. The masses are inherently stupid. The problems of the world would all be happily resolved if everyone would only think like me. So everyone discard all their clothes, gather for a group hug and let’s begin Happy Hour/Cocktail Time twenty-four hours a day!
Love and naked hugs!
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Hahahaha
We could all start by going nude. Ah, you have suggested it already
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Have a great weekend, my Kenyan brother! Naked hugs!
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Meanness, humbug, trouble and other bad things have always been wandering around me. They possibly still do so, but then they do not come near enough to harm me, so I thank my lucky constellation, and feel optimistic.
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You are a lucky fellow, good friend
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1. I’m here for the donuts, there better be donuts!
2. Mankind is meaninless without Womankind.
3. Get off my fricken lawn!
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I like #2 the most
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