Mango Elephant
Deity
Except if you're an optimist, disappointment doesn't affect you very much, you just shrug it off. I would much rather be an optimist, so what if my mind is cloudy, I'm happy!
optimist vs pestimist
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Except if you're an optimist, disappointment doesn't affect you very much, you just shrug it off. I would much rather be an optimist, so what if my mind is cloudy, I'm happy!
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I'm a realist. Pure optimism or pessimism can be dangerous.
Narz
keeping it real
I'm naturally an optimist. I still believe our world is going to be FUBAR within 10-40 or less years but on a personal level I'm optimistic, it's healthier.
Fr8monkey
Deity
I am a Realist...
aelf
Ashen One
The aspiration towards moksha is not pessimism. Buddhist monks are not disciples of Schopenhauer!
Abaddon
Deity
Pessimist. The optimist thinks we live in the best of possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true.
But, I have such a lucky life, I am in reality, a optimist!
But, I have such a lucky life, I am in reality, a optimist!
Thats why i said buddhists are optimests, of cuarse you would know that if you read my comment. Nice try though trying to make me look stupid by looking for any detail in my text that might be wrong, it must be "cool" or something
aelf
Ashen One
I just misinterpreted your sentence, since there is a tradition of Western conception of Buddhism as some kind of pessimistic philosophy. Relax!
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
I've lived around very pessimistic people, and believe me, it ain't fun hearing that every possible thing could be bad. (And probably more than half the time, it turned out the pessimistic viewpoint wasn't true.) After a while, you get sick of it. That's why I like being half optimist, half realist.
Brian Shanahan
Permanoob
Well I'm a realist so:
Link to video.
Mr. Beale.
Oh, and what's this? This is not my glass, it was not half as full, in fact it was twice as big, and filled with Chimay Cinq cents. Barkeep, replacement! NOW!
Link to video.
Mr. Beale.
Oh, and what's this? This is not my glass, it was not half as full, in fact it was twice as big, and filled with Chimay Cinq cents. Barkeep, replacement! NOW!
Spoiler :
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Jewel Runner
That was fast enough.
useless
Social Justice Rogue
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Jewel Runner
I've never understood the need of pessimists to call themselves "realists." The world is obviously full of good things and bad. It's all about which ones you focus on.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Nope. Obama's book is run the country by saying we need hope and nothing else, while fulfilling what pessimists expect. My way of running my own life is don't focus on the garbage bin of life.
That has a strong pessimistic ring.
useless
Social Justice Rogue
The world sucks, deal with it. We have genocides like Darfur, but we don't care because it's "brown people", we have corporate parties, lacking morals, who would gladly screw over their "own" like the Democrats, Conservatives, Republicans or Labour. Our freedoms are increasingly be sold up the stream, by money hungry political whores, who we elected but repeatedly screw us. Yeah. The world rules. (God does not exist)
