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Optimist or Pessimist

  • Optimist or Pessimist

    An optimist is someone with a positive outlook on life, where one exemplifies a life view where one looks upon the world as a positive place; Optimists believe that people and events are inherently good.

    What does this mean? It means the optimistic is someone who is gullible, someone who if true to his beliefs will trust what you say, regardless if it’s truthful or not. They only suppose the righteous. You are naïve to the world, blind to facts, ignorant, and down right foolish.

    Pessimism describes as general belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse. Obviously this is not true, we are not all bad; but let us be wary expect the worse, we wont ever be caught of guard, we wont hurt, for we will always foresee the event and have time to think accordingly and be prepared. The pessimist don’t embrace bad or evil, he merely foresees it and prepare for it accordingly.

    Which will be more contented? It’s true that the optimist execute a ‘positive’ act with more delight then the pessimist; however the pessimist won’t ever have the advantages of the optimist or the disadvantages of one.

    Which suits you best?

    J.Fourie

    Voted for by JFourie.
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  • I'm a pessimist

    Pessimism allows me to see the flaws in things more clearly and later solve them. Sometimes though, it keeps me from believing that I or anyone will solve it to my satisfaction.

    Optimism/pessimism as a debate I find will tend to be one-sided toward pessimism. The pessimists will see the limits of argument, and the contradictions of extended definitions or precetps, and the optimists won't. The pessimists then denigrate the optimists, and that's not particularly difficult on an uneven playing field. It's a silly thing to watch. It's sort of like "America's Funniest Home Videos."

    Voted for by Auxiliar.
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  • Optimist

    I would like to believe i am a rational optimist however. Not viewing the world through rose tinted glasses, but a will and a belief that many things can be accomplished, by learning from past mistakes, not being hindered by them and giving up.

    Voted for by petethemeat.
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  • neeeiiiither

    I would like to think that i take things as they come.

    If a thing is bad enough to keep me up at night praying for the world, then i am scared of it and skeptical of the rest of those sorts of things--once burned twice shy.

    But if a thing is marvelous and i am enlivened by it, if it is happiness made manifest, i rejoice.

    The middle ground is something we have to take on a case by case basis. I don't have an inherantly skeptical outlook, nor do i have an inherantly positive one. I constantly question where my opinions come from--am i judging something irrationally? am i accepting something prematurely?

    i am a realist.

    Voted for by Insanesaxpoet.
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