Are depressed people more realistic?

[Creed of Heresy]

Turns out that the universe has a billion million trillion corners, or something.

Give or take a few million^n, yeah.

[thesummerqueen]

Or go on youtube and search for "fail compilation".... that's one way to lose all optimism for this humanity thing...

I've seen a lot of fail. I've also seen "win" compilations. You get what you go looking for.

[naimless]

So look for god then. Seek and ye' shall find.

[thesummerqueen]

So look for god then. Seek and ye' shall find.

Why?

[naimless]

It will prove your view is not realistic.

[Creed of Heresy]

Neither is yours, Naimless.

[naimless]

What is my view?

[Creed of Heresy]

Something about finding god in music. Something that makes no sense. Something that comes off quite often as schizophrenic ramblings of someone off their meds. No offense.

[naimless]

Sorry, what was that? Something something, grasping at straws, something something... if you think I could be offended by you then you don't know me very well at all, sir.

[thesummerqueen]

It will prove your view is not realistic.

If I went in with the determination that I was going to find god no matter what, you better believe that I'd build me some cognitive dissonance and "find god". Theists do it every day on this forum. If you're bound and determined to find something to be pessimistic or 'depressed' (not clinically, but colloquially) about, you're going to find it. Junkyard is determined to see only the bad parts of the world. Shit in, shit out. You're right, it has nothing to do with realism, because a realistic person would weigh both sides of the situation, not just the one.