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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 2:52 pm
(May 22, 2016 at 2:50 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Knowing my luck - I'm probably a pessimist...

Thanks for the laugh Eeyore!
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Certified pessimist here.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 2:59 pm (This post was last modified: May 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Heatheness.)
Forever the optimist. If I wasn't, I'd have been dead long before this.
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Optimist.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 4:12 pm
All three.
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 5:46 pm
pessimists live longer healthier lives
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Always an optimist.
The light at the end of the tunnel is rarely a freight train...
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 6:22 pm
No poll?

Goodbye then. Call me back when you haz poll.

Joke Lol.

I am a rational optimist. Ever since my suicide attempt I made a stronger commitment to live than ever and it is perfectly rational to lean slightly on the rosy side because it helps me survive and cope. It's irrational to worry about what is beyond my control because I can't do anything about it and it's irrational to worry about anything I can control because I can do something about it.

So, my life philosophy and outlook I rational optimism but I often fail at the rational aspect in other areas outside my optimism Tongue and I worry like fuck anyway despite knowing how irrational ot is Shock

Most of the time my anxiety feels like nothing but epiphenomenal unpleasantness with foregone conclusions though Tongue
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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 6:29 pm
Extreme optimist. My missus goes so far as to say I have reverse paranoia - I suspect people of conspiring to make me happy.

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RE: Pessimist/Optimist/Neutral
May 22, 2016 at 7:28 pm
(May 22, 2016 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Extreme optimist.  My missus goes so far as to say I have reverse paranoia - I suspect people of conspiring to make me happy.

Boru

You may be sick. HAH!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_%28psychology%29
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