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Mindsigh
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19 Mar 2013, 10:50 am

Fnord wrote:
Pessimists may live longer, but I'll bet that their final years are miserable.


Viva los dolorosos!!


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19 Mar 2013, 7:29 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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My ex was a pessimist. He was never pleasantly surprised because
A. If he was given a million dollars, the first thing he'd do would be to lament about how everyone would be after him for money.
B. When good things happened to him, he immediately focussed on everything that was sure to go wrong the next day (and which normally didn't :roll: ).

He was a million times more miserable than he needed to be,


Did he have a picture of Eyor on his wall?

ruveyn


No.

Did you ever read the story where Eeyore tried to be cheerful?


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20 Mar 2013, 3:31 am

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pessimist

"n.
1. A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: "We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach" (Margo Jones).
2. The doctrine or belief that this is the worst of all possible worlds and that all things ultimately tend toward evil.
3. The doctrine or belief that the evil in the world outweighs the good."

"n.
1. a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
2. an adherent of the doctrine of pessimism."


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01 Apr 2013, 2:24 pm

As someone who's looked on the dark side for much too long, I think I'll take my chances being an optimist. :D



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01 Apr 2013, 8:11 pm

I'm an optimistic pessimist by day, and a pessimistic optimist by night.