In the SST forum, users are free to discuss philosophy, music, art, religion, sock colour, whatever. It's a haven from the madness of Bulldrek; alternately intellectual and mundane, this is where the controversy takes place.
Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, become critics. They also misapply overly niggling inerpretations of Logical Fallacies in place of arguing anything at all.
I'm an optimist, no doubt about it. Sometimes almost too much for my own good, though I'll take it that way over being an eternal pessimist any day of the week. Hope and anticipation are two of the best feelings in the world, but two that pessimists rarely encounter. Frankly, that'd just suck. It'd be limiting your emotional potential.
To the entire world, you may be one single person, but to one person, you may be the entire world.
Spiral wrote:Realist: The guy who asks if the glass was being filled or drunk from before answering.
Scientist: The guy who says technically it's completely full, just of a heterogenous set of substances.
Engineer: The guy who says it's twice as big as it needs to be.
People think I'm an optimist, but they're wrong. I'm a procrastinatist. Worrying isn't going to help, so why worry now? If I really feel the need to be worried, I'll do it later...
It's so arrogant to say that you're a realist, as if every optimist or pessimist is misguided except for you. I think you are the very last person to say if you yourself are a realist or not.
Why would someone only drink half of what they were drinking anyway? What's their fucking problem, can't handle the hydration? Stupid panzy half drinking Ross'.
DV8 wrote:It's so arrogant to say that you're a realist, as if every optimist or pessimist is misguided except for you. I think you are the very last person to say if you yourself are a realist or not.
Isn't realism the Machiavellian idea of doing what's best for you?
Szechuan wrote:
Isn't realism the Machiavellian idea of doing what's best for you?
Actually, realism is a whole lot of different things depending on what subject area you're dealing with and what of a biazillion scholars you'd like to consult, but that's getting a bit too deep into things for this conversation.
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(Oh my God, this is a disaster!!! But I'm sure it will turn out okay in the end")
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'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be', said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
MissTeja wrote:Ghe, ghe. I read that as "I'm a Catholic Optimist. Oh my God, this is a disaster!!!"
Cash wrote:Oh my God, this is great?
Sounds like a girl an acquaintance of mine was dating. She believed the Holocaust was a good thing because it says somewhere in the bible that the Jews would be punished as a people. She figures Hitler was the incarnation of God's will, and thus thinks he was not only a good guy but was in fact supporting a noble cause.
How can one be an optimist when Entropy catches up on everyone and everything?
Basic thermodynamic principles are a bitch.
I tend to follow a half-way philosophy, like Szechuan. Hope for the best, expect the worst. If your worst expectations happen, you have the satisfaction of being right, and maybe prepared. If your best hopes are realised, that's cool too.
Why stick to a single point of view when you can have the best of both worlds?!
--- It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe...he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet Earth
Bill Hicks
How can one be an optimist when Entropy catches up on everyone and everything?
Basic thermodynamic principles are a bitch
Goth.
Seriously, how can you not be an optimist when Entroy will catch up to everyone
and everything? All pain has an end. That's hope.
Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, become critics. They also misapply overly niggling inerpretations of Logical Fallacies in place of arguing anything at all.
There was also a Gary Larson comic with the same gag done in the 80s. Depending on when Leary first used the gag, we can determine who stole it from who.
