Optimism vs. Pessimism

[Augustus]

Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? One or the other, you gots to be skewed more towards one way. I am not adding more options as this is the dichotomy I want to explore.

Depends on what scale.

On a more personal level I tend towards optimistic.

On the level of our species I tend towards pessimism.

 

[Koldo]

Good point. Technology isn't what I was alluding to. It is our natural abilities and instinctual, survival predispositions that makes me the optimist, which has been evidenced since before the dawn of man. I mentioned stone tools to 4k resolution to demonstrate some of that innate resolve associated with human life and cognition.

It is, however, our instincts that have been driving us towards the next mass extinction. But still, I don't see the point in mixing up the future of humanity with our personal future.

 

[Balthazzar]

It is, however, our instincts that have been driving us towards the next mass extinction. But still, I don't see the point in mixing up the future of humanity with our personal future.

To each their own I suppose. I view us as one body in evolutionary development.

 

[Koldo]

To each their own I suppose. I view us as one body in evolutionary development.

But we are not one body. We are all individuals.

 

[Balthazzar]

But we are not one body. We are all individuals.

We are unique as ourselves belonging to the body we represent, which I will suggest is the entire earth as well as that which is affected by the heliosphere. To be fair, I will acknowledge that the body we represent as humans individually, is one body, or genus. We are individuals without question, and we are also one body.

 

[Koldo]

We are unique as ourselves belonging to the body we represent, which I will suggest is the entire earth as well as that which is affected by the heliosphere.

We do not belong to any "body". We are just ourselves.

 

[Balthazzar]

We do not belong to any "body". We are just ourselves.

That too.

 

[an anarchist]

Changed my vote to optimist.

I have decided to be spiritual again and the core of my beliefs rely on optimism.

 

[Revoltingest]

Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? One or the other, you gots to be skewed more towards one way. I am not adding more options as this is the dichotomy I want to explore.

Why are you an optimist or pessimist?

I want to discuss the reasonings behind our optimism and pessimism.

I am definitely a pessimist, so I would like to see the other side a bit.

I am a pessimist because there is immeasurable suffering in the world. The world is unbalanced. The poverty divide is wide. War is constant. No one gets along it seems. We die in the end. This life full of suffering might be all there is for us. Hell is here on Earth in my view. I am not optimistic for the future. In fact I dread it.

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Please, share with me your view! I’ll add that my pessimism is undesirable.

I'm naturally optimistic.
And things tend to work out well for me,
even if they're not the results I wanted.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The Pessimist:

The glass is half empty.​

The Optimist:

The glass is half full.​

The Realist:

You're using the wrong glass.​