...being pessimistic? Can't think of any. I thought of this from the "half full, half empty glass question." Optimistic nature, from what people say, brings hope, confidence, determination, cheerfulness and stuff like that in life. But what about those who think of the worst that can happen most of the time? Possible benefiting qualities?

I'm not often pessimistic. But I wonder about those who are...

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Pessimists will only give you the disadvantages.

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You're entering a world of pain.

To quote from Say Anything, "If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise."

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"Why aren't I'm using at these pictures?" - Cloud, 4/14/02

You're never disappointed, and often pleasantly surprised.

It seems to me that pessimists are the kinds of people that react to events before they occur. Optimists wait until after an event to react to it.

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There aren't any advantages. There can't be. There is just NO WAY that there could be. Impossible. It's sick how you think there can be, when there clearley isn't.



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It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

Better safe than sorry... ?

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Do you have stairs in your house?

You will not be as healthy as the optomists, meaning you'll leave this wretched world first.

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Superstition brings bad luck.
-Raymond Smullyan, 5000B.C.

Pessimism leads to always being prepared for things, and if they don't happen, you're pleasantly surprised. Optimism leads to disappointment and UNpleasant surprise. You be the judge.

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You can enjoy the feeling of smug superiority when your optimist friends take a fall, because you knew it was going to happen....eventually.

I'm so optimistic that sometimes it's detrimental. :/


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I am a pessimest, pretty much, and i can't help it.

Strong optimists bug me so much.


"OOO life will get better!!! Life is beautiful!!!!"


To me it seems they can't face the fact that everything isn't grand and great.

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"Run Away!"

The glass is completely empty. And cracked. And I just sliced my lip on the edge.

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Our very existence is at stake

Pessimism prepares you for the worst, while optimism gives you that positive encouraging feeling you need to keep trying. It's good to have a balance of both.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

Pessimism is thinking LucasArts will never release the Jedi Knight source code.

On second thought, that's probably realism!

That's the way I try to look at things

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

What is an optimist?

A pessimist who's making a bloody mess of it.

I challenge the airy-fairy optimists of this world to counter-joke. Nyaaah!

See, what's sad is when the optimist keeps trying to do something that's impossible. It's like watching someone trying to walk through a wall, but just keep on slamming into it over and over again. It's not a good thing, it's just dumb.

The best thing about being a pessimist is you can laugh at people like that.

Unless you're the pessimist who accomplishes nothing

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Optimists don't get to use that golden line.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

No, that's what we call an idiot. I'm not an optimist if I keep jumping off a wall because I believe that i'll eventually work out how to fly.

An optimist merely believes that the favourable outcome will be the one that happens. I've always tended to be a pessimist, but I recently realised it stopped me recognising a good thing until a long time after it had happened. It meant I was missing opportunities. So it got the the point where I was completely unshockable and it was impossible to suprise me, at the cost of making myself miss all the good things too.

Time to make some changes methinks.

I was mostly talking about the people who, I dunno... repeatedly ask out a girl who hates them.

Hm, why bring up your argument with him?

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[This message has been edited by Molgrew (edited March 25, 2004).]

Hmm. I forgot about the "prepares for what might happen" part.

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