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12-03-2002, 01:03 AM | #1 |
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Optimism/Pessimism
I don't think there's already a thread on this, but if there is, apologies. Feel free to close.
Is the glass half empty or half full? For me, the glass is half full of emptiness.
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There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: ONLY LOVE. Dance as though nobody's watching. Sing as though nobody's listening. Dream as though you'll live forever. Live as though you'll die tomorrow. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO and proud! FRODO LIVES!!!!! |
12-03-2002, 01:18 AM | #2 |
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Not strictly. There's something similar:
http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/show...ght=Optimistic I'm definately a pessimist.
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12-03-2002, 01:25 AM | #3 |
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Pessimist.......take a look at the ratio in the Happy/Venting threads
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12-03-2002, 01:26 AM | #4 |
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The glass is. I am neither optimist nor pessimist.
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12-03-2002, 01:48 AM | #5 |
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Bullcrap. You're the biggest optimist I know.
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12-03-2002, 01:54 AM | #6 | |
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Quote:
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12-03-2002, 02:23 AM | #7 |
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I am the optipest.
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12-03-2002, 02:27 AM | #8 |
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Definately half full <<see the smilies
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12-03-2002, 02:30 AM | #9 |
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Firekitten, I love your avatar...
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There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: ONLY LOVE. Dance as though nobody's watching. Sing as though nobody's listening. Dream as though you'll live forever. Live as though you'll die tomorrow. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO and proud! FRODO LIVES!!!!! |
12-03-2002, 04:09 AM | #10 |
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The glass is half empty, waiting to be filled.
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12-03-2002, 05:35 AM | #11 |
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You're all wrong. The glass is FULL. The bottom part is filled with water and the top half with air.
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12-03-2002, 12:24 PM | #12 |
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I'll be optimistic for all you pessimists.
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12-03-2002, 03:01 PM | #13 |
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if someone's been drinking from it,the glass is half empty. it the glass was just poured then it's half full.
Optimists are people who think this world is the greastest place.pessimists fear this true.
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12-03-2002, 03:05 PM | #14 |
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I say, "there is half a glass." Which I suppose is the same as saying "half full." My question, though, has always been: "So where did the other half go?!"
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12-03-2002, 08:29 PM | #15 | |
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12-03-2002, 10:02 PM | #16 |
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I would say more along the lines of the water is at the half way point.
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12-03-2002, 11:11 PM | #17 |
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Really, I don't know what I am. That's pretty pathetic.
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12-04-2002, 12:05 AM | #18 |
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Look at the signature! Yes...I'm very much an optimist. I think everything in life has a potential to be okay in the end...I look at life as this big puzzle I have to solve...but if I don't solve it, the picture will still be pretty cool!
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12-05-2002, 10:39 PM | #19 |
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,Pessimist. But I don't see my glass as half empty or half full. It's always just plain empty. It makes for depressing conversation.
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12-06-2002, 12:23 AM | #20 |
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I tend to describe myself as a cynical optimist - a contradiction in terms.
Some interesting responses I've gotten on the half empty/half full question: "The glass is empty, because I drank all the chai" (from one of my chai-addicted friends) "The glass is twice as tall as it needs to be" (from a humorist friend of mine) "The glass is half empty and leaking" (from someone who is adamant about the fact that Frodo is Dead. He says "Frodo is dead! He's dead! He's buried six feet under and they built a high-rise over him! The sewage pipe empties into his grave! D-E-A-D!")
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There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: ONLY LOVE. Dance as though nobody's watching. Sing as though nobody's listening. Dream as though you'll live forever. Live as though you'll die tomorrow. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO and proud! FRODO LIVES!!!!! |