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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: Sse]
    #19745671 - 03/25/14 03:06 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

some people are full of doom

does that make them pessimists?
is it the definition?


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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: redgreenvines]
    #19745739 - 03/25/14 03:19 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Are people that are full of urine called pissimists?


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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #19747596 - 03/25/14 09:54 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

here is a better question, is being purely optimistic or pessimistic all the time beneficial?


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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: redgreenvines]
    #19747780 - 03/25/14 10:23 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

the world may never know

one lick

two licks

three?

doom can be pretty motivating and comforting when seen realistically

can doom be optimistic and reprieve be pessimistic

some people say cucumbers taste better pickled


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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #19747804 - 03/25/14 10:30 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)



"Always Borrow Money From a Pessimist, He Won't Expect To Get It Back."


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"Springs of water welling from the fire"

"Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."


"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
instant
"Experience always goes beyond ideas"


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Re: Optimists and pessimists [Re: Sse]
    #19747953 - 03/25/14 11:19 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

no permanence, no impermanence

what time limit? fuck.

here I go, shattering all worlds with every single piss bug.


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"Springs of water welling from the fire"

"Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."


"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
instant
"Experience always goes beyond ideas"


Edited by Sse (03/25/14 11:52 PM)


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