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Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good
#3359937 - 11/14/04 12:48 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fictitious, but very possible:
Young 24 year-old newlywed, Susan, waves good-bye to her husband as he leaves for Viet Nam in 1968. Six months later she gets a note from the Army: "Your husband is M.I.A." She never gives up hope that he is still alive. The war ends and the P.O.W.s return home. She is in constant contact with Washington and checks the news and the lists of those returning regularly. It is 1972, nearly four years later and all GIs are home that are coming back.
Friends and family urge the still young and attractive Susan to move on; to start a new life. She gets many suitors, but refuses to even go on a casual date. She is still in love with Tom, her husband, and stares at his photo and says a prayer for his return every night.
Now Susan is 60, a lonely, aging and reclusive widow, who missed out on starting the family that she had dreamt of as a young girl because she held out hope.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3359978 - 11/14/04 01:04 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Haha.. certainly is possible. But once again you are drawing out an extreme to debunk a generalization. One should certainly not say that anything is ALWAYS anything. But the way you pose this statement lays bait for the presumption that you are attacking the concept of optimism and hope, when in actuality it is the concept of certainty and stubbornness that should be in question. I hope that this response will help keep it clear to the readers that it is the "always" part that is the error, and not the concept of optimism or hope.
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Sorry, you are not getting off that easily. Your post was only half complete.
To clarify your point, you should define where you draw the line between "stubborness and certainty" and "optimism and hope".
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the problem in your example is not optimism and hope itself, but rather the focus of that hope. A person in this womans situation who did not maintain that optimism and hope would have been crushed by despair, possibly driven to suicide, and led a miserable life.
A better choice would be to maintain optimism and hope that life can go on, happiness can be reclaimed, there is still much to live for, etc etc.
However, your point is well made, and i will reneg (is that a word) on a previous statement. Optimism and hope, in terms of specifics , is not always the best.
being optimistic that jumping out of a plane will result in the sprouting of wings is not good.
However, i still maintain that optimism and hope as general principles or thought, are always (yes ALWAYS) more beneficial to ones life and enjoyment of life than the opposite traits, pessimism and hopelessness.
Clinging to impossibilities as the sole source of hope is unwise. (like in your example) but hope in general, hope for a good life, and optimism, the belief that things are basically good etc, are always wise choices.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3360053 - 11/14/04 01:24 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Swami said: Sorry, you are not getting off that easily.
Sure I am.
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To clarify your point, you should define where you draw the line between "stubborness and certainty" and "optimism and hope".
That is a subjective thing for each person to figure out for themselves. I'd only further clarify my point if I was the woman in question. And I'm not. P.S. To further illustrate THAT point: Sorry, but you're not the one who gets to decide whether or not I get off that easy. I am. Peace out, bruddah.
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""P.S. To further illustrate THAT point: Sorry, but you're not the one who gets to decide whether or not I get off that easy. I am. "" why is it not ME who gets to decide that? "That is a subjective thing for each person to figure out for themselves."
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3360140 - 11/14/04 01:48 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Valid point but flip it around.
Perhaps, if she wallowed in the polar opposite and wallowed in extreme misery?
What exactly are you trying to say? Sometimes optimism is bad? Or perhaps optimism does not equate to happiness? I dont understand what your point is.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Gomp]
#3360289 - 11/14/04 02:26 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well I think that went a whole lot better than LAST time.
In this scenario, it's helpful to remain optimistic and hopeful. What's not helpful is to allow that optimism and hope to interfere with one's ability to accept the reality of the situation.
If Susan were to remain optimistic until it became clear that her husband was not going to return, she would spare herself a lot of needless pain, and ease the length and intensity of her grief. However, if she grasps too tightly to the hope that her husband will one day return, Susan creates a dissonance between what she wants and what is.
If Susan were to give herself to pessimism and despair before her husband's fate had become certain, she would be rejecting a reality had not yet even appeared to her, and at the same time setting herself up for a habitual rejection of the reality that her husband was not going to return. In this example as much as the previous one, there is a gap between what Susan chooses to believe and what's real.
Optimism and hope have the potential to serve us as much as they do to obstruct us. Optimism is a feverent hope that what we wish will be the same as what comes to pass. Optimism does not necessarily equate to non-acceptance of what is. Simply because someone chooses to remain optimistic does not mean that they are caught in some form of denial.
Pessimism, on the other hand, is characterized by the outright rejection of a reality that is yet undetermined. It is the presupposition that the worst outcome will be what comes to pass.
Which of these has greater value to human beings?
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3360512 - 11/14/04 03:33 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah optimism and hope are always good, but you also need to know when to let things go and move on
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3361390 - 11/14/04 06:50 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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The example you chose was poor. No amount of hope will bring back the dead. Hope can boost one's determination, though. Attitudes can indeed influence our actions, and to deny this is futile. One sees evidence of this daily in life. If a disfunctional person expresses hope in an unhealthy way it in no way reflects on the actions of healthy people.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#3361612 - 11/14/04 08:06 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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A poor example? It has happened.
I never said hope cannot influence one's actions. Of course an internal state can affect internally generated behavior. The point is that mental states do not bend external reality to one's will. Hope can be creative or destructive; it is not always a positive thing as some here have postulated.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3361949 - 11/14/04 09:32 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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so why get caught up? its just one degree removed. hope on its own i agree wont 'bend reality' but you agree that hope influences action , and action certainly influences realtiy.
She can 'bend her reality' by acting in ways that will be best for her happiness and health, and that relies first on the mental state she has. So in a very real and clear sense your mental states affect your reality.
Reality is composed of internal and external aspects. internal mental and emotional states (happy versus sad etc) and external reality. Both of these states can be hugely influenced by our mental state, and hope is good for both of them.
I dont think anyone would deny that thought without action doesnt change reality.
A metaphysical explanation for that would be that we are multifaceted beings, composed of mental, physical and spiritual elements, and if all of those elements are not brought into agreement, changing reality does not occur, if you are thinking one thing and acting in a way that contradicts it, you are setting yourself up for failure, you are giving reality mixed signals.
an example with the old woman: if she sits around being hopefull that her life will be happy again in the future but never gets out of the house to live, she is giving herself contradictory signals.
If i want to further world peace and hope for it but act violently in my daily life, i am contradicting myself/
the book conversations with god talks about the triad force that can bring your reality to change in accordance with your will as thought, word and action. all 3 acting together are a powerfull force for change.
What you are doing is discrediting thoughts role in the equation, because you are being to short sighted in your assesment. You see that it is always action that brings the noticeable change in reality, but you are forgetting that without the sponsoring thought, no action occurs. Pessimism and despair (the opposites of optimism and hope) will always paralyze your ability to act effectively. Thus optimism and hope are always the better option
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Ped]
#3362049 - 11/14/04 09:57 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3362075 - 11/14/04 10:05 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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it would be most effecitve for the gambeler to stop gambeling.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3362083 - 11/14/04 10:08 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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"The point is that mental states do not bend external reality to one's will."
Our external reality is in large part determined by our internal dialog. Before we can create something it has to be visualized in the mind first. That does not mean that anything that we visualize will become reality, but our will determines our condition to a great extent. Our society is the result of a collective vision. Your statement is a generalization that does not prove true in every instance. Very often we use our will to bend our external reality. I lost 100 pounds of weight due to my will in recent years. My external reality was greatly altered.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Ped]
#3362148 - 11/14/04 10:27 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Great post Ped!
I agree with your asessment.
It could further be argued that pessimissim will more likely lead to the unfavorable outcome. Perahps because of one's own deeds or perhaps because (if you're from the mind makes reality camp) one has simply chosen the negative reality to inhabit.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Source]
#3362755 - 11/15/04 02:57 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are "optimism" and "hope" the same thing in this situation?
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#3362832 - 11/15/04 04:16 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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I lost 100 pounds of weight due to my will in recent years.
Weight loss = more calories expended than ingested. This is basic physics (law of thermodynamics) no matter how you may try to clutter it with neurotic behavior. Hopeful or hopeless mindstates are irrelevant to the actual mechanics involved. If you are hopeful and eat 4500 calories per day you WILL gain weight. If you are hopeless and eat 1800 calories per day you WILL lose weight.
Self-defeating behavior or the cessation of it (as in your case) has nothing to do with the bending of external reality with strictly a mindset as outlined in the opening case in this thread wherein the woman had ZERO control over her husband's aliveness or deadness.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3362864 - 11/15/04 05:01 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Swami said: Now Susan is 60, a lonely, aging and reclusive widow, who missed out on starting the family that she had dreamt of as a young girl because she held out hope.
why is this outcome necessarily bad? is it bad being alone? is it bad to be reclusive? is it bad to be faithfull to someone we'll never see again? how many of our dreams don't really come true? you tell us what she missed out, but what did she gain? is wisdom only to be found through hapiness? does the fullfilment of dreams bring hapiness?
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but my sadness is rest because it is natural and fair and it's what is suposed to be in the soul when it already thinks it exists and the hands pick off flowers and it doesn't notice. (...)"
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Moonshoe]
#3363219 - 11/15/04 09:14 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3363289 - 11/15/04 09:45 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Swami said: Weight loss = more calories expended than ingested. This is basic physics (law of thermodynamics) no matter how you may try to clutter it with neurotic behavior. Hopeful or hopeless mindstates are irrelevant to the actual mechanics involved. If you are hopeful and eat 4500 calories per day you WILL gain weight. If you are hopeless and eat 1800 calories per day you WILL lose weight.
Indeed. Positive thought might motivate one to take necessary action to physically allow weight loss to happen, but only then.. positive thought can produce change through action, but not by way of the positive thought itself.
Not to mention that it doesn't require "positive" thought at all for one to take action to allow the loss of weight, some people don't need to motivate themselves to do it, they just do it. "Positive" energy/"negative" energy do not actually exist, there is merely energy.
I don't think it matters what end of the illusory spectrum you start out from, the important thing is transcendance of the spectrum itself. One doesn't have to be from the "positive" end to motivate oneself to transcend, either, it is letting go, which can be done from any position. What kind of mental situation was Eckhart Tolle in when he became "enlightened"? 
Positive affirmation, negative affirmation... neither is letting go, each continues to cut agansit the flow of being. When one simply is, one needs no motivation to let any action flow through them, it happens naturally. Surrender to the Way, or perish from having your life support severed. 
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3363440 - 11/15/04 10:31 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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If the table energy is bad due to the dealer or any of the players...
Yes folks, even with amazing adepts like Lunar who can read "table energy" (whatever-the-fuck that is!), Las Vegas continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364069 - 11/15/04 01:12 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Our external reality is in large part determined by our internal dialog. Before we can create something it has to be visualized in the mind first. That does not mean that anything that we visualize will become reality, but our will determines our condition to a great extent. Our society is the result of a collective vision. Your statement is a generalization that does not prove true in every instance. Very often we use our will to bend our external reality. I lost 100 pounds of weight due to my will in recent years. My external reality was greatly altered. "
wow. Huehue said something that i agree with 100%

i have now heard no less than 8 people concisely, thoughtfully and solidly refute the basic premise (as i understand it) of swamis argument.
Will cant change reality? remove all will from a person and he will be a sedentary vegetable. THEN you cant change reality. Will IS the force by which reality is changed. EVER SINGLE ACTION that has an effect on external reality has its root in thought and will.
Even as swami tries to convince us that our thoughts/mental states dont change reality, he is using his will to change reality by making his posts.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Moonshoe]
#3364105 - 11/15/04 01:20 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Even as swami tries to convince us that our thoughts/mental states dont change reality, he is using his will to change reality by making his posts.
Ever see all those 'Visualize World Peace" bumper stickers popular a decade or two ago? Now look at the state of the world. Nuff said.
Action changes reality which may be preceded by hope or hopelessness, anger or love, the emotional motivating force does not matter.
I can roll the dice on the craps table and visualize a seven and chant "seven" while tripping, the dice don't really give a fuck about my mindstate; they respond to the physical variables presented - that is all.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
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the thing about the dice is true, but that is because the dice are not concious, the way they affect reality relies entirely on physical conditions. humans are concious, the way the effect reality relies largely on their mental state. And that DOES matter , someone who is hopeless, despairing etc will act in VERY different ways from someone who is peacefull, happy etc, and the outcome will be drastically different.
as for visualizing world peace, it is impossible to act on something you havent first imagined.
but im done with this. i honestly believe your the only one here who still (pretends) not to understand
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Moonshoe]
#3364176 - 11/15/04 01:36 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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the thing about the dice is true,
humans are concious, the way the effect reality relies largely on their mental state
Your two statements are contradictory. You agree that the human's mental state does not affect the outcome, then propose it does.
Hard to follow.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364312 - 11/15/04 02:09 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3364334 - 11/15/04 02:13 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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""Hard to follow. ""
so make it easy? :P hehe
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3364424 - 11/15/04 02:28 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Usually it is where some guy has a lousy attitude and keeps crying woe is me these cards aren't fair.
So how does that affect you? The deck still contains 52 cards of four different suits. A rational card-counter doesn't care about the attitudes of the other players.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364509 - 11/15/04 02:42 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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So the point your making is.............
That a person has no real will power over the things around him ?
Well I am a living breathing result of such things. Optimism and hope were all I had at the age of 17. Had I just accepted my life I would be dead.
The will power I gave to the world around me, moved mountains from my path.
Hope and believing are all we have. These are what can make the impossible happen. There is no way to prove or disprove this.
You gave an example of the bumper sticker thing. Who is to say it at zero impact? Mabey that campaign saved 100,000 lives. But how can you prove it?
It can't be shown as a truth or a lie. Hope and positive thinking can change reality. In a very real way..........AT least that's is what I think
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364530 - 11/15/04 02:45 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3364558 - 11/15/04 02:50 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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I spend a lot of time in Casinos. Let me tell you that a person's attitude and beliefs can change the luck at the tables. I have been thru many different learning curves at the tables. And I truly think a person can effect the dice so to speak.
I keep careful track of my winnings and losings. I am ahead by a large margin over the past 3 years.
When I go into the Casino I know I have the edge. Mind over matter works for those who believe.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Fucknuckle]
#3364645 - 11/15/04 03:12 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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*Swami looks out the window and sees and another billion dollar hotel being built*
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364729 - 11/15/04 03:32 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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ill clarify. The dice is an inanimate object, with no mind. Therefore the effect that the dice has on reality, and the way it interacts with reality (what side will come up if it is rolled) depend entirely on its physical surroundings.
The human being, on the other hand, has a concious mind. The way it interacts with reality will be different depending on its mental state, unlike the dice its behaviour is not ruled entirely by physical circumstances.
I never intended to propose that positive thinking can affect random chance like a dice roll. rather positive thinking has a huge effect on how people behave, how resilient they are to hardships, how determined they are and how effectively they overcome obstacles, how sucesfull their enterprises and relationships are, etc etc etc
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3364819 - 11/15/04 03:49 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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You miss my point: If I had not first visualized this change that I was to undertake the physics you describe would never have occurred. Before it was reality it was an idea. I bent reality to my will. Look Ma!!! I can manipulate reality!!! You talk as if my weight loss would have occurred no matter what,rather I wanted it or not...a coincidence, which is a major flaw in your logic. I don't think that anyone here would insinuate that a vision could be transmuted to reality without an act of the will. My act of will was to exercise self control...the change was almost......magical.
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Moonshoe]
#3364824 - 11/15/04 03:49 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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"wow. Huehue said something that i agree with 100%"
There is a first time for everything!
-------------------- "A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda
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LunarEclipse
Enlil's Official Story


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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Fucknuckle]
#3365312 - 11/15/04 05:30 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
Edited by LunarEclipse (11/21/04 03:54 PM)
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Fucknuckle
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3365446 - 11/15/04 05:49 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am no one to be preaching about the mind changing reality but......... When I go to the tables I spend about an hour in the parking lot meditating. Not to win but, when to stop,what games to play etc..... It may be I break even or win big. But for some reason I always know before hand when a long losing streak is going to happen. That is why I never lose big. I do lose somedays Yeah some people would say " Your just a good gambler and you know when to stop" But it is not that simple.
-------------------- What it is, is what it is my Brother. It is as it is, so suffer thru it.
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Swami
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3365487 - 11/15/04 05:56 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Often times those are the winning tables.
Yeah, about 48.25% of the time.
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deff
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3365948 - 11/15/04 07:20 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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lolz
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LunarEclipse
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Fucknuckle]
#3368673 - 11/16/04 12:08 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
Edited by LunarEclipse (11/21/04 03:51 PM)
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Swami
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: LunarEclipse]
#3368690 - 11/16/04 12:13 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Even a professional card counter needs a MINIMUM bankroll of about 500 times his average bet to prevent the variance from overtaking him. Casual BJ players generally have no where near this amount. The fact that another player splitting tens bothers you when your outcome is unaffected, tells me you are not fully cognizant about probability.
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kbilly
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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3369201 - 11/16/04 02:18 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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in the absence of action they are meaningless. action in the absence of optimism and hope only slightly less so.
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LunarEclipse
Enlil's Official Story


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Re: Optimism and Hope are ALWAYS Good [Re: Swami]
#3369450 - 11/16/04 03:21 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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Edited by LunarEclipse (11/21/04 03:51 PM)
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