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Alissa Meningford

PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:42 pm


My belief is that life is merely a series of events -- none of them are designed by fate to be either for or against you.
It's how you react to these events that is important -- your decisions define you as a person.

-Alezunde
PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:03 am


I'm living proof that optimisim is better.

You can be in the same situation and just look at it differently and you feel better.

It doesn't matter what situation either.

My brother died just a while ago and at first I was completly pessimistic. Then I realized that all it does is make you feel misreable.

Optimism is not distracting onesself, or denying that there is bad in the world. Its just accepting that s**t happens.

Go me for not adding anything helpful to the disscussion! crying

ImNotaFashionStatment


Invictus_88

PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:25 am


Unrealistic optimism is just a self-delusion. It might stop you getting hurt, but it won't stop bad things happening to anyone.

It is a self-hypnosis and a neglect of your duties as a rational being.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:30 am


Phaedrus17
But if you have no secrets, you aren't trusting anyone with anything. sweatdrop

You merely make it impossible to trust someone with your secrets... But that isn't the same thing as actually trusting someone. You fail to come up with a situation that involves actual trust. If you allow for no weakness in yourself, then you have no need to rely on the integrity, ability, or character of anyone else. You only trust yourself, which is no trust at all.


What. The. Hell. xd

Right:

> If you have no secrets, you must have been open with everyone about everything. A sign of trust.

> Openness therefore a state of absolute trust rather than selective and haphazard trust.

> To trust yourself is the most important form of trust. And one of the rarer ones.

Invictus_88


Phaedrus17

PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:51 pm


Invictus_88
What. The. Hell. xd

Right:

> If you have no secrets, you must have been open with everyone about everything. A sign of trust.

> Openness therefore a state of absolute trust rather than selective and haphazard trust.

> To trust yourself is the most important form of trust. And one of the rarer ones.


Trust = making oneself vulnerable to others.

Having no secrets makes you not vulnerable at all. The thing about trusting people with secrets is that it's usually something that you don't want a lot of people to know, hence the secrecy. Unless you're a superhero with some kind of superweakness, there aren't many secrets, that, if shared openly, will be able to hurt you in any way, thus, by being open with everyone, you are not making yourself vulnerable to anyone, and thus, not trusting.

Trusting yourself is a meaningless statement. Unless you have other personalities, or can't control yourself. Otherwise, you have no choice but to trust yourself.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:42 pm


I like your standpoint on the subject and I too, am an optimist. I believe that people who believe they can only do a certain amount of something only do that amount of something, while people like me believe they can do better or something can be better and many time becomes true.

Good job. ^_^

Indicrow

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