Do you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist?

Anonus

I consider myself an optimist. At least a cynical one anyway. Of the "things suck but I wish they were/want to make them better" variety...

Tanya

I'm cynical of micro-changes among people and the systems they inhabit, but optimistic because of the macro-changes that have happened over the course of history.

One-Winged Eagle

I consider myself a who the fuck even knows certainly not me I don't fucking know no but seriously can you tell me it's been bothering me for a long time like so fucking long even when I was a little child and people went one way or the other I stayed firmly in the middle like what does that mean does it mean I can't commit to something am I completely incapable of absolutes oh man growing up two of my friends nearly killed each other because I couldn't tell either of them which one was wrong even if I totally knew which one was wrong aarrrrgghhh can somebody please tell me I really don't know

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Hope for the best and plan for the worst. :D

Buttwangs

Miko said:

Hope for the best and plan for the worst. :D

Imipolex G

surrealist

Aliroz

Optimist.

Tre

An optimist, with a good enough sense of realism to determine what's plausible from what isn't.

Sredni Vashtar

Imipolex G said:

surrealist

Actually, surrealist philosophy is pretty appealing to me on an ideological level, although I an not terribly keen on strict dialectic materialism.

I am an optimist, but I don't believe that I can use Hegel to predict the future.

Odradek

I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Obā-san

things are the way they are

things will keep happening

if one were to assign a good/bad value to each event and graph them out i don't think you'd get any sort of meaningful trend

Sredni Vashtar

^ True.

Maybe it just averages out. But I dunno.

Imipolex G

shit's complicated

Odradek

Thing I think: If you are a materialist and believe everyone is better of dead and that being dead is fantastic, than you must face the fact that the heat death of the universe will put an end to everything one day, and death comes for us all individually before that. You must therefore consider yourself an optimist.

I had several frustrating conversations with antinatalists attempting to get them to understand this. It never brought any fruit.

Beholder

Pessimist, definitely. It is said that if you really hope for something, it will never happen - fate will go out of her way to mess with you

Anonus

Beholder said:

Pessimist, definitely. It is said that if you really hope for something, it will never happen - fate will go out of her way to mess with you

Sometimes I get things that I want well after I stop wanting them so much...

Bunny

Optimist.

Life is far too short to get all negative about everything.

Quip

Narcissist!

Salix Babylonika

Dead.

Devil Morgan

a writer.

Tachyon

not really

i worry about stuff a lot but i think i have a positive outlook on some things so

Misery

Beholder said:

Pessimist, definitely. It is said that if you really hope for something, it will never happen - fate will go out of her way to mess with you