I am definately a pessimist

Really? I wouldn't peg you as one... You always seem very positive

My parents watch idiotic television shows and talk about them hours afterward!!!


I'm pessimistic. I go to high school.

I voted "unknown" because I can be both, depending on the situation and my general mood.

Eiri, in that link in your original post there is a picture of 9/11 and the towers falling. At the bottom of the pictures there is a black box around part of the pic, to draw our attention to it. What is it showing?

This one:

for the vast majority of time I am a optimist. I think that since I am almost sixty I have the perspective of looking back and seeing how many wonderful changes have taken place over my life time.

We as a people have made huge progressive strides in civil rights, in communications, in technology. The world is becoming smaller and more well known and there is so much more access to people outside of our own comfort zones and with that the oportunity to know them from their point of view.

For all our proplems and even inspite of those that have to be pulled screaming into a new world we are making progress.

I have no idea what it's drawing our attention to. XD Maybe that vertical stripe is supposed to look like an explosion or something.

I think it is showing how the building isn't falling at the base, but from the top down. The conspiracy theorists believe that if it fell naturally and without additional demolitions, it would have fallen from the bottom. It was in the section about how we get all kinds of different news, right?

Maybe. I still don't get why it ever would have fallen from the bottom: It's the TOP of the building that was damaged!! So it makes sense to me why it fell the way it did.

Although I am considered terminally ill, although I am gay and have zero rights in this country(almost), although the World Trade Centers were destroyed and we are at war and our president is a fool, I still consider my self an optimist. As long as I am still alive, the future is bright and every little thing is gonna be alright.

In spite of the state of the world, I still finnd myself fairly optimistic, but mostly hopeful. Oh, and I have friends!

Yeah...friends....thats a great reason to be optimistic ...or hopeful..

I used to be a ginormous pessimist. I learned through a lot of pain that optimism, in the long run, is much more rewarding even if things don't work out. It makes you stronger.

I'm a pessimist, all the way. I've experienced too many bad things to try and convince myself everything will always go right. There is something oddly positive about being negative though: If you never expect things to work out, it's that much better when they do...and you'll handle disappointment and tragedy better when you expect it to happen.

Being optimistic isn't necessarily about expecting things to go well. It's also about always finding the silver lining even when things to go wrong, and not getting as upset when they go wrong.

That is an optimistic attitude for a pessimist! Makes since to me...

a lot of people in this forum get ticked at me because of how i never see the worst in people til the end. (i.e., fakers.. I'll stand up for them til the day is done.)

I cant help it tho.. i always try to see the best in people.

The terrorists who drove those planes into the towers were from an engineering background and knew that the fuel from the planes would do the job of bringing down those towers once they had impacted.

All you have to do is turn on CNN or any cable network and see how they cleanly take down any Las Vegas hotel to replace it with a bigger and better one. They set the explosives and it drops to the ground without impacting the neighboring hotels and casinos.

I agree with Sistersister. We have been blessed to see some wonderful things in our lives. Get outside, get some sunlight, take a walk, meet up with a friend, do some work in your garden. Then, you will feel some joy in your life.

I'm not totally sure what the twin towers have to do with this, and I'm not sure if you're saying 9/11 was real or if it was a conspiracy... and quite frankly I do NOT want that discussion on this thread. If Birch comes in here and starts on it, I'm having this removed to the recycle bin.