Live with optimism (Long Read)

[Bone_Daddy]

lilroach is right. optimism isnt walking around thinking everything's great, it's knowing things could be worse, andbeing happy for what you have. just looking on the bright side of any situation you're given. my home life is pretty crappy, i mean i have something NONE of you do going wrong for me at home. i'm used to dealing with it though, and i've accepted it. and i'm a better person for what i've been through.

[BasementJaxx]

Being optimistic, which in my opinion is trying to look at the bright side of things and expecting things to go right is not a good way to live. On the flip side, neither is being pessimistic and thinking things are always gonna go wrong and just being a general downer who no one (friends, girls, family) wants to be around.

The best way to live is just take what life gives you and focus on improving yourself. I'm with whoever says when you expect things to go one way, they go the other way 90% of the time. It's just the odd way the world works and thinking about things like that leads me to feel like there is some higher purpose or afterlife, some forces controlling our lives, but anyways back to the topic. If you try to be happy all the time and try to expect the best all the time you'll never actually achieve satisfaction or happiness, you'll always be dissapointed with the outcome of situations, and you'll come across as fake and smug. Likewise if you're sad and always expect things to go wrong, your life will just be shit, and you're the most likely type of person to either kill someone else or yourself(no offense to our pessimists, it's just reality). Like most things in life it's best to take the middle ground, expect nothing but be ready for anything, and you'll be happy with what good does come, and you won't take as harshly the bad that does come.

I actually think about stuff like this all the time so I'm glad someone brought this shit up
peace

[mmjpsycho2]

Get ready for my philosophy. And please. View it without bias.

Basically, we're all so tightly bound by the system we've created as humans to solve our problems (the government / society itself.) that we've essentially defeated ourselves. Naturally, I believe that the ideal life would be a small shelter, and a food supply. Because physically thats all we need.

theres my view on society.

In terms of religion, the only religion that I could ever see myself putting faith in is that of the mere existence of my mind. The fact that the atoms of the elements that form the materials inside the cells that, collectively, form the tissues that form the organs that make up the systems that allow my body to function could possibly support something as vastly incomprehensible as the human mind is the only religion there is. Physical being, objects, anything tangible, it's all a both the product and the waste product of our minds. Hypothetically, we need nothing. Realistically, we have to have physical being to sustain our minds. And so we are forced, by ourselves, to be partially corporeal forever. I could, and wish, to explain more, but after a while I tend to cross the line between practical / intelligent thought and the purely fantastic. See, I'm starting to now.


Anyway, I call it "Simplistic Literalism." And in truth, it doesnt work at all because we're all bound so tightly by the superficiality of our own creations. I guess it's just what keeps me sane, if you will. To know what I want. it's great, albeit impossible.

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[mmjpsycho2]

Fuck...anyone heard from adam?[/code]

[adam_laughlin]

I agree with that philosophy; as a matter of fact, the only relgion that I really respect are the Amish. I would bet they are the healthiest, as there are probably almost no carcinogens among them.

[13LUNTMAN]

the whole no anything kinda throws me off they'r religion but woulnt mind livin off the land either but without the restriction that would impeed on my daily life(concept420)

[lilroach56]

adam you have to remember that in this day and age almost everything is a carcinogen...

[adam_laughlin]

Yes, and the only ones the Amish are exposed to are probably from the rest of us destroying our ozone... I doubt the Amish have ever been responisble for that, either. I doubt they take kindly to marijuana, though. They are stuck in the agricultural revolution, when drugs, homosexuality, and women's rights were all serious threats to society.

[Ganjachik420]

i went to a huderite colony once (my mom was working there, she drywalls and shit) they go to church 3 times a day, and they all eat in a big dining hall, and the women and men sit at difrent tables. and they arent aloud to have tvs. the girls/women all have to wear dresses and bonits, and the men can only have a beerd when there married. its really interesting how they live.

[lilroach56]

jw

but do they have the choice to become non-amish?

[Ganjachik420]

jw

but do they have the choice to become non-amish?

yeah, when they turn a certain age, they can choose to leev the colony and live in a "normal" society. but they arnt aloud to come bak to the colony after that i dont think.