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#1 2006-01-13 08:19:30
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Optimism vs pessimism
Optimist: after rain comes sunshine
Pessimist: after sunshine comes rain
Now we apply a semantic equation and see who is right.
After rain comes sunshine ≈ After school comes vacation
As we know that after sunshine comes rain again, we state: After vacation comes school.
The second one has more than one answer: after vacation (the final one) comes work, and it has smaller vacations, more to do and less free time.
Then the optimist replies: but after work comes retirement, the golden years, when you can travel, enjoy life, .....!
On which the pessimist answers: but after retirement comes death. 
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As at night, we realise we will never Know and further thinking is pointless....Yet we start again and again
#2 2006-01-13 08:54:27
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But in the meantime comes plenty of [enter what you like here] ... !
BTW Optimists have better health, and even better "luck" in life.
And you can change yourself from pessimistic to optimistic ... it can be a fight, but optimism can win ... and it is better for you!
Other stuff I have read:
When pessimists fail they blame it on themselves and give up.
When optimists fail they look at what caused the failure and carry on.
And, is this an old Russian Joke:
"Life is harder today", says the pessimist
"But easier than tomorrow!" replies the optimist.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
#3 2006-01-13 08:56:50
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Yeah first comes birth, then school, then marriage, then death. Thus if you don't marry, you'll never die! ;-) marriage will kill you! 
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
#4 2006-01-13 12:11:31
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I've always said an optimist hopes for the best and gets disappointed. A pessimist thinks the worst will come and gets pleasantly surprised.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
#5 2006-01-13 12:28:01
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Yeah, sadly pessimests always end up being right about something.
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
#6 2006-01-14 02:39:40
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You can extract happiness from pessimism. Exactly like Ricky said.
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#7 2006-01-14 20:07:07
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I think pessimists have better "luck" in life. Why? I've tried it out before. If I don't give hope to things, strangely and surprisingly, there is hope in that thing. If I give hope to it, it hardly does have hope.
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#8 2006-01-14 20:57:19
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Well, research has shown that optimism is better for you in many, many ways.
So, in theory, pessimists should have died out long ago. Perhaps pessimists get out of the way of danger faster?
Optimist: la-de-da, lovely day isn't it? CRUNCH
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#9 2006-01-14 21:04:46
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Ricky wrote:
I've always said an optimist hopes for the best and gets disappointed. A pessimist thinks the worst will come and gets pleasantly surprised.
But a true optimist greets disappointment with "Ah well, doesn't matter, ... hey let's try this!" 
And a true pessimist greets a pleasant surprise with "yeah, but I bet it won't last" 
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
#10 2006-01-15 06:58:42
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Optimist: la-de-da, lovely day isn't it? CRUNCH
LOL! Thats hilarious. What was it that crunched him? A giant bug seeking revenge?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.