are you an optimist or pessimist?

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i wouldn't consider it normal at all when you stand at a crumbling precipice and wonder if it would be pessimistic to take a step back and get your bearings, i'd say it was collective madness to stand there and play pretend games or try throwing pretend rocks 500 ft below hoping that the space will just fill up.
if you've genuinely tried, you can put your trust in Allah to do what's best.
it is what it is - regardless of the false speculation in news reports and exhorbitant quantitative easing.


if you have an interest problem that's spiralling into disaster, you don't start a war in order to divert attention, introduce more soldiery on the citizenry to keep them bowed and write new terror laws while selling off all public trusts to the usurers who will only make things worse, you sieze the assets off the usurers and redistribute them to the poorest - pronto, that's positive thinking.
first thing a drug addict or alcoholic needs to do is acknowledge that they have a problem, that's positive, labelling someone who acknowledges they have a problem as "pessimist" won't work in such a situation.

you definitely don't just wish paper and digital money into existence, most importantly because of the fact that
it is haram, it also doesn't correspond with rainfall or crops, and you tell the masses the situation sincerely and truthfully so that they can work towards stocking real food. pretending to be optimistic is self deception because the people who know what's going on will just pull out their money while making things appear fine via speculation so the dupes can fill the disparity before the conjured money disappears (they call it a "correction").

The stock market is out of sync with Main Street, billionaire investor Sam Zell said Wednesday.""

"The best example I can give you was [a week ago] Monday when the stock market was ... down 300 [points] and everything was horrific," Zell said. "I looked at the screen and said I don't think there's anything that I want to buy."*"I didn't see anything that jumped up and said ... that's value," he said.
"We subsequently had a recovery that I don't think fits any economic judgment."
He added, "There's a significant missing of demand, not only in the United States but worldwide.
"The chairman of Equity Group Investments told CNBC's "Squawk Box" there continues to be a disparity between reality and Wall Street.
The last time*he was on the program in April, Zell predicted a*correction*in the stock market, which came to pass in recent months.
He said Wednesday that understanding what*quantitative easing*and low interest rates from the*Federal Reserve*actually means for stocks remains a long way off."
There are people who say we may see more quantitative easing as the [economic] slowdown continues.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/07/sam-zell-wall-street-main-street-out-of-sync.html
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grow up a bit.

udkhuloo fi assilmi kaafah, enter into Islam completely.
Refuse the lame false labelling of leftist vs rightist, liberal vs conservative, pessimist vs optimist, religion of peace vs religion of war, all of those false labels are division amongst illusory lines.

if you're genuinely Muslim you're ultimately optimistic and truthful anyway whilst working towards fulfilment, and if you're kafir you're either hopeless or self deluded.
honestly.
 
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Let's see. Optimist or pessimist?

Here's a question that will determine the genuineness of the optimists a bit better: is the glass half full or half empty?

Think carefully before your answer.
 
Abz2000 said:
i wouldn't consider it normal at all when you stand at a crumbling precipice and wonder if it would be pessimistic to take a step back and get your bearings, i'd say it was collective madness to stand there and play pretend games or try throwing pretend rocks 500 ft below hoping that the space will just fill up.
if you've genuinely tried, you can put your trust in Allah to do what's best.
it is what it is - regardless of the false speculation in news reports and exhorbitant quantitative easing.


if you have an interest problem that's spiralling into disaster, you don't start a war in order to divert attention, introduce more soldiery on the citizenry to keep them bowed and write new terror laws while selling off all public trusts to the usurers who will only make things worse, you sieze the assets off the usurers and redistribute them to the poorest - pronto, that's positive thinking.
first thing a drug addict or alcoholic needs to do is acknowledge that they have a problem, that's positive, labelling someone who acknowledges they have a problem as "pessimist" won't work in such a situation.

you definitely don't just wish paper and digital money into existence, most importantly because of the fact that
it is haram, it also doesn't correspond with rainfall or crops, and you tell the masses the situation sincerely and truthfully so that they can work towards stocking real food. pretending to be optimistic is self deception because the people who know what's going on will just pull out their money while making things appear fine via speculation so the dupes can fill the disparity before the conjured money disappears (they call it a "correction").



grow up a bit.

udkhuloo fi assilmi kaafah, enter into Islam completely.
Refuse the lame false labelling of leftist vs rightist, liberal vs conservative, pessimist vs optimist, religion of peace vs religion of war, all of those false labels are division amongst illusory lines.

if you're genuinely Muslim you're ultimately optimistic and truthful anyway whilst working towards fulfilment, and if you're kafir you're either hopeless or self deluded.
honestly.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1565141/tesco-half-year-profits-fall-55-percent-to-354m
 
'Abd-al Latif said:
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Let's see. Optimist or pessimist?

Here's a question that will determine the genuineness of the optimists a bit better: is the glass half full or half empty?

Think carefully before your answer.
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walaikum salam

The glass is half full : )

One of my professor showed a half filled glass then asked the same question.
Students who said the glass is half filled, he said they are optimist, and other students who said that the glass is half empty, the professor said they are pessimist.
 
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the glass is both half full and half empty at the same time :)
the question to consider now is whether it is being filled or being emptied.
that way you'll know which way to move and you won't get duped.
howzat!?

now a question, does the coin say heads, or does it say tales?
 
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...only the vending machine knows.

The abundance.


Scarily your thought process was quiet similar to mine on that last one..

So I made a funny
 
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the spinning coin has heads and tails, however the way it lands defines the observation, remove your hand from over it and people will see clearly, no need for vending machines and electronic cheat devices.

who's doing the deceiving? how 'bout a truthful ct scan?

remove the obstacle or the bannister's going to rot, time is of the essence.



There will be no oppression and no need to fight oppressors (war will be abolished) and no need to collect Jizyah (since there will be no non-Muslim people of the Book to collect this tax from). Every human being will be well-off and no one will accept charity.
Messiah will perform Hajj (pilgrimage), marry, remain married for 19 years, beget children, and die after living on earth for 40 years. His death will signal the beginning of the last days

which calculates to the conclusion that he marries at 21?

Marriage*
Many Ahadith specify that after his descension he will get married and have children and remain on the earth for a period of 19 years after his marriage. (Al-Fitan Nuaim bin Hammad).*
Death*
Prophet Jesus Peace be upon him after his return to the Earth for a second time will live for a period of time (some scholars have mentioned 40 years in the light of a hadith which can be found in Abu Daud) and thereafter will die a natural death. The Muslims will perform his Janaza (funeral prayers) and according to the hadith narrated by Abdullah bin Amr in Mishkat he will be buried next to the Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace and blessings be upon him.*

http://www.muftisays.com/blog/Seifeddine-M/1035_23-01-2011/return-of-prophet-isa-jesus.html
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Lol reminds me of the double slit experiment. Complicated even for scientists.

Although extremely interesting.

...a lot remains of the unseen I suppose.

I have no idea of age, I'm 34 and my time in hospital is accompanied by those twice my age.

Stay in pain long enough and you will take the pills.
 
aha, the only pill that's gonna work is Islam:
say, truth has come and falsehood neither creates anything new, nor restores anything.

 
Lol, mix'd slush is the best slush.

Although it may have been a bloods n crips reference.

:/

...although tron did it best.. It may be a little blasphemous
 
ironic huh, sometimes the ones being judged go to the witness in order to judge the witness, and end up finding they're the one's being judged, here, i uploaded another grainy vid for ya:

life's a funny thing,
with a million surprises,
life's a funny thing,
when a wise man realizes,
that only a fool would believe he had it aaalll worrrked ooouuuutttt.

 
Hmm... I don't have a YouTube account.. You know, the guberment n all :p

Finally a thread rerail..

The world is what you make it really.

The waterboy never has to think about it.


...I'm glad you didn't mention box of chocolates
 
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hmmm I'm mostly a pessimist, always have been but trying to be more optimistic about things Alhumdulillah :)
 
muslims for secular democracy,
kafirs for Islamic shariah.
dunno much about history,
dunno much about geography,
dunno much about science books,
dunno much about the french i never took,
but i do know, that you love me,
and i know that if i loved you too
what a wonderful world this would be.
oh what a wonderful world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcQnCGSyjU

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...ds-firm-over-arming-syria-rebels-8661363.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-british-police-bangladesh-death-squad

in the world of the totally blind - the one eyed man is king.
 
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Honestly, I am neither an optimist, nor a pessimist, because I don't believe in such drastic labels. Things can be divided into two categories, factual, and perceptive. You can't change factual stuff, and have to take it at face value, and for what it really is, regardless of being good or bad, because that is what it is. As for things that are not apparent, I see no point to only use one side, because a real person can analyze the theoretical consequences or benefits of something and accept both as possibilities that can happed by God's will.

As for the glass, it is neither half full nor half empty, it is completely full. Half of it is just air, which no one seems to notice.

PS_0513W_GLASS_FULL-1.jpg


Stop looking at all the water, because you can't see half of the reality, and when you can't know the value of the unknown, you take it as a variable such as x, and accept it as that, an unknown quantity, and then accept it, because while we can't always see reality, we can trust that God deals with some karma in his plans.

Pretty neat comic:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/
 
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greenhill said:
Another way of putting optimistic or pessimistic perspectives will be to take a glass that's half filled. Half full or half empty is the perspective.
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But it depends what there is in the glass. What if it´s something so bitter I don´t like to drink and it´s still half left. Am I then pessimist when I say it´s still half full? Or optimist when I say I am happy when it´s half empty? Or vice versa?

:D
 
I think I got you, [MENTION=9623]sister herb[/MENTION].

It's all perspective to the person. And you're right to point out about what it is we are optimistic or pessimistic about :D

:peace:
 
a jewish dude wins the lottery - 50 million pounds,
on his way to the bank looking all gloomy,
a friend sees him on the street and greets him,
you won the lottery didn't ya?
yup.
why so gloomy then?
we'll i've only gotta hand over ten million in taxes now!

a simple villager visits dhaka city for the first time,
sees tall buildings everywhere and stops to count thenumber of floors on the one which appears tallest,
a tout notices that he's a freshie and swaggers up towards him and demands to know what he's doing.
oh i'm just counting the number of stories on that building,
did you know there's a ten taka charge for each floor you count? it's "the law" - how many have you counted?
oh i only counted three,
that'll be thirty takas then,
the villager haggles for a while and then reaches into his pocket and fishes out thirty takas in crumpled notes,
the tout walks off
villager turns around to hide a triumphant grin on his face and says with a smirk, "hah! these foolish townsfolk! i counted 14 and paid for only three!

 
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BilalKid said:
alhamdulilah. are you the only one who voted pessimist? ;D
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no i havnt voted yet, waiting for more pessimist peeps to come on lol and i did say I'm trying to be an optimist now.............hmmm maybe there should be a both option lol
 

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