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For all you optimists on these boards, here's something that will lighten your heart and put a smile on your face. Don't worry, be happy: Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and the economy is going to be just fine!
for all you optimists on these boards, here's something that will lighten your heart and put a smile on your face. Don't worry, be happy: Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and the economy is going to be just fine! :d
For all you optimists on these boards, here's something that will lighten your heart and put a smile on your face. Don't worry, be happy: Unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and the economy is going to be just fine!
You say, “Heaven?? Where the hell do you see heaven?”
And yes. If you look at the news headlines from the past year, you’d have a hell of a time finding any heaven. It’s a dogma-eat-dogma world out there, and everyone seems caught up in the bipolar insanity. Even Poland is polarized – the North Poles and the South Poles. We talk about peace in the Middle East and we can’t even make peace in the Middle West. Here in America, we have a deeply divided body politic. Half the population believes our election system is broken. The other half believes it is fixed.....By Swami Beyondananda
That article sounds exactly like some people who often post here.
Quite so. You can cherry pick your facts and make pretty much any case you want to. That is far different from an honest effort to understand where we stand as a nation in a rather complex world where there are contradictory pieces of data. I believe that many people's personal psychology puts them emotionally in a position to latch onto any "sky is falling" scenario, just as others prefer to live in a rosy denial of bad things. Neither group is operating rationally, as the ability for dispassionate analysis is lacking.
I guess I'm a fatalist, realist, pessimist, and every other kind of "ist" except "optimist"!
I don't believe things are 100% wonderful and perfect. Today's world is facing a lot of real, pressing problems that don't have easy or quick solutions. Time has been squandered when we could have been addressing issues like -
1. Oil supplies (alternative energy, etc.)
2. Social security and the ballooning federal deficit
3. Climate change (whether you call it global warming or not, it's still having an effect!)
4. Food prices, the way we farm, etc.
5. The paralysis at the core of the U.S. government that prevents any real changes from being made.
I could go on, but you get the point. I just feel very powerless, and don't see the point in stockpiling weapons, etc., because all that would mean is that I'll be one of the last people to go. I'm not living in denial; I just prefer to not dwell on issues I have zero control over. Maybe that makes me no better than the other sheeple.
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