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Joe Allonby:

"Or part of my personal philosophy : the best part of being a pessimist is 
that all surprises are good ones."
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I agree, with a corollary. The worst part of being a pessimist is that you 
have already experienced the worst by anticipating it. While all surprises 
may be good, the pessimist doesn't miss out on feeling bad, because he or 
she has done it before the surprise occurs. Good trick, feeling bad about 
something that hasn't happened.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Quote of the Day


"If you are keeping your head while everybody around you is losing
theirs, maybe you don't understand the situation."

Or part of my personal philosophy : the best part of being a pessimist
is that all surprises are good ones.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> “Depression is actually an indicator of how much of your intellectual
> capacity you’re using. If you’re really depressed, you’re probably
> using your full intellectual resources on a problem."
>
> --Paul W. Andrews
>
> http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/the_power_of_negative_thinking_chnc1qmDS8Fwdib218nWhL#ixzz0YT7vTmx3
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions-evolut
>



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