Can you point to a study which validates this contention, Owen? Or is it
more of an opinion?
Mine (opinion) is that pessimism is largely born out of experience.
--Doug
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Most pessimism comes from abstractions, not
It's self observation: I am far more likely to become pessimistic over
abstractions.
Example: Santa Fe Police. Looked pretty grim in terms of capabilities
and editorials in the news paper. Yet working with them showed them
to be far more professional than I had thought. And I was told
Douglas Roberts wrote:
Can you point to a study which validates this contention, Owen? Or is
it more of an opinion?
My opinion is that both Pessimism and Optimism are born entirely out of
abstractions, social expectations and possibly blood/brain chemistry.
It is how we frame what we
I have a few similar, yet polar opposite examples:
- I have good health coverage, on paper. In practice, United Health Care
chose to disallow *every* claim we submitted over the past two years. We
had to shove each and every claim down their collective throat to get
reimbursed.
Americans: Neither Ugly nor Dumb
I have enjoyed the plethora of Wisdom apropos contemporary mores and innovation
from Friam correspondents: finally a reply is irresistible. But I can
respond only with banal facts I have personally experienced and know to be
true.
On dumth: I have
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http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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I have
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I have enjoyed the plethora of Wisdom apropos contemporary mores and
innovation from Friam correspondents: finally a reply is irresistible. But
I can
Peter,
Can we expect an analysis? ;-)
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