Quote:Not sure, to be honest, because over the years I've been accused of being both.


I try to go where facts, logic, knowledge and history take me. If that puts me on the side of the optimist or pessimist on a given topic or set of topics, so be it.


I don't buy into the "it'll always work itself out..." line of reasoning because it doesn't always work itself out for the better. Human existence is replete with happy and unhappy endings alike. Further elaboration would have me delve into topics COC has prohibited on these boards.


Having said that, I will say optimism is not so foreign a concept to me that I believe to live to its ideals it is necessary to belittle those who occasionally worry about the potential for negative consequences in a given fact pattern when the outcome is uncertain.


Interestingly, you say you don't get up in arms over things you can't control, yet PITSOs on this board have displayed an uncanny talent for belittling those who do not share in their Jaguars related optimism.


Has any of the on board ridicule changed any of the "perpetual pessimists" into PITSOs? TMD? Krazy? Brooklyn?


Yet PITSOs continually do that.


Isn't that the exact embodiment of getting up in arms over things you can't control?