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If we can't whinge here where can we whinge - have to let of steam somewhere....
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Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostBut what if I'm being negative about being negative. Those two negatives make a positive, but I'm still being negative. If there are more negative things around than positive then perhaps it is best to be negative about everything so that all the negatives become positive and the few positives become negative meaning an overall shift to being positive by being negative.
At that point a bored student at the back of the class moaned, 'yeah, right'"
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWell indeed, and in that sense Stoicism is a very positive form of negativity. A bit like Morrissey; the happiest miserable git in the world.
Saw Cohen in Amsterdam: looked around at the audience and sure enough, everybody was smiling.
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Originally posted by expat View PostPersonally I find Seneca quite positive. I suppose he is Stoic in the sense of not betting your happiness or well-being on specific good outcomes that may in the event not come about.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostI'm only negative in the fashion of the Stoic philosophers, like Seneca. By assuming that everything will be tulip I spare myself dissappointment. Optimism can only result in a feeling of being let down.
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Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View PostBy the way DP , is Billie Piper from Swindon ?
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I'm only negative in the fashion of the Stoic philosophers, like Seneca. By assuming that everything will be tulip I spare myself dissappointment. Optimism can only result in a feeling of being let down.
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Are you positive you are being negative?
I'm positively fed-up with negativity.
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Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostBut what if I'm being negative about being negative. Those two negatives make a positive, but I'm still being negative. If there are more negative things around than positive then perhaps it is best to be negative about everything so that all the negatives become positive and the few positives become negative meaning an overall shift to being positive by being negative.
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But what if I'm being negative about being negative. Those two negatives make a positive, but I'm still being negative. If there are more negative things around than positive then perhaps it is best to be negative about everything so that all the negatives become positive and the few positives become negative meaning an overall shift to being positive by being negative.
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