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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bottle in coke Nylons ;) digression
Tuesday, 09-Mar-99 14:54:27

"pesimist says: it can't be worse...
optimist says: oh, yea, it CAN be worse..."

there is an very interesting observation here (and I believe you post consistently good messages -- in fact most do here). This is certainly the reason why I keep finding myself here.

Now Salman Rushdie had an interesting idea to say about optimism and pessimism; he suggested that it is the pessimist that holds the belief? that the reasons for "good and bad" things don't exist (perhaps implying a pseudo-real randomness),and the optimist finds a greater meaning behind these things and can in that sense excuse atrocities et cetera under the premise that they are not indifferent to reason and in fact can not be any other way then how they are (or something like that...)

Kuririn