From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   Many people advocate positive thinking as the solution to everything. They are   
   all very wrong. Positive thinking creates more problems than it solves. You   
   think positive, you fail to anticipate problems, you do stupid things.   
      
   Is negative thinking the solution? By no means. Negative thinking can be just   
   as deluded as positive thinking. A negative thinker would portray anything   
   good as yet another, sneakier way to do evil. A man may genuinely love a   
   woman, and she would say    
   that he is being nice to her because he is desperate or because he is trying   
   to con her. A priest may genuinely be interested in one's spiritual salvation,   
   and one would say that he is trying to steal his soul. I have known people who   
   went from being    
   positive thinkers to being negative thinkers. They did not become smarter as a   
   result of that. They remained full of crap; all that changed was their   
   attitude.   
      
   Right now, we are facing all sorts of major problems. Neither positive   
   thinking nor negative thinking begin to be adequate solutions. Both cause more   
   problems than they resolve. A positive thinker would say that focusing on such   
   things is being negative,    
   or being grandiose, or not taking personal responsibility. A negative thinker   
   would say that these problems are too much for us to solve. Both will be dead   
   wrong.   
      
   This means that both positive thinking and negative thinking are problems   
   rather than solutions. The first fails to acknowledge the problem, the second   
   says that they are insolvable. The real solution is honestly facing the   
   problems that we have and    
   using whatever intellectual capacity we have to come up with and implement   
   actual solutions.   
      
   Ilya Shambat    
   https://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatthought   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)