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False Hope or No Hope?, Optimist or Pessimist? |
 Nov 2 2010, 04:09 PM
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 Behold the pudding!  Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 30-May 10 From: Aurelis Member No.: 98 239 Some Favorites 
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Is it better to have false hope or to have no hope at all?
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Nov 2 2010, 04:14 PM
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 Pokémon Champion  Group: Restricted Posts: 2 054 Joined: 26-July 10 Member No.: 107 360 Active Squad 
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If there's a chance, you have to take it. I'd rather fail and try, then do nothing at all.
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Nov 2 2010, 06:05 PM
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 A Defensive, Protective, Fair, Happy and Playful Lion~  Group: Members Posts: 2 972 Joined: 13-April 09 From: Scotland, UK Member No.: 11 034 Roster in Diamond 
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I would rather continue onwards anyway in case by some miracle it does work. Even if it didn't, I could die knowing I tried at least which would be better than giving up in my opinion.
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Nov 2 2010, 09:15 PM
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 Oz+Eckhart <3  Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 22-October 10 From: Under a roof. Member No.: 118 036 Wanted 
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I would still try.
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Nov 9 2010, 01:37 AM
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 Elite Double Battler  Group: Members Posts: 716 Joined: 20-January 10 Member No.: 80 673 Life 
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False hope is so good. Abuse that stuff.
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Nov 9 2010, 06:11 AM
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 Veteran  Group: +Donors Posts: 1 613 Joined: 29-July 08 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba Member No.: 2 482 Active Squad 
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I like my false hope.
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Nov 9 2010, 11:57 AM
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 Finally, Ava-change!  Group: Members Posts: 1 465 Joined: 3-May 09 From: Behind you with a scythe~ °w° Member No.: 18 798 ... 
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Falso Hope. Wouldn't everything go down in chaos if we didn't hope?
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Nov 9 2010, 12:34 PM
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Elite Double Battler Group: Members Posts: 716 Joined: 20-January 10 Member No.: 80 673 Life
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Nov 15 2010, 01:35 PM
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 I'm in space...space...spacespace Group: Members Posts: 1 327 Joined: 4-June 09 From: space Member No.: 30 281 space team 
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In reference to the plan, it's a simple chance vs. certainty principle. On one hand, you have 99% chance of failure, and death. On the other hand, you have 100% chance of failure, and death. The most likely outcome is failure, and death, but in the first choice, there's a chance for success. Therefore, the only logical solution if you want life is to take the chance.
It's just like that movie where a nuclear sub thinks it has orders to launch it's nuke on Russia. To be more accurate, they got a garbled message, which either meant "launch" or "don't launch". One guy wanted to launch. The other guy didn't. What they both knew is that if they didn't launch, another sub would. So here's the situation: They either DON'T launch, and another sub, who most likely got the whole message, will launch if the orders were indeed to launch, or they do launch. However, if they launch, there's a guarantee that the enemy will detect the nuke, and fire back, starting a nuclear holocaust. So, they don't fire, and have a chance at a nuclear holocaust not happening, or they do fire, and there's a 100% chance of a nuclear holocaust happening. Chance vs. certainty. On the other hand, if you have a case where both instances have a 100% chance of failure, and death, then it doesn't matter what you do, though chances are people will start to get suspicious if the world is supposed to end this afternoon and there's no spaceship for them to board. PS, why do I feel like you watched Knowing right before making the poll? 
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Nov 22 2010, 01:07 AM
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 Pokémon Trainer  Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 16-September 10 From: Montréal Member No.: 114 268 Team TOWER OF LOVE 
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I believe the choice differ if you actually are working to complete a project to save yourself, or yourself and the world.
It's a bit harder not to do everything when so many are counting on you, including everyone you love. I'd do everything in that case, as giving up would be not only getting a certain death, but also getting a death nothing that you didn't do everything. That's even more lame! -------------------- ♥ Venez faire un tour ♥    |
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Nov 22 2010, 06:03 AM
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 Scarlet Group: Members Posts: 500 Joined: 7-February 10 From: Melbourne, Australia. Member No.: 83 356 Heaven's Wheel
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As someone with a large ego, I would try until the very end..
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Nov 22 2010, 06:26 AM
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 Tikk Tokk  Group: +Donors Posts: 709 Joined: 27-June 09 From: In The Closet Member No.: 39 543 A Taste of The Fury 
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No hope. If I can't change it then why try? I'd rather accept it and move on. Whatever happens happens.
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Nov 22 2010, 06:31 AM
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 There's probably coffee on my keyboard rn Group: +Donors Posts: 1 458 Joined: 23-August 09 From: The river of a shadow of a doubt Member No.: 59 139 You know who they are 
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QUOTE(Tikk Tokk Tibenoch @ Nov 22 2010, 10:26 PM)  No hope. If I can't change it then why try? I'd rather accept it and move on. Whatever happens happens. This.   Yeah, I'm a pessimist. <3 --------------------  ×  × | ×  × QUOTE(Jesus Of Suburbia @ Apr 21 2011, 01:20 AM) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU ASS-KICKING GREEN DAY AND A7X FANGIRL! Nimmies (click to show) ♥ Karofsky ♥ |
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Nov 23 2010, 09:16 AM
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 Gym Leader  Group: Members Posts: 662 Joined: 30-August 10 Member No.: 112 100 Sandshrew Army 
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I may be a diehard pessimist, but I think i would still try, but I wouldnt have that "hope" factor. If that makes sense
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May 30 2011, 06:02 AM
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Trying more passionately will lead you to the place.
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Jun 7 2011, 04:38 AM
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 Don't let me detain you...  Group: Members Posts: 368 Joined: 11-January 11 From: Good Ol' England Member No.: 127 207 Vetinari's Terriers 
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I would try until the bitter end, until I was absolutely certian it was going to fail. Then I would have a complete nervous breakdown- when the end of the world came, I would either be curled up on the on the floor screaming, running away like a lunatic screaming, or randomly smashing things/killing people... While screaming.
I'm highly strung. -------------------- "The world spins on pain. I realised that if there is a supreme power, then it is our duty to become it's moral superior." -Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork "The sentient may perceive and love the universe, but the universe may not perceive and love the sentient. The universe sees no distinction between the multitude of creatures and elements which comprise it. All are equal. None is favored. The universe, equipped with nothing but the materials and the power of creation, continues to create: something of this, something of that. It cannot control what it creates and it cannot, it seems, be controlled by its creations (though a few might deceive themselves otherwise). Those who curse the workings of the universe curse that which is deaf. Those who strike out at those workings fight that which is inviolate. Those who shake their fists, shake their fists at blind stars."- Michael Moorcock, author. |
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Jun 7 2011, 07:40 PM
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 The Shadowy Fish Monster  Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 30-April 10 From: Up there? Down there? Maybe... there! Member No.: 94 929 Active Squad
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I would go for false hope, but there'll be a bit of hope there that we might survive. It's better than believing we're going to die and there's nothing we can do about it. But I guess that won't be the true reality, wouldn't it?
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Jul 1 2011, 01:32 PM
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 Pikalover10 (Gone June 13-26) Group: Members Posts: 3 046 Joined: 10-April 09 From: Mobile, Alabama Member No.: 9 894 PANE Party 
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I would try till the end, but I wouldn't hope. I've done it before, on more minor scales. I tried my best to go on with life after my mom died, but didn't hope that life would get better. If you hope for stuff like that, and it fails... you'll be hurt worse.
It's kinda like when my mom's mom got sick with cancer before my mom died. My mom hoped at first that she'd get better, but when it was at the 99% chance that she wouldn't, my mom made peace with it. I was too young I guess to really grasp it, so I hoped like crazy that she would get better. But, when she didn't and she passed away it tore me apart for a while. It's one of those situations. Hope can make people relax somewhat for a while, or become careless enough to overlook something important. On the other hand working on something without hope, but trying to do the best that you can might end with better results. So yeah. blah blah blah~ PESSIMISTS RULE! ehem... that's all I have to say on the matter. -------------------- "Those with the biggest smiles carry the deepest scars."  Other Siggy Stuff (click to show) |
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