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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

[–] FederatedSaint 11 points 7 months ago

When working on an office, it's great and all that you have "the power of accurate observation" but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

No, “those” people are

[–] sanguinepar 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's a pretty accurate way of looking at things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.

It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.