[FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

[Marcus Daniels]

< To me, they seem very different. Hope is more of a feeling, like anger or love, whereas optimism is more of a cognitive bias. I tend to be an optimist, but am largely hopeless. It waxes and wanes, but is usually swamped by feelings of overwhelming doom. And my doom helps me stay grounded, I think, in spite of my optimism. Interestingly, doom replaced the anger I grew up with ... somewhere between age 40-50. >

I'm the opposite.   I'm very much a pessimist and expect things will go badly unless there are thoughtful interventions.  But I have hope that those that drive us to the bottom will be extinguished through just such a thoughtful intervention.   Hope is the inclination to climb out of the hole, but comfort recognizing it is a hole and coping while in it.
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

To me, they seem very different. Hope is more of a feeling, like anger or love, whereas optimism is more of a cognitive bias. I tend to be an optimist, but am largely hopeless. It waxes and wanes, but is usually swamped by feelings of overwhelming doom. And my doom helps me stay grounded, I think, in spite of my optimism. Interestingly, doom replaced the anger I grew up with ... somewhere between age 40-50.

On 1/10/22 08:14, Steve Smith wrote:
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> On 1/10/22 8:56 AM, glen wrote:
>> Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more plastic, but that perhaps any of us could even practice being more plastic. But that's just hope ... hope can be debilitating.
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> I recently listened to Krista Tippet's interview with Desmond Tutu circa 2010 and he made an important distinction between "optimism" and "hope".   I wonder how much folks here make their own distinction and if one is more prone to debilitation than the other?

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glen
Theorem 3. There exists a double master function.


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