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Originally Posted by Al Norris
I don't think I've welcomed you to my end of the interwebs, KC! Welcome aboard.
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Thank you sir!
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I gotta warn ya, though... Your brand of optimistic pessimism (or is that pessimistic optimism?) will be less accepted here than at CGN. I know that this won't mean much, but if you get some flack over it, at least you will know why.
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Heh. It's confusing to some as to where I am on that scale, because my goal is to land squarely between pessimism and optimism, at the point of realism, but to err on the side of pessimism if I have to err at all (it is far better to be happily surprised than unhappily surprised, for the latter can get you killed in some circumstances). If I wind up being wrong about something, I do my best to adjust my views to account for that.
Some believe my views to be overly cynical. I cannot help that. The real world is a hostile and unforgiving place, and evil is baked into the very fabric of the universe (else entropy would not be a fundamental law of the universe, and death would not be the inevitability that it is). My views are a direct reflection of that.