I am a cynic. There are a lot of cynics here at FR. It's hard not to be a cynic in this day and age.
1 posted on
05/29/2014 1:34:42 PM PDT by
BBell
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To: BBell
Its a choice. I choose optimism.
2 posted on
05/29/2014 1:36:13 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: BBell
I’m thinking I’m pretty much doomed then.
3 posted on
05/29/2014 1:36:54 PM PDT by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: BBell
4 posted on
05/29/2014 1:37:18 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: BBell
What a silly proposition.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Hello, Ma?
5 posted on
05/29/2014 1:37:22 PM PDT by
skeeter
6 posted on
05/29/2014 1:38:55 PM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: BBell
7 posted on
05/29/2014 1:39:10 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: BBell
I will give up my cynicism when the world (and especially Washington D.C.) stops giving me reasons to be cynical.
To: BBell
I have a magnet on my refrigerator that says 'A cynic is a pessimist with a sense of humor.'
To: BBell
Optimist by temperament, pessimist by policy. Murphy doesn't take very many vacation days.
/johnny
To: BBell
Who paid for this study? Studies just show what the funder wants them to show.
To: BBell
I’m in trouble.
Wait, what were we talking about?
13 posted on
05/29/2014 1:41:42 PM PDT by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
To: BBell
So cynics are three times more likely to live to old age. /cynicism
14 posted on
05/29/2014 1:42:28 PM PDT by
BurningOak
(Live Free or Die)
To: BBell
15 posted on
05/29/2014 1:42:36 PM PDT by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: BBell
I question the findings of this study. ;)
To: BBell
Believing that others are motivated by selfishness, or that they lie to get what they want, appears to radically increase the risk of cognitive decline in later life. So you either live longer and get suckered out of your money by scam artists because you don't believe people are greedy and lie, or you get dementia and get suckered out of your money anyway. Great.
(That doesn't sound cynical, does it?)
17 posted on
05/29/2014 1:43:58 PM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: BBell
I am very skeptical of this study’s findings.
23 posted on
05/29/2014 1:51:58 PM PDT by
Robwin
To: BBell
I believe that there are good people and that there are bad people, but in the long run the good win out.
26 posted on
05/29/2014 1:52:26 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: BBell
humm, a survey that includes “cynical,” untrusting people who nevertheless willingly provide personal, private information to strangers in white coats. ok. now, what could be wrong with this “study.” could the sampling itself be directly generating the studies’ result?
another very good reason to avoid answering all surveys and polls.
28 posted on
05/29/2014 1:57:11 PM PDT by
dadfly
To: BBell
Bull$h!t. It’s equally valid to say that the approach of dementia causes a person to become cynical.
29 posted on
05/29/2014 1:57:39 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: BBell
Maybe cynics don’t develop dementia so much as grow to match the world around them. It’s self preservation really.
32 posted on
05/29/2014 2:01:16 PM PDT by
discostu
(Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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