[little jeremiah]

I pay no attention to doom’n’gloomers. They’re the rain on the parade, the guy with bad gas on a long car trip, the person who always asks for a short term loan (and never remembers to pay it back), the person who calls up late at night and wants to whine about all their problems, etc. They’re like the guy who goes to the bathroom at the gas stations and comes into your house with crap on his shoes.

Either they love being miserable or they want to sow defeatism. If they are not trying to sow hopelessness and defeatism, they’re whiners, victims, so used to abuse they don’t know how to live with out it and so seek it out, and want everyone else to be hopeless as they are. Trying to stiffen up their resolve usually results in vicious attacks.

Maybe I should tell you how I really feel....

[Melian]

Re gloom and doomers :

I don’t see it quite that starkly. Some are gloomy because something really traumatic happened to them. They know disaster sometimes happens to good people for no reason. Or they’ve had their hearts terribly broken by someone they trusted.

It can be incredibly difficult to come back from Some forms of disaster or heartbreak. Even if one desperately wants to.

[bagster]

Maybe I should tell you how I really feel....

You forgot...

[Disestablishmentarian]

I pay no attention to doom’n’gloomers. They’re the rain on the parade, the guy with bad gas on a long car trip, the person who always asks for a short term loan (and never remembers to pay it back), the person who calls up late at night and wants to whine about all their problems, etc. They’re like the guy who goes to the bathroom at the gas stations and comes into your house with crap on his shoes.

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Not to worry. On this thread, we have no shit upon our shoes.