Comments on: Why do we always seek to turn negative thinking into positive thinking ?

By: hochuvsyoznat

hochuvsyoznat — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:58:59 +0000

Because hope is better than hopelessness, faith better than emptiness and life is nicer than death.
I think we don’t seek the positive enough. If you look at all the TV, newspapers and internet stories – so many are scary, alarmist, warning. Because the positive, happy-ever-after stories are "boring", they don’t make front page news.
Negative and positive are two sides of the same coin, like a battery, or a musical minor/major key. They both have their uses, without one we wouldn’t know and appreciate the other.
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By: Oleg B

Oleg B — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:59 +0000

not necessarily always..just those who persist
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By: Global Geezer

Global Geezer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:14:59 +0000

Positive thinking feels good, and the deepest-held human desire of them all is to feel good (just as the deepest held human fear is the fear of feeling bad).
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By: Sweet Yum Thing

Sweet Yum Thing — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:37:59 +0000

we always should do this!

negative thinking will make a person and the people around them sick!

positive thinking makes us and the people near us healthy and happy!
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By: ♠le matou♠

♠le matou♠ — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:26:59 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jNXyObwsHg
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By: boohpear2

boohpear2 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:10:59 +0000

I don’t.
There’s negative in positive
and positive in negative.

yin yang
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By: A P

A P — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:27:59 +0000

Pessimists tend to do the opposite, hence my opposite point of view.
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By: Psyengine

Psyengine — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:01:59 +0000

The other choice is too horrid, e.g. ’34. Since of two self-consciousnesses opposed to each other, each must strive to assert and prove itself as an absolute for-itself-existence against and for the other. That one enters into a condition of slavery who prefers life to freedom, and thereby shows that he has not the capacity to abstract from his sensuous extant being by his own might for his independence.

35. This pure negative Freedom, which consists in the abstraction from natural extant being, does not correspond to the definition (comprehension) of Freedom, for this latter is the self-identity, even when involved with others: partly the intuition of itself in another self and partly the freedom (not from the existent, but) in the existent, a freedom which itself has extantness. The one who serves is devoid of selfhood and has another self in place of his own, so that for his master he has resigned and cancelled his individual Ego and now views his essential self in another. The master, on the contrary, looks upon the servant (the other Ego) as cancelled and his own individual will as preserved. (History of Robinson and Friday.) ‘

‘Nothing, if it be thus immediate and equal to itself, is also conversely the same as Being is. The truth of Being and of Nothing is accordingly the unity of the two: and this unity is Becoming.’

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slbeing.htm#SL87n
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By: subra

subra — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:28:59 +0000

To win in life.
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By: PLUTO

PLUTO — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:13:59 +0000

not always.
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