Are you a Cynic or a Realist?

[panthers55]

Because it's been your angle for quite some time on here. Take a "benefit of the doubt" stance on almost everything panthers related, someone disagrees with you, and then you go back and forth until you get annoyed enough to start judging their character in a vacuum.

I'd like to be optimistic and say at some point you'll stop posting and subsequently enhance everyone else's forum experience, but realism is overriding my outlook on that subject.

Thank you for your opinion.  I for one always welcome your optimism and objective views.

[panthers55]

yea but they were some damn good pictures weren't they. I guess your field didn't teach you that i was being sarcastic.

Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet .  Sorry if I missed it.

[TheRumGone]

Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet .  Sorry if I missed it.

 

you are a psychologist and i said i took 6 psychology courses in college......uh. how does one miss that

 

my six psychology courses in college tell me you are very defensive when somebody is seemingly threatening your ego or iq

[panthers55]

you are a psychologist and i said i took 6 psychology courses in college......uh. how does one miss that

Forgive me but after reading many posts on here I don't assume that everyone would  think they were not equivalent. Many people who played football in high school think they are a football expert and know more than Gettleman, Rivera or Shula. Why wouldn't it extend to psychology?

[top dawg]

No I am a psychologist who specializes in positive psychology approaches.  So occasionally I drop some nuggets of knowledge here to that effect.  Typically it is pearls before swine but I keep trying.

 

That's great, and all, but stop trying to tell me and others who we are with all that psycho mumbo jumbo.

You've gotten on a high horse as of late (just my opinion). Some subjects deserve optimism, some deserve pessimism, some deserve cynicism, and some deserve realism---and it's all based upon perspective and opinion. One man's realism is literally another man's cynicism. You cannot necessarily define a person (even under the veil of academia) if you haven't walked in that person's shoes. At many times, labeling is deceptively used as a means of censorship, and I am not likely to graciously accept it, particularly on a message board---a football message board, no less---that by it's very nature is designed for discussion (in hopefully a civil manner), and is meant to kick around different points of view.

[TheRumGone]

Forgive me but after reading many posts on here I don't assume that everyone would  think they were not equivalent. Many people who played football in high school think they are a football expert and know more than Gettleman, Rivera or Shula. Why wouldn't it extend to psychology?

 

lol

 

[Kurb]

Everyone play nice.

[panthers55]

That's great, and all, but stop trying to tell me and others who we are with all that psycho mumbo jumbo.

You've gotten on a high horse as of late (just my opinion). Some subjects deserve optimism, some deserve pessimism, some deserve cynicism, and some deserve realism---and it's all based upon perspective and opinion. One man's realism is literally another man's cynicism. You cannot necessarily define a person (even under the veil of academia) if you haven't walked in that person's shoes. At many times, labeling is deceptively used as a means of censorship, and I am not likely to graciously accept it, particularly on a message board---a football message board, no less---that by it's very nature is designed for discussion (in hopefully a civil manner), and is meant to kick around different points of view.

You are free to express your opinion on whatever you would like. Why am I not given the same respect? I didn't list everyone and put them in a category, I put it out for discussion.  Based on some conversation I made a comment which people can reject or not.  Why so defensive that you can't ignore what you don't want to agree with.  Then you try and tell me to stop something which is in fact the same kind of censorship you are deriding.  I love these hypocritical comments where posters say don't tell me what to say and then in the next sentence tell someone else to shut up...... 

[top dawg]

Everyone play nice.

 

Just keeping it real, Kurb.

[panthers55]

Just keeping it real, Kurb.

Or was that keeping it cynical??  Just asking...............

[89 Bottom Line]

Im only argumentative when I see Rivera is still our coach.

[panthers55]

Moved to the forum.  LOL.  I guess we should waste 25 pages talking about Fua getting resigned instead of talking about how our personal attitudes impact how we discuss and feel about the Panthers.....

[top dawg]

You are free to express your opinion on whatever you would like. Why am I not given the same respect?

 

In general I give everyone respect, and, as you should know, I have given you  a lot of respect over the years.  It's just that I am not going to let you unilaterally define me without responding in kind. 

 

I know where you are coming from. I see it. But being that this is a message board, we are forced to take the bad with the good, and that's just the nature of the beast. I just take issue with you trying to lump me in with some of the bad apples because I don't generally post things just to come out of my ass with some random negativity, stupidity, or rudeness, so I kinda resent the implication.

[chef17]

And if this were their first post it might be, but most of the people disagreeing with the definitions which aren't mine by the way do the same thing with everything.  It is looks like a duck, quack likes a duck and acts like a duck it might be a duck.

 

When the same outcome keeps repeating itself, when does being "negative" stop being cynical? I realize this isn't exactly related to the thread, just trying to increase my knowledge since this is in your line of work. (I know I could google but that mostly just pulls up articles like "how to stop being so damn cynical" which isn't what I'm looking for)