How can people be so pessimistic all the time?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

And thats the thing.... There seems to be a core group of perma-pessimists, who actively seek out doom filled news, the more sensational the better, and wallow in it.

We're all doomed..... Except we're not of course, and never have been despite all the people over the years who have claimed so.

Hamish, you are exactly the same, just in the opposite way. So don't see why you feel you need to ask questions about the opposite side of the fence.

To me, I have to look at what is going on and the results of what is going on. I have always had to do that, in anything in life.

Some people are able to block out the results of actions. They can only see the action.

In this case, thats what we have here. One person saying, well yes, the stimulus is needed, BUT, what will happen when x y and z starts?

Another person will focus on all the good bits of the stimulus, and completely blank what may happen later.

Someone like yourself, will not even talk about the stimulus, only say "you were wrong, I was right". Not interested in why you may have been right, or close, or wrong. Only that you are. It doesnt matter how its happened, as long as prices are up right now, thats all that matters. Whether that money was stolen from dozens of old grannies or we were selling off the poor to start some slavetrade in the middle east....it would not matter, as long as prices were up. Not interested in anything else, or any of the problems that causes.

The same goes for the real pessamists, who can only see falls and do not want to know anything about anything else.

But I find you a bizzare person to be throwing the stones after starting one thread today about prices being up 27% over five years. It's a bizzare thread, with you going on to tell us its actually 40+% if you factor in rent you have saved etc. BUT, you are not in the slightest bit interested in the costs of buying, the costs of owning. Only that you are saving x amount on rent. The associated costs don't even enter your mind when you are blabbing on about profit and HPI...those costs simply do not count to you, so long as your end figure reaches HPI by only adding up the things you want to add up to make your case. Stamp duty, solicitors fees, moving costs, repair costs, insurances....they are all completely blanked out of your equations as if they don't exist to find your profit figure a the end.

This thread threw me for a while, it was rather cleverly worded. It implied that it was pessimistic to believe in lower house prices. Then I realised I lived in hope of lower house prices. So I am actually an optimist. Because I expect my hope, my belief, to come true at some point. So both Hamish and I are optimists.

It's a funny thing - optimism.