Where did the bulls go?

IveSeenTheLight

Actually I am a realist.
I can accept falls, but I would not want the economy or people to be affected.
This is why I think a period of stagnation is far better than putting peoples livelyhoods at stake

PasturesNew

It annoys me that a bear's outlook could be perceived as pessimistic. As a doom-monger view point.

It is nothing of the sort.

Bears will be bulls one day; when the time/signs are right. They make a judgement based on what they see, hear and believe... and they make a decision.

Bulls seem to blindly rush into things.

I'd say bears are therefore careful decision-makers. Whereas bulls are uncontrolled risk-takers.

Pobby

Hmmm staganation, Sadly it doesn`t seem to often work like that. Oh joy if only our economy was ``steady Eddie`` but no, always boom and bust!

Conrad

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Actually I am a realist.
I can accept falls, but I would not want the economy or people to be affected.
This is why I think a period of stagnation is far better than putting peoples livelyhoods at stake

You say your a realist, but are you aware that psychologists all agree every indiviodual Human animal has it's own 'reality' tunnel, and that each of us is CERTAIN only are own reality tunnel is valid, just as every religious person is certain thiers is the true path, completely ignoring the fact they would have a different tunnel merely by virtue of the place they were reared in. In other words those tunnels we each have are just a rough and ready version of the actual reality.

Your brain will filter out inputs that do not fit with your own reality tunnel, and emphasise and store readily the inputs that do fit your own reality. Furthermore it loves taking logic shortcuts which are a natural event designed to ensure the Human animal doesnt waste energy and time on thought (of benefit to the hunter gatherer which we have only escaped from very recently so our brains despite what we think are still completely controlled by the early instinctive circuits - but most of us do not ever realise this).

"The prover proves what the thinker thinks"

The goal for me is to try and shed my constricting reality tunnel and see a wider vision but it's very hard to do.

Only very few of us aquire such a state, so before we can call ourselves 'realists' we need to have gone through an extensive reprogamming process.

Those that are least liekly to be realists would be rednecks, midwest Baptists, conspiracy theorists, religious zeolots (my reality tunnel is better than yours), and Daily Mail readers (the UK is going to hell in a handcart - this has been said in the press for hundreds of years btw).

mr.broderick

Conrad wrote: »

You say your a realist, but are you aware that psychologists all agree every indiviodual Human animal has it's own 'reality' tunnel, and that each of us is CERTAIN only are own reality tunnel is valid, just as every religious person is certain thiers is the true path, completely ignoring the fact they would have a different tunnel merely by virtue of the place they were reared in. In other words those tunnels we each have are just a rough and ready version of the actual reality.

Your brain will filter out inputs that do not fit with your own reality tunnel, and emphasise and store readily the inputs that do fit your own reality. Furthermore it loves taking logic shortcuts which are a natural event designed to ensure the Human animal doesnt waste energy and time on thought (of benefit to the hunter gatherer which we have only escaped from very recently so our brains despite what we think are still completely controlled by the early instinctive circuits - but most of us do not ever realise this).

"The prover proves what the thinker thinks"

The goal for me is to try and shed my constricting reality tunnel and see a wider vision but it's very hard to do.

Only very few of us aquire such a state, so before we can call ourselves 'realists' we need to have gone through an extensive reprogamming process.

Those that are least liekly to be realists would be rednecks, midwest Baptists, conspiracy theorists, religious zeolots (my reality tunnel is better than yours), and Daily Mail readers (the UK is going to hell in a handcart - this has been said in the press for hundreds of years btw).

Let's just celebrate the bull's run, we had it good, sat in an expensive house now with 60% equity, not bad at my age. Yep i had tunnel vision and i ignored the doom mongerers, and i bet they would all swap places with me now...