(I was going to post this as a comment on this stickied post, but it became such a rant against pessimism that I felt it deserved its own. Call it a rallying cry.)
I know the type (of people recently banned en masse). Going on and on about "the endless, perpetual now" because nothing they say gets upvoted enough, because no one wants to listen to a doomer long-term.
The type who despair despair despair.
News flash, dumbasses: DESPAIR IS WORSE THAN USELESS.
Despair actively seeks to PREVENT others from acting, by demoralizing others to the point that you're making them just fucking SIT THERE and think nothing can be done. So why act? Better to just type up demented rants for years on end, right?
By definition, you would accomplish MORE by just sitting in the corner and staring at a wall, because zero is greater than a negative number. You would accomplish nothing, and you wouldn't be actively preventing OTHERS from accomplishment, too.
You doomers are all talk, no ACTION.
You will do nothing.
You will do NOTHING.
"Hope is not a strategy?" Who says we were stopping at hope?
Q gave us hope. Hope made us DIG.
Digging made us learn more about who REALLY runs the world, and thus how we can stop them, than despairing and sitting on our asses ever could.
Despair is worse than useless. Despair is POISON to ACTION.
Keep on hoping, frens. The best is yet to come.
And nothing can stop what's coming.
Nothing.
"But--" What part of NOTHING did you not understand?
Despair is giving up the future to the wind. It believes the present circumstances are the future because nothing is going to change.
Hope fixes its eyes not on what must be but what can be, and it helps to create something new. A person who has hope is keeping his eyes forward, and his hope gives him the strength to conquer whatever is in his way. That doesn’t happen for people who fall into despair. Their reality becomes the valley in which they parked because they stopped looking beyond the next hill.
I know both, and I can tell you that the only way we can lose is if we give up.
Hope fixes it’s eyes on Jesus
There is no better hope.