I finally found a decent news website I can trust

[Platapus]

It is the only one I will be reading for a while

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

No politics

Only good news. The world is filled with good people doing good things. The For Profit News/Entertainment industry just chooses not to publish these stories.

I think my stress level will improve after a few weeks away from "mainstream" news.

[Tango589]

Good find, Platypus! I've had a bit of a look round, and it's sites like this that make you realise the world isn't quite as awful as regular "news" would have us believe.

No. Can't possibly be genuine. Doesn't tell us all about the million ways the sky is falling in.

[yubba]

May be they'll talk about this,,,

Management Notification: Don't try my better side anymore, I'm done with the warnings.

[mapuc]

English is not my native language I got the impression by reading some of the things in the link Platapus posted in his thread, that this thread was a feel-good-thread.

Markus

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by yubba

May be they'll talk about this,,, and how the last administration was a fascist police state that the media is trying to play off upon President Trump.

I doubt it, as Platypus said: no politics.

[Subnuts]

Okay, people. Listen up. The people upstairs handed us this one and we gotta come through.

We gotta find a way to make this
(holds up a picture of a kitten)

fit into the hole for this
(holds up a giant garbage bag with the word "politics" scribbled on it with a magic marker)

using nothing but that.
(puts a laptop down on the desk)

[Jimbuna]

Positivity is always better than negativity.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Positivity is always better than negativity.

At least one poet begs to differ:

Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. http://www.bartleby.com/235/253.html

I'm not sure that I'd want to live in a world where everyone agreed all the time. Though it's worth reminding ourselves that disasters (real and imagined) sell newspapers, and that pictures of kittens generally don't. Unless you are << hypothetical dictator of entirely imaginary country somewhere south of China redacted to avoid politics >> and people have to be happy all the time whether they like it or not...

[Oberon]

We could certainly do with the tilt of good and bad news being a bit more even than it is now. I recall an excellent interview on Danish television with Professor Hans Rosling, a chap who I have a lot of time for, and he brought an interesting viewpoint to the table to remind us that...actually...things are not as bad as we might think:



I hope that we can keep moving forward, keep making things better for everyone, and not succumb to our darker fears.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Positivity is always better than negativity.

No, realism.

Several empiric studies of the past 30 years or so show that if you compare claimed pessimists with claimed optimists, pessimists are the greater acchievers, being successful in greater numbers. this is because they tend to prepare better.

Of course, it already starts with whom and how and why you label somebody as "pessimist" and "optimist". For an euphoric optimist, everybody not agreeing with his optimism for realistic concerns, is already "pessimistic", a party-pooper. Most people in our entertainment and feel-well society are relatively optimistic, and since there are so many of these, you get accordingly many claims about somebody being a pessimist. Pessimists that indeed are just sober realists.

Realism leads to solid assessment and - at least by tendency, depending on other factors as well, like education, access to information and so forth - more reasonable decisions. Both increase the chance for success or achievement, however the individual may define "success" and "achievement" differently, some do it by money, others by other life qualities, like free time to spend for things you really are interested in, for example. Since so many realists thus get labelled as pessimists, this may explain the findings of such researches that more pessimists than optimists are "successful".

I am notoriously got claimed to be a pessimist, but I do not see myself as one, but as a realist. And I found a balance and a way to enjoy my life quite well, despite detoriating health issues, and anger on the world ways of goings and poltics , and lack of monuments and companies build who carry my name. The most important currency in our lives, is time, and there are no additional deposits and no returns. There is nothing wrong in being extremely choosey regarding what you pay for with these limited resources of time that you have. Its more precious than money, fame, reputation - more precious than anything.

[STEED]

All the news is the same old rubbish recycled re-written re-worded re-hashed re-vamped reinvented and so on..

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I am notoriously got claimed to be a pessimist, but I do not see myself as one, but as a realist. And I found a balance and a way to enjoy my life quite well, despite detoriating health issues, and anger on the world ways of goings and poltics , and lack of monuments and companies build who carry my name. The most important currency in our lives, is time, and there are no additional deposits and no returns. There is nothing wrong in being extremely choosey regarding what you pay for with these limited resources of time that you have. Its more precious than money, fame, reputation - more precious than anything.

That's fair...I tend to swing between optimist and pessimist depending on the situation and subject, I think in a lot of circumstances given the inability of humanity to foresee the future with hard certainty then all we can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
That being said, it's often said that a mood is contagious, so I think if you want to make change in the world then part of it depends on how you face it. If you want a more positive outlook for the world then you must take a more positive stance within it. Of course, deciding what change you want to see and how that change affects others is another thing entirely.
I guess that comes to the point where you have to think about how much of yourself you want to invest in the world, how much you want to expose yourself emotionally to it.
Eh, psychology...mind bending stuff.

Originally Posted by Subnuts

Okay, people. Listen up. The people upstairs handed us this one and we gotta come through.

We gotta find a way to make this
(holds up a picture of a kitten)

fit into the hole for this
(holds up a giant garbage bag with the word "politics" scribbled on it with a magic marker)

using nothing but that.
(puts a laptop down on the desk)

Hats off to that reference!

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

Okay, people. Listen up. The people upstairs handed us this one and we gotta come through.

We gotta find a way to make this
(holds up a picture of a kitten)

fit into the hole for this
(holds up a giant garbage bag with the word "politics" scribbled on it with a magic marker)

using nothing but that.
(puts a laptop down on the desk)

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Hats off to that reference!

I don't get the reference, can someone tell me?