http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/ ...........................just noticing Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-42 Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:47:35 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-42 Your last sentence brought to mind an editorial at the back of the May 2005 issue of Ode magazine. It's entitled "The Power of Positive Despair." The author's point is that hope brings stress by creating desires and expectations which rob one of living in the now. It was a provoking article! Your last sentence brought to mind an editorial at the back of the May 2005 issue of Ode magazine. It’s entitled “The Power of Positive Despair.” The author’s point is that hope brings stress by creating desires and expectations which rob one of living in the now. It was a provoking article!

]]> http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-41 Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:46:31 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-41 Yes binaries are cheap; I like to use them just to tease and provoke the conversation. Expecting to be surprised (one of the very zen tenets of Open Space Technology) is a great middle ground. It gets a lot easier if we remember that some of the best things in life happen unplanned! Yes binaries are cheap; I like to use them just to tease and provoke the conversation. Expecting to be surprised (one of the very zen tenets of Open Space Technology) is a great middle ground. It gets a lot easier if we remember that some of the best things in life happen unplanned!

]]> http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-40 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:11:36 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-40 Do we have to think in binaries? If cynicism is always expecting to worst, so all surprises will be pleasant ones, and its opposite is always expecting the best; I think a good middle road would be having no expectations and just grinning at anything that does happen. Sort of like Camus's ideas of the absurd. Do we have to think in binaries? If cynicism is always expecting to worst, so all surprises will be pleasant ones, and its opposite is always expecting the best; I think a good middle road would be having no expectations and just grinning at anything that does happen. Sort of like Camus’s ideas of the absurd.

]]> http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-39 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:36:44 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-39 I like skepticism because it still leaves the mind open - like the true meaning of agnostic ... just not knowing but not closing off on any possibilities. Very quantum. I like skepticism because it still leaves the mind open - like the true meaning of agnostic … just not knowing but not closing off on any possibilities. Very quantum.

]]> http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-38 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:25:02 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/04/22/cynicism/#comment-38 The opposite of cynicism is skepticism. The opposite of cynicism is skepticism.

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