Psst...if you're able to read and post on IO9 right now, then "the worst" is most likely not coming for you.

Yes. It's better to anticipate problems than to pretend they won't happen, and it's better to have a response to setbacks instead of passively accepting whatever happens.

Hope for the best, DREAD the worst... because you know it's coming.

I think the main problem with the term Positive Thinking is that it has come to encompass so many things that any of the once useful elements have become saturated with disgracefully exploitative balderdash like Byrne's 'The Secret'.

Not unless you're psychic and can actually accomplish things with just your mind. Changing things requires physical activity. It can HELP get you motivated to change, but unless I get my depressed ass out of bed before noon, shit isn't getting done.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Are positive thinkers happy, healthy and successful because they are positive thinkers, or are they positive thinkers because they are healthy, successful and happy?

Hope for the best, expect the worst I always say...

Ser Pounce is going to betray them all and wind up on Littlefinger's lap atop the Iron Throne.

Why are you shitting on Tommen's dream? Screw you, man. Screw you.

The worst fate Westeros could see?

@Hlykacg > Marxism? thats capitalism 101, hell it doesn't get more capitalist than that. See corporations only real goal is maximize profits at any & all cost, that means that humans are just like any other resource to be used & discarded when they outlive their usefulness aka profitability. Look all this ideology are…

I think this needs to go beyond education. The anti-vaxxer crowd are a health menace and are willfully ignorant —they will not let themselves be educated.

It doesn't help corporate images when they keep doing evil things like launder drug money, pollute the environment, or nearly wreck the global economy and cause massive amounts of human misery and governments are seemingly powerless to actually enact any meaningful punishment.

>>>Our Faceless Evil Corporation That Might Or Might Not Exist In Real Life is an entity that has superseded government functions, runs all public and private services, and exercises direct and enforceable control over a civilian population with the sole aim of making a profit. That's your textbook evil conglomerate.…