Robert Anton Wilson once said in his book:
Quantum Psychology (pages 140-141)

. . . According to Brain/Mind Bulletin (May 1988) John Barefoot
of Duke University has found a negative correlation
between suspiciousness and longevity. In a sample of 500
older men and women whose health he monitored for 15
years, Barefoot discovered that:

(a) those who scored high on suspiciousness, cynicism
and hostility died sooner than all others;
(b) this high mortality among those with Loser Scripts
remained constant when compared by age, by sex, by
previous health, by diet and even by "bad habits." (Those
who smoked and remained generally optimistic lived
longer than those who smoked and worried about it.)
(c) those who scored highest on hostility had a death rate
more than six times higher than others.

. . . In a related study (Brain/Mind Bulletin August 1988)
Shelley Taylor of UCLA and Jonathan Brown of SMU
refuted the conventional idea that those who score high on
"mental health" have fewer illusions than others.

. . . Quite the reverse, according to this study: those who
score high on "mental health" generally have a number of
illusory beliefs. Among the most common illusions of the
mentally healthy:

(a) overly positive views of themselves;
(b) convenient "forgetting" of negative facts about
themselves;
(c) illusory beliefs about having more control than they
do have;
(d) "unrealistic" optimism about themselves;
(e) "unrealistic" optimism about the future in general;
(f) "abnormal" cheerfulness.

. . . Would you want to have those kinds of "illusions" or
would you rather stick to "hard realism" and die sooner
than those deluded fools?

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i am reminded optimistically that my life will never be the same after
coming into contact with RAW. He lives on !

Long Live Robert Anton Wilson ! ! !

Thanks Bob, WE love you :0)