your philosophy in life

since im kinda sick of the classic drawl of stoner talk i wanna get serious.

i love to read philosophy books and i think that its important to know what you believe. so what is your personal philosophy? or if you are undecided, which philosophy takes up the majority of your personality?

mine is existentialism, i think when it comes down the your core its only you who matters in this shitty world

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/

read it

also in my sig is a quote from one of the fathers of existentialism simplified because the whole quote is too long.

o fuck it here we go ill post the whole quote

"How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?"

 

ive been reading alot lately as well, the latest book i've read is the power of now by Eckhart Halle

it's a spiritual enlightenment book which teaches you that time is only an illusion, and that in reality you only live your life in the "now" or the present moment, so future and past should not hinder your progress, but only be brought up as referance points in your life

also it talks of how your outer physical body, and inner "pain-body" are only what controll you, while your actuall "being" is whats being overlooked, it teaches you to observe your thought process and watch your emotions from an external view which helps you determine why u feel a certain way, and what makes you act the way you do

it's very cool, there are also quite a few referances that kind of back up aetheism, such as if there were no humans on earth, would god still exist? if animals and plants knew nothing of this word called "time" and there was no signpost into the future [god] then how could it exist without physical beings making a spot for it in the future?

 

i used to be hardcore christian. after hurricane rita hit, everything switched up for me. i don't really know what i am, but I guess I believe in a mix between some of the main tenets of judeo christian beliefs/Nazerite RastafarIanism/Buddhism with a few elements of Taoism and other various (hindu, shinto, etc) theories. I like to read philosophical books, but a lot of what i read falls into more of the psychological aspects of philosophy, though. Stuff like Emmanuel Kant and B.F. Skinner. Not exactly philosophy, but pretty close to it.

I found 'Be Here Now' by Baba Ram Dass to be one of the most informative/uplifting out of everything I've read. It really made me think hard about peace and love.

Other books, like 'Age of Reason' made me reconsider many of my xtian beliefs

I like reading about the 'one love' religions of the world. RastafarI, some native american beliefs, etc. Robert Roskind (Ras-Kind) is a great author on these subjects.

Alltogether though, I'd have to say that I'm also a bit agnostic because I could be totally wrong. Jesus, Ganesh, Allah, whatever I may be totally wrong. We're probably all wrong anyways. There's probably about four people on earth that have got it right. lol

 

to me, god is what you make of him/her. i dont really believe in any established religion, i think god, whoever it may be, put little snippets of truth in each religious doctrine. noone is all right but everyone is a little right. get it? but hey i have my beliefs and you have yours

 

i'm a dude. i'm alive. it's all good.

 

^^ thats kinda a very basic form of existentialism. sorta

 

i agree with what hes sayin about atheisim in the last paragraph.

In the words of Ferris Bueller. "Life comes at you fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Which is why im stoned as much as possible. Life goes a lot slower.

 

Kierkegaard was a dumbass Jesus thumper.

 

Fuck it all.

 

have fun at any cost

 

Athiest since day 1. My mom tried to preach that shit to me and I'm not about to have anything called, "[size=-1]Faith," which is, by definition, belief without evidence.
But that's religeon. As far as philosophy, I haven't really looked into it that much.. but two things to live by in my book are "Know your facts," and "Speak your mind."
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Atheism takes just as much faith to believe that there is no God as it does to believe there is one.

 

How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Two. One to screw in the bulb, and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality, in a netherworld of endless absurdity, reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

 

I'm reading the Doors of Perception right now. it's an essay... highly recommend it

EDIT: now that i realize i forgot my philosophy of life, it is

Live, love, laugh.
and smoke joints
and keep the peace
holla holla gotta get that dolla
cuz when i get to my last quarter pounda
I know I gotta go get me some more ganja

ummm a little off track again. i smoked my last g by myself in my sauna. one joint. annnnnnd i'm blitzed

peace out homies

 

By Huxley? It's actually a book, not an essay. I reccomend it as well, though.

 

book, essay, whatever. i printed if off the net, and read it, i'd much perfer the book though, the pages piss me off after awhile

 

After thinking about it, I recall that The Doors of Perception is usually published with Huxley's Heaven and Hell, which is an essay. It's not a very long book so I doubt it would cost much at a book store, it's a popular title from the 1950's so finding it at a used book store shouldn't be too difficult.

 

theres a few around, i've heard about heaven and hell, but i'm right now i'm reading an outrageous Novel called Jonathon Strange and Mr Norell, who were two magicians back in the early 1800's trying to restore traditional english magic to britian. it's nuts. they use magic to help with the war against..... i can't remember now. but it's about 800 pages of small typed words. theres quite a few footnotes in it too

 

Heh, I started reading War and Peace a little while ago; it's a brilliant epic narrative, but constantly lookin up the abundant Russian terms got too much of a hassle...

 

you only live once. so drink, smoke, pop, sniff, thizz, fuck, whatever you want to do(within reason). live for the moment. don't look back at your life and say what if... i have some friends that are afraid of dying alone, me, i'm afraid of dying and not saying i lived a good one. actually, fuck a good one, a great one.