My philosophy of life ?


Don't drive 63 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone or you might get a ticket and ruin a spotless driving record.


A rule I've failed to heed !



Big Bro

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Goldwater caused nerve ends to twinge with his passion and indignation. Yet he had no handle to the problems, no program, no solution- except backward to the Bible and the God of the desert. Proud of his handsome, clean-lined family, proud of his radiant children, proud of his families war record and patriotism, he had in him neither the compassion nor the understanding to deal with the faceless newer enemies of the Digital Society -Theodor H. White from 'The Making of the President-1964'

Very good BB

Life is hard. Once you accept that premise, the rest is not so bad. Good times and bad for everyone, not just you. Enjoy the good, work through the bad and minimise the damage. I feel like I've lived so many lives I'm now at the stage where the things I started off believing are altered and life is so busy I have no time to reflect as yet. Life changes continually, so one's philosophy must change with it.

I know I'll be remembered with a smile by loved ones, as a very human human, with flaws and goodness, a wicked temper and wicked sense of humour, as someone who definitely lived life to the fullest and regretted very little, who took life by the throat, who did most of what she felt was worth doing and who did good when and where she could. I have entertained my circle with some spectacularly unexpected stunts in my time...

On that note, it's late here, I'm off

The only way to figure out the reason for beinh here is to figure out how we got here. The world and all actions on it are all part of a long chain of events going back to creation. Each event has a cause. If i take a drink it is because i physically moved my arm to the glass, this happened due to chemical reactions in my body telling my brain to get fluids. The cause of this could be lack of fluids, excercise and the chemical make up of me determining when thirsty. These other events then all of causes of their own and so the chain goes back and back. But it cant go back infinitely as there has to be a first cause. Some would point to the big bang as the first cause, but that in itself must have been caused by some other force. So the first cause can only be god.


Knowing that God is the first cause we can then look to find what the reason for us and everything else is. But do that we have to know who God is and what the intentions of this God are. And this is where my theory ends, deducting who God is, is far more difficult than deducting there is a God.

So i guess in answer to the question, we can never know, or if we can it's not something easily deduced.

Agrippina you said, "Do you not have thoughts about your life and your mortality?" Here is no question of life and your morality when you can't protect your society by the exploitation.

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In Defense of Stalin
On the Stage of Revolution
Diwali Gift
India

So your personal philosophy for your life would be to achieve the satisfaction of having had a hand in the eradication of the exploitation of your society.

A very noble goal to try to achieve.

My take on your philosophy is that you would like to either find god and prove that he exists or prove that he doesn't. A difficult task because you have the whole religious world against you on this but a very serious philosophy.

I think the reason for being here is 'to be', life itself can have no real reason behind it, that it is up for the person as an individual to decide what their own reason for being is, whether it be for money, sex, drugs, creativity, power, piety, or mere procrastination.

Life is a cake, everyone wants a slice.

Hmmm... I remember hearing somewhere that in the year 1999 they made a list of the people from this millenium who would probably be remembered in the next millenium. I wondered who would be on that list, Roosevelt? Che Guevara? Stalin? Hitler? Marilyn Monroe? Elvis?... Me, maybe?

But then i thought, would i want to be remembered for the next one thousand years? Would it really amount to much? No. It won't bring me back from the dead and my spirit won't survive just because people know who i am. What i care for, is that if i pass you on the street, NOTICE ME.

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True there is no reason we have to make the reason for it to mean something

Also true, especially if its a good cake.

I think I saw somewhere that you are relatively young. I think you do want to be remembered by the people who have loved you. It is how you want to be remembered that counts. My mother was very sad. When we talk about her now it is always about how she never laughed, how laughing never came naturally to her and how much time she spent being both depressed and depressing. I don't want to be remembered negatively - I want to leave a big heavy imprint of joy probably because of my mother's sadness.

Humans beings were put here to ask that very question. That is the meaning of life.

Ha, just kidding. That's what my Pop told me when I was 10.

I sincerely believe in having a passion or a love for many things. When you can find meaning and drive out of numerous things, you find that you become much happier and that you ultimately feel better about your life. Those can be anything from your simply loving family, to learning, to helping people, or simply just experiencing new things. I think the existence of passionate people is what keeps the human race and society interesting.

I do think I am seeing less passionate people today and more greedy people - more concerned about monetary gain and stature than about finding something they love. This worries me.

Bumper sticker slogan for life philosophy: He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov

True, i am 17 but i have already seen much of the world, and besides, age is not always relative.

That's true, i would like to be remembered by those who knew me but that's all, i don't feel that i need to make a mark on the world, i don't need my name remembered, that isn't going to stop me from dying, so whilst i have life, i choose to live. I don't care to much for money, or a fast car, i care about the here and now.

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