do you guys have a philosophy?

Pretty simple: I embrace the Tao and I try to always be here now.

Concerning humans, I consider it an absurd privilege to be one. We are the most conscious clusters of atoms in the known universe, it's incredible. The evolution of life is fascinating. I like to believe it's our destiny to reach singularity and/or to continue to evolve our senses and how we perceive and interact with our surroundings.

"The joy of being a conscious human being is that we can rise above our origins. We don't have to ape the nastiness of nature, we can extract ourselves from it and live by our values." Richard Dawkins

Send me some, it's my favorite strain. :sifone:

 

k well im a moral nihilist with some absurdist views... i'm amoral

i think a natural way of life is the most comfortable for the human psyche. the reason we have so many emotional and physical problems as a modern society is our disconnect from a natural way of life. i mean family rituals, working the land with our hands, communicating face-to-face, and things like that.

we have a lot of fears and instinct built into our psyche, and modern society takes advantage of that to make us weak and insecure.

humans naturally seek out entheogens and other psychedelics to come to terms with our pathetic situation.

more thoughts to come. just loaded a bowl of some lights strain and cracked open an IPA.... nice hearing some people's thoughts

 

At the present time I have no where else to be,so take life as it comes,hopefully with humor.

 

What he said...check your shoes...sumptin' STANKS!

 

My philosophy is "Do you"

 

That was great....... i think that "i dont know" philosophy has more significance to it than meets the eye. I dont know.....i am always using they 3 words to myself but in a more meaningfull context............"mmm i dont know man but theres definately something going on" was a train of thought i had on a long bus ride tonight.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6BbL-vqN0c"]The Nature of Selfishness ~ Alan Watts

also anything thing this man has to say

 

The Hippocratic oath is probably a good starting point to a personal code.

I also like 'Be excellent to each other' from Bill and Ted.

 

Yes Philosophy I do...

Occams Razor

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

 

eat more whole grain.

 

yeah... lots

the most important one tho', is that everyone percieves teh universe differently... so any philosophy other than ya own is pointless

 

i used to be a big fan of his. he is good at elaborating abstract ideas for nearly anyone to understand

 

^alan watts is by far my favorite "new age" philosopher (even beating out my niggah Mckenna) and perhaps my favorite philosopher of all time. I still remember the first time I read The Book back when I was 15... Never before or since have I found a work that so accurately describes my views on life. Its like everything I felt he had articulated into some of the most elequent writings I'd ever seen. Idk I'm real interested in philosophy, but i really didnt get serious about it till I read The Fall for the first time when I was on the run after splitting from rehab. after I went back to jail for that I had 10 months to do shit BUT read... Mostly just the most famous works so far (Camus, Nietzche, Sartre, Heidegger, etc) but I'm really interested in the contrasts and similitaries between the famous "classical western" philosophers of the last 200-300 years and my personal passion for the "white mans interpretation" of eastern and Pagan religons (particularly Spiritual Athieism by Steve Antinoff).

Idk I mean I know how EVERYBODY around my age and in our "counter culture" are expected to be wanna be philosophers but, maybe theres a reason for that. Maybe its a good thing. Idk. All i know is I'd rather read a 500 page philosophical manifesto I don't agree with then watch an hour of MTV

 

i felt the same way about Thoreau, Thomas Paine, and Joseph Campbell. though i started as a nature-lover, my philosophy turned dark after i got out into the world and saw how it really is. now i think that all religions-every trace of them should be destroyed in flames. if i had morals, i would say that it is a sin to propagate religion.

i have not heard of this. from my experience, young kids aren't cool unless they're ignorant of anything intellectual and avoid it at all costs. maybe lady gaga or justin bieber will come out with a philosophy and it will be all the rage.

 

The human condition is so fucking interesting. It is absolutely beautiful and utterly tragic. To quote Sartre: Humans are " condemned to be free." We have this capacity for self-awareness, for the ability to remember and organize time, the heights that can be achieved by people working together, sharing a common sense of purpose are staggering. So is the harm that can be wrought. We've evolved to have certain emotional responses (and maybe even to some extent certain paradigms for cognition)...I guess what I'm trying to say is there is no guarantee that our brains are designed with the ability to perceive the truth in mind, and that it is very possibly they could indeed be structured in such a way that humans are eternally cursed/blessed with this paradoxical mode of perceiving and thinking about reality.

I don't want to type any more now lol.

 

Freedom has always been the most important life philosophy to me. Among many things freedom is most commonly considered the freedom to choose. And although in life we have choices, the best choice or the right choice are not usually present;

I'm a car salesman and a guy comes in to buy a car. He likes the car, we make a deal and he says, can I get it in white? I tell him no, it only comes in red, black, or green. He is disappointed and says he'll go elsewhere and I tell him it won't matter where he goes, the car does not come in white, so instead he takes green, the best choice out of the three.

So was that man really free to choose? Did he have free choice? He had the ability to choose, but not the ability to choose what he wanted. He had to settle for the best choice out of the choices that were available. Not what he wanted.

Our politics have taken on this exact model. We have the ability (supposedly) to choose and elect our leaders and some of our laws. However are those choices really representative of what we want? No they aren't. We simply choose the best one out of the choices that are available to us. We have the freedom to choose but not to choose what we want. This is not freedom, this is a heavily bastardized illusion of freedom. They give us a few usually 2 or 3 people and we have to choose the one that is better out of the two, as long as choice is limited or there isn't a choice of what it is that we really want, that is not freedom.

The same thing is done with our personal freedoms. We have a list of things we're allowed to do that we choose from, we do not necessarily get to actually choose what it is we're allowed to do. One is allowed to drink alcohol, but not smoke a plant. One is allowed to make money, only as long as that income is taxed and regulated.

What we then get is a plethora of different people offering us things, but the things, although they may be different colours, are all the same thing. Off the top of my head there are about 5 different banks around here that I can think off. They all offer differently coloured client cards, but essentially their rates and plans are all the same. Is this freedom of choice? It is again the illusion of freedom. I have the freedom to choose from the best of the candidates that is available, but not the freedom to choose that which I actually want. Low interest rates, low monthly fees.

We are told when we are younger that we can be anything we want when we grow up. Which for the most part is true. Except one thing, we can be anything we want when we grow up except free. We can choose our job, where we live, what car we drive, who we marry, who we don't marry, what we name our children, etc. Then our children are born and we tell them the exact same thing, "when you grow up you can be anything you want." When I was young all I ever wanted to be when I grew up was free. So we have the illusion of freedom, but we are all essentially trapped in pen disguised as taxes, mortgages, paycheck, interest rates, bills, etc.

One needs a certain amount of this to live of course, but what we don't need are the financial burdens that are set in place to keep us at bay.

America is now greatly in debt. Prices of things go up, taxes might, in order to pay off this debt. What they don't say is that if they really wanted to pay it off, they'd simply turn on the presses and print off a bunch of money for next to no price, pay their debt, and taxes and prices could drop to a reasonable amount. However if they simply print off money (which is cheaper to do than paying a multi-trillion dollar debt) then the dollar would inevitably have no real value, as it could be printed for free. If the dollar had no value, the western economy and cultural system would collapse.

Value is only ever created by the leverage created by debt and bills. If you have a friend in need, you lend him money and not cost (no interest rate) in order to help him out. Now lets say you have 30 million friends who need some money. You print off a bunch of money to help them out at no cost to them (that is, no interest rate) and they pay you back when they can. What real value in that case does the dollar have? None, because you can just print it off whenever you like.

What is the effect of money having no value? Freedom. Freedom from bills, interest rates, debt, depression, health maladies, freedom to move, freedom to quit, freedom to live, freedom to choose a life that is not dependant upon how much money it takes to do what you want to do.

 

The human condition sits atop conception. Animus animates animal.

It appears that we do things but more we set the tone of how things get done.
We cannot help but be involved in some activity but that needn't be any activity in specific except in regard of caring for the body. We must eat.

I appreciate Thoreau's suggestion that we become familiar with the weights and measures of our own needs. Know thyself. Once we have assayed the true physical requirements of our own creature then we can begin to function in respectful harmony with the environment. Eat lite, breath often. Learn to master your own functioning and the world will follow.

 

It's funny how seas separate our states! We must drink too!

 

So, is the idea to care for yourself insofar as to be assured that you are fed and well, then the rest of our energy can be focused outwards? As opposed to focused on what we should wear, how we look, what we do, etc.

 

Of course, shed a tear.