My Philosophy of Life

Khaos wrote: Sorry, just trying to give perspective.

My question would more revolve around what you will do with the inevitable changes to your philosophy?

Will you write a whole new one of these every say....five years?

Is there more to this work as an experiment?

My philosophy is a living document, and it continues to evolve. There have yet to be any revolutionary changes to the document since I wrote the first draft about 4-1/2 years ago.

While I initially intended to elaborate in a longer document, I found that I could say everything important in outline form. Also, the outline format makes the document easy to navigate, memorize and revise. Therefore, I do not intend to produce any other works.

I do my best to live my philosophy, and it has been quite beneficial personally.

To Khaos.

I apologize. My post was a heat of the moment post.
I don't know you, not sure if we have ever chatted in chat or not.

But whatever.

All I am going to say to you in this thread any more is this.

May the force(God) be with(in) you.

Philosofer123 wrote: I do my best to live my philosophy, and it has been quite beneficial personally.

Good, and don't let jerks like me push you around.
To you also I aplogize. I guess I do not know how to make decent posts to things I disagree with without sounding like a total jerk. So I am sorry about that Philo.

This here below is the last thing I am going to say in this thread.

May the force(God) be with(in) you.

Alan wrote: Excellent work Philosofer. A well thought out philosophy of life. Echoes of Epicurus, the Skeptics and a wide variety of other perennial philosophers; also, though not mentioned by name, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics .

If I may suggest an author you might find interesting, Corliss Lamont. Two books in particular: The Illusion of Immortality and, in contrast to your rejection of freewill, Freedom of Choice Affirmed.

Alan, thanks again for the reading suggestions. I have just finished reading The Illusion of Immortality. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will include it in the recommended reading for the afterlife skepticism section of my document.

If you're atheist, you have nothing to worry about. So why try to convince others? It doesn't affect you either way.

Streen wrote: If you're atheist, you have nothing to worry about. So why try to convince others? It doesn't affect you either way.

I'm not sure what this conclusion stems from, that he's trying to convince anybody. It is a philosophy that he wished to share, for any usefulness, knowledge, or wisdom that anybody might be able to get from it. Is that not what we are doing here at TOTJO? Sharing what we have been learning through our lives for others to be able to use and learn from?

Wow, seriously? Am I really responding to that? Alright, here we go...

Streen wrote: If you're atheist, you have nothing to worry about.

How dare you! If you hold things and people dear just because of your magic Joo-Joo on the bottom of the sea, that's fine, but how dare you imply that we have no human feelings or desires or worries just because we don't believe as you do (I infer that you do, because you wouldn't spout anything this outrageous if you actually knew our position at all)! How dare you picture us as careless or emotionless monsters just because we don't need a tyrant to command us to love! I demand an apology!

So why try to convince others? It doesn't affect you either way.

But it does. It does every time somebody makes any decision based on any of their beliefs. And since we only ever base our decisions on our beliefs, beliefs really never don't matter. I for once don't live in a bubble. People surround me and I have to deal with them, with what they do to themselves, to each other, to me and to my loved ones. And while not all well-reasoned beliefs always inform the best of decisions, they have by far the better quota at it. It is also not about convincing anyone. It is about finding the truth with whomever it lies. Unlike you, we don't care for others to believe or disbelieve as we do. We care for ourselves and our beliefs to conform with what is true as best as we can make them.

Gisteron wrote:

Streen wrote: If you're atheist, you have nothing to worry about.

How dare you! If you hold things and people dear just because of your magic Joo-Joo on the bottom of the sea, that's fine, but how dare you imply that we have no human feelings or desires or worries just because we don't believe as you do (I infer that you do, because you wouldn't spout anything this outrageous if you actually knew our position at all)! How dare you picture us as careless or emotionless monsters just because we don't need a tyrant to command us to love! I demand an apology!

I dont believe that is what he said...

And again, I wonder if you read too much into the words?

I thought he meant, "As an atheist, you have no god to worry about judging you, so you have nothing to worry about."

Gisteron wrote:

So why try to convince others? It doesn't affect you either way.

But it does. It does every time somebody makes any decision based on any of their beliefs. And since we only ever base our decisions on our beliefs, beliefs really never don't matter. I for once don't live in a bubble. People surround me and I have to deal with them, with what they do to themselves, to each other, to me and to my loved ones. And while not all well-reasoned beliefs always inform the best of decisions, they have by far the better quota at it. It is also not about convincing anyone. It is about finding the truth with whomever it lies. Unlike you, we don't care for others to believe or disbelieve as we do. We care for ourselves and our beliefs to conform with what is true as best as we can make them.

Trying to convince others of anything is quite an exercise of futility, and patience, :lol:....

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

If you're atheist, you have nothing to worry about.

At least not in the sense of a deity, but that is hardly the most pressing immediate problems in ones day to day life at any given time.

Streen, take your post, and replace Atheist with Jedi and tell me how you would feel if someone responded to the path that you cultivate and discuss with such a post.


I mean really, "There is no death, there is only the Force."

So what have you got to worry about? Why train others? Why discuss it? It doesnt really effect you either way.

Philosofer123 wrote: Over the past few years, I have formulated my philosophy of life, a 14-page document that may be found at either of the following links:
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Can you summerize the essence your 14 pages in 50 words or less? Kind of like a mission statement.