My Life Philosophy

[Lex Diamonds]

The stronger the resistance, the more powerful the current.

The higher the pendulum swings one way, the harder it will swing back.


I've only just thought this recently but about 90% of the time I can use these two theories/explanations to understand most of the shit that goes on in the world.

[Lex Diamonds]

I'm a strong believer in yin-yang/balance/karma by the way.

[beasties#1fan]

& this has something to do with the beastie boys...hooowww...:confused:

[like2_drink]

Beastie-Free general discussion; I thought the biggest fan would understand how their website works by now..I guess I got my hopes up

[beasties#1fan]

Beastie-Free general discussion; I thought the biggest fan would understand how their website works by now..I guess I got my hopes up
i just think its stupid why people go on beastieboys.com for personal shit that has NOTHING to do with the beeaaasssttiiieee boooyysss.
dont question my #1fan skills.

[Guy Incognito]

^ not as stupid as
a) not going on beastie boys message board for the first hundred years it was active and still claim to be their number one fan
b) all your posts so far
c) being an alias

[Lex Diamonds]

Stop rising to the troll, chumps.

[Kid Presentable]

The stronger the resistance, the more powerful the current.

The higher the pendulum swings one way, the harder it will swing back.


I've only just thought this recently but about 90% of the time I can use these two theories/explanations to understand most of the shit that goes on in the world.

Got some examples, Bron Bron?

[abbott]

what comes around goes around ...

shit I learned that from PB

[Lex Diamonds]

I just find it applies to everything: the economy, politics, wars, fortune/misfortune, relationships, success... pretty much anything.

[Kid Presentable]

I just find it applies to everything: the economy, politics, wars, fortune/misfortune, relationships, success... pretty much anything.

Yeah but in what ways? I'm interested here.

[Myu-to]

hakuna matata!

[DIGI]

Stop rising to the troll, chumps.

You think talking shit on him to kll 3 hours later in his thread won't enable him?

[Echewta]

Well, according to the philosophy, his crazy will eventually come back to normal. Just have to wait a bit.

[Nuzzolese]

you really believe there's a balance in the universe and that karma exists? Where is the balance when some people live horrible miserable painful existences and others have luxury? Will the sufferers be rewarded in heaven, is that what you think? Will those who committed crimes in life and never paid for them be reincarnated as worms? No. I believe there is no order but what we imagine. There is chaos. The balance we percieve is but a shadow of reality, a trick of the light to keep us sane, and like a shadow it is just as insubstantial and transient.

[Nuzzolese]

And I suppose that is what philosophy really is. Adopting a philosophy is a decision to pick whichever window you want to look through in life, whichever view makes life tolerable. It doesn't have to be truth, in fact it could never be truth because there is no dominating truth of life. So, you can pick a window and decide it's the only real window while others are just tromp l'oeil paintings. This is dogmatic. You can choose a window and know there are others and that they are all tromp l'oeil. This is selecting peace. You can paint your own window, believe it's real and try to jump out and end up smacking your head against the wall of your mind. This is insanity.

[Lex Diamonds]

Those two posts were highly reactionary and slightly misguided. Has something in this thread spiked your ire thus? For an example, the point you made about wealth and poverty affirms my theory: The more above the breadline one group of people live > the more below it the others become.

It is a common misconception that karma creates a state of balance. It is merely the notion that every action has a reaction; good begets good, evil begets evil. It's an incredibly logical idea.

It's not dogma or gospel, it's my philosophy. I haven't adopted it from anywhere, I've formed it myself. Sure it incorporates accepted ideas, so does pretty much everything- I'm not claiming to be Socrates. Some of the greatest thinkers of all time were philosophers, it's just the human mind's best attempts to grasp and interpret the world around us.

[Lex Diamonds]

Yeah but in what ways? I'm interested here.
A few examples:

Credit boom / Credit crunch
Second World War / Baby boom
Obama's Presidency / Tea Party
Any political uprising against a former dictator

Also, the media has swung from right to left and back again several times in the last 30 years in this country- often in parallel to the ruling government/consensus of belief.

[Myu-to]

Some of the greatest thinkers of all time were philosophers
When I hear someone talking about philosophy and philosophers, I always think Bullshit artist. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4VD8uvgec&feature=player_embedded)

[Nuzzolese]

Well I said what I said and there it is, it's there, I can't take it back. Maybe you're right, Padster. IDK what I'm talking about I just say things.

also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2kAnTZBnTg&NR=1&feature=fvwp

makes me lolzerz

[Lex Diamonds]

When I hear someone talking about philosophy and philosophers, I always think Bullshit artist. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl4VD8uvgec&feature=player_embedded)
That's because you are a complete and utter simpleton.

[Lex Diamonds]

Well I said what I said and there it is, it's there, I can't take it back. Maybe you're right, Padster. IDK what I'm talking about I just say things.

also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2kAnTZBnTg&NR=1&feature=fvwp

makes me lolzerz
That's classic. (y)

Here (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/)'s a brilliant article from one of my favourite philosophers.

[Myu-to]

That's because you are a complete and utter simpleton.

Or humble enough to know that I can always learn, and strong enough not to be shaken from my beliefs. Much of philosophy to me is other people trying to make themselves sound important.

[Myu-to]

Besides, I wonder if you even watched the clip? I'm not sure why you found Nuzz's clip which made fun of philosophers for doing nothing, and my clip which made fun of philosphers for doing nothing "classic".

[Dusty Brain]

oh dear

[Freebasser]

"...There's Beckenbauer..."

[Kid Presentable]

A few examples:

Credit boom / Credit crunch
Second World War / Baby boom
Obama's Presidency / Tea Party
Any political uprising against a former dictator

Also, the media has swung from right to left and back again several times in the last 30 years in this country- often in parallel to the ruling government/consensus of belief.

Oh. So, cause and effect?

[Fern]

you a gangsta

[Dorothy Wood]

Or humble enough to know that I can always learn, and strong enough not to be shaken from my beliefs. Much of philosophy to me is other people trying to make themselves sound important.

not trying to pick a fight...but even if you don't agree with the theories, historically speaking, it's reasonable to be at least respectful...or at least aware of the impact philosophy has in the development of society.



anyway, I think pad is stoned.

[Lex Diamonds]

Oh. So, cause and effect?
Basically, yes. Newton's Third or whatever it is. I'm just finding it applies to nearly everything when I think about it, it's interesting to me.

[Lex Diamonds]

Besides, I wonder if you even watched the clip? I'm not sure why you found Nuzz's clip which made fun of philosophers for doing nothing, and my clip which made fun of philosphers for doing nothing "classic".
Because Monty Python > Gilbert & Sullivan. They're a poor man's Marx Brothers/Laurel & Hardy.

[Lex Diamonds]

you a gangsta
Y equality self...

[venusvenus123]

Because Monty Python > Gilbert & Sullivan. They're a poor man's Marx Brothers/Laurel & Hardy.

Since when did Mel Brooks and Bea Arthur star in a Gilbert and Sullivan production?? :confused:

[Lex Diamonds]

Since when did Mel Brooks and Bea Arthur star in a Gilbert and Sullivan production?? :confused:
My bad... was thinking of a link in another thread. But his one was shit too.

[Nuzzolese]

Don't take it personally, Myu-to. Padster just likes me more than you because I think he's a hottie.

[DIGI]

Or humble enough to know that I can always learn, and strong enough not to be shaken from my beliefs. Much of philosophy to me is other people trying to make themselves sound important.

Are you aware of how contradictory you are? This is a prime example of what's wrong with the US today. People act like they're so open-minded, but when they hear opinions that differ from their own, they go on the defensive. So you're humble enough to always learn, but if something dissents from your personal opinion it's bullshit from a "bullshit artist" because you stand strong to your beliefs?

I focused on Epistemology quite a bit in college. Hume, Husserl, and Locke always struck a chord with me. When I was younger, I was always scared to admit that I enjoyed reading the parts of Heidegger's Being and Time that I read from class since he was a Nazi, but his writing (more existential) was pretty fucking enthralling.

[Echewta]

Surround yourself with positive people, chances are more positive things will happen to you.

Speak your mind, chances are more things will go your way.

Chaos is real and makes everything unpredictable. (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIDxQlZRfds/TMuz-46draI/AAAAAAAAAEE/pq79krXS1gY/s1600/captain-chaos-14.jpg)

[Guy Incognito]

Surround yourself with positive people, chances are more positive things will happen to you.

Speak your mind, chances are more things will go your way.


are you saying both these things have to happen for this to work?

I would feel that if i spoke my mind with the circles i currently move in, i wouldnt move in circles any more. I dont think i would have many friends or even a job.

[Echewta]

Nope. But I don't see how doing both wouldn't help you live a better life.

Why are you in circles or why don't you have a circle where you can speak your mind and be you? Why are you letting yourself be quiet?

I don't think work, especially since work can be hard to find today, is a realistic place to surround yourself with positive people unless you perhaps own your own company. You have to work with people who are lazy, aholes, work differently then you, or tell you what to do when you know better. Still doesn't mean you can't speak your mind.

[Nuzzolese]

Nuzz's clip which made fun of philosophers for doing nothing


Is that what they were saying, that philosophers do nothing? I thought it was just being silly.


"The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside."

[Myu-to]

Are you aware of how contradictory you are? This is a prime example of what's wrong with the US today. People act like they're so open-minded, but when they hear opinions that differ from their own, they go on the defensive. So you're humble enough to always learn, but if something dissents from your personal opinion it's bullshit from a "bullshit artist" because you stand strong to your beliefs?
No, you missed it again. I am open and willing to learn new things, admit that I do not know everything, concede that there are smarter people than me, but I will decide my own mind. The "bullshit artist" line was just that, a line from the clip. As far as anything else from philosophers, I like to listen to them, it is fun, but I seriously was thinking of a lot that stuff high I was 15, and getting high.

[Guy Incognito]

Nope. But I don't see how doing both wouldn't help you live a better life.

Why are you in circles or why don't you have a circle where you can speak your mind and be you? Why are you letting yourself be quiet?

I don't think work, especially since work can be hard to find today, is a realistic place to surround yourself with positive people unless you perhaps own your own company. You have to work with people who are lazy, aholes, work differently then you, or tell you what to do when you know better. Still doesn't mean you can't speak your mind.

i have always lacked a bit of confidence and havent got the greatest temper and have never been articulate enough when upset. I say stupid things and shout and make myself look like a dick. Which is why speaking my mind has been hard for me.

[Guy Incognito]

I could say more but dont want it all to come flying out in a ridiculous stream of consciousness and do everyones head in

[Myu-to]

Don't take it personally, Myu-to. Padster just likes me more than you because I think he's a hottie.
Hahahahaha

I seriously almost posted, then I saw you did.

:D

[DIGI]

No, you missed it again. I am open and willing to learn new things, admit that I do not know everything, concede that there are smarter people than me, but I will decide my own mind. The "bullshit artist" line was just that, a line from the clip. As far as anything else from philosophers, I like to listen to them, it is fun, but I seriously was thinking of a lot that stuff high I was 15, and getting high.

Exactly what am I missing? You equating centuries worth of original thought to you getting high at 15? Or saying philosophers are just people just trying to sound important? Newflash, you drip, many of the greatest philosophers were slaves to their thoughts and ideals, were very reclusive, and many died before they gained any notoriety. The fact that there's kids out there that learn from you scares the shit out of me.

Jesus Christ.

[Myu-to]

I guess I should have said people that go around discussing philosophers today are just trying to make themselves seem self-important. There are kids needing texts books, school supplies, and mother fuckin' food. It doesn't matter what Plato said if a child can't read or comprehend it. To me, there are much better uses of educational funding than philosophy courses. There are much better uses of time to help children who are at risk today than discussing and debating centuries old thinking.

Close your mouth, roll up your sleeves, and do some work. That's my philosophy, I'm a slave to it.

And, it's because I am smart enough to see the problem, and selfless enough to actually do something about it, to put the future of other people ahead of my own, that you should actually be thanking Jesus Christ that I am teacher.

[Nuzzolese]

Then I say something

[Myu-to]

Thanks Nuzz, I needed that laugh.

[Echewta]

i have always lacked a bit of confidence and havent got the greatest temper and have never been articulate enough when upset. I say stupid things and shout and make myself look like a dick. Which is why speaking my mind has been hard for me.

Sounds like you should do a few things to learn to overcome that. There are of books you can read. A book that helped me a lot was "To Nice for your Own Good." I learned to be assertive versus aggressive which was eye opening. Just one eye. Joining the fire department at work helped as well but not everyone has that option. I no longer wait for someone to react, I am the person that will react first.

If you think you are going to make yourself look like a dick, you are setting yourself up for failure. If you think you are getting better or can articulate what you want to say, chances are you will.

Namaste.

[Guy Incognito]

thanks for posting that, there could be a possible situation tomorrow where i might have to put some of those wise words into action.

nice one r-kid