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Muckraker  Posts: 303 Joined: 15 May 2007     | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 157 Joined: 7 Jan 2008  | "Sometimes you feel like a nut..." (Still valid :D) |
Muckraker  Posts: 337 Joined: 12 Sep 2007    | If something created this universe, it wasn't a domineering father who wants to tell you what to do or a nurturing mother who wants to keep you safe. It was a capricious child who wants to play. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 507 Joined: 23 Dec 2007  | If you have to pick sides, first ask yourself two questions. 1) Who's going to win? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2648 Joined: 23 Dec 2007    | Ignore people and you will see the light. Maybe. "Do you see the cup as half empty or half full? -Doesn't matter, it's too hot!" (Splash) "Aaaaaug!" |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2648 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | God created the universe with purpose. He made us to figure it out. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 485 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | "A false life is equal to death. Never betray your principles." - Strider Hiryu "Treat others as you would wish to be treated. Unless you're a masochist." - Me "Turning away from that which tempts you is not courage. Facing it is." - Kreia |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 | It's easier to get forgiveness than permission... its a quote from british graffiti artist Banksy, its a kinda 'you only live once' attitude |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2648 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | If I really wanted to, I could sum up the entire world into one word. |
Beat Writer Posts: 224 Joined: 21 Feb 2008  |
Okay, I'm good with the quotation, but let's not misattribute it. The correct quotation is "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" and it's usually attributed to Grace Hopper |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1586 Joined: 13 Dec 2007    |
How odd, I feel quite the opposite. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 505 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 | Here's my motto, which I wrote myself: "Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who get off their asses, go out there, find them, and take them." |
BANNED  Posts: 317 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | a few on a similar topic: "if you set out to grant freedom to every opinion, be wary that prejudice is one of them" "Every view is accepted, every act allowed, but so to is the right to oppose such actions, this is life" "All men have the ability to affect all other men, to whatever end" EDIT: one i remembered just as i hit the post button "There is more strength in holding to Faith, than in the scorning of others for doing so" |
Press Junketeer Posts: 485 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 |
Shit, that's a damn good motto. Pretty much sums up my life story. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2092 Joined: 18 Dec 2007   | Oh I also have this one: "If you took the smallest unit of time and found out how many of these units you have been alive for you shall have infinity. At every one of these units you have changend the future of the world and its inhabitants. Make these moments worth it" |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2092 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | Oh I also have this one: "If you took the smallest unit of time and found out how many of these units you have been alive for you shall have infinity. At every one of these units you have changend the future of the world and its inhabitants. Make these moments worth it" |
Beat Writer  Posts: 136 Joined: 12 Feb 2008  | I have two quotes by the author Henry Louis Mencken that best summarize my world view both related to ethics. "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others." |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1586 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 |
Ah, but I am my harshest critic. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1266 Joined: 13 Sep 2007 | My interpretation of the butterfly effect- Whatever you manage to accomplish intentionally in your lifetime will always be dwarfed by what you do by accident. About the optimism/pessimism, has anyone else seen Pan's Labrynth? Aside from being an awesome movie, it really reveals something about your character. There is an ending that can be taken two ways, depending on your nature. The magical, happy ending, or the brutal, more logical ending. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2648 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | With ink as black as hell, we write our contracts of peace. |
Muckraker  Posts: 268 Joined: 12 Dec 2007 | Life is too big for one to set just one life mentality to it. |
Paperboy Posts: 14 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 |
sorry, banksy was the only instace i've seen of it... another great one is one from Robert Frost: "in three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2237 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 | Sorry, but after a long session of Bioshock, this is all I can think of: "A Man chooses, a Slave obeys" - Andrew Ryan I like it. Seems like something I need to start listening to... |
Paperboy  Posts: 30 Joined: 17 Mar 2008 | Mine has to be :- "You don't stop playing cause your to old, your to old cause you stopped playing." |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 557 Joined: 7 Mar 2008 |
OK dad. Sorry, had to do it :) |
BANNED Posts: 317 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | "i am a banana" Are we indeed fruit, or merely the semblance of fruit? in search of deeper meaning, i investigated the further implications of such statements, to determine if indeed, i am a banana... "its peanut butter jelly time" Why peanut, why butter, why jelly? here we see mans eternal struggle with the inherent commercialism of life, is all time doomed to be linked to such meagre objects? or is peanut butter jelly time a reward, an omen of better times to come, i would err for the latter if i had not come across this statement further in. "peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat" As we can see, violence permeates all realities based upon a material society, all such 'jellies' must come with a threat or motive, can we truly ever have peanut butter jelly without the baseball bat? or does the baseball bat make peanut butter jelly what it truly is? i fear that as a species we will never know. Seeking oneness with the universe, i sought more guidance among the greatest minds to be found.
I thought that such a simple query was easily answered, until i saw that it was in fact being posed by an owl... Does nature have a question towards mankind, is our link to the banana severed by the peanut butter jelly of our material reality? i thought perhaps we had merely been questioned by the owls, a constant symbol of impartial wisdom... until...
Here i realized that mankind had accountability to all of the natural world, not just the lofty birds whose high view i blamed for their harsh judgement, by the inevitable suspension of the partially obscured computer we can see that now nature has become dependant on our technology, but does not fully understand it (shown by the absence of perceivable data shown on the screen) To test my growing concern, i added cat, owl, peanut butter jelly, computer and baseball bat together As i saw, the result was disastrous, the cat leapt upon the owl, and only through he intervention with he baseball bat can man ever hope to regulate the unbalance he has incurred, proving the inevitable essential nature of the baseball bat. are we doomed, destined for sweet but nutty doom at the hands of our own creations? perhaps the owl could reveal the answer, but he has flown away... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2685 Joined: 13 Feb 2008  | With reference to XKCD: "I can't come to bed. Someone on the Internet is wrong!" |
Beat Writer Posts: 224 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 |
Another good Mencken: "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." |
Beat Writer Posts: 224 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 | "When every star in the Heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more in the face of the deep, three things shall endure: Faith, Hope, and Love, and the greatest of these is love" -First Corinthians, chapter 13 I can't believe I'm quoting the bible, but it's apt. The only things we do which remain are the ones which impact others, and the greatest of these expressions is love. |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 23 Mar 2008 | 10 out of 10 people die, Don't take life too seriously. |
Beat Writer Posts: 224 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 |
This is going to sound like an odd question, but why? If everyone dies, isn't that a reason to take life seriously while we're here, make our impact on the world rather than fading away in a blaze of hedonism? |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 507 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | 'I will live my life by my standards, not your's. If they coincide, that's great. If they do not, you are the one in the wrong.' Hedonism is great. And besides, the world cannot be changed. I wrote an essay on it at some point. I'll post it when I finish transcribing it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1266 Joined: 13 Sep 2007 | No one? Really? Oh well. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1586 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | Easykill: They prove that it's not just her imagination, so it seems more likely that what she sees is what is. |
Beat Writer Posts: 224 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 |
Not the world as a whole, but those around you certainly. And if you attempt at it, you can make an impact on more and more people. I only find your logic baffling because your standards (being inherently self-concerned) are likely to result in harm to other (purposefully or incidentally). What makes you right? What justifies harm to others in order to achieve your hedonistic ends? You can't argue that hedonism causes no harm. It can avoid causing harm in certain circumstances, but in others it's impossible. You decide to go get drunk, because it's fun for you, and come home at 3:00 in the morning, waking up your neighbors, how do you justify (in any way other than a repetition of "life's too short to live for others") your harm to other people? I realize that's an odd example (pulled from my own life), but it's emblematic of the problems with an outlook on life that says "I do what I want, and screw everyone else". You can be self-interested without being selfish. But a mindset that broaches no disagreement, that's entirely illogical, and hence anti-philisophical. Show me the world can't be changed. Show me that by doing what you want, you create more happiness for yourself than could be created in others by not being selfish. Hell, even show me that your happiness doesn't come at the expense of ill-effect to others, and I'll at least accept that you can make an argument that Ayn Rand-esque self-interest is good. Otherwise, accept that this isn't "the world can't be changed", and call it what it is: "I just want to do what makes me happy". Also, how do you know your standards are right, and everyone else is wrong? That seems like and oddly religious thing to say. |
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I don't have an easy to sum up nutshell version with a cool quote life philosophy.
The closest I guess would be:
Think first.
Take accountability for yourself.
See all sides of a situation.
I try my best to remember those things at all times.