Monkeyman8:

Omega 2521:

meatloaf231:
Everything is a trap.

Without a doubt.

My personal philosophy is comprised of many tenets.

1. All work can be done later, no matter what the importance.

2. Find the humorous side in everything, if there is none, make one.

3. Give people second chances, after all you may need one too sometime.

4. Have a contingency plan for everything, and have a contingency plan for the contingency plans.

5. Respect people until they disrespect you.

6. There is no six.

7. Stand back out of the spotlight, things are more interesting to watch from back there.

8. I always tie my shoes, I don't need another escaltor experience.

9. If you know you're right, don't back down.

10. The people who care about you are most important, don't lose them.

11. Don't surrernder you're beliefs, if you do, you are no longer yourself.

That pretty much sums things up about my personal beliefs. Oh, and before you question number 8, its a metaphor.

your forgot

12. ????
13. Profit

Hmm? I don't quite understand what you mean.

'Give every chance and take every opportunity.'

This has been my philosophy for as long as i can remember, and has never failed.

And don't go trying to steal it, as far as i know i came up with it and you don't go stealing my shit.

Lifes a beach, grab a towel

Conservative, christian, capitalist

burn kill! burn kill! burn kill! ect....

I cannot consign myself to others ideals. I know that philosophy is always conditional, and there is but one absolute certainty: Love is good

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Leave things better than you found them, or to put it another way, "Welcome to Planet Toilet--here's your brush!"

1. Vilolence may not be the answer, but it's a lot more fun.
2. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.

Live life without regret. You are you because of all your experiences, not a small number of key events, or only the beneficial parts of your life. Suffering is as important to making you as is pleasure. Embracing either will necessarily change who you are.

Don't Do Bad Shit!
Die-hard religious nuts, no matter how much they think they're helping, have a really bad problem with this one.
i.e. Mrs. Carmondy from Stephen King's The Mist.

EDIT: I just realized how douche-baggy this might seem. If I've offended any religious folk here, please accept my apologies. Unless, of course, you force your religion down other peoples' throats.

Maet:

implodingMan:
Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

I loved reading this post and then looking at your avatar.

you know, any monty python reference is great, i have to agree with it too

If it's not broken, find out why.

Oh and a close runner up, never miss an opportunity to laugh.

No regrets. All that I am is because of what I have done. Every single thing that has happened to me, good or bad, large or small, has influenced who I am. I regret nothing.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Cynicism and realism + some pessimism and just a hint of eugenic(al?) thinking.

I just stay away from absolutes. Which is itself an absolute, I know, but I think the irony excepts it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

I rather suspect that those of you who describe yourselves as optimistic cynics, pessimistic nihlists and most of you who put forth some pseudo philosophy like Anton Lavey's would find this link helpful.

Absurdist all the way.

You're not going to win. You will never win. Just get on with it.

Hope For The Best
Prepare For The Worst
And, above all else.
Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
And Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

1. I am god.

2. We all must work towards our own happiness, as long that it does not interfere with the happiness of others.

3. Do not force your beliefs upon others.

4. Vote Copter For World Emperor!

jay-ell:
In sound bite form, as Gandhi put it, "Live simply that others may simply live."

I'm with the gandhi quote here if you're looking for simple explanations.

more in-depth, I believe that people are stupid and the world is mostly a shit hole, and there's nothing I can do about it. however, I recognize that my life will ripple outward to those I meet and talk to. so in hope of a better future, I intend to do my best to spread tolerance and understanding as much as possible. I'm not going to shove anything down anyone's throats as that's counter-productive. I'm just going to live as simply and unobtrusively as is possible for me and hope that others follow the example.

everyone must walk their own road. I simply seek to show others how to accept this.

edit:
this guy said it perfectly:

Omega 2521:

1. All work can be done later, no matter what the importance.

2. Find the humorous side in everything, if there is none, make one.

3. Give people second chances, after all you may need one too sometime.

4. Have a contingency plan for everything, and have a contingency plan for the contingency plans.

5. Respect people until they disrespect you.

6. There is no six.

7. Stand back out of the spotlight, things are more interesting to watch from back there.

8. I always tie my shoes, I don't need another escaltor experience.

9. If you know you're right, don't back down.

10. The people who care about you are most important, don't lose them.

11. Don't surrernder you're beliefs, if you do, you are no longer yourself.

There is no god,
There is no afterlife,
Live your life before you lose it.

To be honest, i used to be very negative about everything. Might have been a route cause of some depression i suffered for a long time, and was ultimately in denial about but thats history now. Same problems exist today i had then, but i just deal with them in different ways.

My general attitude is very laid back. I find keeping things casual most of the time is best for most situations, though i often let things slip and has caused some trouble. Course, this laid back attitude sometimes has people taking liberties and i do not like that one bit. And i get very stubborn when pressed.

I'll stand up and fight for my principles, even if the thing that is happening does not affect me in the slightest. I'll say the thing that everyone is thinking but no one has the courage to say.

Oh, and i'm basically unoffendable.

jthm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

I rather suspect that those of you who describe yourselves as optimistic cynics, pessimistic nihlists and most of you who put forth some pseudo philosophy like Anton Lavey's would find this link helpful.

Absurdist all the way.

So Satanism is a pseudophilosophy, but "absurdism" isn't? What constitutes a "pseudophilosophy" exactly? The term itself, from my understanding, is rather nebulous. I am well aware that a lot of the ideas (in fact, most of them) are unoriginal and borrowed from other thinkers such as Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, and even Hobbes (LaVey even outright plaigarised a few passages in his writings), but it's the combination of those ideas into a cohesive whole that makes it significant; this does it remove any truth from them. I actually thought that Satanism was silly until I actually realised that every single thing it said was in line with my own views. While I still have a bit of trouble calling it a traditional religion (magic and rituals make it sound neat and occult, but the way they're described essentially boils down to "stuff that you do for fun and for profit"), I don't think there's anything justified in calling it a pseudophilosophy when it brings a previously nonexistent sense of cohesion to somewhat disparate ideas.

Two:

1. Trust is a weakness, love is an affliction, pain is your friend she tells you you're alive when you think you shouldn't be.

2. I'm awesome. I know it, everyone whose ever dealt with me knows it, you will know it. Deal with it.

jthm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

I rather suspect that those of you who describe yourselves as optimistic cynics, pessimistic nihlists and most of you who put forth some pseudo philosophy like Anton Lavey's would find this link helpful.

Absurdist all the way.

Okay, looking at the table on your referenced Wikipedia page I can enumerate my philosophy quite well...

1. There is such a thing as "meaning" or "value" to be found in life

Yes, but it is only subjective and ephemeral (i.e. short-lived)

2. There is inherent meaning in the universe (either intrinsic or from God)

No. Incidentally, I do not personally believe in God, Jesus, the Devil, Buddha, Shiva, or Santa Claus. I try to live in Reality...

3. Individuals can create meaning in life themselves

Yes, but inevitably this will be inconsistent with other people/groups who have other ideas. I have no morality, yet strive for good manners

4. The pursuit of intrinsic or extrinsic meaning in the universe is a futile gesture

Ultimately, yes.

I can also explain why:

When people ask the question "What is the meaning of Life?" they are looking for the definitive answer to the question they have in mind even though one person may want to know why the Universe exists and another may want to know the ultimate goal for our species. The very large number of conflicting answers to this question implies that there is a difficulty with it, but it isn't that it can't be answered. Rather, the problem is that it can't be asked. Just look at the question grammatically and you will see why.

There is no problem with the words LIFE, MEANING, or THE; although most of the problems would go away if you were to rephrase the question as "What is a meaning of Life?" - however, it is the definitive, ultimate, eternal answer that is sought.

The actual problem is with the word OF.

Just think about it for a moment. When you ask a smaller (answerable) question, such as "What is the url of the Escapist?" you are talking about the intrinsic qualities of an entity/object/system that is in the Universe and part of Life. Everything under discussion lies within the totality of everything that could potentially be referred to by language. Yet LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING is such a large 'set' that you can not put yourself conceptually outside of it to ask the question objectively.

In other words, you can only objectively use OF when you can ensure that you and the language you use form a disjoint set and as there can be no disjoint set to the universal set, there can be no fully independent point of view. Therefore, there is no extrinsic meaning of life.

So, all attempts at an eternal, definitive, objective answer are futile. Yet, subjective, ephemeral, personal (consoling/motivating/etc,) answers are worthwhile provided that it is accepted that they hold no ultimate authority and are all essentially dead-ends in the long term.

5. The pursuit of constructed meaning is a futile gesture

Not really, as I have explain in 4. the only meaning of life one can adopt is personal and subjective and flawed because it is necessarily ephemeral and not definitive, yet even without an ultimate meaning to live by I enjoy myself. Accept these limitations and you will realize that you have to be tolerant of other people's 'concepts of ephemeral meaning' whilst being able to be wary of people of faith whose often fundamentalist 'concept of ultimate meaning' is the only way things can be despite being fundamentally untenable.

So, I suppose it boils down to three things:

Good manners. Tolerance. Avoidance.

Or in the wise words of Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

'Be excellent to each other.'

Uncompetative:

Or in the wise words of Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

'Be excellent to each other.'

It would be pretty odd if that was actually the future we were heading towards...

God gave Rock and Roll to you...gave rock and roll to you...put it in the soul for everyone...

faith is like a bowl of Ramen noodle soup: anyone can get it, its cheap and it leaves you all warm and fuzzy inside.

Souplex:
We all live by a philosophy, what's yours?

Mine is a mix of narcicissim darwinisim and eugenics.[!!!]

And the OP's trolling is ignored.

Otherwise, say he wasn't trolling, I'm offended that no one called out one of their fellow human-beings on believing in something as flawed or inhumane as eugenics. The OP essentially said, "I like Hitler's Philosophy," and everyone played ball with him.

Living with the realization in the imperminence of everything.

myne is simple, screw the cake before the cake screws you

Find something that works and stick with it untill it stops working.