Philosophies

My Philosophy On Life
Life is a journey. You know not where the road will take you, or your final destination. Both of those are irrelevant anyways, and shouldn't concern you or affect how you live your life. Life is always moving, it never stops nor rests. Things that happen to you before, might happen to you again, but not in the same fashion or order. Life is spontaneous, it has no rules, anything can happen. When everything is going right, all of a sudden, a sudden event can send it all tumbling down. But, just as you think your life is over, Life has a way of reversing what it done, making things better. It is best to just live life one day at a time, it is impossible to plan things. Not everything will happen the way you want it to. That's why I laugh at people who try to meet the schedules they set. If something comes up, you're not prepared for it in the schedule. To live is to create. To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. As for me, I'm living life with the best I can, with what I'm given. Sometimes you just have to make do with what you got. For me, what I got is enough to let me live my life, or else I wouldn't be here today.

My Philosophy On Death
Don't neglect life by worrying about death. I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die and I go on, non-stop going forward with life. Even though I may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect more from life.

My Philosophy On Truth
We demand the truth from everyone, but we rarely give it ourselves. I try to give the truth whenever it is possible. Hiding the truth on leads to more chaos, and chaos in turn destroys you. Truth is where the problem is. We shall find the truth when we examine the problem. The problem is the answer, the understanding of the problem is the dissolution of the problem. It is a mistake to think that one can establish a universal definition for verification. The person who seeks truth lives in what is. The people whom are really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all, they live only in what is. Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody. It is there when the mind is very quiet, listening to everything.

My Philosophy On Love
Love was something I didn't receive much of when I a young one. I always felt like an outcast, like I didn't belong, even when I was among my immediate family. I always looked toward friends for that comfort everyone seeks, that comfort I wanted and so badly needed, that comfort everyone else had but I didn't. I never really knew what it meant to actually care for someone, or to have someone care for me until the later part of my life, which is just a few years ago. I met up with my cousin Eddy. He was like an older brother, who always thought very highly of me, and always told me to do the best I can. Then I met Cindy, she has changed my life in more ways that I can remember. She is there for me now that Eddy isn't around anymore. Always doing what Eddy has done for me, and more. She has given me unconditional support and love. Whenever I felt lonely, she was always there. Just as Cindy, Stacey has done the same. All these people mean so much to me, and without them, I don't think I would be here today. They have gave me meaning to my life.

My Philosophy On Friendship
Someone once told me, "Friends are just like your belongings and possessions. They belong to you, and you control whether you want them or not." I disagree with that. Friends are more than just that. They are people with feelings, and a heart. I always try to treat my friends as if they are more than that. Because they are. Someone told me, "Treat your friends right, and they will bring you much happiness and joy." It is so true, they have done so much for me. It is true they come and go, and people always ask themselves or me, how do you tell if they are true friends. That is something no one can do right away. That is something only time will tell. But a true friend is one to keep, although there will be many bumps in the relationship at certain points, it will be resolved quickly, because you care for each other. It is as my quote says: "Being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you like them in the first place!"

My Philosophy On Trust
Trust is a funny thing. It takes so much time to build, but with just one incident, it can vanish. Who out there can we trust? In a time like this, it is hard to tell. I mean sometimes you can't even trust your family anymore. So who do we turn to? Our friends? Our enemies? I don't know the answer to that, but what I do know is, how can you be willing to put so much faith and trust in someone else, if you don't learn to trust yourself first? Unless you trust yourself first, you will be lost in the world.

Lessons

Lesson 1: People Are Stupid!
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
//Counter: Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. You must be smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question.

Lesson 2: The Greatest Harm Can Result From The Best Intentions!
It sounds like a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. For example, if you give a coin to a beggar because he says his family is hungry, and he uses it to get drunk and kills someone, is it your fault? No. He did the killing, but if you had given him food instead, or gone and given his family food, the killing would not have happenned. It was a good intention that resulted in harm. Some leaders have preached peace, saying even self-defense is wrong. It seems the best of intentions to shun violence, in the end it often leads to a slaughter, where their threat of violence in the beginning would of prevented attack, and resulted in no violence. They put their good intentions above the realities of life. They accused warriors of being bloodthirsty, when the warriors would of actually prevented the bloodshed.
//Counter: The only counter is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding of the first lesson above. Even then, it's not always enough. You must be wise enough to forsee the consequences of your actions.

Lesson 3: Passion Rules Reason!
Passion rules our reason. For example, say a grandfather sees his grandson drowning. He jumps in immediately to help him, but because he can't swim, he gets himself into worser trouble, and therefore in the end can't finish what he set out to do.
//Counter: You must use reason and wisdom. If the grandfather called for help, or just used a stick to help pull his grandson in, the disaster could of been prevented.

Lesson 4: The Only Sovereign You Can Allow To Rule You Is Reason!
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is Reason. The first law of Reason is this: What exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality--it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject Reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. Misery, iniquity, and utter destruction lurk in the shadows outside Reason's full light, where half-truths snare the faithful disciples, the deeply feeling believers, they selfless followers. Faith and feeling are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike Reason, faith and feeling provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are a virulent prison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feeling are the darkness to Reason's light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting Reason, one embraces death.


Lesson 5: Life Is Too Uncertain To Have Regrets!
Sometimes the course of action you have taken might be the best action despite the outcome. Who knows what would of happenned if the other course was taken. Whats done is done, and can't be undone.

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