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My Personal Philosophy
    #6504561 - 01/28/07 10:42 AM (17 years, 22 days ago)

sooo for philosophy class we had to write out what we thought, in no particular format. This is what i have. It's kinda long, but I'd appreciate some feedback, positive or negative whatever.

Metaphysics- what is real?

Currently I believe that reality is subjective to your own perception. When you are young, Reality is a much larger field than when you are old. A naive mind can create an entire world you can actively live in. The young mind lives in a world with creatures from magical places, Santa clause, the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy.

-------- Random experience to back up my point-------
I remember very well one specific night as a child; I was probably about 6 or 7 years old. I was being baby sat by my cousin, and I went to sleep in my parents room, and as I lay there in bed, and looked over at the closet, and black grim reaper ghost thing flew out of the closet and held a banner that read ‘the ghost show’ I remember reading the sign as if it were really there, and then all these ‘ghosts’ starting flying about the room, and the closet was alive with activity. I saw that with my own eyes, and I remember to this day seeing it. They did not scare me; they entertained me before I went to sleep.

Children can create a world, which is their own reality
They can go as far as tricking their own minds into really thinking they see things that adults cannot see.
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With that said, the less educated mind can also live in that world, creating a land with gods who live on mountain tops and play chess with human lives.
But, I do not think living in a world of fairy tales diminishes ones character in any way. A child in current time, or a life from the past who believes in dragons, and folk lore holds no greater or less worth than the educated human living in today's world.
We are all living and breathing, beings that are able to experience life in ways that are unique to each of us.

Is God real? I don't know. I know that as children we hold on to imagination as long as we can, and each child feels a little sad as that magic dies. I think we continue to believe in God, so we can hold on to a fleck of that magic. We can disprove Santa clause, the Easter bunny, we know animals do not speak human language, and stuffed animals do not come to life as soon as we leave the room. Science kills imagination left and right. But it has yet to kill God. There is still hope that some kind of myth can be reality. God is our imagination, it's a limitless source of our own personally fantasy utopian world we are each allowed to create as we see fit. My God is unique to me, and I have yet to fully pin down what or who it is. My god is a drawing I hung on my wall, or a person who brings me happiness. It is whatever I want it too be.
Reality is what we can fully convince our minds of. If someone truly believes there is a heaven, than so be it, there is. Love is something just as intangible as god, yet almost everybody believes in that. There is more to it than convincing your mind something is real, one is able to physically feel the pain of heartbreak, and the joy of being in love. You feel it in your stomach, and you can feel it pumping adrenaline through your veins. All these things that tell us love is real, can also tell us God is real.
But it can only be real to you; no one feels and imagines God or love in the same way. Does this mean that these things do not exist? Of course not. It just means they exist in the way you perceive your reality.

Is freedom real? Am I free? Do I have the power of freedom in my hands? Yes. I was lucky enough to be born into Canada. Hate is the one thing that imposes on freedom, but in the western world hate is on a minute scale. Sure people out there still commit crimes, and act out against their government, but we do not have mass genocide, we are working towards the acceptance of religion and sexual orientation, and I think we are close.
I think I was given the gift of freedom at random, I do not think I am any more worthy or less worthy than anyone else in the world to have this gift. What makes my freedom real? The fact that I am able to do whatever I want, think what ever I want in the privacy of my own self, so long as I do not impose on any one else’s freedom. One could argue against my thoughts on freedom, but I don’t think I could be convinced otherwise, people can say you are not above the law, but we are. We all are.
It all lies in the choices we choose to make, what we want, and what we are willing to work for.
I can choose to attend school, or choose not too, you could argue against this, we live in a society where if you don't go to school, you can't get the job, and can't make the money.
But this is only the case if you have actually given value to this type of society, this type of life style. People use these values to limit their choices, and limit their own freedoms. You take away the value, and you gain the freedom. I choose to be in school because it is where I want to be at this current time in my life. I have the freedom to make this choice, because I have striped society of its value. The same goes with being beyond the law. I choose to support the drug community. I partake in illegal herb smoking sessions, and I venture off into the world of lsd. One can say you are only free to do these things because you go behind the law’s back. And they are completely correct. But it is in the choices I make that will keep me from the law’s eyes. People have a tendency to chatter and brag about what they do, they go out of their way to become noticed. That’s where I say I have the freedom to be sneaky, and the freedom to be silent about my personal life.


Is the world around me real? Am I Real? Lets not be silly now, the answer is yes. I'd like to take this farther than the plain old 'I think there for I am'. Sure one can argue that because you are all you really know is real, and you pretty much just trust that other people around you are real as well blah blah blah. I call that argument chop liver. I feel myself, and I feel other people, I feel their love as strongly as my own. And though these things may not exist to anybody else, they exist to me. If I go crazy and feel demons scratching at my skin, my fear of them is real; my eyes would tell me they are real. If I ingest mushrooms and during that trip I climb through a hole in my wall, I am experiencing that as being real. Sure you could say it’s all in my head but anything you perceive is only ever in your head. At that moment, what ever I am experiencing as no greater or lesser value than anything else I have experienced.


Ethics- right and wrong

My biggest moral issue I think is that I do not have the right to impose myself on anybody else if it against their wishes or if it brings harm or sadness to their life. If my use of drugs means that people in foreign countries will suffer, than I am wrong to use them. Thankfully the drugs of my choice are all produced in my own country. Sure the drugs themselves can hurt other people, but that is their own choice to make.

Morals only work with things you have given value too. I give value to the people I love, not because it is what society tells me, I have denounced society and made my love my own thing to give or take. An all mighty God will not tell me what is right or wrong, If I choose my God, than I also choose my morals.



Aesthetics- what is beautiful?

Beauty is how you perceive it. Which is why everybody has different tastes.

“What kind of babies will those be who are made of the formula instead of the fuck? No doubt they’ll posses two eyes each, and the recommended number of toes, but can the heart of their be hot enough, can the imagination have all of it’s fingers, can their souls be expected to fully connect to the unraveling spool of the natural universe and not to the gunk in the bottom of the test tube? Will the infant pulled at the times bell from a plastic womb where it has been deprived of rhythm, mother-bond, and the jostling of everyday life not have some small space between it’s eyes filled with synthetic fluid, not bear if nowhere else, in the core of it’s heart, the androids mark?”
-Tom Robbins

I find this quote beautiful, not because of it’s message, but because of the images it puts into your mind, because of how all the words seem to string together so perfectly. For those same reasons someone could find the quote ugly and unattractive.

Nature is never wrong when it comes to beauty. All living things are equipped with a way to attract a mate; flowers are brightly coloured to attract the attention of bees, so pollen will be spread around. And the fact that all the beauty found in nature holds a purpose, just adds to its magnificence.

Beauty is what we make of it, the way I perceive life is all that matters so If I think something is beautiful, than it must be.
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In Relation to…

Objectivism
Rand says that reality is what we perceive with our senses. I agree, I can touch, see, hear, and taste. But I do contrast whit her thoughts on using your emotions. Emotions tell us when we are happy or unhappy in any given situation, it would be foolish to disregard them. She says that we should not give into charity, unless we will benefit from it, but I agree with Alex Grey when he say’s
“ What fun is it in nirvana, while other beings are suffering”
I know I will never save Africa. And I don’t intend to either. But When I do offer a helping hand, I never expect anything in return, whether my good deeds are noticed or unnoticed means nothing to me, I do them because I am capable of doing them

Existentialism

“Right here right now”
- Fatboy Slim

At the beginning of the course I thought the type of philosophy I would relate to the most would be eastern thought. That changed the moment we started Existentialism. While we were on that unit I attended a philosophy class with a friend at the University of Guelph. A 3-hour class, which said a lot of the same things, we had already talked about in class, but it brought up the topic of values. The Professor said that we find ourselves having too many choices to make, but by placing value on something, it limits our choices, and makes things easier. Eg: going out to party, or staying home and doing homework. If you have given greater value to the homework, you can use that as an excuse not to go out that night. But if you are only living in the moment, than you will do what matters at that moment. I think I have a hard time not living in the moment, which is why I found attending school such a challenge. It just was not as important as other things I had going at the time. Now that I am at a time where school is where I want to be I find it much easier to do. I think that things are only real when they are in the present. I like how existentialism gives no value to the future. Life is just a series of moments after moments. I used to not keep a clock in my bedroom because I have always felt that time was a strange concept it gives the allusion that we are going somewhere, when really we are just right here. I think people find this branch uneasy because it does go against what we have been told to think. We are always told to look ahead to the future, and plan. But plan for what? No one really knows what’s going to happen. They don’t want to feel that all this energy they have put into creating a future has been in vain, so they stay away from thoughts like ‘the future doesn’t matter’. I like how existentialism leaves room for you to still be spiritual. If you feel like you are having a moment with God, than that’s ok go ahead. But it also leaves room for people to change their morals in the future depending on their situation. I have a hard time believing I will have the same morals and values through out my entire life. They are bound to alter, and existentialism leaves plenty of room for change.

“You sell your life to them for minimum wage, and they get your dreams for free”
- Waking life

In existentialism you rise above what you are told defines you. My job does not define me, it has nothing to do with my personality, political views, or what you think. This quote used to make me very sad until now. I struggled for a few years, thinking how society looks down on me for being a high school drop out, working at the local grocery store. But now, even though I’m in school I could care less. I am above all that, those things do not have any say in the kind of person I am.


Eastern thought

“ It is the highest level of man’s emotions that has to be redeemed from the murk of mysticism and redirected at it’s proper object: man.”
- Ayn Rand

I used this quote by Rand because I have a lot of mixed feeling about eastern thought. I do think that practicing eastern thought for a few years could help a lot of people with figuring out things in their life. But I also think that we should enjoy life to it’s fullest. I think people take things too far sometimes, over indulgence is not good, but neither is depriving yourself. I think we rag on the human race too much sometimes, and that’s when I find Ayn Rand’s philosophy useful. We have to remember that we are still an important race.
I do like the thought of all things being connected, but I’m not sure how real I think that is. I sometimes like to think that all souls have a path, sometimes that path crosses with other souls, and some will never cross at all. At these cross roads is where you meet your friends and family. The people you put all your energy into. I don’t know if that’s more wishful thinking or what, but I still like it. As for enlightenment, I really don’t know if I will ever make it to that point. Enlightenment to me sounds like some kind of plateau that you arise at. But what comes after that? Maybe death and Enlightenment is the same thing. Maybe when you are enlightened that’s the end… maybe “you just melt down into love”
- swami Vivekananda


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What fun is it in Nirvana while other beings are suffering?


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Re: My Personal Philosophy [Re: soylent_green]
    #6504668 - 01/28/07 11:48 AM (17 years, 22 days ago)

You are jumping in with a good wide scope:

The child vs adult, child within adult, adult within child stuff
goes well with imagination vs social programming -
all the rest may be variations of social programming or socially acceptible formulae for explaining how and why of a shrinking universe (or at least one with significant loss of freedoms).

Then, ending with eastern thought that rediscovers the child within gives it a nice modern psychological flavor and a return to the source.

(so I am tainting your approach a bit, but i have to either slime it or sublime it... i am a worm)


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