Well I did read that...yesterday - I just forgot...apologies..maybe you should rename the thread then because it's both incorrect and misleading now?
My life philosophy...hmm hard one. I have way too much stuff mixed in...I'll have a go.
No absolute rules but shitloads of guidelines...the two E's are important to me: Evidence and Empathy.
I don't have any simple philosophy...I'd say primarily it's just about only going with the evidence when it comes to believing something - and about having humility so you don't oversimplify life and don't arrogantly claim what you can't possibly know...I think most 'philosophies' are generally over simplified and cliche. I think the only truly simple philosophy that's valid is ultimately to not absolutely have one philosophy...there is good that can be found from anywhere. Ultimately I'm agnostic about everything. And the empathy just comes naturally...although rationality helps because delusion can certainly make it harder for you to empathize.
If I could put my 'life philosophy' in one quote I think it would be, basically, this:
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." - Bruce Lee
Furthermore: I have been described by quite a few different people independently over the years as 'Very Zen' I guess because I'm very laid back with people...I have thought and said (and meant) thins like "I generally like/love people...and if they like/love me back then that's just a bonus".
I have never actually read up on any 'Zen' at all and know nothing about it really...just heard some stuff Bruce Lee has said I guess..and he incorporated some 'Zen' as well as Taoism and Confucianism (which I also don't really know anything about).
It's hard for me to hate a person. It can be an awful lot easier for me to hate their actions; I have no enemies both ways...sometimes people dislike me but it never goes back the other way.
I don't disrespect 'the person' - I try never to give any nonjokingly ad homs, but I can quite easily disrespect 'the person''s "Belief"s. I believe people are more than what they 'stand for'. There is a lot they're unaware of.
Well that's about all I can give--at least atm--really Dagda mate.
EDIT: Here's 2 more Bruce Lee quotes that add to what I think the be the 'philosophy of no philosophy' - or basically about being open minded...Jeet Kune Do in other words (The Martial Arts style Bruce Lee created)...for Bruce Lee 'Martial Arts' wasn't just about 'fighting' (at least not just on the outside anyway).
"In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than ‘doing’." - Bruce Lee
"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is." - Bruce Lee
EvF
My life philosophy...hmm hard one. I have way too much stuff mixed in...I'll have a go.
No absolute rules but shitloads of guidelines...the two E's are important to me: Evidence and Empathy.
I don't have any simple philosophy...I'd say primarily it's just about only going with the evidence when it comes to believing something - and about having humility so you don't oversimplify life and don't arrogantly claim what you can't possibly know...I think most 'philosophies' are generally over simplified and cliche. I think the only truly simple philosophy that's valid is ultimately to not absolutely have one philosophy...there is good that can be found from anywhere. Ultimately I'm agnostic about everything. And the empathy just comes naturally...although rationality helps because delusion can certainly make it harder for you to empathize.
If I could put my 'life philosophy' in one quote I think it would be, basically, this:
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." - Bruce Lee
Furthermore: I have been described by quite a few different people independently over the years as 'Very Zen' I guess because I'm very laid back with people...I have thought and said (and meant) thins like "I generally like/love people...and if they like/love me back then that's just a bonus".
I have never actually read up on any 'Zen' at all and know nothing about it really...just heard some stuff Bruce Lee has said I guess..and he incorporated some 'Zen' as well as Taoism and Confucianism (which I also don't really know anything about).
It's hard for me to hate a person. It can be an awful lot easier for me to hate their actions; I have no enemies both ways...sometimes people dislike me but it never goes back the other way.
I don't disrespect 'the person' - I try never to give any nonjokingly ad homs, but I can quite easily disrespect 'the person''s "Belief"s. I believe people are more than what they 'stand for'. There is a lot they're unaware of.
Well that's about all I can give--at least atm--really Dagda mate.
EDIT: Here's 2 more Bruce Lee quotes that add to what I think the be the 'philosophy of no philosophy' - or basically about being open minded...Jeet Kune Do in other words (The Martial Arts style Bruce Lee created)...for Bruce Lee 'Martial Arts' wasn't just about 'fighting' (at least not just on the outside anyway).
"In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than ‘doing’." - Bruce Lee
"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is." - Bruce Lee
EvF
